Just last week I posted about preparing for spring weather.
Yesterday, we were pummeled by a hail storm and the tornado sirens went off. Nothing like a spring storm to bring a day to an end quickly. This is what it looked like off our back porch.
During the late afternoon, I was listening into the Denton repeater, running a Skywarn net and it was clear that there were a number of tornadoes in the area. Near Justin they had baseball size hail, so our golf ball hail was not that bad.
Growing up in Indiana, spring always brought with it once thing – tornados. Indiana is ranked as the number one state to die from a tornado. Growing up we used to call them trailer magnets, since tornadoes through them around like straw, when they came through.
Since I now live in Texas, it’s clear I haven’t learned. Tornados are scary.
Although most people don’t know it Raytheon does quite a bit with NOAA. Most of the weather information you see every day came through Raytheon, one way or another. One of these efforts is the Weather Ready Nation project where they have safety modules to share what do to for certain kinds of natural disasters. Spring safety is one of the areas of focus in this NOAA post of last year. For some reason, the CDC also has a focus on Spring Weather – that really makes me wonder about the underlying meaning of spring fever though.
In any case, it is a good time to think about what might happen and prepare. Dealing with Indiana weather was one of the things that kept me involved in Amateur Radio growing up.
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