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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:31:13 PM EDT
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My generator decided to start pissing fuel from the carburetor. Got too dark to take it apart and diagnose. Have to be at work in the morning so the wife and kid will most likely be heading to Cat Spring in the morning. I’m surprised they still have power.
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:31:24 PM EDT
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My generator decided to start pissing fuel from the carburetor. Got too dark to take it apart and diagnose. Have to be at work in the morning so the wife and kid will most likely be heading to Cat Spring in the morning. I’m surprised they still have power.
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:34:14 PM EDT
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I must admit we have had a few months of oddly consistent extreme weather in Texas.
Between my new roof and wife’s totaled 4Runner from baseball hail a couple months ago and now this, sheesh. I’ve lived here my whole life and can’t remember a string of events like this. |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:43:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By UTex86: I must admit we have had a few months of oddly consistent extreme weather in Texas. Between my new roof and wife’s totaled 4Runner from baseball hail a couple months ago and now this, sheesh. I’ve lived here my whole life and can’t remember a string of events like this. Yea. This year has been…… weird. |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 12:06:55 AM EDT
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My wife works in one of the buildings that had windows blown out. She was still at work and they had to evacuate everyone down to the first floor.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 12:09:20 AM EDT
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Apparently employees at the Wells Fargo building are being told they can’t return to work until further notice.
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Posted: 5/17/2024 12:26:19 AM EDT
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Microbursts?
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UT, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 12:58:29 AM EDT
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Looks like I got out of there just in time this morning! Damn, praying for those affected by this.
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Posted: 5/17/2024 1:09:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By webtaz99: When Alicia came through Houston in 1983, we went to my grandparent's house on Antione. The eye passed almost directly over us. That was Saturday. On Sunday we drove home down I-45 through downtown, and I'd say maybe twice as many windows were blown out. It so eerie, seeing the streets empty but glass everywhere. I was not that far from you for Alicia. |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 1:13:18 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By nmxdavenn: That’s a good representation of what I drove through. Except surrounded by huge pine trees. Man, I'm glad you and your boy are safe buddy, that's really scary. Really sucks that some folks didn't make it home tonight, makes a guy think about life a little more. Have a good night brother. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 1:17:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By kmh621: We’re in the Blackhorse/Bridgeland area. Heard the wife’s phone go off for the tornado warning while me and the kid were eating dinner. She comes running out of her office asking why we’re not moving. We told her no one cares, they send those out all the time. Took a look outside to appease her and our tune suddenly changed. Definitely the wildest weather system I’ve encountered. Very similar to the Derocho that went through the Midwest a few years ago. Now we enjoy the drone of generators all night lol. Hola from Bridgeland. You're welcome to join my tribe once the power stays off for a week and the soccer mom city here descends into lawlessness. |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 1:20:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By nmxdavenn: I use genmon for our whole home genny. It’s fantastic. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/478694/IMG_1056_jpeg-3216159.JPG That is really cool, I've never seen or heard of that before. I assume it's an app, if so, I'm downloading it right now. |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 1:34:45 AM EDT
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My connecting flight was out of Houston at 8pm today.
 Made the decision to make a 9 hour drive instead at 4pm.
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TN, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 1:38:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NorthBridge: It was really bad. I haven’t seen winds like that since Ike 
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Posted: 5/17/2024 2:01:25 AM EDT
[#15]
Crazy storm!
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Posted: 5/17/2024 2:28:37 AM EDT
[#16]
We're up in The Woodlands.
Lost Power for a little over 5 hours. When I retired, we gave ourselves a whole house Stand By Generac Genset for the whole house fueled by Natural Gas. So no Wahalla. Our neighbors on both sides run extension cords to plug in to our Porch Outlets to run there Refridgerators / Freezers and some fans. The thing about power failures, is you don't know how long they are going to last - obviously.... Our good friends got water in there house last week during some of the very heavy rains. 
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OK, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 7:35:33 AM EDT
[#17]
Anyone know if MD Anderson is okay? I go back down there next week!
