With the all the severe weather that has been charging through North Texas over the past couple weeks, I thought that it would be neat to share a video I stumbled upon on Facebook. It shows a video of the tornado that tore through Wichita Falls in April 1979.
Recently, we have had numerous tornado warnings and countless watches. We have been under a constant flood advisory.
https://www.facebook.com/coxric/videos/140653954197/
We just bought a house earlier this month, and since we have been in a stage 5 drought for quite some time we didn’t get flood insurance. That was a mistake. However, we were lucky enough to have no flooding in our neighborhood. But, since we had so much rain in such a short time (over 13 inches this month), our poor house has gone from slight settling to needing to have the foundation lifted 3 inches. That’s a lot for a foundation.
National Weather Service via Times Record News
The Wichita River flows through our town, and the areas around the river had mandatory evacuations. In April, this area was almost completely dry. As you can see… now it is not.
Here are some photos taken by Marla Johnson from Just Shoot Me Photography.
This is the difference between 5/21/15 and 5/24/15
Lake Arrowhead- Before and After
So, How’s your weather?
I pray for everything that has been going on there 🙁 We have very good weather in Wisconsin. The only thing we have to worry about is tornados and they are pretty rare for where I live in Green Bay.
Tornados we are used to but we haven’t had rain in so long! We are lucky that we had the drought cause if our lakes had been full then the flooding would have been so much worse.
Oh my gosh scary!
Our weather in Newfoundland canada is freezing cold still brrrrr but tornados are so scary, happy you had no flooding!
Thanks! We are really lucky not to have flooded!
Fascinating and sinister. . . What a great idea to include a video and graphics . . . I need to learn that! Muchigan weather is always interesting;)
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’ve love to read a post about your weather. I bet you do have interesting weather in Michigan.
So frightening. So glad that you are ok!
So scary! I hope you stay safe, glad you’ve had no flooding, but tornadoes are scary too!