Tornado!

[Julia Thompson]

On Thu, 15 May 2008, dsummersminet at comcast.net wrote:

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> Original Message:
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> From: Julia Thompson degges at chiba.3jane.net
> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 23:52:01 -0500 (CDT)
> To: brin-l at mccmedia.com
> Subject: Tornado!
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> I presume from your write time and watching Austin radar you got the storm
> that passed I-35 about 10:30 or so PM.  We got a later storm down on 30th,
> near Speedway (where Teri's seminary apt. is).  I picked up one hailstone
> that Teri said had shrunk by 2x and it was about 6 cm long.  We only lost a
> car outside mirror, but the car behind me lost their back windshield and
> there was a lot of broken windows.

Yes, that was the one.  I heard from a friend who lives in a co-op west of 
Guadalupe that there had been large hail there, and that the number of 
broken windows in Austin numbered in the *thousands*.

> A neighbor said they were outside when it really hit and their ears popped.
> I saw two signs down in opposite directions, so I think we were in a
> tornado too, but my latest check of the news did not mention a tornado.  We
> took the same storm that Terrytown did.
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> I'll be driving up towards the University Ave exit from Austin tomorrow, so
> if you need me to pick something up, just yell.

I think we're good.  I don't think we're going to need anything we can't 
get from Home Depot except whatever we might need a professional for. 
(I'm wondering if we're going to need to order a dumpster for the shed 
remains; if so, we probably ought to call our usual garbage pickup 
company, I see their dumpsters at construction sites frequently, and we've 
had very good experiences with them up to now.  And if that happens, 
we'll just holler to half the freaks in Austin, and 20 of them will show 
up, 3 with chainsaws.)

 	Julia