Bad weather in Texas...

[Maddy McCall]

Tornado on the ground outside of Houston on Hwy. 59 headed NNE.

[Richardo]

1. What the ....

Which part of 59? Sugarland (SW)or Cleveland (NE)?

Inquiring minds sitting in an office building in the Galleria want to know!

:D

[Maddy McCall]

3. On the map the guy pointed to an area that looked like it was sw of

Houston about 10 miles. It is blowing cars off the hwy right now.

Let me flip over to weather channel and see what they say. What I just saw was on cnn.

[GOPisEvil]

4. Here's the current map.

Edit - deleted the map that was here.

[Richardo]

5. LOL! That's not too reassuring, David!

[GOPisEvil]

6. Then don't put that map in motion.

You'll REALLY freak out. *sends good wishes*

[Maddy McCall]

7. LOLOLOL!!! That was the funniest thing I have seen all morning.

Richardo, Houston is no longer there, buddy! :-)

See if this one works:

[GOPisEvil]

8. Wow...we in the middle of the state must be living right.

That's scary-looking!

[Richardo]

10. Yeah, it's that "bubble of righteousness" around Austin...

...sort of the opposite of the "epicenter of RW evil" we have here in Houston. :-)

[Maddy McCall]

12. LOL!

"bubble of righteousness"

[GOPisEvil]

13. May the storm's obvious liberal bias spare you and the other liberals.

:D

[Richardo]

9. Holy Schneikies!

That's not so good...

I can see Hwy 59 SW from my 22nd floor cubicle. I'll keep an eye out for the funnels and one foot toward the stairwell...

Thanks jchild... Yeeskies!

[Maddy McCall]

11. Your quite welcome...

from what I can gather, the tornado warning was cancelled. Sheriff's department cars reported it on the ground and that it blew cars off the highway.

If you hear anything on local radio, please let us know. I have relatives working in Houston, and damned near my whole family lives in Port Neches.

jill

[GOPisEvil]

2. Yikes! Look out Houston!

I'm glad that stuff's not heading this way. Although...this afternoon is not likely to be a picnic around here, or so it's said.

[Maddy McCall]

14. Richardo, another tornado in Houston area...

it's southwest of Houston heading towards the southwestern and western suburbs of houston. Moving 16 MPH.

YOu aren't in that area are you?



See the red area on top of the letter H in Houston? That is the tornado. It's headed towards Houston. Be careful!

[Richardo]

17. Possibly...on the West Loop

just north of where Hwy 59 intersects Loop 610. So, depending on the storm track... :shrug:

Thanks for the heads-up, I'm keeping an eye out the window...so far, just thunder & lightning.

[Maddy McCall]

15. Kick for DU Texans

[GOPisEvil]

16. The bubbe of righteousness is protecting us!

I see blue skies through the clouds. :wow: I figured we'd have rain all day.

*thinks good thoughts for the Houstonians*

[Richardo]

18. Thanks for the good thoughts. Really pretty calm right now...

I'll let y'all know...I mean ALL y'all. :D

[Maddy McCall]

19. Just keep checking in on the thread and I will update with whatever

info comes across the Weather Channel--I'm reading while I am listening to the telly--the word "tornado" catches my interest automatically, since I lived through one when I was 9.

[Maddy McCall]

20. Tornado is in Fort Bend County...tornado is SSW of Houston

tracking NNE.

[GOPisEvil]

21. Ft. Bend County? Tom DeLay territory?

The storm DOES have a liberal bias!

Seriously though, tornadoes are scary - I hope everyone's OK in Houston.

[Maddy McCall]

22. AND another one simultaneously moving NNE away from Houston

in Harris County.

Tornado SW of Houston that is moving toward Houston is expected to arrive within the hour. It has hail, lots of rain, in it.

[Richardo]

23. Hm. Storms *do* spin to the left, don't they?

:D

[Richardo]

39. ...and speaking of the "Bubble of Righteousness"

...I'm wondering if this isn't karmic payback for my ditching work Friday on one of the most beautiful days of the year.

If so, sorry to all the millions of my fellow Houstonians! Mea culpa!

[bearfan454]

24. All this bad weather is messing up the deer hunting.

It's the 3rd weekend and I have only killed 1. We need to get those does moving.

[Richardo]

25. The latest weather image...link

http://radblast.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS?station=HGX&brand=wui&num=1&delay=15&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=&noclutter=0&t=1069092912&lat=29.71940041&lon=-95.22284698&label=Houston,+TX

I'm about on the right edge of the big red blob in the middle of the picture...
lots o' lightning now...it's like the paparazzi are outside...

[Maddy McCall]

26. Houston, we have a problem...

image didn't display. Go to www.wunderground.com instead...you can link from there.

:-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

27. Hang in there buddy!

The galleria, eh? If I worked there I would spend my lunches watching the iceskaters :D

[Richardo]

28. Yeah! Tara Lipinski works out here....very cool.

And thanks for the thought, NMSA...

[Sparkle]

30. Hello fellow Houston DUer!

My office is at 9 greenway. When I look out my window, I see the top of the compaq center and US 59.

It looks really ugly out there!

[Richardo]

38. hi gsc!

Yep - just another beautiful day in RW paradise...

[Maddy McCall]

29. It looks like it's gonna track to your north...

but you can't trust those damned things--they have minds of their own. So take precautions. Keep us posted.

[TXlib]

31. The power just went out at work

The computers are all running off battery backup.

[VelmaD]

32. And you're wasting electricity...

on DU. Bad employee. :spank:

[GOPisEvil]

33. Hmm...the damned sun is out here.

:wtf:

[TXlib]

35. Don't worry... it's headed YOUR way. MWAH HAH HAH HAH!!

Oh, and the power's back on.

[GOPisEvil]

36. Er...no it isn't...

It's moving NE. I'm NW of you. Neener! :P

[Maddy McCall]

34. Richardo, you ok? check in please...

thanks :-)

[Richardo]

37. No hay problema aqui...

...except that I'm unaccountably posting subject lines in Spanish.

...still cloudy, but the rain and lightning have subsided a bit. Still keeping a weather eye (ha!) out for "interesting" weather.

[Sparkle]

40. Stuck here at the office....flooding

Why oh why didn't I leave when I had the chance?!

[GOPisEvil]

41. Getting dark here in Austin...

...nothing compared to Houston though.

I hope you're able to get home soon. :-)

[Maddy McCall]

43. Is thine bubble of righteousness about to burst?

:-)

[GOPisEvil]

44. It's raining now.

Good thing it's time for me to go home. I only live a mile away. :-)

[Maddy McCall]

45. Be safe driving. :-) nt

[GOPisEvil]

46. It is raining kittens and puppies here.

Not quite cats and dogs, but close.

[TEXASYANKEE]

47. We got your cats and dogs.

It's been raining extremely hard here in the Dallas area for almost 2 hours now. The weatherbums have been forecasting rain since last Friday (with sunshine and temps in the 70s all weekend) so they can now heave a sigh of relief that they actually got a forecast right for a change. No tornadoes, though, thank goodness.

[Maddy McCall]

42. I'm in Mississippi now--it's headed our way.

And I have to commute 85 miles to work tomorrow AM. funfunfunfunfun.