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 7:40:13 AM EDT
[#18]
Hang in there gents
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Posted: 5/17/2024 7:50:20 AM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By UTex86: I must admit we have had a few months of oddly consistent extreme weather in Texas. Between my new roof and wife’s totaled 4Runner from baseball hail a couple months ago and now this, sheesh. I’ve lived here my whole life and can’t remember a string of events like this. Ya, it has definitely been a weird couple months. We've got some friends in Bellville that are still waiting to get one of their cars back from the storm in March that they had baseball sized hail |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 7:50:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OUSooner: Anyone know if MD Anderson is okay? I go back down there next week! Med center? All their power and utilities are on a cogen plant call TECO. They'll be fine. https://tecothermalenergy.com/about/ |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 7:51:07 AM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OUSooner: Anyone know if MD Anderson is okay? I go back down there next week! Minor damage. Normal operations. |
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OK, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 7:56:00 AM EDT
[#22]
Thank You, the reports of windows being blown out got my attention.
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Posted: 5/17/2024 8:03:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By zukguy: That is really cool, I've never seen or heard of that before. I assume it's an app, if so, I'm downloading it right now. It runs off a pi zero. Here’s a guide.  DIY Generator Monitoring with GENMON |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 8:05:35 AM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By zukguy: Man, I'm glad you and your boy are safe buddy, that's really scary. Really sucks that some folks didn't make it home tonight, makes a guy think about life a little more. Have a good night brother. Thanks. Wife and boy were home. Was picking up the daughter and grabbing groceries. We were gettin groceries for like 30 mins. Not a cloud in the sky. When we got done and hit 290 again it was there, looking like a demon in the sky. Freaky how fast it was moving. |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 8:08:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By kmh621: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/323802/IMG_2307-3216075.jpg Shit got real real quick, but I stood out in the garage and watched it like a man while the wife and kid were hunkered down in the bath tub lol.
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Posted: 5/17/2024 8:09:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PhuzzyGnu: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/69748/1000010064_jpg-3216092.JPG Lost our side of the double fence and the landscaping adjacent. Thankfully Lucy wasn't parked right there at the time. Fuuuuuu those waterlogged panels were heavy. Was due for replacement anyway. Looks like a Cat1 or Cat2 hurricane hit central Houston. |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 8:10:27 AM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PhuzzyGnu: I think @JLPettimoreIII may have an erection lasting more than four hours seeing this.  Deepwater Horizon money money money scene |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 8:11:48 AM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By UTex86: I must admit we have had a few months of oddly consistent extreme weather in Texas. Between my new roof and wife's totaled 4Runner from baseball hail a couple months ago and now this, sheesh. I've lived here my whole life and can't remember a string of events like this. le sad. 
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LA, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 8:17:51 AM EDT
[#29]
Southern Louisiana. Not far from the Gulf. Tornado sirens going off in the middle of the night for about 2 hours. It was pretty bad. We're without electricity at the moment.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 8:22:27 AM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By gamboolman: We're up in The Woodlands. Lost Power for a little over 5 hours. When I retired, we gave ourselves a whole house Stand By Generac Genset for the whole house fueled by Natural Gas. So no Wahalla. Our neighbors on both sides run extension cords to plug in to our Porch Outlets to run there Refridgerators / Freezers and some fans. The thing about power failures, is you don't know how long they are going to last - obviously.... Our good friends got water in there house last week during some of the very heavy rains. Great area. I lived in Conroe for 15 years until the wife forced me back to the armpit of Texas, the Golden Triangle.
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Posted: 5/17/2024 8:22:40 AM EDT
[#31]
Friend in Cy-Fair/Jersey Village said it was quite frisky and no power as of this morning
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Posted: 5/17/2024 9:03:57 AM EDT
[#32]
Space city weather has an update out.
