Today was a wild weather day. After we got out of church it was breezy and really warm (60+ degrees). I was working in the yard and it started to rain. Then harder. Then harder. Then torentially with strong gusts of wind. It was over in about 10 minutes. I have to guess it was a microburst. After it was over Caden and I were driving to the store and saw this damage to a house about a mile from us. Yikes!
Wow, that sure does look like microburst damage! Looks like that outbuilding's a loss.
Jeez, y'all are *way* ahead on the Spring weather. My yard's still nearly a foot deep in snow :-P
Yipes, that's a big chunk of tree. At least it was just their garage.
That little storm did indeed seem to come out of nowhere. It was bright and sunny with just some dark clouds to the west, and then the wind started to pick up. As it picked up I looked at the weather gadget on my desktop and it said 65F. It dropped 10-15 degrees in just that little amount of time. I watched as the windows in my parked car completely fogged up from the temperature change.
Nothing much happened here that I could see. I did hear a pretty loud bang across the way. There was also some plastic piping that flew off the apartment building shed and rolled across the parking lot. I braved the storm, chased it down, and put it back by the shed. I also picked up a container lid that had blown off of someone's garden supplies and put it back on the container. I'm quite the hero. They should probably feature me on the local news.
Here's the paper's account of the wind storm. If you click the photos tab the first photo seems to be the same house you saw. "...he had two other nearby maples pruned just last week, and for health and safety reasons had scheduled the removal of the tree that fell."
Here's the paper's account of the wind storm. If you click the photos tab the first photo seems to be the same house you saw. "...he had two other nearby maples pruned just last week, and for health and safety reasons had scheduled the removal of the tree that fell."
Yup, that was it. When I went to pick Caden up from school today I saw sections of the trunk being loaded on a flatbet. It was totally hollow in a huge section of the middle. I can see why it came down.
