Tornado Sirens, But No Tornado

It was a doozie! Jacob was at baseball practice and Kelly was at Manuel's house when I noticed the bad looking cell on the weather updates was headed right for Muleshoe. There was baseball sized hail and circular motion. I made a few phone calls and Jacob came home, practice was canceled. Kelly spent a few extra minutes and put the 8230 in the pumpkin shed and then headed home. By now the cell headed for Muleshoe took a turn and headed for Sudan. I think that Frank's place got hit head on again, but we dodged that bullet in town.

There was another cell, but they were not even talking about it on the updates. All the focus was on the first cell that had just missed us. It was getting very dark outside and the tornado sirens started going off as the second cell approached. Kelly and I decided at the last minute to make room for his pickup in the garage... which meant we had to throw stuff everywhere to make it work. The neighbors were running for basements and we spent our time cleaning up the garage. The siren quite about that time and the hail started. It was baseball sized and it was loud. Jacob was scared, but we never worried... too much. Manuel called to tell us that they had broken windows in their home and all the vehicles at his house had broken windshields.

Finally, cell #2 passed and we assessed the damage. The guest house has 2 sky lights and they were fine. Looks like everything at home is ok. Now, here is the point in the story I would like to tell you that we sunk our worries into a big bowl of ice cream. Remember the pick up in the garage? We could not get our freezer door open because the pickup was parked in front of it and there was not an inch to spare! I guess that means that I get two bowls today!!

As far as I know, I bet we lost all of our crops. Kelly is out assessing the damage now and I will update later.

UPDATE: I talked to Kelly a little while ago and it is not a total loss. The pumpkins and corn will be alright. (A little beat up, but they will be ok) Some of the cotton is probably totaled and there is some that is questionable. I guess we will have to wait and see.

I saw Linda and her car was awful. (She lives in Lazbuddie) The windshield was about to fall out because it had so many big hits and there were huge dents all over. It is amazing how much damage those hail storms can cause!!