All day Wednesday I was thinking about how the weather folks had predicted rain all week, and we had very little precipitation to show for it. I shared this with my dad who lives in West Texas as I was on my way home. He told me that there was some bad weather coming towards Dallas, When I got home, the normal ALL WEATHER ALL THE TIME coverage was on T.V. We flipped back and forth between Fox 4 and Channel 8. I pride myself as an arm chair meteorologist, so as each station showed the radar, I could tell we might be in for a long night. Having lived through a couple of bad tornadoes, I usher my family into the closet as soon as the words 'Tornado Warning' are issued. As we were clearing out the storm closet, we stopped down on Channel 8's coverage of the storms, as one of their field reporters was getting blow around in downtown Ft. Worth. It looked like Anderson Cooper's hurricane coverage the way that it was raining sideways and the trees were dancing in the wind. According to the radar the storm was headed right at us. ...
