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Subscribe to RSSStorms with lightning, hail and rain rolled through North Texas Friday night, while one person sustained a minor injury as hail the size of baseballs hit parts of Oklahoma.
In Texas, lightning forced Forth Worth's Mayfest 2012 to shut down Friday night and Texas Christian University also called off its baseball game early, NBC DFW reported.
In 1995, a huge hailstorm hit Fort Worth. The storm did $1 billion in damage and injured more than 100 people, including a number of people at Mayfest.
Barring any more bad weather, the event should be back in business Friday morning, NBC DFW said.
The storm triggered a tornado warning in Hood County, but there were no immediate reports of damage there, according to the sheriff.
A home in Celina sustained serious damage when strong winds caused a roof to collapse in the Carter Ranch addition, the Collin County sheriff said.
Minor damage was reported in Granbury, and some downed trees were reported in Crowley.
Meanwhile in Oklahoma, a couple and their grandchild were fleeing the storm in a vehicle when hail smashed a window, injuring one person inside, Tillman County Emergency Management Director Jeffrey Rector told The Associated Press Friday.
In neighboring Cotton County, a sheriff's dispatcher said a number of cars were damaged as the storm passed through, but there were no reports of injuries.
NBC News contributed to this report.
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First the may fest will reopen on sat not friday morning, And this is a sad story for all the cars damaged the insurance companies will be hit hard for those repairs, plus damage to homes. That is why we have insurance right?
More extreme weather will come due to climate change and unfortunately the media is not connecting the dots. Ironic as it is, these two States have political leadership that denies it is here.
Oh my goodness. Really??? I am not even going to argue about the climate thing, but to attribute this to that is silly. Look at the history of these states. This weather ALWAYS happens and ALWAYS will. Climate change would contribute to a change in weather patterns, not a consistant one. And the political leadership? Well, Oklahoma had, until this last election, one of the best democrat governors, and Texas has some of the most outspoken democrat senators. Don't bring politics into it. And find better data to argue climate change, otherwise it is a mute point. Do I think it exists? Maybe. Do I think thunderstorms in TORNADO ALLEY prove it? No.
One person sustained minor injuries during a storm. In the midwest, we call that "Friday".
Texas weather is dry with severe storms.
It's always had tornadoes. This is nothing new - it's a desert.
New England is where the substantial climate changes have occurred. New England is a glacial region that has lost much of its ice and snow base. None of the lakes froze over this winter and that is a first in modern history.
I get fed up with this competition for federal aid by regions traditionally hit by severe weather for generations. And these are the same states that complain when New England needs oil, for example.
Louisiana residents went as far north as North Carolina to take jobs away from local residents after Katrina, begging managers to hire them. They were and others that grew up in NC fired.
Tornado Alley residents have prior knowledge of the conditions and have for a century now - so I have little empathy for those that stay in regions of severe weather conditions.
This, to me, is why the Louisiana Purchase was a mistake. We should have settled north to Canada and south to Mexico instead of west.
Hey Mackie-4741671, maybe all them North Carolinians would still have jobs -- i.e., not been fired -- if they had actually WORKED to keep their jobs. Don't be blamin' your own gettin' fired on someone else when it is YOUR responsibility to make sure that YOU do the work.
love hurts-3143149, the fact that Texas and Oklahoma have "always had" severe weather in no way proves that Climate Change (GLOBAL Warming) is not real. As for consistent weather patterns -- the severe weather in Texas and Oklahoma (as well as everywhere else in the U.S.A.) has been getting consistently WORSE and MORE FREQUENT. Oh, and the fact that it "happens" to still get cold enough for it to snow where there is enough atmospheric moisture to produce precipitation in certain parts of the world simply means that it gets cold enough for it to snow where there is enough atmospheric moisture to produce precipitation -- not that the GLOBAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE is not rising.
Unless you think that just because it rains and snows in Washington State that there has never been a drought in any part of Texas.............
Yeah, I was watching when that tornado took down the old CNB building in D.T. Fort Worth (March 28, 2000).. Actually (though there is a straight line severe weather alley that runs from Tolar thru Watauga) Fort Worth itself rarely gets these exceptions. I never saw it as anything more than what other cities and towns experience during rare storms. One thing I can say about Fort Worth (and most of Texas) you definitely know when summer arrives.. The 'HOT' word is a gross understatement, but the people who live there wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
I have lived in Oklahoma my whole life and this is typical spring weather for us. You should have seen the thousands of cars damaged in a large hail storm that hit OKC in the spring of 2010. Insurance adjusters totalled my daughter's car it was so heavily damaged. Yeah, the auto body shops had a banner year because of that storm. This may be news to MSNBC, but here in Oklahoma it's just a normal spring where you just might get a new car courtesy of Mother Nature (and your insurance adjuster). Here's a YouTube video that's hard to believe, but it's real.
http://youtu.be/VvfxUdV8sZw
Hail the size of baseballs? I would think that would kill a person if they were hit in the head. Glad nobody was seriously injured down there.
