I've ridden motorcycles up to turning 65, then had the sense enough to sell them and keep all my appendages intact. I got caught a couple of times in an Arizona monsoon rain and it fouled my engine every time. Took hours to dry out. Had to have someone come and get me then go back for my bike he next day. Most often than not, it would turn over and start then. I hope that poor guy found at least a gas station canopy.
I’m a mailman from Katy, and was in the frontlines on this storm! I saw it coming and tried to finish fast, I had 2 more boxes left so I was outside in the storm for like 20 minutes! I got all my mail and packages delivered.
I have decided that cosmetic surgeons need to equip us all with gills. I live about 30mi south of Houston, and some days, it’s like breathing water here. Water, and toxins from the refineries & chemical plants.
I was coming from Katy when the tornado warning went off on my phone. I tried to outrun it and didn't do very well. The storm caught me. It may have been one of the crazy experiences I have had as a grown-up and living in Houston. This video shows the experience very well. I was waiting for the Tornado, little did I realize the straight line winds were just as powerful. Glad to make it home.
4 days later and THOUSANDS without power, schools closed, debris still present everywhere you look,, the clean up continues downtown and many intersections have traffic signals that are down. That was a bad mamma jamma
My sister got caught in this storm coming home from work. We couldn't reach her because of bad signal. A series of events happened on the way. One which was a tree falling in front of her causing her to swirve. She managed to get home to another scene of fallen trees sheds and trampolines on the middle of her street. She's always been the strong one that nothing gets her but she got home crying uncontrolably. She felt that was it for her. This was so much scarier than any hurricane weve been in.
I think this one was so much scarier because it was unexpected. Houstonians know how to hunker down when we get hurricane warnings. When city officials tell us to skip work and stay off the roads, most heed the warnings. This many people would not have been on the roads when storms are incoming, under normal storm prep circumstances. This was insane. I'm glad your sister made it home safe, im sure this was traumatizing
@@Summertyme75 Thanks and if you are in Houston I hope you and your loved one's are safe as well. I was home at the time and saw an alert for my parents area which was near townlake. We had a really bad gust of wind that blew our bbq pit about 10 feet off the platform. I remember running screaming because with that I heard the roar. The same roar we heard the day the firestone got destroyed in katy. My mom calls that same moment to tell me they were in the bathroom in case anything happened but nothing compared to not knowing about my sisters location and if she was ok. We were terrified.
I nearly got caught in this derecho too. But I saw where the storm was headed on my storm radar app in my phone as I was about to leave work going back to Katy, and I was like screw that. No way I can beat this storm home, I'll be driving right into it. Even if it was coming from the east or southeast out of the gulf, with that much traffic it would be hard to outrun. So I just stayed at work and rode it out until about 7:15 pm. When I left, wow, it was hurricane/tornado level damage all over from the medical center to Katy and Cypress.
@@thegamingchef3304 I'm only sharing her story. I don't care who believes or not. I'm just glad she's ok. It happened to many that day some survived some didn't. One thing I know about her since she was a little girl is she would tell the truth no matter how much trouble she would get in. She was crying to the point she could hardly breath and yes she did go back and took pictures and showed us the next day. As we speak she is now without power fixing her entire fence and dealing with her neighbors about their trees. This event was very real and there's others that had worst stories and lived to tell including my parents who live where a tornado hit. Yes, sometimes hollywood movies become real life. Just ask people north of Texas. How offensive for people to question if they actually went through something like this.
Double commenting because I can. Not sure if you regularly post storm related content but your captions had me absolutely rolling “Eat it if you dare” and I feel like, sometimes, the storm chaser (or just those individuals stuck in a storm) community needs that kinda humour. Those captions were the best thing. I’m sure everyone around you was shitting enough bricks to build a storm shelter by the power lines but you’re just sassing this storm out 😂 I needed this today.
Thats why I want to quit trucking. I love trucking, but I dont get paid enough to deal with this endless violent weather. I just get disrespected and lied to by a bunch of people who dont know what we have to deal with everyday "moving america". Glad you all kept the shiny sides up. That storm was none too fun when it got over here to georgia. I hate this weather. Cant sleep in my truck at night when it rains anymore.
Thank you for all your hard work. I've had a couple of trucker friends. They've said the same. I appreciate all you guys do. GOD bless you and keep you safe.
Ditto. I finally crawled down from my truck and walked away. I am not an owner/operator, so I was pretty much at the mercy of the cartage company that hired me. They didn't care. On a run from Austin to College Station, there were tornado warnings throughout the night, and I told them it wasn't safe. I ended up with a trailer blown off and over and it completely wrecked my coupler bed and hydrolics and it cost them a fortune to get that truck recovered. Not to mention the eight stitches in my forehead from blown out glass. I tried to tell them, but no one listened. That was my last run.
Wow, that is sad. All that hard work u put in to help transport goods around America and you get hated on for getting stuck in storms. #stophatingontruckers
@@FeatheredDreamStudioyes, you can see them at 0:52. There is commentary about them along the bottom of the screen. I don't think we see them again during the storm but there's practically no way they got home before the storm hit. Hopefully they found shelter in a store or restaurant
Houston is definitely one city you dont want to drive through when it rains. Lots of fools who drive even faster & crazier when it starts pouring. What a nut town.
I’m a 69 yo native Houstonian and I absolutely agree!! I remember when all the major freeways were built. There are some crazy MF drivers here! We’ve had a shot ton of “visitors” from down south who drive without a license too!!
My experience was horrific. I was north of carmine. Caught in the inflow of a tornado. Trees were sideways. The car felt like it was about to be flung. Debris. The rain was literally sideways. I was on my way to the store thinking I had time before the rain hit. Boy was I wrong. When I reached the store I got the tornado warning. Then the power went out at the store thats when I saw a monster. The side wall of that thing. When it passed I figured heck Ibetter get to the ranch. Bid mistake because again. Caught in the inflow. When I got back to the ranch it had water damage on the north wall because the rain and wind just overtook that house. I was cleaning water rest of the night. Crazy storm
I came for the derecho and stayed for the fonts. Haven't even made it half way through but you had me at well done rain then cooked me to completion when you followed it up with just... heavy rain. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“It’s just a big box of rain. I don’t know who put it there. Believe it if you need it. Or eat it if you dare.” This is going in my sketchbook. I usually draw out images from each storm to go with my WX/storm surveys and logs, but I might just do a page on the derecho and only have it be the view from a car with blurry, watercolour rain on the windscreen, and these amazing captions 😂
Definitely. And the thing is, we get tornado warnings relatively frequently, but in 16 years of living here, they've never been followed by a actual tornado. Very very rarely are they even followed by a storm. I don't blame people for ignoring them, though I do at least stay paying attention to the sky when I get them, personally
This storm passed over us in North Austin (Pflugerville). The winds were crazy and I had never heard my house slammed so hard by winds before. Luckily the winds were nothing compared to how strong they got in Houston. Houston must've really pissed off the storm. lol
Exactly😳, my daughter and I were picking up dinner at a Panda Express in Southwest area and I remember the alerts going off on our phones and we were all like what's going on... It would read "Seek shelter immediately on a lower level, 80 mph winds". Next thing we know on the drive home it went from a cloudy moment to dark as night 😲
It absolutely baffles me how people can know insane weather is coming yet they still get out on the highway or are in fast food lines. People are not smart, and it’s actually what causes so many to die in their vehicles during tornadoes, but I’ve also heard of people dying because they drove during a storm like this and a tree fell on their car as they were moving. You people need to Wisen up,
I was thinking the same. Perhaps it would have been best to stay on the freeway/highway and just pull off on the shoulder instead of getting on to the service/feeder road where all those power lines are.
