Midnight darkness slowly, gradually fills an increasingly less silent sky.
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Thickening cauliflower clouds with dark bottoms rapidly blow by.
Alternating warm and cool breezes rise and fall directions.
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First a single delicate drop tickles my right cheek like a kiss from the sky.
I run for cover as the impending deluge finally arrives in violent bursts dancing to the music of whispering winds.
Then a brilliant blinding white flash with a concussive answer of thunder punctuating the watery torrent…
-AAA 09/27/2024
Anthony’s Crazy Love and Life Lessons in Empathy 
Yes Texas thunderstorms can be intense. Five years ago a severe thunderstorm brought a tornado that destroyed our neighborhood. It took less than ten minutes for half the houses in the neighborhood to turn into rubble. We were lucky. A neighbor’s flying roof smashed our chimney and broke our roof, and we needed new wiring in the attic, a new fence, garage door, and grill but the house stood.
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Wow, that’s wild. I had three close encounters where the tornado the closest being 20 feet from my window, but fortunately that one was an F0. Picked up our Twitter pound trampoline, twisted it and threw it to the other side of our three-quarter of an acre yard and also we had a truck in the yard with its hood up. There were a few broken trees, but not any widespread broken trees. We got lucky. Not to mention the F4 tornado that struck December 26, 2015 missed us by 1 mile.
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20 feet that was closer than ours (about 50 feet) but ours was an F3. It was the houses that got hit directly that were truned into rubble. In 2011 an on-line friend of mine who lives in Joplin Missouri got struck by an F5 tornado. She and her family were fine but Joplin was destroyed and 158 people died.
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Whew! Glad you sought and found cover! Lovely rendition of thunderous memories!
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Thank you 😊
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