Not to mention the constant repair insurance companies spend on hail damage.
Hey Mackie, if the insurance companies don't want to keep spending all that money on repairs -- maybe they should just stop covering all that hail damage.
Oh, wait, that would mean people like you would have to pay for those repairs out of your own pockets, just like more than 85% of U.S. Citizens have to because they simply cannot afford the cushy insurance policies with that magic 0% deductible.........................................
IF INSURANCE COMPANIES HAD HALF A BRAIN AND WEREN'T SO
DAMN GREEDY... They would buck up and insist that the roof replacements
that they pay for would have to be rubber and steel roofs.
These storms aren't going to get less intense in the future... only more.
Furthermore when they pay to rebuild it should be SIPS construction.
Those structures can withstand 300 mile an hour winds..
JUST WHAT ANYONE WITH A LICK OF COMMON SENSE WOULD
OR SHOULD DO!!
Rosewine ( or rose-whine), I suppose your home is built to SIPS standards? Most people cannot afford that level of construction.
Rubber would rot in the Texas heat, fool.
Steel would fry all of your houses' inhabitants.
Better?
Of course - Texans have 49 other states that they can choose to live where they do NOT have tornadoes as much. Certainly are prettier.
So the insurance company should replace it? Let me point something out here to you. Insurance isn't there to make things better then the original, they are there to replace with like kind and quality. If homeowners want their roof to be upgraded they need to do the upgrading themselves which means forking over their own money to do so. If I have a frame house and a tornado blows it down, the insurance is going to pay to rebuild a frame home, any upgrades like a solid brick home after the fact is on me the homeowner. You should really try to realize what insurance is about, yes there may be some that are greedy but no insurance company is going to pay to make your roof steel or rubber when you have simple shingle.
Yo, Lyrica, let's see NFL team owners fork over their own money to UPGRADE AND REPLACE EXISTING STRUCTURES -- instead of demanding that the bill be paid for by tax-payers. Gee, that would mean Right-wing Tea-Tagger CONservative team owners would have to pay their own way...........................
What's this to do with insurance and severe weather? Simple: You pointed out that insurance companies are not in the business of paying for ugrades and such, more than just implying that both you and they do not embrace Socialism. Team owners such as Zygi Wilf want the State to pay for their PRIVATELY OWNED PLACE OF BUSINESS. Us Liberals call that "Corporate Welfare".
Lol Quacked. You've taken a comment about regular homeowners insurance and customers waaaaaaaaaay out there put it in Socialism, sport and politics. Not everything has to do with that you know, sorry if you feel that way. The basic jest of what I was saying is simple, insurance isn't going to pay to upgrade a product that the homeowner doesn't first pay to upgrade themselves. You want a tin/metal/rubber roof? Buy it yourself and if something happens, THEN insurance will cover the cost to fix it provided it's covered. Don't expect others to make things better for you, you have to first make them better for yourself.
Quick corrections: Standard homeowners insurance and standard homes are not the same type nor the same form of coverage as a sports structure. Places of business and standard homes do not have the same type of coverage. Hell even million dollar homes do not always have the same types of coverage then say a 200k dollar home.
Is insurance a form of socialism? Maybe. Some would argue yes, others would argue no. Most would just not give a damn since homeowners insurance and what is covered can often be dropped at the expense of the homeowner should something happen. If you have payed off your home there is no legal requirement in most states to maintain homeowner's insurance. Most mortgage companies will require you to do so as long as there is a lean on the home. You pay to put your money in a pool along with everyone else, if something happens to you that money is taken out of the pool and used to make you whole again. NOT to make you better then you where before. They are not in the business of paying for upgrades, (that in itself doesn't mean they don't embrace socialism or any theory on it), they are in the business of using what is basically community money to fix what is wrong. In that instance it can be defined as a form of it.
Sorry Michael, hail is pretty common this time of year because of the temperature contrast between the surface and the upper atmosphere, being quite cold up high, thus large hailstones. Nothing severe about this ordinary spring weather except in your overactive imagination. Certainly has nothing to do with climate change or whatever it is called these days.
So how was your "normal" Winter weather down there? Did you even HAVE Winter -- or was it just another extension of Summer?
Yep, all those severe storms with all that rain and hail and tornadoes are just "normal weather patterns" -- which is why folks in Texas seem so unprepared for SUMMER storms in Spring and Winter.
was at work at WinStar Casino and we were evacuated to the shelters there due to high winds (80 mph) and hail.. Some damage to trees and barns, but we were lucky.
