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Posted: 5/16/2024 8:55:23 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:02:13 PM EDT
[#1]
That's going to take some time and money to fix.
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:06:09 PM EDT
[#2]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By nvroundman: That's going to take some time and money to fix. Its Houston. Depending in where it is, it may be an improvement. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:06:48 PM EDT
[#3]
It was really bad. I haven’t seen winds like that since Ike
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:09:51 PM EDT
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:11:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NorthBridge: It was really bad. I haven’t seen winds like that since Ike Agreed. Was not happy to see "Tornado Warning" on my phone. Powerful winds, even up north, with low level scud just whizzing on by. Downtown is going to be messy tomorrow, with all of those windows sucked out. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:12:04 PM EDT
[#6]
Sitting in the dark because the transformer blew at the height of the storm. It got real sketchy fast with rotating high wind and rain so I was planning to hunker down in the bathroom if the roof started peeling off. Stopped after about 15 minutes and now without power and internet except for my phone.
The Horror |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:12:22 PM EDT
[#7]
 A Tornado Warning |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:12:48 PM EDT
[#8]
WWPGD?
@PhuzzyGnu |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:13:29 PM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By icemann0: Sitting in the dark because the transformer blew at the height of the storm. It got real sketchy fast with rotating high wind and rain so I was planning to hunker down in the bathroom if the roof started peeling off. Stopped after about 15 minutes and now without power and internet except for my phone. The Horror Same here… |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:15:19 PM EDT
[#10]
lights flickered a couple of times but otherwise, all good (Reliant area)
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CO, USA
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:18:24 PM EDT
[#11]
Out of curiosity, what wind speeds are modern skyscraper windows designed for resisting?
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:19:01 PM EDT
[Last Edit: TxM35A2]
[#12]
A bunch of transmission towers went down in Katy,
Ch13 ABC News stated 75 mph winds in places. I'm about 30 miles west and my weather station recorded 25 mph winds with gust of 30 mph. 1.5 inches of rain. |
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IA, USA
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:20:41 PM EDT
[#13]
No, but its going to need a paint job and a shitload of screen doors!
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:24:36 PM EDT
[#14]
Just heard 40% of Harris Co is without power at the moment with power lines down "all over the place". Apparently some major widespread damage.
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:27:31 PM EDT
[#15]
In before the looting.
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:29:10 PM EDT
[#16]
oof
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:30:19 PM EDT
[#17]
 Shit got real real quick, but I stood out in the garage and watched it like a man while the wife and kid were hunkered down in the bath tub lol. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:31:00 PM EDT
[Last Edit: TXBBQGuy]
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:37:30 PM EDT
[#19]
Shit took down my fence and fucked up a few trees. It was WINDY.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:38:46 PM EDT
[#20]
How about that! I’m in Spring and for once I didn’t lose power!
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:39:42 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JTX23: Shit took down my fence and fucked up a few trees. It was WINDY. 
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:49:56 PM EDT
[#22]
Our power is out. My daughter sent those same pics of the transmission towers down to me.
When I saw the wind and lower clouds coming from the east - north east and the system coming from. West nw, I knew something was going to happen close by. I was out watching and listening the whole time. At 1730 it looked like dusk. The sky was green and the wind howling and whipping trees around. Luckily it was a little south of here but it was hairy for a bit. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:50:59 PM EDT
[#23]
 Attached FileLost our side of the double fence and the landscaping adjacent. Thankfully Lucy wasn't parked right there at the time. Fuuuuuu those waterlogged panels were heavy. Was due for replacement anyway. Looks like a Cat1 or Cat2 hurricane hit central Houston. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:52:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI think @JLPettimoreIII may have an erection lasting more than four hours seeing this. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:52:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:58:39 PM EDT
[#26]
We had some bad weather last weekend, too. It flooded over 3 feet in front of my house, broke a bunch of branches in my yard, knocked over a tree behind a neighbor's house and wrecked my garden. I thought the hail was going to punch through my living room window.
We got a piece of the weather today. Only had about 20 minutes of heavy winds and dime-sized hail. Last weekend was windier for us and quarter-sized hail. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 10:01:22 PM EDT
[Last Edit: nmxdavenn]
[#27]
Me and the kid were driving through when it made it to cypress.
It was, without doubt, the craziest weather event I have been in. The straight line winds had to be 100 mph. I’m still amazed I didn’t have a tree land on me. Huge lightning strikes. It looked just fucking evil. I’ve lived on the gulf coast all my life and I’ve never seen something look that ominous. It was weird. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 10:04:25 PM EDT
[#28]
Interesting, I'm up north and didn't notice anything more than 40-50mph winds. It must have been highly localized.
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Posted: 5/16/2024 10:06:22 PM EDT
[#29]
Hope all you guys from TX are safe.
Looks like one heck of a storm, and here I thought our 40mph gusts were bad today. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 10:24:24 PM EDT
[#30]
Hearing that hundreds of cell towers in the Harris Co area are down.
