Hey,heard about the tornado in Texas,DFW on the news this morning.
Hail as big as Golfballs.
Really?

Everyone ok and your trucks undamaged?

 

Actually, hail as big as softballs - over 3 inches in diameter.

Lots of broken glass downtown and buildings gone. My dealer's body shop was right in the middle (it is apparently gone now). As of this morning, 4 dead and many injured.

We were actually luck that it did not happen a couple of hours earlier.

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2000 F-150 XLT Sport, Silver 4-door Supercab
Short Bed (Only way to fit in the garage)
17" Sport Wheels with BFG tires, 3.55 "regular", 4.6l V8, Auto (First one in 20 years)
In-Dash Single CD Player, K&N Filter, Gatorback Spray-In Bedliner

Hopes and Dreams:
Superchip, WMS Velocity Tube, Upgraded Speakers/Stereo
FlowMaster Exhaust, Nerf Bars

 

Yup...I lived through it. Was in class at the time. Downtown Fort Worth is a disaster area though. No dents on the truck!!

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1999 F-150 4x4 SuperCab, Deep Wedgewood Blue, ORP, 4-Wheel ABS, Power Everything, Captains Chairs, 3.73 Axle, Flowmaster 50 series, K&N, Tint, Expedition Center Console, Super-White headlights, Westin Nerf Bars, Toff Spray-On Bedliner, Pioneer DEH-P3000 and TS-A6815 speakers, ADS PQ/8 amp.

 

Geez,3 inches in diameter.

How long did it last, hail that size.
Seconds,Minutes.

 

I was just getting ready to post a topic about the tornado, but here it is. I was just checking if the Fort Worth guys were ok, considering that you and everyone else south/south east of Dallas took the biggest hit. For those of you who haven't heard, a major storm swept through the D/FW area last night. Fort Worth and the surrounding communities to the west and south were the hardest hit. Fort Worth fire dept. are reporting that 2 tornados actually touched down in downtown and a third in the Arlington/ Riveroaks area(hope Mudder is ok). Dallas was only hit by very haevy rain and storng winds. There were reports of softball, baseball, golfball, and peasized hail to the communites closest to Fort Worth and south of Dallas. I live in Garland and all we got was buckets of rain and some flash flooding. Glad I was inside and under cover.

Snow white

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2000 150 sport solid white, K&N filterpack the rest is still stock....for now anyway!

 

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Hey guys, appreciate your concern, but Mudder is ok, and so is Daylighter. Yeah, the major part of it stayed just south of me. It road straight along I30, and I live about 1/2 mile North of I30, 3 miles North west of the Ballpark In Arlington. A tornado touched down just 2 miles from me, and we got marble size hail. But thank goodness for a covered awning. I'm just so glad I wasn't anywhere around Down Town Fort Worth, it was crazy. I go to school at Texas Wesleyan right off of Beach Street, and I could see the buildings in Down Town, lots of windows were gone. Any way, I'm ok, hope all the other members in that area are ok too. I was in Dallas yesterday at 5:00. My mom called and said that I better get home, all she had to say was that there is hail in the storm and I hauled butt home as fast as I could, 5:00 traffic or not. I made it home just in time.

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No problems up in North Dallas. Glad everyone is ok. I was talking to Mudder on the phone when the hail hit. Boy it sounded terrible.

 

well...i am counting my lucky stars right now...the tornado that hit arlington was about 3/4 of a mile north of my house!!! way to close for comfort...
the bad part...we were at blockbuster when it hit...way to close...about two blocks!!! Drove real fast to get home...we could feel the truck lift from the winds...WOW!!! what a night!

 

Please don't send your tornado's and hail up north to Kansas. We to are prone for Large Tornado's. And after last year's baseball storm, I decided that Kansas sucks!

 

I know what you guys gone through there was one 3 years ago in my town and it went about 3/4 of a mile from were I live it went along US 51.