Metroplex Parking Garages Are Full.

Blue Iris

One guy even said that it looked at Christmas at the Mall. The storms are due to hit between 10pm-2am. Baseball size based on the strength of the storm seems to have everyone freaking out. Just last month, the area received over $100million in damages, plus. The car dealerships spent the last couple of days moving their cars into garages and under hail tents.  There has been so much damage in the Metroplex of late from large hail storm that people seem to be in panic mode. It's a catch-22 situation, too. The weather guys want to warm people and rightly so, but it gets carried to far with the way the news cycles are rigged.

It was even funny during the afternoon news that starts at 4PM here. One guy had covered his car with pool noodles, all tied together neatly. One , had covered in blankets, pillows, even a purse hanging over the door handle. And, a Gardener covered his cars and windows with bags of mulch. Now that seems to be the winner in my book because you don't have to tie those down. The weight of the bags are held in place by gravity and it's gonna keep baseball-size hail from breaking windows and putting dents into the hoods and roof.

One line of thinking came from a guy that said that it was cheaper to pay the $9 parking fee at DFW airport garage than pay the deductible of his car insurance policy for glass and repairs. Several of the large public parking garages had filled up by noon. One family parked three cars in one garage and drove the worse car to collect everyone at the garage from their family and take them home. The garage only had enough space to park one car.

Winds are expected up to 70 MPH. All-in-all it's spring time in North Texas. This is our month before it moves north in May and farther north by June and ding ding ding as the hail will sound. The universities cancelled classes and activities beginning at 6 tonight.

The forecast for Easter is sun, sun, sun and warm 80 degrees. Did I mention clear skies? Don't laugh. It was overcast today and by three o'clock this afternoon the sun was breaking through the thick clouds.That only adds fuel to the instability of the atmosphere and makes the strong storms even stronger The squall line is coming together as I type this. The overall system slowed down and it does seem that the hail cores have reduced in size to nickle, dime and quarter size.

Iris on a Lake

A male wood duck