I just heard that 23 tornadoes have touched down today in the DFW area. Is that right? Fort Worth is my hometown and where I went to college. I then lived in Dallas for 7 years after college. Watching the destruction on TV is just surreal.

Prayers for everyone in the area. Stay safe, GCers.

Sounds like everyone in my family (Allen, Plano, Flower Mound, Bedford, North Richland Hills) is safe and sound. Crazy weather. Stay safe everyone.

Please tell me no one was in those semis that got thrown through the air.

How is Arlington? My company has employees down there.

^^ Arlington was one of the hardest hit areas :( I haven't heard any reports of major injuries or fatalities, but there was a lot of property damage.

Severe storm warning for Harris and surrounding counties. Yikes.

I just talked to my co-worker who works with our account down there. If I had an email address to the guy I used to deal with for payroll, I'd shoot him one to see how they are all doing. Any word of automotive plants with damage? I'm impatient! And I don't think she's going to call because it's not her direct account.

The only auto plant I remember being in Arlington is the GM plant -- the hardest hit area was south-west of it.

Here is the storm map from yesterday's storm. Http://www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/?n=april32012sum

For those concerned about friends/family you shoul be able to determine if they were located near the tornados.

Should've mentioned auto supplier. My co-worker heard from someone and I guess they're all ok.

A long-exposure shot of lightning striking the Bay Bridge last night. Glad no one was on it! :)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7129/6...797c165d_z.jpg

That's an awesome picture, but it probably happens all the time. Just like they say planes get struck all the time. Creepy!

Anyone on anyone in Oklahoma?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...011855690.html

I had TV on in the background when they touched upon this too, and I think they mentioned last time they there was a severe alert this far in advance was in '06 when there was an outbreak of 100 tornadoes? I hope I heard that wrong/I hope it doesn't end up being too bad.

We had some stuff here last night. A few tornadoes in the Norman area (about 45 mins from me) and in SW Oklahoma. About the worst of it for me was the heavy rain. Got to go clean out the gutters of my house between storms because they were so filled with debris from trees. Otherwise, no problems here.

Apparently funnel clouds were spotted just a few miles west of UIUC. My brother is safe in the dorms, although he said sirens are going off right now. I had to laugh because I remember being deafened during tornado siren tests--the sirens are located right on top of one of the dorms!

Yikes. Keep us posted.

Tropical Storm Alberto is running along the southeast coast near Charleston, SC. Tropical season usually starts on June 30. This really is a bizarre weather year.

Not severe, but since the weather has been nice in Michigan for so long, I have to keep reminding myself what month it is. Usually people wait to plant their annuals and things until Memorial Day weekend to be safe from occasional night time freezes but this year, people have everything planted. Everybody except me, that is. I just haven't had time!

Posting again because Tropical Storm Beryl is affecting Florida now. I guess I was wrong about tropical weather season because they just said on The Weather Channel that it starts June 1st. However, it is very, very rare to have two by this time of year already. Looks like my dad in Ocala could get quite a bit of rain. Pretty crazy though!

I live in Jacksonville and we're getting pounded by rain right now and some serious wind gusts that are coming in with the bands. We need the rain because we're in a drought, but we don't need 10 inches in 24 hours - street flooding here we come!

T.S. Debby
 

Apparently Florida - which doesn't need the rain - is getting 3 - 6 inches of rain now. We could really use it - but no one seems to be able to predict what the storm will do next.

Florida was in extreme drought before this tropical season started early. Hoping Texas will get their share too, without the damaging winds, etc. of a hurricane.

This whole past weather year has been so bizarre. We barely had any snow because it was too warm. Weather wise, we've been like two months ahead of where we usually are, since February. The heat we've had in the past month, along with lack of much rain is making it look like August here. My grass is really brown, despite one big rain storm last week but we aren't in the extreme drought that some areas are experiencing.

Bad storms in the DC area on Friday. We still have no power and they said it could be a week before it is restored.

I was wondering if we had GCers in the mid-Atlantic storm. Hope power is restored to all soon!

My town won't have power until next Sunday, according to the power company. I've never been happier to be at a conference in another state! My poor husband and dog are melting with the 100+ degree temps.

DC area here, though I'm currently staying with family in DE and their lovely power/wifi. Best part of all of this: I was supposed to work 8-5 Saturday, but there was no power. Procedure is that they would send us home but pay us for four hours, so if the power came back on we'd be expected to come in. Effectively, I got paid $8.75 an hour to nap. :D our english springer spaniel is certainly enjoying the air conditioning and new people who will pet him.

Ohio here. Lots of people without power. May take until July 8 to get it all restored.

BuckeyeTriDelta what parts of Ohio? I am visiting my husband in Texas and we do not hear much. I hope everyone is okay.

I just heard on the radio that Michigan is sending 400 people down to help restore power in Ohio.

Severe in the opposite direction, I suppose: it finally rained here at IU last night for the first time in almost a month. Drought here has gotten so bad that we're under total burn bans and a lot of cities are canceling their fireworks displays!

Oh goodness, I hope everyone is okay. I should call my in-laws but it's their anniversay. I am going to call them anyway.

Here is some good information on food safety when it comes to severe weather (both hot and cold) so y'all can be prepared and also not get sick!

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Factsheets/...ency/index.asp

Mostly southern. Southeast part of the state was hit the worst.

What happened?? I haven't heard anything about it.

I did just read about hail in New Boston, MI, though.

Huge storms swept from Indiana to Washington, DC Friday and left tons of people without power.

http://www.weather.com/news/friday-s...torms-20120629

The hail storm was freaky. My kids' friends who live in Rockwood and S. Rockwood had major damage also.. to their cars, and windows in houses. As they were posting pictures of so much hail that it looked like the ground was snow covered.. ping pong sized hail, and that area got 2.1 inches of rain from one downpour, just 4 miles north, we had not a drop of rain or anything. I heard the thunder though. After the storm, I went a mile away to a Kroger and their parking lot was massive puddles. Not a drop at my house. So weird!

I flew home to Michigan from our Convention in Denver this morning and as we were flying over Lake Michigan the pilot pointed out the huge storm/thunderheads right over Chicago...he said he was really glad we weren't going there.

Dee is right. I was in Trenton and looked towards the south. It looked like armageddon. I heard the thunder and rushed home to Southgate (5 minute drive) and NOTHING. While I was getting gas in Trenton, I did notice a huge rotating cloud that freaked me out even more. There was a weird tail of a cloud that was really low and I kept thinking it looked odd. Most likely it became the funnel cloud that was spotted in New Boston.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darryls...to/7494000642/

Not a drop of rain out of this storm, but some gorgeous heat lightning

Finally got the power and cable back on tonight after beeeeg storm rolled through DC area Friday night. Lots of downed power lines and damaged substations. Man, 95 degrees and humidity and no AC sucks. Daughter said that Columbus was clobbered too. But yeah, there have been far worse storms this year, so I'm not whining...too much.

I was woken up by some charming person setting off fireworks and I checked the outside thermometer; it read 38.7 degrees. I'm hoping the cold temperatures and rain will prevent any fires from getting out of control, but we get some crazy wind that could turn a fire into something out of control, quickly.

:mad:

We were without power for over 30 hours due to Friday nights storm, then we had baseball sized hail on Sunday night. Crazy! I know people who live by me who still don't have power.