When that sky turns that greenish turquoise hue, you better get the hell out of there as fast as you can. Guaranteed seeing a tornado or something of this nature. Awesome capture of this on video
I was on the top floor of a short 4 fl office building when the tornado warnings came through, and within a few minutes the electricity went out. We all went down the stairs. We ended up having to wait out the storm in the stairwell because the doors leading out were shaking back and forth, large debris was flying past the building outside, a couple of the doors were blocked, and there was broken glass on the floor in the lobby. While we were still upstairs, it sounded like someone was hitting the side of the building with an enormously giant bat and it was reverberating throughout the entire building. (I'm assuming it was wind sheers hitting the side of the building.) It was definitely crazy. On the way home, large limbs were blocking the path to the streets to get out of the parking lot, and very several large trees fell on top of houses near where I was.
I was nearly caught in this on the road when I was leaving work at 6pm. Then I looked at my radar app on my phone and saw I would be driving straight into the derecho storm and figured what's the point. I just stayed at work and stood way back from the windows and glass doors. It looked like a small hurricane or even tornado out there, the way the wind was whipping the rain around and lighting keep lighting up the sky. There had to be at least 2 or 3 rain wrapped low level tornados out there. This was the worst thunderstorm I've seen in Houston, and I've been here since the 80s. I don't recall a derecho ever hitting Houston in my time, I always thought that was more a midwest/northern type of storm.
You were one of the Smart ones. I use the weather app a lot when I was doing driving for work. I was able to avoid a few storms that way. I've also driven through some too.
I was having post traumatic stress watching this, heart palpitations. I live in the far tropical north of Australia. We have storms like this all the time during our Wet Season- October to May. Many times I have not been able to see much past the front of the car. It’s so scary. At least we don’t have hail or the threat of a tornado, not the climate for them, unless we have a really big blow- a cyclone, they can form in them. We also don’t have the traffic. We are a population of 120 000. Fifteen minutes to anywhere. Thanks for posting.
This is why I often find myself watching The Weather Channel or my local weather forecast often! I am always obsessed with the weather in Texas being born and raised here my whole life!😅
Downtown Houston got hammered ... Windows blown out of many high rise buildings and skyscrapers with glass debris pieces trees and woods strewn all over the streets below where parts of downtown were completely closed ... The straight line winds recorded were clocked in at 100+ mph
It's scary to hear the "roaring engine" noise as the storm gets closer the noise gets louder, and the sky gets darker. Then the exploding transformers and the lights go out as far as you can see...and that's before the worst of the storm even hits....
My dog is terrified of thunder and storms. I had to take him with me to our bathroom in the inner most safest part of our home. The winds howling through the chimney, lights suddenly going out, and thunder crashing every 1.5 seconds. There was lots of howling and shivering, to say the least.
@@queueeeee9000my dog was so curious about all the whistling that he didn’t seem all that bothered. 😂😂 my cats would NOT recommend the experience again.
After binging tornado videos on TH-cam for weeks from Houston, I can’t describe to you the level of panick I was experiencing. I live in a skinny house with no interior walls rooms and no rooms without a window. I also quickly pulled up a weather stream that was saying there was rotation headed straight for me. I never thought I’d be in that situation living in the metro of Houston. I love admiring this stuff from afar and on video. But that was the most scared I’ve ever been. Heart beating out of my chest and sobbing. I’ve been through many hurricanes living in Houston but nothing compares to that Derecho.
I drove through a storm exactly like this one during morning rush hour once and it was the closest to feeling like I was going to die that I ever want to be. Glad you made it through!
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I was on North Shepherd Between 43rd and Tidwell when I got stuck in it. It was already a grey sky and light rain, but then on Shepherd it was like someone drew a vertical line in the sky, with one side grey, and the other pitch black. Not blue or dark grey, but absolute pitch black darkness. Then it hit and I was surround on all sides by green lightning and rain so heavy I couldn't see 20 feet in front of the bumper, not falling, completely sideways. The bed of the truck was bouncing up and down 3-5 inches, and hail. Then came home to find a 100 foot oak tree on my house, and my carport smashed down about 4 feet. Good times....
When Southeast Ohio got hit in 2012 with a derecho, we had no idea it was gonna be like it was. They say in a tornado you can hear a train, well during a derecho, you can feel the train under your feet... We had a 30 percent chance of storms that day... It was crazy...
I live in Northern Virginia - near Dulles airport - and it hit us around 10pm and we had no idea it was coming! And back then no one had ever heard of a derecho before, and we lost power for about 4 days with temps during the day in the 90s. Brutal!
I’m from & live in Baltimore…I remember the night that derecho went thru our area. It was gnarly! I remember my uncle’s area being out of power for upwards of 2 weeks…so many trees down all over!
I was driving to a week-long campout in Eastern Ohio at that time and just missed the main storm. We were nearing our destination when we saw some big trees lying in a field. I thought it was someone's manic land-clearing project--but when we saw more trees down, I noticed the leaves were still green, indicating fresh mayhem. Then we drove past a Walmart...and ITS PARKING LOT WAS EMPTY. That's when we began to freak over what kind of apocalypse we'd just driven into. More derecho winds blew through the campground--I was inside my tent holding the frame so it wouldn't blow away. It was exhilarating, jumping around like a crazy monkey cursing Nature!
I yelled at my mom that day. She is a work ahloic, she was in he office at the time and j saw the warning and told her "if you hear or feel anything, let me know" she said "yeah yeah okay." later j started getting worried cause the lights ha flickered and I heard rain, I looked out if the window and it was so windy and blurry I assumed that we were already in the tornado. I yelled at my mom saying she needs time focus more on safety than money. She asked me "what do you want me time do?!" my response was "gather us! Shelter us!" (us is my dog, me, and my mom) we heard my dog crying downstairs so we went to go get him(he was in his kennel) we hid in a hallway with him. I could tell he was scared too cause he was whining so bad. I started shaking because I have never been in a tornado before and I tried calling my dad because hes my comfort parent, but the signal wasn't working at all. So my mom tried calming me down but it didn't work to well. Later when it was done we checked our backyard and we have a free trampoline. And tree. Please stay safe everyone!
Just means strong thunderstorms usually in the later afternoon when the sun is low, doesn't always indicate high winds and doesn't always indicate tornadoes. Those two are just heavily associated with strong thunderstorms
Great video, really shows you what it's like. I lived in Jersey Village off of West in 2000-01. I could see this highway from my apartment. I was there during Tropical Storm Allison, and it rained like this all night long, from 5pm Friday to 7am Saturday morning, no breaks. And this was after a week of the storm circling the Houston area and filling up the reservoirs north, near Spring, Woodlands and all the way to Conroe. The water had no where to go when the storm went back into the Gulf on Friday morning, regained strength and returned like this Friday pm. Entire city shutdown, fully loaded 53ft trailers floating like corks under the overpasses...I'm from Wisconsin, and I'd never seen anything like that. When that power goes off like it does in this video, you start evaluating your energy reserves: 'I've got a half tank of gas that will take me north to food, electricity to charge the phone, money open on the card, snacks and water in the car...'
Damn yall dont let nobody over 😂 i see why the radio man said yall have road rage haha all jokes aside glad no one was hurt. Thanks for the footage!! Bless yall chasers! 🙌🏽
This video is a rare instance of good Houston driving to be honest. On a normal day about 15% of the road is full of homicidal idiots and about 50% more who are angry fast drivers.
This is why I gladly accepted the offer to work from home after covid. Otherwise I just take a bus to work because people here have their ego attached to whether someone else gets in front of them.
I was at work in a warehouse not too far from where you were driving in the beginning, had to shelter in place for about an hour because of the tornado warning. The backup generators came on and we went back to work afterwards, fortunately, but I was just worried about my cat back at my apartment. Thankfully, everything was all good. Just glad I wasn't out in that nasty weather.
The radio commentary fit perfectly on cue, as if he was there in the car with you giving a third person account. Coupled with your absence of speaking (or even any kind of exclamations, as if you were chill as a cucumber) and the humourous commentary you added in the video editing, it was a great & witty production!
@@Redmist-se7ld I might do the same, but I don't know how safe it would be if there was an actual tornado. I've heard of people getting injured or killed when sheltering under them...
