man, days like today really make me not want to go to class. It is raining buckets outside. It is almost as dark as night time. Man, these days suck. Though it isn't half as bad as what is happeneing in houston (I am in College Station). Small tornadoes bully Houston area By ERIC HANSON Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle A small tornado hit a Sugar Land middle school around 9:20 this morning, frightening children huddled in the hallways, but no one was injured. Around 11 a.m., the Harris County Sheriff's Department reported that another small twister peeled off part of the roof at Faith Community Church on Highway 6 near Clay Road in west Harris County. A nearby carport on Aspen Glen Lane was also damaged. The twisters followed an overnight report from the National Weather Service of a waterspout over Galveston Bay moving on shore at LaPorte and damaging trees and a storefront window near Fairmont and Broadway. The Weather Service classified it as an F-0 tornado, the weakest on the scale, with winds of up 72 mph. The severe weather continued into the afternoon, and a tornado warning was replaced with a flood advisory for eastern Harris County, from Pasadena to Kingwood. The Houston area is expected to see showers continuing through the afternoon but tapering off overnight, with only minor flooding of feeder roads and the usual low spots. The twister at the school -- another F-0 tornado -- provided perhaps the scariest moment, at least for the children forced to duck and cover in the hallways. Firemen cover a home that lost part of its roof next to the Sugar Land school. Sugar Land Fire Chief Joe Wooley said the tornado there slammed into the Fort Bend Baptist Academy around 9:20 a.m. As the funnel cloud approached the school from the south, it damaged the roof of a nearby house in the Sugar Creek subdivision. It swept across the parking lot and hit the two-story middle school, along with another building in the Sugar Creek Baptist Church complex at U.S. 59 and U.S. 90. Some windows were blown out, and a roof at the complex was damaged but the students were evacuated safely, and parents were picking them up this morning from the gym of the adjoining church. Sugar Land French teacher Claude Boutin checks his damaged SUV outside of Fort Bend Baptist Academy. Foster Rigsby, a sixth grader at the school, told what happened. "I was in history class and looked out the window and could see shingles and stuff flying all around," he said. Rigsby said the principal got on the intercom and told students a tornado was coming and to get into the hallway. He said the kids scurried to the hall, and then the tornado hit. "We were fortunate that no one was hurt," he said. The middle school will remain closed on Friday, according to the Sugar Land Police Department. From the Houston Chronicles Top Story. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/topstory/2147215
I for one love rainy days too! I love rain storms! I love watching the power of the storms. In aww. BUT, I hate having to drive through rain storms on freeways....not a lot of fun.
Man, I just talked to my mom a few hours ago and she said it was raining like crazy and tornados in the Sugar Land area. Hope you guys are staying safe - sounds scary down there.