I've lived in these areas most of my life. Fact of life, storms in the spring can be very severe...Every where you live you have some type of in-climate weather to contend with. This has always been true.
Please, let's not start this global warming/climate change c--p again. It's springtime in Texas and Oklahoma, and everywhere else in the country. Thunderstorms are a way of life in the U.S. anytime of the year, not just spring. They've been going on for thousands of years, not just recently. And they are accompanied by hail, lightning, heavy rainfall and flooding, damaging winds, and tornadoes. As far as the comment above that says that "these two States have political leadership that denies it is here," politics has nothing to do with weather, and the global warming/climate change card has once again been slyly introduced into the mix that tends to confuse science and nature with politics. Senators Reid and Kerry would be proud of you for that comment, as some of theirs were just as stupid. What concerns me almost as much is the spelling of Forth Worth that the writer of the article used. Forth Worth? Credibility of an article, and the writer's ability to differentiate facts from fiction, quickly soars out the window when he/she can't even spell correctly. I'll bet your 3rd grade teacher cringed at seeing that. Even with spellcheck, one must still know how to spell. Consider your knucles rapped with a ruler.
Larry, ignoring the problem and not talking about it will never make the problem go away -- or make it to have never existed.
I suppose should a sinkhole appear in your yard and become steadily deeper and more dangerous that you would just say "it's always been there"...........
Let me get this straight, quack.. Your saying if FORT Worther's create white knuckles, worry intensely and stop ignoring what they can't control, the problem will then go away? That would be laughable if it wasn't so idiotic. Same with the sinkhole, it comes.. it gets deeper.. What can they do? Grab buckets of dirt and try to re-fill the hole? What do you do in your home town when a weather problem arises? Call a meeting on how to get rid of that dust devil? No, you live with it then after so many years of it, you accept it as part of life in the area your living in and go on with your life. Crazy people with inane ideas of how others should deal with nature.
And in the area around San Antonio, nary a drop. A pleasantly warm day, nonetheless: 90+ degrees, sunny, and breezy. But we sure cold use rain. Rain to raise our aquifers, rain to fill the surface lakes, rain to make our rivers flow. This applies to south Texas in general. Again, I don't think it's "climate change." Rather, I think it's where we are. In our region, as in most semi-arid regions, the weather can be wildly variable.
Ah, yes - and the grass burrs. And the smell of asparagus grass. And the brown hills. And the long icky centipedes. And the smell of cow patties. And the smell of oil. And the smell of cow patties.
Pleasant, I'm sure.
The best thing about Texas is not having too many athiests that want to change the environment around here. Imagine.. change the environment.. can you move the oceans? Can you shift the stars? Do you know how they were made? All of the, better than the rest of us, people can just keep wringing your hands over the storms we will trust in the Lord.
The worst thing about Texas is all the "Christians" who think they know more about what God intended for Earth than God hisself. Can a person move the oceans? No -- but then you can't just wish away pollution, or make it non-existent by ignoring it, either.
Byron, your comment about "how they were made" (the stars, oceans, etc) is just another example of someone saying "If God wants His Creation to be 100% pristine - then He'll just wave His hand and make it so!" So, go ahead and "trust in the Lord" -- the atheists of the world will be busy working to make sure that even you have clean water to drink.
Freddy...... When I was in San Antonio in November of 1982 it rained a lot and the aquifers, lakes and rivers were just fine -- which "proves" that you are wrong.
Just like your personal opinion "proves" that Climate Change/GLOBAL Warming is just a myth.
Someone tell Mark to park his truck under a scrub oak and raise his fishing pole upright so as to avoid it being beaten by hail stones. Because I care!
Thanks!
Who's Mark? Ans where is his posting?
Looks to me like Mackie-4741671 is telling this "Mark" to go sit out under scrub-oak and hold a fishing pole upright in a hail storm -- so he can be hit by, and probably killed by, lightning (which "just happens" to be present during at least 95% of all hail storms).
Either that, or ol' Mackie-4741671 is just showing his supreme ignorance of Science again.
It's all Al Gore's fault.
Mackie: I get the distinct impression that you don't especially care for Texas. Is there a reason? Perhaps ypu prefer the foul air of Nieu Yawk? Or Joisy? Or maybe you prefer the left coast areas, the ones choking with traffic and incredibly high taxes? Or perhaps Florida, which is simply the Nieu Yawk area set in a hot, humid climate?
Them thar parts of the U.S.A. iz still better then Hooston, where you might be able ta walk down the street with a Colt strapped to yore laig -- but Hooston iz still choked with air pollution.
