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05-06-2006, 09:02 PM
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Anyone heard from Doc today?
I know those storms down in Waco were pretty fierce last night. Anyone hear from Doc today? Just hoping he's safe and sound.
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05-06-2006, 09:11 PM
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He's probably without power. I heard that 20,000 people in Waco had their power down.
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05-06-2006, 09:14 PM
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05-06-2006, 09:28 PM
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Thanks everyone. Power is on and off all day. Three separate funnel clouds went DIRECTLY...and I do mean DIRECTLY over our house last night. The noise was unbelievable. We were VERY lucky and had no damage. Only power loss. I spent the better part of today cutting a tree out of a staff member of mines house and patching his roof. Of course, it rained on us. And rained some more. I have a spare mother-in-law house that is now occupied by two families who are friends. Our power has been on for a while now and I expect that we are safe. I got to buy dinner for 18 tonight.
Horrific storms. At least one torndao actually touched down in Waco just a couple of miles past our house. Again, we were very fortunate. Thanks for all the pm's. I will answer them tomorrow probably or later if I can get back online. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone. I appreciate the prayers. They worked. Doc |
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05-06-2006, 09:35 PM
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Glad you are okay! Hope your power is on for good now so that you don't miss the Mavs tomorrow.
Continued prayers for all those affected. Must have been a pretty scary experience!
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05-06-2006, 09:54 PM
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Considering that incident around Christmastime, I don't think that tornado had the balls to touch down anywhere NEAR your house.
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05-06-2006, 11:48 PM
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Glad to hear that you are OK.
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05-07-2006, 12:18 AM
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Yup, glad to hear you're OK, man..
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05-07-2006, 01:34 AM
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Glad to hear you're ok Doc, looking forward to seeing you posting in the GDT tomorrow
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05-07-2006, 01:47 AM
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First....thanks to everyone. I appreciate it a lot.
Anyone know if kg_vet posted today? He lives in the Hewitt area I think and it got hit by some pretty impressive winds. All of the news stations are reporting no injuries. I drove around town a bit today and there are trees down all over and several buildings were completely demolished. If you consider that the tornado was classified as an F-1 or F-2, it makes you realize how lucky we were. The Jarrell tornado a few years back was an F-5+ and it literally wiped that town off the map. I still can't get over that noise.....the funnel clouds that went right over our house made an almost unexplainable noise. I've heard tornados before, but it wasn't like that. It was almost calming but scared the crap out of you at the same time. That noise is stuck in my head. Last edited by Drbio; 05-07-2006 at 01:48 AM. |
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05-07-2006, 02:43 AM
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KG sent me a message Saturday afternoon. He's okay, I'm sure.
Doc, where were you when all of this was going down? |
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05-07-2006, 07:35 AM
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hey Doc, you see the Coke plant. terrible.
But I'm glad that not many Mom & Pops got hit. I think only Padgitts
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05-07-2006, 08:53 AM
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prayers go out to everyone impacted. doc, im glad you are safe.
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05-07-2006, 12:06 PM
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chum - I was at home. It blew in about 1am.
Just211- the coke plant is a 1 million dollar plus loss. There are still bottles on the roadside. Furniture Row got hit, Padgitts too. There was a wharehouse behind the coke plant area that was levelled too. The inustrial area lost several buildings back towards Hewitt. Woodway lost a million trees. They are everywhere. Most of the smaller shops were spared. Thanks AEx..
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05-07-2006, 03:18 PM
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It's been a crazy weekend here. The tornado sirens went off where we are, but we didn't sustain any real damage. We did lose power until Saturday afternoon, though, and have several friends who are still without power. The path of the tornado along Franklin Drive (particularly the Coca-Cola plant and the furniture stores) and through Woodway was pretty devastating. The tornado passed about a block from my office but didn't hit it. Several friends lost trees and/or had their houses damaged by the storm.
That's two tornadoes in roughly one week's time. Thankfully, I'm not aware of anyone being hurt or killed, and the property damage isn't nearly as bad as it could have been.
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05-07-2006, 03:36 PM
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The first tornado took out a good friend of mine's house. Their daughter was in the house on the second floor. It was the only part of the house that survived....if you call it being dropped to the ground as surviving. They lsot a barn and two of the universitys horses, but they are safe. That is all that matters to me.
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