I walked out on my porch to check on my plant that I have been carefully taking care of inside all winter. It had just begun to show new shoots about an inch above where it was when I brought it inside. With temps being in the 60°F to 80°F all week long and no freezes I had put in out on the porch for the next several day. But with the hail warnings, I was being a helicopter human over my plant.
Just as I stepped out on the porch, a flash of lightening drew my attention to the sky. Back into the house, grabbed the camera and I returned to the porch where I shot images for over an hour of very, very angry clouds. As they moved NE of me at a fairly slow pace compared to the faster movement I usually see, I remember thinking at the time that someone is going to get a funnel cloud because of the evident rotation that I was seeing.
A couple of years ago my front door blew open. I got up to close it and saw a funnel cloud with so much rotation, I was having trouble shutting the door. That cloud destroyed about 16 miles of homes, businesses and schools, right through my old neighborhood, cutting a continuing path of destruction that missed my house by under four-tenths of a mile. I was just walking in that same area this past Sunday and took a picture where I washed my car, taking my cat, Hotdog with me. Looking at the leveled space there I stood at a skid of bricks that remained from storm repairs on a privacy fence, I thought about how much I loved that cat! Now, a day later it was Déjàvu again. This time while the clouds were low, areas had cleared away along the dry line showing the blue sky and the towering clouds above what I was also seeing from my porch. Leonard, Tx did have a touchdown with a lot of damage from the news storm chasers reporters. Again, it was a close call. To close for comfort.
