Thursday, October 21, 2021

Yesterday was the second anniversary of me almost getting blown away in a tornado (again!)

 Second year anniversary and some of the businesses and homes, churches and schools have not all been rebuilt. The shopping centers are making great strides, of course. St. Mark's School made way quickly to rebuild. Thank goodness, it is a premier school. Yesterday, Dallas County School Supertendent Dr.Michael Hinojosa,said it best: you look at the school and they are doing fine, leave them along. If you look at another school and they are having trouble, you give them lots of L-O-V-E! 

North Haven Garden Center was destroyed, re built and was hit again by another tornado the following year. It's always been a special kind of place for me in that Mom loved that place. It was only a few blocks from her neighborhood and I had drive back in the old neighborhood just a week before the tornado struck. It was in the patch of the tornado that was on the ground through north Dallas for 36 minutes. There were 9 tornadoes that day in north Texas. 

 

                                               Home Depot Destroyed and since been rebuilt

                                                   Shopping Center Preston and Royal

Just prior to this house being hit,   my front door blew open. As I got up to close it, I could see the funnel cloud. It crossed the street at my corner.  This house had about 4 minutes before being hit.


Seeing the pictures from the space station showed the path like a scar on the earth---which it was. 

Here in Texas we have two major tornado seasons. One in the spring and again in the fall. Although, tornados can strike any time of the year. Several years ago the Christmas tornados hit Rockwall. That year there were a total of 40 tornadoes. The average hovers some where around 20-25 I believe hearing.

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