As a houstonian, you may see this and think it was already pretty dark out when the clouds came. Nope, it was pretty bright out, we had at least two hours of sunlight left under normal circumstances. After the storm ended it actually got brighter
I live close to Gessner and Clay Rd., and there were no warnings. No notices, no rain, no hail, nothing. I saw the radar, and was about five seconds from moving my new car, and the wind hit. It literally went from 5 mph to over 100 mph in a few seconds.
Same here at Barker-Cypress and Clay. One minute I'm trying to put birdseed in the feeder on one of my trees, the next minute it's the end of the world, and a few minutes later, the tree was somewhere else. The only up-side is that if we have another one of those winter freezes this year, I got the firewood thing covered.
Thank you for this video. I was delivering groceries from Sam’s Club when this hit. I was off West Road and 290 where you were in this video that’s crazy!! When the rain started to pour I thank God there was a bank right in front and I took shelter. That rain was blowing sideways, trees were falling and you couldn’t see nothing. I feel bad for and other folk who were stuck in traffic on Hwy 290 because ya’ll had no where to go. Sadly I was low on gas and it took a minute for someone to find a gas station that didn’t lose power because after I made the delivery and couldn’t find a gas station opened. S/O to gas station by Cy Fair HS and Walmart for having power because it was packed in there with folks in survival mode.
Thanks Andy for a great video. I live near Longenbough and Greenhouse Roads...so the main storms went between your location on Hwy 290 and my house while you recorded this, The tornado path hit about 1.5 miles North of my house, but I think there were several twisters. I'm from Houston and this was the most terrified I have ever been during a weather event. I got home from work by 5 pm, shortly after 6:30 pm it had passed, all of my neighbors were then out in the street recollecting what just happened. I'm a weather geek, the warnings went off and my wife had herself and our two chihuahuas in the bathtub while I made some last second prep and joined them. Our power was off at my home for around 82 hours, three nights. It's been six days now and they're still working on getting all of the power restored....including at my office on FM 529 near N. Eldridge. Thx again for taking the time to make this video!!!
Thank you for the low-key production, leaving the soundscape and the captions were great. You passed the Kia Wheee! Soul back up. But my favorite was the chess move. I hate that so-called Freeway, it used to be my commute. You have my sympathies. I can’t say it was ‘fun’ sweating out the storm with you, but it was definitely captivating and even nostalgic. Ok bai!
Very entertaining! I had got home before it started. Wow, so that's how insane it was on the road! Absolutely horrible conditions. Husband and I were buckled down for a tornado. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for the great footage and excellent narration. I am sorry you and all the other folks had to endure this, and my heart goes out to all those who lost loved ones. That was one helluva storm.
@@appleyardjr267 CPE created a map page that gave an estimation of time to completion, but if I post the page YT deletes my comment. It thinks it is spam. Also, they seem to be running ahead of schedule compared to the map so I assume they made these estimations before crews came in from other parts of the state. The news keeps saying 1 month, but the latest date they have on the map is the 22nd and I have never seen any official CPE statement that it would be a month. I think the local news is just fear mongering in this instance.
Loved your dry sense of humor in the commentary 😁 and I'm glad things went well for you all in that scary situation. I live in the desert southwest, so heavy monsoon storms are a regular thing for us in July/August...but that rain was something else! Also @15:13 that black car was a bit of a "jerk" with the white one that was just trying to get back on the highway.
Power flashes at 2:57 were from a tornado on the ground that ended up damaging HCA Cyfair ER where they ended up shutting it down for good. I have video of the tornado from a security camera.
Thank you so much for sharing this video! We were stuck at the outlet mall when this hit. I’ve seen some video, but this is the best one. It shows just how fast it came through, and it left just as fast. You were literally in a wrap around tornado. The scariest kind. I’m glad you were safe, and I hope you are doing okay now too. Texas strong. God bless.
@@Shikta-poobah67 Sorry, I live in the area and the local news even covered it that way. My daughter and I barely missed it. We had several tornadoes touch down.
@@tonyamari3 Ok? I was there too. As I recall, when it first hit, no one seemed to know what to call it because it caught everyone off guard. The only thing anyone seemed to know for sure was that it was no ordinary thunderstorm. The word “tornado” was bandied about for a day or two by the news media until the data came in, and then it was reclassified as a derecho. As the first commenter pointed out, tornadoes are cyclonic. This wasn’t. It was a straight line wind, blowing at tornado-strength velocity. That’s what a derecho is.
I was stuck in this right at 290 and beltway 8 right behind you! It was definitely the wildest "thunderstorm" I've ever seen in my 38 yrs on this earth!
Hmm yes Sunday morning still no power. This Derecho slapped Houston in the face. Down trees everywhere!! Lights out everywhere, windows at my office almost imploded on us and the whole building shook like I have never experienced in my 30 plus years of living in Houston. It was crazy
Holy crap, this happened to us back in 96. We left Austin to go to Houston to take in a three game series with the astros and decided to drive to Galveston to show our young daughter the Gulf beach. On the way back, we hit exactly this. The wind was throwing us all over the road and the lightning made it almost impossible to see what little bit the rain would allow. No place to pull over, no exits...just stuck in torrential rain and wind, praying some idiot didn't rear end us. This left a knot in my stomach just watching.
I don't remember a derecho ever in Houston in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. I guess I must have missed that one. Honestly, this is the first derecho in my time from the 80s to present day that I ever remember hitting Houston, at least in daytime hours.
@@John-ct9zs Not really sure if it was a derecho...but it was 60mph winds and sideways driven rain for over 45 minutes. Tornado warning for Harris county. This was in 96.
Awesome video, and LOVED the commentary! A few things: 9:40 - that is clearly an Ohio driver. I've lived here for 6 years. During clear and sunny conditions, the beltway turns into a parking lot that ceases all movement, and people somehow STILL manage to have a 900 car pileup. But let it storm or snow, and suddenly everyone turns into a NASCAR driver. It's beyond insanity. 15:15 - that was a d*ck move on the black car's behalf, especially when they just tried the same thing. Like, dude, nobody is going ANYWHERE, and clearly the white car is freaking out and wants to jump back on 290 to GTFO dodge. Just let them go. It's not that serious. I know everyone has a gun in Texas, so the last thing I'd want to incite is a panicked road-rage shootout during a derecho because I decided to play Traffic God. But thank you for letting them through! Finally - what are y'all's power lines and light poles made out of?! Those things didn't move an inch in the apocalyptic winds!
My thought was the person was looking for higher ground. After weathering TS Allison on the freeway, it taught me to stay off the feeders during heavy rains. If you're from Houston, then you understand.
Thank you for using correct spelling and punctuation in all of your captions. Unfortunately, so many memes are created from people who put in incorrect spellings and it just perpetuates the idiocy found on the internet. I applaud you, a man of letters. 👏
I was going to cheer practice from my game at school and before the game we saw there was a tornado watch but we cheered there anyway in the rain. when we were going, we got the alert about the winds and rain, but it was too late. we literally couldn’t see out of any of the windows. there were downed powerlines everywhere in katy. my gym have a stream of water leaking out if the roof plus no power anywhere. so scary! 😭😭😭
I remember like it was yesterday! I got out of school happy and went into my dads car, (4:30 - 5:00 pm) and we got food, I think it was whataburger or something and we went back home and saw the news about it. My friend was at some sports game and got a tornado alert.
I get that people should heed storm warnings, but what are we supposed to do? Not go to work? Not even the meteorologists expected this to be of historic proportions.
@@thinkIndependent2024 It’s so true. We had the 100 year flood, Hurricane Harvey, then the deadly freeze all back to back in the last 4 to 5 years. It’s been crazy !
@@christhepocketmasterr Emergency warning Alerts and Tornado Warnings always come in just before... The weather service has a band of area in front of the storm that they predict the worst to occur and only the people within receive the warnings on their phone. Then as the storm progresses they update the area as needed to the next spot and those people receive warnings. It's quite neat... and prevents everyone in an area (like houston) from getting the message all at once when the storm is not near them at the moment.
