Texas Gardening: 2011 NORTH CENTRAL TX RU **MAY 1ST** (ATTENDANCE LIST) , 0 by mindy5566

mindy5566 wrote:
Hi ALL! I had planned on being there but we live in Ben Wheeler and had several tornados go directly over our house Tuesday evening and although we are fine we have significant property damage and I will be on clean-up duty this weekend. I guess instead of planting and digging I'm going to be the chain saw woman PLUS it's supposed to rain Sunday and my son and I'm a little tornado/bad weather shy right now and want to be close to home.
It ripped down an entire 150 year old tree line across the street, several of my HUGE oak trees were destroyed and it ripped the tops out of some, it ripped apart homes and barns for a 10 mile area so we're just thankful to be alive. It also sucked up a bunch of my seedlings. I had a bag of fertilizer on my back porch, top rolled down and it was still intact but found 2 acres away next to my neighbors house.
This is a photo taken off my back porch at 4 in the afternoon just before the rotation.
I'm sorry to miss and I hope everyone has a great time.
Mindy