Sunday, August 14, 2011

Straight Line Winds

Wow!  What a frightening evening we had last night.  The weather here in Lafayette has been wonderful the last few days.  80's during the day.....cool nights.....and no humidity.  So, I guess we were lulled into a false since of security.  We knew storms were forecast for our area and the heat and humidity had rose during the day, but we had absolutely no warning.  We were both just kicking back in our easy chairs watching tv, when all of a sudden a big gust of wind came rolling by the trailer.  I mean it scared the "@#$%" outta me.  There was so much debris...tree limbs, leaves, dirt, and trash flying by......Billy and I jumped up and ran to the door.  I was afraid a tornado was coming......but just as fast as it came, it stopped.  We were lucky our awning was out, but unharmed.  The neighbors behind us were not so lucky.  Their awning was destroyed.  We picked up some trash and saw that a big old tree limb had fallen and just missed our fifth wheel and truck.  After the wind passed, the thunderstorm came through next.  It was not too bad.....although we did lose power for awhile.  We watch the news later and heard that straight line winds had hit the Indianapolis State Fairgrounds.  The state fair is going and it took out a stage and I think some bleachers right before a show was to start......I heard 4 people were dead with many injured.  My heart goes out to all those poor folks.  I know how lucky we all were here at the campground....it could have been so much worse. 

6 comments:

  1. Treacherous winds are very scary. It's terrible what happened at the State Fair. :(

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  2. I hate those straight line winds... no notice just like the tornados. Glad all is well with you guys and no damage. That was very sad about the stage... just saw it on the weather channel. Thank god Sugarland was not on the stage when it went down! It went up to 5 dead now.
    Keep safe
    Donna

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  3. I just saw the video on the stage collapse and they are saying they might find more victims. How very sad. Those winds are so scary. Absolutely no warning. Glad your awning survived.

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  4. Glad you got lucky with the damage. Those events always make me rethink by weather watching plan.

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  5. Have never heard of straight line winds like that but have read about it on several blogs today. So very sad about the stage collapse. So far, all in the blogging community seem to have made it through unharmed.

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  6. Glad you are safe!! We saw the news about the fairgrounds incident. So sad!

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