We’ll find out more today and tomorrow about specifics on damage and what was a tornado or straight line winds. Whatever the case, this was one of the most ferocious storms I’ve ever seen. This was a smaller scale version of what occurred in Iowa a few years back, when they had 140 mph winds down to about 1,000 feet but over a wider area. Whether or not this gets classified as a derecho will remain to be seen. I think it probably falls just short of that metric because of some discontinuity in the damage report path, but honestly, does it matter? It will take time to pick up from this one, and we hope our readers are safe. A major kudos goes out to the many media meteorologists and NWS meteorologists that assisted in keeping as many people safe and informed as possible. Saving lives is rarely a literal thing for a meteorologist. I am thinking that it was for many last night. |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 12:12:38 PM EDT
[Last Edit: freeride21a]
[#33]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By nmxdavenn: Space city weather has an update out. We’ll find out more today and tomorrow about specifics on damage and what was a tornado or straight line winds. Whatever the case, this was one of the most ferocious storms I’ve ever seen. This was a smaller scale version of what occurred in Iowa a few years back, when they had 140 mph winds down to about 1,000 feet but over a wider area. Whether or not this gets classified as a derecho will remain to be seen. I think it probably falls just short of that metric because of some discontinuity in the damage report path, but honestly, does it matter? It will take time to pick up from this one, and we hope our readers are safe. A major kudos goes out to the many media meteorologists and NWS meteorologists that assisted in keeping as many people safe and informed as possible. Saving lives is rarely a literal thing for a meteorologist. I am thinking that it was for many last night. So possibly a derecho |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 12:13:58 PM EDT
[#34]
900,000 without power?
I hope they get the power restored by dark because no power in Houston on a Friday seems like a bad idea. |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 12:18:39 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Paul: 900,000 without power? I hope they get the power restored by dark because no power in Houston on a Friday seems like a bad idea. Friends going on 15+ hours with juice, could get pretty frisky as it continues on |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 12:20:17 PM EDT
[#36]
Houston is expecting a high of 81 degrees today.
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NPL
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Posted: 5/17/2024 12:21:33 PM EDT
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[#37]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By UTex86: I must admit we have had a few months of oddly consistent extreme weather in Texas. Between my new roof and wife's totaled 4Runner from baseball hail a couple months ago and now this, sheesh. I've lived here my whole life and can't remember a string of events like this. |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 12:30:41 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Paul: Houston is expecting a high of 81 degrees today. jacket weather for them |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 12:32:58 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By kmh621: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/323802/IMG_2307-3216075.jpg Shit got real real quick, but I stood out in the garage and watched it like a man while the wife and kid were hunkered down in the bath tub lol. someone's having a bad day today.
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Posted: 5/17/2024 12:34:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/17/2024 12:36:16 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Paul: 900,000 without power? I hope they get the power restored by dark because no power in Houston on a Friday seems like a bad idea.  Clutch - Fortunate Son (Official Video) |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 1:12:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey: jacket weather for them Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey: Originally Posted By Paul: Houston is expecting a high of 81 degrees today. jacket weather for them Truth! |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 1:31:07 PM EDT
[#43]
none of the twitter links are working.
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Posted: 5/17/2024 1:32:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Meadowmuffin: none of the twitter links are working. all of them are working. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 1:38:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By manchu39: Crazy storm! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/75219/IMG_5813_jpeg-3216198.JPG That would be the Wells Fargo building mentioned upthread, that's "Closed until further notice." I can see why. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 1:40:47 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Paul: Houston is expecting a high of 81 degrees today. Which is crazy low for mid-late May. Thankfully. As was said, weird weather this year. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 1:55:44 PM EDT
[#47]
It was bad , went thu the storm around 4 pm by Huntsville on my way back from Dallas and around 6pm in the spring branch area of Houston.. a really really bad wind and storm .
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 2:03:27 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TXBBQGuy: West/northwest side reported wind speed https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/183694/Resized_FB_IMG_1715903306495_jpeg-3216080.JPG I was in middle of this shit yesterday ,
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NPL
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Posted: 5/17/2024 2:06:32 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Meadowmuffin: none of the twitter links are working. |
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Posted: 5/17/2024 3:28:19 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By nmxdavenn: Magnolia here too. Amazing we have power still. Eta: spoke too soon lol |
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