!!! Tornado Just Passed Mere Mile Or Two From Home - Maybe Closer!!!
 

Tornado just came so very near my house - just a mile or so away. Civil defense sirens were sounding. Watching on TV as it came this way, I saw large tractor trailers sans the tractor being heaved all about and crashing down somewhere near Lancaster, Texas(south - southest of Dallas)! It was one of the worst sites I have ever seen! Electrical wires were flashing and large other pieces flying but those huge trailers being lifted up into the air and being thrown through it were probably the worst! The chopper was able to get such a close-up picture that you could see the trailers came from some type of tractor trailer depot or something. You could see other tractors trailers but most just the big trailers parked around a large building and that tornado was just randomly picking up some and flinging them way up in the air live. I have prayed pretty hard at times in life but probably not more earnestly than today! Thank the Lord the thing seems to be calming down some as it is moving on. There are funnels still in the area. Prayer for the people of Texas will be appreciated. I just think when it came through the area south of Dallas it did some real damage. We're waiting for reports. :eek:

Oh dear how frightening! Glad to hear you are alright but we know that somewhere, someone(s), may not be so fortunate.

Prayers to all, it sounds horrible there.

Sending prayers to everyone in the storms path. I am glad you all are ok.

Thank God you are ok! :)

Tibbe slept and is still sleeping as I was gathering my football helmut, large pillows, flashlights, radio and cell in the bathroom and praying praying praying. Thank goodness he's not scared of storms!

I'm glad you're ok!! Be sure to keep your ID, some cash, credit cards, etc. on you just in case.

Gosh, should have said "sans the tractors" in my OP. Heart beating so fast couldn't think. I might have seen one full rig in the clouds but I saw at least 2 or 3 trailers without the tractors just lifted up like toys from the live chopper shot! You all will probably see that shot on the news tonight or in the morning on network news as it's a sight most never see.

I had my purse in the bathtub with my other stuff and was going to put my cell & wallet down my bra when the sirens started up again. Put the helmet on, put Tibbe in his enclosed airline carrier with his bigger plush toys for protection and we were going to wait it out and pray!

It's been playing over and over on CNN....creepy stuff.

I am glad you are ok. We are watching on TV about it now.

Stay safe, stay well. Sending prayers.

Glad you guys are ok. Stay safe!!

The Dallas Mavericks(well, Dirk) Tweeting they won't let them leave the gym. Just reported tornado down in North Dallas. Just saw picture of house with part of roof missing and the fire sprinkler system hosing the inside down. Another tornado just reported in Addison.

OMG! That's Schneider trailers! DH & I worked for them & have been to that yard many many times.

Oh, wow. It looked like some place where a whole lot of them were parked! They're not recapping on our local stations yet - still covering those new and moving tornados.

Jeanie just seeing this so glad that you are ok i would be so scared

There's videos of the trailers flying through the air. The terminal is just off the highway & it looks like the storm is following the road.
PLEASE< stay safe!

My computer Doppler radar showed the eastern-most one passed right over my house with an "intense rotation" indicator over it! There's another storm moving through now.

Ugh. Power keeps going out and another intense rotation just moved over my house per my Doppler radar. Satellite has gone out and all I've got is radio and computer. It's really storming and thundering hard here but no hail so far.

City of Arlington has declared a disaster.

Be safe, those storms look very serious.

Please keep us posted.

I am watching The Weather Channel and the pictures of devastation are just incredible! Praying for safety for all in the tornadoes' path ...

I live in College Station, I know nothing about Texas. Am I in danger? Looked on weather.com and see that we have a tornado watch. It's sunny outside but they say the storm will pass through CS during this evening. Great timing, with my dog shaking and heaving and scaring me and possibly needing to take her to the vet.

Carmen, this is really serious stuff...please be careful!

Sending prayers for all of you in harms way and of course your little yorkies and furry friends, too :hands:

Yes Arlington has a lot of damage in certain area's.

The girl's and I were in the closet. Darn warning sirens kept going off. I had to drug up Willow and she was just in a panic. Looks like it's all over for now at this time. I am still hearing thunder rumbles.

I just hate this time of year here in Texas.

So far we have no reports of death or injury but the damage they are showing on local TV stations show a lot of general damage just everywhere - part of homes, roofs blown away. I haven't seen any structure leveled to just the foundation though yet - that sort of ultimate damage as some storms produce. Some are saying those trailers flying through the sky were up about 300 feet since the chopper taking the picture was flying at 700 feet and they were almost halfway up per the chopper reporter who got those pictures. That tornado had just passed my sister's house in DeSoto, Texas just before it got to the trailer depot or whatever that place was. Forney, Texas had a tornado reportedly hit the high and elementary schools but reporters cannot get into the area yet. We have no other local reports from Forney. My son said one of the tornados passed right over his apartment in Addison, Texas - far North Dallas as we sometimes call those small towns just north of Dallas.

Tibbe just roused himself and demanded to go outside in the thunder and rain,came in, had his lunch late and has curled up beside my hip on the couch. He slept through all my preparations and the power outages, the eerie stillnesses, the horrible thunder and lightening and hard rain as if he were drugged! He usually spends rainy days sleeping but I thought with all that was going on and how loud the storm and sirens and roaring sounds were, he might wake and get scared like I was beginning to get.

The Schneider terminal that the trailers were picked up from is at Bonneville Road; just off I 20. There's also several truckstops nearby so some may've come from that as well.