Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Ed's place and campfire event was hit by a tornado.

I had planned on being at this event and was saddened when something came up that prevented me from driving down. Looks like I was fortunate but hate it that I wasn't there to help with the aftermath. So happy that nobody was injured.

Glad everybody is ok and I hope the damage is not too extensive/expensive to put right...

Pete, you folks ever have bad winds ot tornados on your side?

A fair sized (maybe 8 feet log, 3" diameter at the base) tree limb fell on his hood. The hood is dented but still driveable.

I was coming southeast from Sherman that evening, that front was doing 50 as it crossed east, sparked a tornado warning south of Dallas, one of them "brrreeeeepp.....brrreeeeep.....brrreeeep" radio interruptions from the National Weather Service, I caught up to it when I was going eastbound on I 30, found myself white-knuckling it, zero visibility, constant lightning, looked down and for all of that risk we were all only going 40 so I pulled off for a bit to let the front get another 30 miles along past Mt Pleasant where I would turn south fer Gilmer.

That front was running at an angle so that Gilmer was getting hammered as I came south from Mt. Pleasant. I had the phone turned off to save batteries so the first I knew anything serious as up was encountering fallen trees on the narrow road to Ed's place about 100 yards from his front gate. It was all over by that point, the storm and rain had passed.

Walked in with my dog to say hello and see if there was anything I could do, random trees and branches still falling heavily off in the woods, and then slept out the rest of the night in the laid back driver's seat of my car by the roadside, door wide open on account of it was pleasantly cool and the wind had sent all the skeeters into the next county. Slept so well the power company came in way early and cleared those trees as I slept right through it not 100 yards away

As I always have been at these things, I was humbled by the caliber of my Campfire friends, both as people and as sportsmen. Ed and Barbara both displayed admirable composure and grace throughout. Seems like in no time the next day the electrician and tree guys were out, the tree guys quickly and efficiently doing their thing.

Very quickly this whole catastrophe became a problem that was in the process of being taken care of and fixed.

I hope I handle it as well if a tree ever lands on my own house, let alone while I got 20+ adults and kids visiting.

Birdwatcher

Ed just back in from the lake for the weekend, if you need anything please let me know.

I'm tied up that I can't get out of Monday, but the rest of the days I think I can make them flexible if need be.

Glad all are ok.

Holy crap! Sorry Ed!!

Sounds like you guys had a interesting get together. I hope all is well with you guys and your insurance company takes care of you guys.

Glad you had some good help around.

Looking forward to hearing how the shoots went.

Jon

Glad everyone's ok. I'm sure you guys will make the most of it though.

Wow that sucks so sorry but glad all are well and in true campfire fashion persevering and carrying on

Terribly sorry to hear of such tragedy, but dang glad to hear all are well.

Seems Ed throws a heck of a shindig!!

Best to all.

We get high winds/storms ect from time to time, but nothing like the frequency you guys get..

Tornado's are virtually unknown, although they do happen, but only once in a blue moon.

Even when we do get high winds, the damage to property is generally minimal because we build mostly with brick/blocks rather than wood as in many places in the US...

We have snow here in the Rincons and up on Mt. Lemmon. It was a good storm that blew through last night.

Interesting to look at snow in late April in So. AZ.

Hope all is well, cross.

Ho Li... Wow!

You boys be lucky!

Thanks for all of the well wishes and prayers.

I'm going to ask for more as we are expecting another severe T- storm to hit here in about two hours. There is a tornado watch in effect for it as it is passing just south of Ft Worth.

Ed

this is it passing over my uncles place SW of Fort Worth Ed. this is what my aunt had to say about it.
"This is at ranch we hauled A to 15 miles west Waco. Still here n Clifton"

Lucky here, bad stuff went north and south of me. Some rain, about it. Heading EAST, don't know where but heading EAST.

This one has a tornado on the ground near Rio Vista. I hear thunder so the power should go off any minute. Keep your heads down.

Very glad to hear that no one was injured, and property damage only minimal as compared to what it could have been. It should make for some good "campfire" stories in the future. Again, it good to hear that all are safe! memtb

I am curious as to how Ed will top this, next year. miles

Glad all are safe. Wow. On the up side, no injuries and reckon that crew took it in stride as well as any.