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Posted: 5/16/2024 10:38:41 PM EDT
[#31]
I work offshore and came home to no food so I had to buy food today and literally after spending $200 within an hour of it going in the refrigerator the power is out. Pasadena tx 77503
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Posted: 5/16/2024 10:41:21 PM EDT
[#32]
video from a building lobby
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 5/16/2024 10:45:01 PM EDT
[#33]
How is Conroe faring? Got friends there.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/16/2024 10:48:10 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dc204: How is Conroe faring? Got friends there. Windy and rainy, but nothing that crazy. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 10:56:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey: video from a building lobby
That’s a good representation of what I drove through. Except surrounded by huge pine trees. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:01:51 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Powelligator: Out of curiosity, what wind speeds are modern skyscraper windows designed for resisting? |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:10:33 PM EDT
[#37]
We were in Minutemaid Park for the game. It was a hell of a storm. Everybody was a bit puckered. The wind really gets crazy funneling between the buildings downtown. Glad we got there early for a function before the game.
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:11:34 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By erazor55: Same here… Still without power in the Cypress area. Have to get construction adhesive and stick 2 aluminum shingles down that lifted up. 80 mph winds. Roads are a mess with branches and pine trees down |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:16:05 PM EDT
[#39]
We’re in the Blackhorse/Bridgeland area. Heard the wife’s phone go off for the tornado warning while me and the kid were eating dinner. She comes running out of her office asking why we’re not moving. We told her no one cares, they send those out all the time. Took a look outside to appease her and our tune suddenly changed. Definitely the wildest weather system I’ve encountered. Very similar to the Derocho that went through the Midwest a few years ago. Now we enjoy the drone of generators all night lol.
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:17:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Gunjunki: Still without power in the Cypress area. Have to get construction adhesive and stick 2 aluminum shingles down that lifted up. 80 mph winds. Roads are a mess with branches and pine trees down Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Gunjunki: Originally Posted By erazor55: Same here… Still without power in the Cypress area. Have to get construction adhesive and stick 2 aluminum shingles down that lifted up. 80 mph winds. Roads are a mess with branches and pine trees down May be out for a while until they can get the transmission lines rerouted. I'm in magnolia and everything is out around here. Not sure if those transmission li es feed up here or not. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:17:34 PM EDT
[Last Edit: nmxdavenn]
[#41]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By kmh621: We’re in the Blackhorse/Bridgeland area. Heard the wife’s phone go off for the tornado warning while me and the kid were eating dinner. She comes running out of her office asking why we’re not moving. We told her no one cares, they send those out all the time. Took a look outside to appease her and our tune suddenly changed. Definitely the wildest weather system I’ve encountered. Very similar to the Derocho that went through the Midwest a few years ago. Now we enjoy the drone of generators all night lol. Yes, that’s exactly what it reminded me of. Never been through one, but watched videos. Fast moving, hard hitting. Crazy straight line winds. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:18:33 PM EDT
[#42]
 Close to my sisters house. I have a weather station that records gusts, but it went out with the power. It’s too dark to see if it’s even there anymore. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:18:44 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Powelligator: Out of curiosity, what wind speeds are modern skyscraper windows designed for resisting? somewhere at 75 mph evidently |
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MN, USA
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:18:55 PM EDT
[Last Edit: norseman1]
[#44]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BladedRonin: Its Houston. Depending in where it is, it may be an improvement. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BladedRonin: Originally Posted By nvroundman: That's going to take some time and money to fix. Its Houston. Depending in where it is, it may be an improvement.  Attached FileHouston is a fucking smelly hairy armpit on a bulldike chick who has crabs. Or so someone told me... |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:19:00 PM EDT
[Last Edit: nmxdavenn]
[#45]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Codyboy: May be out for a while until they can get the transmission lines rerouted. I'm in magnolia and everything is out around here. Not sure if those transmission li es feed up here or not. Magnolia here too. Amazing we have power still. Eta: spoke too soon lol |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:20:40 PM EDT
[#46]
Just got a text and call from the school. Schools out tomorrow in Magnolia ISD.
My daughter is a teacher in Crosby and their schools are closed tomorrow too. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:23:21 PM EDT
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When Alicia came through Houston in 1983, we went to my grandparent's house on Antione.
The eye passed almost directly over us. That was Saturday. On Sunday we drove home down I-45 through downtown, and I'd say maybe twice as many windows were blown out. It so eerie, seeing the streets empty but glass everywhere. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:24:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By nmxdavenn: Magnolia here too. Amazing we have power still. Eta: spoke too soon lol Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By nmxdavenn: Originally Posted By Codyboy: May be out for a while until they can get the transmission lines rerouted. I'm in magnolia and everything is out around here. Not sure if those transmission li es feed up here or not. Magnolia here too. Amazing we have power still. Eta: spoke too soon lol Got the genny fired up and wired a makeshift indicator for when the power comes back on.  Attached File |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:27:58 PM EDT
[Last Edit: SuperX925]
[#49]
Good luck to the folks without power. I know the pain. In the Spring area last June we got hit by 90+ MPH straight line wind clocked at IAH.
I was on generator for three days running window unit and portable AC. At least it is cool tonight. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:28:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Codyboy: Got the genny fired up and wired a makeshift indicator for when the power comes back on. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/257708/1000001438_jpg-3216158.JPG I use genmon for our whole home genny. It’s fantastic.  Attached File |
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