So how's being allowed ta live next door ta someone who iz allowed ta dump toxic waste inta the drinkin' water workin' out fer ya?
God, all these weird storms going on. Hope the hurricane season isn't bad.
Gee! I guess God REALLY hates Texas.
Why does God hate Texas so much and why doesn't prayer keep the storms away?
Only one hurt after this deluge? That's the part I find incredible. Hope all you Oklahomans and Texans get a reprieve from this raunchy weather. Take care.
Texas, Oklahoma, Co., Kansas, Iowa, N.Mex., Alabama, Louisiana, Ohio, TN., Ark., and I could continue.. These storms are expected... Read if you can find the truth, the patterns of these storms and see for how many years they have been reported..
I picked up a great set of encyclopedias last week at a Garage sale..I paid two dollars for a set that looks brand new.. I suggest you all do the same as history is being changed by the freaks in Washington..Rewritten. The older the better. You will find just how long these storms, climate changes, droughts, rainfall, have been going on and if you want to believe the sky is falling, go ahead.. This is another way in which to tax the people to death.
NOTICE... I DID NOT MENTION A PARTY.. I am referring to ALL OF THEM... So maybe we cannot make this political so much...
These storms will be around when all of us are gone.. This is a pattern and Mother Nature does her thing in Cycles...
So does that set of encyclopedias happen to mention the FREQUENCY of severe storms -- how often they happen -- or just that "they happen"?
By the way, the places that are being hit hardest by this "normal" weather also just happen to be located in the "Bible Belt" -- where Christians supposedly out-number "Satanists" (anyone who dares to not be one of the Bible-thumpers) by at least 10-1.
It always surprises how many people who live in these areas still don't keep track of the weather. Its nothing to ignore.
Texas? I guess it's God's wrath against them bushes.
d.trump--
I guess if the Texas Christian University cancels its ball game because of the weather -- the power of prayer is called into question. After all -- if the weather is an act of god -- he would certainly strike elsewhere, don't you think? Maybe the ball field is too close to a trailer park, and god has a notoriously lousy aim? Perhaps they were playing the NJ Devils or some such team--
Anyway -- very happy that the damage and injuries were minimal. Be safe.
I am impressed, it seems every airhead that denies the FACT that human actions have increased global temperstures, has learned to spell "climate"!! Hoo Raa! Now, if we can train them to pull their heads out ............ that will be a milestone! After that............ on to addition.
You are joking, right? I mean it seems to be too much to ask for those who are always hollering about "Personal Responsibility" to actually take the same Personal Responsibility for their own actions................................................
The UN is a big part of the NWO and it is time to get rid of them. Most likely our politicians will go along with it because most of them our in the Bilderberg organization which is part of the NWO. Once they turn over control their land will end up with the UN and they will put foreign military or what they will call UN peace keeping force.
I live in the area where these storms occurred. Well, okay, so I live about 25 minutes Northeast of where the bad part of the storms hit here in Oklahoma. Why am I here when I know all of this is going on? Simple. I live here because family is here. It is home, and also, I had lived in different areas for a decade due to military, but am back here. Do I like the storms and extreme temperatures? Not necessarily, but we deal with them. Those who have lived in the area for years know what precautions to take to stay safe. Those who are newcomers, or who have their head up their rear end, are typically the ones who get hurt. Sometimes, you have those "good ole' boys" who think they can out-run a storm, and they get injured. That, I just call being a complete idiot.
The storms have NOTHING to do with the government, or any political party's actions. That is like saying I control the sun and moon. It's ridiculous. I don't see why some people have to always make EVERY story on msnbc turn out to be some political warfare. However, I do feel that with all of the pollution we put into the air, and the pollution we put into the ground, then it's no wonder there are so many odd changes in the weather. I don't remember it reaching 100 degrees this early in the year here in Oklahoma when I was growing up, and it seems that the weather changes are just getting worse over the years. Just like with the earthquakes. There are so many lately, and it's just not normal. I still feel some of that is due to "fracking" in the area, but that is a completely other topic.
As for those who have lost homes, vehicles, or were injured due to the storms, then my thoughts and prayers are with them. Yup, The Quacked One, I am one of those crazy Christian people who actually believe in a thing called God. No amount of hatred coming out of the mouth (or fingers in this case) could make me believe otherwise. All I can say, is I'm praying for those who don't believe in anything.
Have fun arguing with each other. As for me, I have better things to do with my time.
the only thing that comes out of Texas is steer's and queer's
Let me guess...you were born there? Loser I lived in Texas in Granbury. Very pretty town I lived in and people were not near as rude as you. Never met so many kind people in my whole life. You must be from Jerk Ville...