Wicked lightning. Man, that was one powerful line. So much damage, even in downtown Houston. I’d only seen radar loops and a few brief clips…This was really good as it gives you the perspective of what it was like that afternoon.
If it’s one thing that irks my soul, is someone driving in the rain without their lights on(White Silverado). Also, I’d apply some sort of water repellent (Rain-X) to the windshield and all of your windows. In combination with your windshield wipers, your visibility will improve greatly when it rains. 🙏🏼
My grandson lives a few blocks from 290 on N.Eldridge Pkwy. He is so far away from us. I went there in April to drop off some furniture for him...about had a conniption when I noticed the “N. Eldridge Pkway” exit...🙁So glad you made THIS commute home safely, and thanks for the video!❤️
Heyyyy Neighbor! I live in JV! This is my route/exit. When this started I had just got home. I turned on the TV and saw the weather report that a tornado was headed toward Bridgeland. I called my friends and neighbors to make sure they were in a safe spot. The lights flickered, so I grabbed my trusty LED coleman lanterns. I walked into the bedroom where the power gave out. My closet was the safest spot (who knew a lovely skylight in the bathroom would be soo scary); grabbed the cat and shut the door. It sounded horrible, it was loud, it sounded like someone was aiming a giant waterhose at your whole house. I have water damage around the skylight, but it didnt break thank goodness! My rickety fence that the HOA is eye balling - it held up! I got caught in horrible rain earlier that week Tuesday, so when Thursday rolled around I did NOT wanna be stuck on the freeway again, so I headed home early. I feel so bad for the states up north having these tornados so frequently.
I live a few blocks East of Hwy 6 North and West Little York. Lights went out. Around this time. My daughter and I already had a trip to South Padre Island to leave Friday around noon. She lives near Huffmeister and 290, but her lights didn’t go out. She lives on a cul-de-sac and houses on the other side of the cul-de-sac lost power. She packed and came to my house. Before we left, she helped me empty all the perishables in m dead refrigerator. As I write this (Sunday morning, the 19th), the number of people without power is around 300,000. Down from 800,000 when we left Friday. We will leave the island around 10 am and hope the number without power will be even lower when we get to Houston later and my power is on. I didn’t see any damage to my townhouse, but tree limbs and trees were down everywhere. I will have to buy a new garbage can because mine disappeared in the storm.
Might as well just stay in South Padre, unless you have to be back for work or some other obligation. The northwest and west side of Houston like Cypress, Spring Branch and Katy was hit hard. I have friends in Missouri City and Pearland and to them it felt like a nothing old regular thunderstorm, because they got the less intense version of it, they don't get what the big deal was. But if you go to the northwest or west part of the city, uprooted trees and downed power lines everywhere. Downtown Houston was just completely f---ed up, due to all those tall skyscrapers getting windows blown out.
Every fucking storm here between April and June is a hail storm now. And every other year since 2018 we are getting temps in the low teens with ice damage. Lived here since 1995 and it was never like this until 2018.
Something to keep in mind: we don't care about "climate change" because it is bad for the "earth" or the "environment". The earth and environment won't care, it will adapt. We care about that stuff because it SUCKS for us. Climate models predicted that California would get even more rain. What they DIDN'T say is that said rain would come as more intense but more rare super-rain events, which is the worst of both worlds. Droughts followed by flooding. Or even droughts COMBINED with flooding. Stuff like that sucks for humans. Makes farming much more difficult, causes land slides, makes water management insanely expensive... I'm glad scientists started pushing for the term "climate change" instead of "global warming". Yeah, overall the planet will get warmer, but the thing we care about, how it affects us, isn't really that it gets warmer, it's that the weather gets more and more nuts, and more and more unpredictable, and more and more expensive to deal with. Places like the plains or midwest probably won't get unbearably warm, but maybe the "typical" severe weather season gets extended by 3-6 weeks. That just sucks for people. Stuff like that is why it puzzles me when environmentalists talk about climate change as a "save the earth" type thing. The earth doesn't get hurt by that stuff, we do.
I live in Sugar Land and was on the freeway when all hell broke loose. I’ve never seen it get so dark so fast. I couldn’t see a thing and my windshield wipers were on crack. That wind chunked a nice sized piece of debris into my windshield and completely shattered it. I grew up in Houston and its suburbs and have never seen a thunderstorm that violent. This was a wake up call for hurricane season for sure!
We had one of these in the DC area about 10 years ago. I had never heard of a derecho. It happened on a Friday night just after 10pm. My cats came running upstairs to tell me something was happening and then ran under the bed. That’s when the storm started. It knocked down huge old trees and the power in a lot of places.
Friday, June 29, 2012. The derecho came at 9:30 P.M. I watched it from my car at Target in Gainesville, VA. The wind was incredible. A few small trees fell over. Others had the top halves of their leaves sheared off. There were limbs down on the road. The railroad crossing gate on U.S. 29 before Route 66 was blown skew (and replaced two years later with a bridge). A construction drum stood in the middle of the road. The grills on display at Lowe’s had been blown into disarray. One had fallen on its face, and some of the others piled on top of one another. Only one stood.
Does no one look at radar before leaving work when it looks this bad?? Lol . I would've stayed at work until the worst blew over. We have to start thinking ahead when we see such dark clouds!!!
I'm starting to wonder if I'm colorblind. I do see green in footage of some tornadoes, but I have not detected any green in any of the pictures or footage from the Houston storm. When the video said the sky was green I paused and turned up the brightness, I can't see it. I see only varying shades of grey. It's weird
@@drea409 My dashcam has some mild color shifting because of where it's mounted. The sky was greener in person, and the effect was more pronounced off to the west/left, out of view of the camera. I do agree with you, I've seen much much greener and more ominous skies, but it was definitely a bit green for this storm.
I've been in Texas for over 20 years and I promise, none of us needs an official warning when the sky goes green. We just watch for the storm and then head to our safe place. Unfortunately, the only thing remotely safe for us is the beer cooler at the Buckees two miles away. Everything else is combo brick and siding homes. Anything stronger than a mid-level F3 and we are screwed.
At the first tornado warning, I would have got off the freeway and headed to a convenience store. I’m in DFW and have been through my share of driving in storms. I guess I don’t understand why you didn’t try to exit off to a safe spot earlier?
I had never heard of this type of storm until friends in Cedar Rapids experienced it. Then on June 29, 2023, our town was hit by one. No power for days and days 90plus degrees and homes and buildings damaged.
I am very glad I work from home now since one of the buildings I use to work in was damaged. I'm further NW than Jersey Village and we only had like 5 min notification to shelter when we received a tornado warning. I agree to not get on the edge of the overpass during a windy storm, but being on a feeder road in Harris county is worse I think. The feeders are made to flood - we are told this often. Then there were power lines along the feeder which could have blown over.
Wow I feel stupid now, I had no idea that is why people used their flashers in bad weather...lol...I thought it was just to let us know they were moving slow because of the weather. Your explanation makes much more sense. Thank you for letting us know!
Nononono don't do that. I live in an area with plenty of fog, and it's actually WAY WORSE if you put your blinkers on. It's the equivalent of going, "now I'm here! Now I'm not! Now I'm here! Now I'm not!" And it actively distracts me and other drivers who are watching for rockslides and other dangers in the road, including your taillights.
the humidity and heat kept increasing through the afternoon. by 5:00pm it felt like standing in a hair dryer. i made it home (290/1960) around 430, an hour later the 45 minute hurricane began. weirdest thing was no cell service for about 10-12 hours.
I’ve only been learning/watching radar for a bit but never seen a velocity reading like this storm. Instead of a couplet from tight rotation, this thing had a massive flank of strong wind. Wild stuff
Thank you so much for posting this. I was so lucky to not have been on my drive that night down to the Medical Center.. I would’ve been crying in my lifted Jeep with monster tires. Love the Grateful Dead reference. Glad you made it out okay.
