# Dallas Dopers all okay? \[Tornadoes in Texas, 4/3/12\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 3, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729 "2012-04-03T20:29:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/1 "2012-04-03T20:29:31Z")
Just saw the reports of tornados roaming through the city. Looks pretty intense. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/2 "2012-04-03T20:34:37Z")
[News link.](http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/tornadoes/story/2012-04-03/tornadoes-dallas-fort-worth-texas/53977382/1) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/3 "2012-04-03T20:58:38Z")
Holy Crap, they just showed video of a Tornado near Joshua, Texas and it showed a 40" shipping container being thrown at least 200’ into the air. Any dopers in the Joshua area? (about 20 miles south of Fort Worth) ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/4 "2012-04-03T21:07:10Z")
All us cubefarmers trooped into the office stairwell when the sirens started going off. I’d say better than 3/4 of them (including me :D) had their phones out, either checking the weather radars or playing Angry Birds or whatever to pass the time. Sirens went silent about ten minutes ago. Hope that’s all the fun for today. Man, I hope all my little seedlings are OK. Even if we didn’t get any hail right over Casa De Shoe, rain that heavy can break or drown the little guys. Oh, and in other gardening news, a wood-chipper place near my home is giving away free mulch - I don’t know how much longer!! - and I was planning on going after work today to get some litterbucketfulls. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/5 "2012-04-03T21:13:05Z")
Merged two threads and expanded the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/6 "2012-04-03T21:30:24Z")
I was gonna go out shopping today, but I changed my mind. I stayed at home, with a lit candle in case of power outage (even a small candle can show me around the house enough to find the flashlight). ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/7 "2012-04-03T21:32:52Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > All us cubefarmers trooped into the office stairwell when the sirens started going off. I’d say better than 3/4 of them (including me :D) had their phones out, either checking the weather radars or playing Angry Birds or whatever to pass the time. > > Sirens went silent about ten minutes ago. Hope that’s all the fun for today. …do I work with you, **shoe**? 🙂 We all piled down into the semi-basement corridors that serve the server farms here, and everyone was playing with their phones. No obvious damage here, but I haven’t been outside or home yet to look. I don’t think anything happened in my neighborhood but rain. I’ve been watching this creeping down on us for several days, figuring that the longer it took to get here, the harder it was likely to hit. ---
**Author:** ![yams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/848f3c/32.png) [@yams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yams)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/8 "2012-04-03T21:35:01Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I was gonna go out shopping today, but I changed my mind. I stayed at home, with a lit candle in case of power outage (even a small candle can show me around the house enough to find the flashlight). Is this a reference to something else, or is there a reason you opted to spend the day tending an open flame, rather than just get the flashlight out and ready preemptively? love yams!! ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/9 "2012-04-03T21:38:45Z")
Two reasons…votive candles are cheaper than batteries, and I’m a damned pyromaniac. I’ll use ANY excuse to light a fire, any fire, anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/10 "2012-04-04T02:25:14Z")
those storms were something else. the size of hail they are showing on the weather channel, along with the video of the tractor trailers flying… just incredible. what a wild spring. i hope our texas folks are safe and sound. ---
**Author:** ![snailboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@snailboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snailboy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/11 "2012-04-04T08:29:25Z")
It was pretty uneventful in North Dallas even though crazy stuff was happening all around here. One tornado started out south of me and ended up east of me. Another was to the southwest in Arlington. They mentioned another to the north in Addison but apparently it didn’t amount to much. There was massive hail to the west and northwest from Irving to Coppell. It was definitely interesting. > **[25 Unbelievable Pictures Of The Tornadoes That Hit The Dallas/Fort Worth Area](https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/incredible-pictures-of-the-tornadoes-near-dallas)** > > Multiple tornadoes touched down across the Dallas/Fort Worth area causing extensive damage on Monday. These pictures are pretty insane, especially the ones of the hail and semi-trucks. Miraculously, no one was killed. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/12 "2012-04-04T08:43:13Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I was gonna go out shopping today, but I changed my mind. I stayed at home, with a lit candle in case of power outage (even a small candle can show me around the house enough to find the flashlight). I use my cellphone, it’s safer and it fits in my pockets. I hope y’all in Texas are ok. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/13 "2012-04-04T11:02:21Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I was gonna go out shopping today, but I changed my mind. I stayed at home, with a lit candle in case of power outage (even a small candle can show me around the house enough to find the flashlight). Get yourself a couple of [these babies](http://www.survivalsolutions.com/store/garrityflashlight4inch.html) - they switch on when the power goes out, so you can find them in a hurry. I got three of them, one for each level of the house, but ones I bought are a lot smaller than this model. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/14 "2012-04-04T14:17:00Z")
Yeah, but that… that’s … but candles are homey and old-fashioned! **Lynn** , for heaven’s sake, tell 'em to get offa your storm litter-strewn lawn! (Did you lose power? We didn’t. :D) (I opened this thread first thing to check in and see who else had posted. Hope nobody’s work/home/vehicle/body got flattened.) ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/15 "2012-04-04T16:38:15Z")
Lancaster, Texas, which was particularly hard hit is my home town. I keep hoping fr some first person reporting but I’ve struck out so far. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/16 "2012-04-04T16:55:05Z")
Texnadoes?? Oh global warming, you rogue. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/17 "2012-04-04T17:02:33Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Yeah, but that… that’s … but candles are homey and old-fashioned! **Lynn** , for heaven’s sake, tell 'em to get offa your storm litter-strewn lawn! (Did you lose power? We didn’t. :D) > > (I opened this thread first thing to check in and see who else had posted. Hope nobody’s work/home/vehicle/body got flattened.) The lights didn’t even flicker. Yesterday was trash pickup day, and our bins didn’t even get knocked over. And I don’t wear clothes inside the house, just a pair of panties, so no pockets. Besides, I’ll take any excuse to light a fire. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dopers-all-okay-tornadoes-in-texas-4-3-12/617729/18 "2012-04-04T21:20:48Z")
I’m good. I slept right through all of it! (I work nights) Am I a heavy sleeper or what?