Storm damage

[question everything]

Hope everyone here and friends and families are OK.

It is when such disaster happens that I have to wonder how we will react if our house is demolished. And the answer is: I have no idea...

[kickysnana]

1. I know someone who lost their home in Hugo

My parents longtime neighbors daughter and family. The Mom/Grandma is recovering from a rebuild of her heart at Mayo last month. No one was home. They were all at the lake for the weekend.

When I was a teen I babysat a family with four kids who built a new house in our neighborhood. The Mom had been killed and they had lost their old house in the Fidley tornado in the 1960's. Kids were totally terrified of storms. We huddled in the basement a lot and sang songs. No VCR then.

[question everything]

2. Hope they are OK

Was a sad story of a Hugo resident who died from a heart attack while cleaning debris.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. And now on Saturday, we're having more storms.

I was walking around Lake Harriet and was on the exact opposite side from my apartment when the sirens sounded.

Everyone was looking around puzzled, because our area had bright sunshine, but eventually, we could see dark clouds to the north.

Since I was on foot, there was nothing to do but keep walking. I did, and by the time I was within two blocks of my apartment, the sky was dark, and the wind was picking up.

I made it inside and was walking down the hall to my unit when the hail hit.

[geardaddy]

4. Hope you got inside...

before the hail came.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Yup, made it just in time

:-)

with literally seconds to spare.

[trotsky]

6. I'll probably be getting a new roof thanks to that one.

Up to golf ball sized, for a good 10-15 minutes, in the Crystal-Plymouth-Maple Grove area. Real intense pounding there - the trees lost a lot of leaves. The street and every roof was just coated in leaves and tree bits and hail. Much cleanup but no serious damage and no injuries.

[MnFats]

7. i have gone storm-chasing the last two weekends...apparently I am not good at it

both times i was sure i had gotten BEHIND the storm/wallcloud/cyclonic rotation.
then it just MATERIALIZED a quarter to a half mile behind me.
never saw baseball-sized hail before.
and at one pt. I could HEAR the freight train but the funnel cloud was oscured by hail and torrential rain.
i got the hell out of there....should have gotten out of the car but there was nowhere to go if I did...