Biggest upgrade I have ever done for any car is using RainX wiper fluid. Most of the time I don’t even need to use my wipers, the water flies up and off and the wipers just get in the way. I can see and drive much safer than most people that putter along during rain storms. People that come to a stop with their hazards on are just becoming hazards themselves.
Well done 👍 Thank you, now I get it when NOAA say “rain may be heavy at times” But I will forever prefer your scale of rain to the official. Glad you made it home safe💜💛💜💛
"The person on the motorcycle is about to have a really bad evening."
Understatement of the year
Yes. I was caught in something like this on my motorcycle. Within 5 minutes it went from sunshine to deluge. I was in full gear.
I hope they got off the highway and sought shelter somewhere. Dangerous being caught in 100+ mph winds like that.
I've ridden motorcycles up to turning 65, then had the sense enough to sell them and keep all my appendages intact. I got caught a couple of times in an Arizona monsoon rain and it fouled my engine every time. Took hours to dry out. Had to have someone come and get me then go back for my bike he next day. Most often than not, it would turn over and start then.
I hope that poor guy found at least a gas station canopy.
I saw a guy riding a motorcycle during hurricane Ike back in 2008.
He was probably the easiest to be able to get off the road and get shelter
I’m a mailman from Katy, and was in the frontlines on this storm! I saw it coming and tried to finish fast, I had 2 more boxes left so I was outside in the storm for like 20 minutes! I got all my mail and packages delivered.
Either rain sleet or snow right?!?
@@mraBJJ33 you can count on me when I’m delivering your mail.
@@mraBJJ33 you can count on me!
@@mraBJJ33lol you beat me to it! But I gotta say, well done, mailman from Katy!
@@BeeWhistler you can count on me when I’m your mail man!
Instead of 90% humidity, it is 90% liquidity
I have decided that cosmetic surgeons need to equip us all with gills. I live about 30mi south of Houston, and some days, it’s like breathing water here. Water, and toxins from the refineries & chemical plants.
😂😂 Right 😂😂
The radio cutting out is when you know it's gettin REAL
I listen too 97.9 the box they didn’t do no commercial they just play music in they kept on cutting off but they say they had a generator…
A derecho is nature's wash cycle and a twister is the spin cycle.
😂😂😂
Dude, this comment is definitely under rated!
This is going to live in my brain forever
And with the 90+ weather 5 days later? Looks like Houston got the full laundromat treatment 😂
What does that make us 🥲
I was coming from Katy when the tornado warning went off on my phone. I tried to outrun it and didn't do very well. The storm caught me. It may have been one of the crazy experiences I have had as a grown-up and living in Houston. This video shows the experience very well. I was waiting for the Tornado, little did I realize the straight line winds were just as powerful. Glad to make it home.
This video deserves a major award! 🏆 It had it all. Excellent writing, suspense, pathos, whimsical humour apocalyptic dread. Just a masterpiece.
I totally agree!
Agreed..
Agree.
I disagree
@@rrobertsnot5150 Oh well..
4 days later and THOUSANDS without power, schools closed, debris still present everywhere you look,, the clean up continues downtown and many intersections have traffic signals that are down. That was a bad mamma jamma
My sister got caught in this storm coming home from work. We couldn't reach her because of bad signal. A series of events happened on the way. One which was a tree falling in front of her causing her to swirve. She managed to get home to another scene of fallen trees sheds and trampolines on the middle of her street. She's always been the strong one that nothing gets her but she got home crying uncontrolably. She felt that was it for her. This was so much scarier than any hurricane weve been in.
I think this one was so much scarier because it was unexpected. Houstonians know how to hunker down when we get hurricane warnings. When city officials tell us to skip work and stay off the roads, most heed the warnings. This many people would not have been on the roads when storms are incoming, under normal storm prep circumstances. This was insane. I'm glad your sister made it home safe, im sure this was traumatizing
@@Summertyme75 Thanks and if you are in Houston I hope you and your loved one's are safe as well. I was home at the time and saw an alert for my parents area which was near townlake. We had a really bad gust of wind that blew our bbq pit about 10 feet off the platform. I remember running screaming because with that I heard the roar. The same roar we heard the day the firestone got destroyed in katy. My mom calls that same moment to tell me they were in the bathroom in case anything happened but nothing compared to not knowing about my sisters location and if she was ok. We were terrified.
I nearly got caught in this derecho too. But I saw where the storm was headed on my storm radar app in my phone as I was about to leave work going back to Katy, and I was like screw that. No way I can beat this storm home, I'll be driving right into it. Even if it was coming from the east or southeast out of the gulf, with that much traffic it would be hard to outrun. So I just stayed at work and rode it out until about 7:15 pm. When I left, wow, it was hurricane/tornado level damage all over from the medical center to Katy and Cypress.
Tree falling in front of her? Her swerving? Are we sure the sister isn't making this Hollywood story up?
@@thegamingchef3304 I'm only sharing her story. I don't care who believes or not. I'm just glad she's ok. It happened to many that day some survived some didn't. One thing I know about her since she was a little girl is she would tell the truth no matter how much trouble she would get in. She was crying to the point she could hardly breath and yes she did go back and took pictures and showed us the next day. As we speak she is now without power fixing her entire fence and dealing with her neighbors about their trees. This event was very real and there's others that had worst stories and lived to tell including my parents who live where a tornado hit. Yes, sometimes hollywood movies become real life. Just ask people north of Texas. How offensive for people to question if they actually went through something like this.
Double commenting because I can. Not sure if you regularly post storm related content but your captions had me absolutely rolling “Eat it if you dare” and I feel like, sometimes, the storm chaser (or just those individuals stuck in a storm) community needs that kinda humour. Those captions were the best thing. I’m sure everyone around you was shitting enough bricks to build a storm shelter by the power lines but you’re just sassing this storm out 😂 I needed this today.
Thats why I want to quit trucking. I love trucking, but I dont get paid enough to deal with this endless violent weather. I just get disrespected and lied to by a bunch of people who dont know what we have to deal with everyday "moving america". Glad you all kept the shiny sides up. That storm was none too fun when it got over here to georgia. I hate this weather. Cant sleep in my truck at night when it rains anymore.
Thank you for your hard work! You road warriors don't get enough appreciation. 🙌🏽 STAY SAFE
May God always bless you on your travels. May He protect you always ❤❤
Thank you for all your hard work. I've had a couple of trucker friends. They've said the same. I appreciate all you guys do. GOD bless you and keep you safe.
Ditto. I finally crawled down from my truck and walked away. I am not an owner/operator, so I was pretty much at the mercy of the cartage company that hired me. They didn't care. On a run from Austin to College Station, there were tornado warnings throughout the night, and I told them it wasn't safe.
I ended up with a trailer blown off and over and it completely wrecked my coupler bed and hydrolics and it cost them a fortune to get that truck recovered. Not to mention the eight stitches in my forehead from blown out glass. I tried to tell them, but no one listened.
That was my last run.
Wow, that is sad. All that hard work u put in to help transport goods around America and you get hated on for getting stuck in storms. #stophatingontruckers
my humor is completely broken, why did “medium-well rain” make me laugh so hard
I love your sense of humor. Hope the person on the motorcycle is okay
Wait….there was a motorcycle?? Omg….
@@FeatheredDreamStudioyes, you can see them at 0:52. There is commentary about them along the bottom of the screen. I don't think we see them again during the storm but there's practically no way they got home before the storm hit. Hopefully they found shelter in a store or restaurant
@@drea409I'd stop and beg a car to take me in. Id in no way stay on that motorcycle 😭
I was once in a storm like this. A big truck like yours is what saved me. I stuck to the truck like glue and let his better view guide me.
Houston is definitely one city you dont want to drive through when it rains. Lots of fools who drive even faster & crazier when it starts pouring. What a nut town.
The worst place I've ever driven is Atlanta. And when I go through Houston, Dallas, or San Antonio its after midnight!
I’m a 69 yo native Houstonian and I absolutely agree!! I remember when all the major freeways were built. There are some crazy MF drivers here! We’ve had a shot ton of “visitors” from down south who drive without a license too!!
Chicago is worse.
