Redhorse Cafe -- the Food Truck

[Broken Arrow]

Sigh, in general I know what you are talking about.
And there is no excuse that it happens, that there isn't done that needs to be done.
It is a shame for the Society.

your cup of tea:

[OLChemist]

Goyo, I'll take an order to go.


Well, we're having our first really bad spring storm front coming in. The weather forecasters are having a field day. They haven't been able to preempt all programing since the ice storm. They've already had a tornado confirmed on the ground in Sulfur Springs. And that was from the stuff far ahead of the front.

The big storm is ripping in to town at about 60 mph. The winds are wild. It's trash day and most peoples' bins are out. The street is full of blown over trash and recycling bins. They're expecting the storm edge in the downtown area here in about 50 mins. It does look like the hail core that was pounding Mineral Wells is going to go north of downtown. They've had 70 mph wind gusts out in Mineral Wells. Pray for our power lines.

[Broken Arrow]

I pray for the power lines but at 60 to 70 mph storm I pray for the people too. When the power lines are in danger tnah the people too. That is about 95 to 115 km/h. Roof tiles may fly.

[OLChemist]

Well, I have shingles and tar paper on the ground. Looks like I lost a section of my roofing. I'm waiting for my insurance agent's office to open. I've got a call into a roofer, to get someone on the roof to find out if I need to tarp until they can get to it.

They measured 80 mph gusts in downtown. Things are pretty torn up. Roofs off a bunch of businesses and homes. A big Amazon warehouse east of town lost its roof. Trees and fences down. Power is out in a bunch of places.

[Broken Arrow]

I am glad, you are not hurt and sorry for your roof. I hope you get it done fast and reliable.
Better send some more prayers.
How are the cats doing?

[OLChemist]

Ishtato hid about the time radar showed the gust front crossing the Parker county line. She came out around 11 am the next day. When the tornado sirens went off she started screaming. Olivia didn't hide until the shingles slammed into my car in the driveway. She came out after the worst of the storm passed.

Olivia hates roofers. She seems to feel a need to inspect their work. After they finished putting the tarp on the roof, I caught her high up in the kitchen cabinets sniffing around the ceiling.


I'm still waiting on estimates for repairing the damage. Since I didn't lose any decking, I'm down low on the list. There's lots of folks in area that lost much more of their roof.

Oncor has been scrambling. There are now <6000 customers without power in the metroplex; down from around a quarter of million at the peak. They have the mutual aid teams in. This morning, I saw a cherry picker from one of the Louisiana power companies drive down the street.

[Broken Arrow]

Well, a look on the map Lousina I think from Shreveport it is a not a short way to you.

Quite different cats it seems.

Sigh, sounds familiar with the waiting list if there are others with more damages and there isn't much you can do.
I cross fingers that the list is quickly worked off.

[OLChemist]

Shreveport may be keeping their crews home. They got hit by the same storm. My friend in Shreveport told me they had wind damage. She was on her generator for nearly the whole night after the storm.

[subeeds]

OLC, glad you came through the storm relatively ok. We are finally done with nearly record heat-at least for a couple of weeks. Day before yesterday, we broke a record of 86 when it hit 89. We will be lucky to hit 60 today.

I'm having issues with internet speed. I'm glad to have some internet, but as my son explained when we got it, it's slow and it's really hard to get the forum to load. Plus, being on the internet makes the TV lag. I finally succeeded in logging in today and this was the 4th day of trying. Oh well. Weird, I can still log onto FB and it seems like it would have more to load and be slower.

WD, Happy Belated Birthday!! I hope it was a good day.

BA, when you see blizzards and stuff passing through the northern states, you can know that OLC is going to get rain, and maybe wind and storms, then a couple of days later, we get it. We always get the tail end of the northern cold fronts. OLC usually gets the worst of it. At least we rarely have to shovel snow.

[OLChemist]

Goyo, something with some valium, please.


Today is shaping up to be a repeat of Thursday 2 weeks ago. I still have a tarp on my roof. Pray for low winds and small hail. I'm getting tired of spring time in Texas.

[patricia.skinglo]

keep healthy