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House in Forsan reported destroyed.

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So, half the town is now gone?

(Dad grew up in Ackerly)

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House in Forsan reported destroyed.

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So, half the town is now gone?

(Dad grew up in Ackerly)

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I have driven by Forsan a few hundred times on 87 and never once stopped. Same with Ackerly.

This storm had my elderly mom sitting by a storm cellar door I doubt she could even lift. Too close for comfort.

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House in Forsan reported destroyed.

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So, half the town is now gone?

(Dad grew up in Ackerly)

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I read that report and my first thought was "a house...or the house in Forsan"? Thanks for not making me go there alone...

I had to reframe from making my standard joke of a storm doing a million dollars worth of improvements.

Old parents are stubborn people. You speak the truth here. I think old parents from west Texas may be a tad more ornery.

I drive through Ackerly three or four times a week.

Huge storm cell just passed south and east of us in Lubbock yesterday evening. I want rain, but not that kind of stuff. The dirt wall half a mile or more tall was impressive to a guy who grew up in South Texas.

Good for he Midwest. They can probably use the rain.

Dodge City tonight is wild. A dozen tornadoes. One of which was huge.

My imgur is giving me fits. A quick Google should do.

Up in the panhandle for work. Actually saw reed driving around earlier today in his destroyer or whatever they call that thing. And some national storm chasers are staying at my hotel. Definitely made me uneasy when I checked in.

I am so glad I don't live in Ashland, KS in an RV anymore.

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That's a really bad ass tornado

I saw a borderline EF-1ish tornado from prolly 5 miles away at Olsen Field in about 1990. That was plenty close enough.

I remember seeing that one out the window of Sbisa. Pretty exciting afternoon.

Yeahhhh....there is not enough "NOPE!" to accurately quantify how much NOPE! on being within eyesight of that thing.

Bryan just had a tornado touch down, and a pretty good toad floater. Passed right over the office and dropped down a mile or so away.

We've had some very intriguing weather this week in Kansas. Outside of hunting related activities, this time of year in the central plains is honestly my favorite, most exhilarating time of year. I say that knowing full well the damage and destruction they can cause, and I don't with that upon anyway. But the raw power of nature is just truly breathtaking. Indescribable. I've been known to be pretty bad about getting in the truck in the central and western part of the state to go and take a look at them but I've only accidentally "caught" one. A couple of miles distant is plenty close for me.

I had to go to Salina for work yesterday. On the way back that means I came through Solomon, Chapman, and Abilene.

Unbeknownst to me at the time, 20 minutes behind me came:





That tornado clipped a portion of the small town of Solomon damaging about 25 houses. On the news report the Highway Patrol reported minor damage up to, "well, some ...are no longer in existence." Amazingly it appears that less than 10 people were injured and those were all minor.

Cool report. Where are you based out of in Kansas, again?

Topeka, KS

Khou Houston was really leaning hard towards a radar indicated tornado near Washington moving East. Very strong rotation indicated and radar showing strong reflections under the area of rotation well ahead of the strong rain.

The one in Bryan came out of nowhere. Not even a watch until it was on the ground.

Yeah, I heard kbtx say that during one of their FB live broadcasts. Is driving into Houston but listening. My grandmother lives outside Flynn, just NE of Normangee. So that storm was of great interest to me!

Lots of flash flooding north of Bryan along 21.

I have over a foot of water in my backyard and I'm on top of a damn hill in South College Station. The wife is in Houston and can't get home because 6 is under water. Me and carpe milkum have declared movies and pizza night.

http://texags.com/forums/35/topics/2751207/1#discussion

Here's a link to the townies over on the aggieland board. Lots of pics and Twitter posts of today's storms up there

I was hoping it would finally let loose today in San Antonio. Air is thick as hell. Everyone stay safe

House got hit by lighting last night in McAllen, I wasn't there but the apparently half the electrical got blown, phones and internet were fried and there are two holes in the roof now. Rained quite a bit in areas of the RGV.

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I have over a foot of water in my backyard and I'm on top of a damn hill in South College Station. The wife is in Houston and can't get home because 6 is under water. Me and carpe milkum have declared movies and pizza night.

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Damn woman drove to Brenham against my warnings right into a radar indicated tornado and is now cut off. Literally killing me....

pretty good hail core 10 miles WSW of Brenham heading to town... get her under an awning

My sister lives there. Said roads to CSs were impassable. She's still stuck at work with a student because her parents can't get out of their neighborhood and my sister isn't sure she can get home at this point anyways