Not only in houston but also here in DALLAS……
Dallas and Austin are worse, especially Austin. All signs and striping are just suggestions.
My experience was horrific. I was north of carmine. Caught in the inflow of a tornado. Trees were sideways. The car felt like it was about to be flung. Debris. The rain was literally sideways. I was on my way to the store thinking I had time before the rain hit. Boy was I wrong. When I reached the store I got the tornado warning. Then the power went out at the store thats when I saw a monster. The side wall of that thing. When it passed I figured heck Ibetter get to the ranch. Bid mistake because again. Caught in the inflow. When I got back to the ranch it had water damage on the north wall because the rain and wind just overtook that house. I was cleaning water rest of the night. Crazy storm
Glad you made it out alive
I came for the derecho and stayed for the fonts. Haven't even made it half way through but you had me at well done rain then cooked me to completion when you followed it up with just...
heavy rain.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was the "medium well rain" for me 😭🤣
“It’s just a big box of rain. I don’t know who put it there. Believe it if you need it. Or eat it if you dare.”
This is going in my sketchbook. I usually draw out images from each storm to go with my WX/storm surveys and logs, but I might just do a page on the derecho and only have it be the view from a car with blurry, watercolour rain on the windscreen, and these amazing captions 😂
I love the calmness and humor in your commentary. Excellent footage!
This storm got out of control way too quick. Most people were completely caught off guard.
Definitely. And the thing is, we get tornado warnings relatively frequently, but in 16 years of living here, they've never been followed by a actual tornado. Very very rarely are they even followed by a storm. I don't blame people for ignoring them, though I do at least stay paying attention to the sky when I get them, personally
Thankfully, I was at home
This storm passed over us in North Austin (Pflugerville). The winds were crazy and I had never heard my house slammed so hard by winds before. Luckily the winds were nothing compared to how strong they got in Houston. Houston must've really pissed off the storm. lol
Exactly😳, my daughter and I were picking up dinner at a Panda Express in Southwest area and I remember the alerts going off on our phones and we were all like what's going on... It would read "Seek shelter immediately on a lower level, 80 mph winds". Next thing we know on the drive home it went from a cloudy moment to dark as night 😲
"Most people were caught completely off guard"...that`s what`s going to happen when Jesus comes back.
It absolutely baffles me how people can know insane weather is coming yet they still get out on the highway or are in fast food lines. People are not smart, and it’s actually what causes so many to die in their vehicles during tornadoes, but I’ve also heard of people dying because they drove during a storm like this and a tree fell on their car as they were moving. You people need to Wisen up,
Best video I've seen so far of it rolling in. Man any of those power polls could have gone flying at any minute. I was holding my breath
I was thinking the same. Perhaps it would have been best to stay on the freeway/highway and just pull off on the shoulder instead of getting on to the service/feeder road where all those power lines are.
Love your sense of humor, the midst of the storm... 😂 nice video. Glad you made it through it 🙌
When that sky turns that greenish turquoise hue, you better get the hell out of there as fast as you can. Guaranteed seeing a tornado or something of this nature. Awesome capture of this on video
Yeah I was in this there were several tornados in the area I was lucky enough to not see one though
It gives anxiety just watching it from the comfort of my home, let alone driving through it 😞 My prayers to anyone affected by this tragedy 🙏
Thanks
I was on the top floor of a short 4 fl office building when the tornado warnings came through, and within a few minutes the electricity went out. We all went down the stairs. We ended up having to wait out the storm in the stairwell because the doors leading out were shaking back and forth, large debris was flying past the building outside, a couple of the doors were blocked, and there was broken glass on the floor in the lobby. While we were still upstairs, it sounded like someone was hitting the side of the building with an enormously giant bat and it was reverberating throughout the entire building. (I'm assuming it was wind sheers hitting the side of the building.) It was definitely crazy. On the way home, large limbs were blocking the path to the streets to get out of the parking lot, and very several large trees fell on top of houses near where I was.
Damn- that was car wash level rain. Then it got chunky. Your subtitles and sense of humor made this a must- watch video. Glad you’re safe.
I was nearly caught in this on the road when I was leaving work at 6pm. Then I looked at my radar app on my phone and saw I would be driving straight into the derecho storm and figured what's the point. I just stayed at work and stood way back from the windows and glass doors. It looked like a small hurricane or even tornado out there, the way the wind was whipping the rain around and lighting keep lighting up the sky. There had to be at least 2 or 3 rain wrapped low level tornados out there. This was the worst thunderstorm I've seen in Houston, and I've been here since the 80s. I don't recall a derecho ever hitting Houston in my time, I always thought that was more a midwest/northern type of storm.
As a fellow Houstonian I thought Derechos was a northern thing too! Never seen one here and I have lived here all my life
I am pretty sure they are a thing for the northwest, yeah. Lived in Ohio all my life and I’ve seen a couple (thankfully they weren’t too awful bad)
You were one of the Smart ones. I use the weather app a lot when I was doing driving for work. I was able to avoid a few storms that way. I've also driven through some too.
@@thekawaiiginger7840 same-
@@thekawaiiginger7840it is mostly a Midwest thing. But other regions can get them but it’s rare. DC had one 12 years ago.
I was having post traumatic stress watching this, heart palpitations. I live in the far tropical north of Australia. We have storms like this all the time during our Wet Season- October to May. Many times I have not been able to see much past the front of the car. It’s so scary. At least we don’t have hail or the threat of a tornado, not the climate for them, unless we have a really big blow- a cyclone, they can form in them. We also don’t have the traffic. We are a population of 120 000. Fifteen minutes to anywhere. Thanks for posting.
Moving to Texas? Watch the weather radar several times a day every day, watch at least 3 forecasts from 3 different sources, look up frequently.
Amen lol
You're not even kidding. I have at least 3 and actually bought weather radio this year.
😂😂
This is why I often find myself watching The Weather Channel or my local weather forecast often! I am always obsessed with the weather in Texas being born and raised here my whole life!😅
This is the way!
Downtown Houston got hammered ... Windows blown out of many high rise buildings and skyscrapers with glass debris pieces trees and woods strewn all over the streets below where parts of downtown were completely closed ... The straight line winds recorded were clocked in at 100+ mph
It's scary to hear the "roaring engine" noise as the storm gets closer the noise gets louder, and the sky gets darker. Then the exploding transformers and the lights go out as far as you can see...and that's before the worst of the storm even hits....
My dog is terrified of thunder and storms.
I had to take him with me to our bathroom in the inner most safest part of our home. The winds howling through the chimney, lights suddenly going out, and thunder crashing every 1.5 seconds. There was lots of howling and shivering, to say the least.
@@queueeeee9000 but how did your dog react?
@@fudgenuggets405 haha 🤣 touche
@@queueeeee9000my dog was so curious about all the whistling that he didn’t seem all that bothered. 😂😂 my cats would NOT recommend the experience again.
After binging tornado videos on TH-cam for weeks from Houston, I can’t describe to you the level of panick I was experiencing. I live in a skinny house with no interior walls rooms and no rooms without a window. I also quickly pulled up a weather stream that was saying there was rotation headed straight for me. I never thought I’d be in that situation living in the metro of Houston. I love admiring this stuff from afar and on video. But that was the most scared I’ve ever been. Heart beating out of my chest and sobbing. I’ve been through many hurricanes living in Houston but nothing compares to that Derecho.
I drove through a storm exactly like this one during morning rush hour once and it was the closest to feeling like I was going to die that I ever want to be. Glad you made it through!
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(Do you really know now why you believe in Me? Do you really know your duty? Do you really know My testimony? For those who know all these, they are more than thorns in My side and in My home, they are only stumbling blocks. And for those who have no testimony, My wrath against them is endless, and the rod will never turn away from them. On that day, their punishment will be more painful than that of foolish women. I am now only doing the duty that I must perform; I will bind all the wheat in the sheaf, along with the tares. This is now My work. The tares will be beaten during My threshing, then the grains of wheat will be gathered into the barn, and the tares that have been beaten will be thrown into the fire to be burned to dust. My task now is simply to bind all people in bonds, that is, to conquer them completely. What I ask now is your loyalty and obedience, your love and testimony now. Even if you do not know at this time what testimony is or what love is, you must bring Me your all, and give Me the only treasure you have: your loyalty and obedience. You must know, that the proof of My defeat of Satan lies within the loyalty and obedience of man, as well as the proof of My complete conquest of man. The duty of your faith in Me is to testify for Me, be faithful to Me and no one else, and be obedient to the end. So I advise you to be wise and not treat your life or the importance of your existence as worthless sand. You must know the significance of your experience in My work, and furthermore, the significance of your faith in Me. In fact, I have come to bring this age to an end. Therefore, I say to you as before: You must give your life to My work, and moreover, you must devote yourself to My glory. In addition, your testimony for Me is what I have long awaited, and I desire more for you to spread My gospel. You must understand what is in My heart.)
Almighty God said
Do you REALLY know NOW WHY you BELIEVE in Me? Do you KNOW the TRUE PURPOSE and MEANING of My WORK? Do you REALLY KNOW your ROLE? Do you REALLY KNOW My TESTIMONY? IF you BELIEVE only in Me, but NOT in My GLORY or do NOT SEE My TESTIMONY in you, I have REJECTED YOU long ago then. FOR those WHO KNOW all THIS, they are MORE than THORNS in My SIDE and in My HOUSE, they are ONLY STUMBLING blocks. They are mere weeds that must be completely swept out of My work, with no partial duty and no weight whatsoever; I have hated them for a long time. And for those WHO have NO TESTIMONY, My WRATH AGAINST them is ENDLESS, and the ROD will NEVER TURN AWAY from them. 🛑
I have left them in the hands of the wicked for a long time, and they do not have any blessing from Me. ON that DAY, their PUNISHMENT will be MORE PAINFUL THAN that of FOOLISH WOMEN. I am NOW ONLY doing the DUTY that I must PERFORM; I will BIND all the WHEAT in the SHEAF, ALONG with the TARES. This is NOW My WORK. The TARES will be BEATEN during My THRESHING, then the GRAINS of WHEAT will be GATHERED into the BARN, and the TARES that have been BEATEN will be THROWN into the FIRE to be BURNED to DUST. 🛑
My TASK NOW is SIMPLY to BIND all people in bonds, that is, to CONQUER them COMPLETELY. Then I will BEGIN to KNOCK to REVEAL the END of all people. So you must KNOW HOW to SATISFY Me NOW and HOW you must SET your FAITH in Me on the RIGHT PATH. What I ask NOW is your LOVE and TESTIMONY NOW. Even if you do NOT KNOW at this TIME what TESTIMONY is or what LOVE is, you must BRING Me YOUR ALL, and GIVE Me the ONLY TREASURE YOU HAVE: your LOYALTY and OBEDIENCE. 🙏🌷
You MUST KNOW, that the EVIDENCE of My DEFEATING SATAN lies within the loyalty and obedience of man, as well as the evidence of My COMPLETE conquest of man. 🙏🙏
The DUTY of your FAITH in Me is to testify for Me, be FAITHFUL to Me and NO ONE ELSE, and be OBEDIENT to the END. 🌷🙏
Before I begin the next step of My work, how will you witness for Me? How will you be faithful and obedient to Me? Do you devote all your devotion to your duties or do you just give up? Would you rather submit to My every arrangement (be it death or destruction) or run away in the middle to avoid My chastisement? I will chastise you to bear witness to Me, and to be faithful and obedient to Me. Likewise, the chastisement of the present is to expose the next step of My work and to allow the work to move forward unimpeded. So I advise you to be wise and not treat your life or the importance of your existence as worthless sand. 🙏
Do you know exactly what My coming work is? Do you know how I will work in the coming days and how My work will be revealed? You must KNOW the SIGNIFICANCE of your EXPERIENCE in My WORK, and furthermore, the SIGNIFICANCE of your FAITH in Me.
I have done many things; how do you think I'll give up in the middle? I have done such a vast work; how can I destroy it? INDEED, I HAVE COME TO BRING THIS TIME TO AN END. 🛑
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My work is not as ordinary as you imagine, nor is it as insignificant and meaningless as you may believe. Therefore, I say to you as before: You MUST GIVE YOUR LIFE to My WORK, and moreover, you must devote YOURSELF to My GLORY. 🌷🙏
In addition, your TESTIMONY for Me is what I have WAITED for LONGER, and I DESIRE even MORE for you to SPREAD My GOSPEL. You must understand what is in My heart. 🙏🌷🙏
From The WORD, Vol. 1. The Manifestation and Work of God. What Do You Know About Faith?
Fulfillment of (John 1:1) and (Ezekiel 2:9-10), (Rev. 18:9,13)
📩 All who have "ears to listen" are led to what the Spirit of God is saying in His lowered and built kingdom/Church engraved with His new name, His totality, the ownership of this disposition, "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD "💐 fulfillment from what was said He to Peter 2,000 years ago recorded in (Matthew 16:18-19). His Coming is the fulfillment of all that was prophesied in the great book of Revelation, so the last "Salvation" He brought the whole truth, the way for eternal life. So the "victorious" ones who will receive them are the wise "virgins" because as recorded in the prophecy of His return no one knows it except the one who will receive it! So "come" and come to His kingdom/church standing in the holy place in the air/TH-cam! This is also a fulfillment from the book of (Isaiah 2:2/9:6) which He first fulfilled in His first incarnation. 📥
"They say with a loud voice, "Salvation comes from the Lamb, and from our God who sits on the Throne!" (Rev. 7:10). ... and (Isaiah 2: 2 / 9:6) "On the Last Day, the mountain on which Jehovah's temple stands will stand out above all the mountains. All nations will flock there. " . "For a baby boy is born to us. The rule will be given to him; and he shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."
I was on North Shepherd Between 43rd and Tidwell when I got stuck in it. It was already a grey sky and light rain, but then on Shepherd it was like someone drew a vertical line in the sky, with one side grey, and the other pitch black. Not blue or dark grey, but absolute pitch black darkness. Then it hit and I was surround on all sides by green lightning and rain so heavy I couldn't see 20 feet in front of the bumper, not falling, completely sideways. The bed of the truck was bouncing up and down 3-5 inches, and hail. Then came home to find a 100 foot oak tree on my house, and my carport smashed down about 4 feet. Good times....
When Southeast Ohio got hit in 2012 with a derecho, we had no idea it was gonna be like it was. They say in a tornado you can hear a train, well during a derecho, you can feel the train under your feet... We had a 30 percent chance of storms that day... It was crazy...
I live in Northern Virginia - near Dulles airport - and it hit us around 10pm and we had no idea it was coming! And back then no one had ever heard of a derecho before, and we lost power for about 4 days with temps during the day in the 90s. Brutal!
We had one in VA in 2011. A lot of damage.
I’m from & live in Baltimore…I remember the night that derecho went thru our area. It was gnarly! I remember my uncle’s area being out of power for upwards of 2 weeks…so many trees down all over!
We were out of power for 5 days and lost food. Could have been worse. Tree damage too in the woods with heavy rainfall. This was in SW Va Blacksburg.
I was driving to a week-long campout in Eastern Ohio at that time and just missed the main storm. We were nearing our destination when we saw some big trees lying in a field. I thought it was someone's manic land-clearing project--but when we saw more trees down, I noticed the leaves were still green, indicating fresh mayhem. Then we drove past a Walmart...and ITS PARKING LOT WAS EMPTY. That's when we began to freak over what kind of apocalypse we'd just driven into. More derecho winds blew through the campground--I was inside my tent holding the frame so it wouldn't blow away. It was exhilarating, jumping around like a crazy monkey cursing Nature!
I yelled at my mom that day. She is a work ahloic, she was in he office at the time and j saw the warning and told her "if you hear or feel anything, let me know" she said "yeah yeah okay." later j started getting worried cause the lights ha flickered and I heard rain, I looked out if the window and it was so windy and blurry I assumed that we were already in the tornado. I yelled at my mom saying she needs time focus more on safety than money. She asked me "what do you want me time do?!" my response was "gather us! Shelter us!" (us is my dog, me, and my mom) we heard my dog crying downstairs so we went to go get him(he was in his kennel) we hid in a hallway with him. I could tell he was scared too cause he was whining so bad. I started shaking because I have never been in a tornado before and I tried calling my dad because hes my comfort parent, but the signal wasn't working at all. So my mom tried calming me down but it didn't work to well. Later when it was done we checked our backyard and we have a free trampoline. And tree. Please stay safe everyone!
free trampoline is how you know god loves you lol. hope your mom lets you keep it.
Ehhh I kind hope so. But at the same time it's umm.. A little messed up😓 maybe we can get it fixed 😅
The dog could sense the Tornado.
@@DarthVader-1701 I’m sure it wasn’t just that but also him hearing it!
Green skies always mean high winds. Thx for sharing the video. Be safe.
Usually indicates tornado about to drop, and hail
Just means strong thunderstorms usually in the later afternoon when the sun is low, doesn't always indicate high winds and doesn't always indicate tornadoes. Those two are just heavily associated with strong thunderstorms
Great video, really shows you what it's like. I lived in Jersey Village off of West in 2000-01. I could see this highway from my apartment. I was there during Tropical Storm Allison, and it rained like this all night long, from 5pm Friday to 7am Saturday morning, no breaks. And this was after a week of the storm circling the Houston area and filling up the reservoirs north, near Spring, Woodlands and all the way to Conroe. The water had no where to go when the storm went back into the Gulf on Friday morning, regained strength and returned like this Friday pm. Entire city shutdown, fully loaded 53ft trailers floating like corks under the overpasses...I'm from Wisconsin, and I'd never seen anything like that. When that power goes off like it does in this video, you start evaluating your energy reserves: 'I've got a half tank of gas that will take me north to food, electricity to charge the phone, money open on the card, snacks and water in the car...'
Damn yall dont let nobody over 😂 i see why the radio man said yall have road rage haha all jokes aside glad no one was hurt. Thanks for the footage!! Bless yall chasers! 🙌🏽
This video is a rare instance of good Houston driving to be honest. On a normal day about 15% of the road is full of homicidal idiots and about 50% more who are angry fast drivers.
yeah we were humbled that day. mother nature's road rage trumped all
This is why I gladly accepted the offer to work from home after covid. Otherwise I just take a bus to work because people here have their ego attached to whether someone else gets in front of them.
A turn signal in Houston is a bald-faced challenge.
@@herbwitch5681
Never let the enemy know what you're doing.
I was at work in a warehouse not too far from where you were driving in the beginning, had to shelter in place for about an hour because of the tornado warning. The backup generators came on and we went back to work afterwards, fortunately, but I was just worried about my cat back at my apartment. Thankfully, everything was all good. Just glad I wasn't out in that nasty weather.
Blinding torrential rain with hurricane-force winds. Cool. Great video! I was waiting for someone to correctly title this storm: a Derecho.
The radio commentary fit perfectly on cue, as if he was there in the car with you giving a third person account. Coupled with your absence of speaking (or even any kind of exclamations, as if you were chill as a cucumber) and the humourous commentary you added in the video editing, it was a great & witty production!
Hope that person on the motorbike got through all this okay. JESUS.
I would’ve stayed under an overpass wait for the storm to pass
@@Redmist-se7ld I might do the same, but I don't know how safe it would be if there was an actual tornado. I've heard of people getting injured or killed when sheltering under them...
@@araneasmithYep, your right. People have gotten killed under overpasses by violent tornadoes.
Houston drivers are a bigger threat to him day in and out anyways
@@GamerplusMore LOL, so I've heard...
As a houstonian, you may see this and think it was already pretty dark out when the clouds came. Nope, it was pretty bright out, we had at least two hours of sunlight left under normal circumstances. After the storm ended it actually got brighter
Yes it went from daylight,to midnight black at 6pm
I live close to Gessner and Clay Rd., and there were no warnings.
No notices, no rain, no hail, nothing. I saw the radar, and was about five seconds from moving my new car, and the wind hit. It literally went from 5 mph to over 100 mph in a few seconds.
Same here at Barker-Cypress and Clay. One minute I'm trying to put birdseed in the feeder on one of my trees, the next minute it's the end of the world, and a few minutes later, the tree was somewhere else. The only up-side is that if we have another one of those winter freezes this year, I got the firewood thing covered.
Thank you for this video. I was delivering groceries from Sam’s Club when this hit. I was off West Road and 290 where you were in this video that’s crazy!! When the rain started to pour I thank God there was a bank right in front and I took shelter. That rain was blowing sideways, trees were falling and you couldn’t see nothing. I feel bad for and other folk who were stuck in traffic on Hwy 290 because ya’ll had no where to go. Sadly I was low on gas and it took a minute for someone to find a gas station that didn’t lose power because after I made the delivery and couldn’t find a gas station opened. S/O to gas station by Cy Fair HS and Walmart for having power because it was packed in there with folks in survival mode.
As a fellow Houstonian, I have to thank you for NOT just staying on the left hand lane 😂
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No one needs to be passing in this weather anyway otherwise I agree don’t hog the left lane
Thanks Andy for a great video. I live near Longenbough and Greenhouse Roads...so the main storms went between your location on Hwy 290 and my house while you recorded this, The tornado path hit about 1.5 miles North of my house, but I think there were several twisters. I'm from Houston and this was the most terrified I have ever been during a weather event. I got home from work by 5 pm, shortly after 6:30 pm it had passed, all of my neighbors were then out in the street recollecting what just happened. I'm a weather geek, the warnings went off and my wife had herself and our two chihuahuas in the bathtub while I made some last second prep and joined them. Our power was off at my home for around 82 hours, three nights. It's been six days now and they're still working on getting all of the power restored....including at my office on FM 529 near N. Eldridge. Thx again for taking the time to make this video!!!
Thank you for the low-key production, leaving the soundscape and the captions were great. You passed the Kia Wheee! Soul back up. But my favorite was the chess move.
I hate that so-called Freeway, it used to be my commute. You have my sympathies. I can’t say it was ‘fun’ sweating out the storm with you, but it was definitely captivating and even nostalgic. Ok bai!
The chess move was my favorite, too. I hate driving in heavy rain.
Very entertaining! I had got home before it started. Wow, so that's how insane it was on the road! Absolutely horrible conditions. Husband and I were buckled down for a tornado. Thank you for sharing!
Commentary is great! Thanks. I used to live near Eldridge and Hwy 6. Thanks for showing us the storm.
I was caught by the storm and I almost got blown away because I was pushed against a car with my umbrella
Thank you for the great footage and excellent narration. I am sorry you and all the other folks had to endure this, and my heart goes out to all those who lost loved ones. That was one helluva storm.
Thank you for posting. Loved the commentary.
2:57 the power flash is insane there we luckily got power back after 15 hours, but some people might be without power for 2+ weeks. Stuffs insane man.
It’s Sunday morning and I still don’t have power 😭
@@cerka27 same 🥲
I'm still without power
@@appleyardjr267 CPE created a map page that gave an estimation of time to completion, but if I post the page YT deletes my comment. It thinks it is spam. Also, they seem to be running ahead of schedule compared to the map so I assume they made these estimations before crews came in from other parts of the state. The news keeps saying 1 month, but the latest date they have on the map is the 22nd and I have never seen any official CPE statement that it would be a month. I think the local news is just fear mongering in this instance.
We are still without power too. 😢
Loved your dry sense of humor in the commentary 😁 and I'm glad things went well for you all in that scary situation. I live in the desert southwest, so heavy monsoon storms are a regular thing for us in July/August...but that rain was something else!
Also @15:13 that black car was a bit of a "jerk" with the white one that was just trying to get back on the highway.
Drinking my morning coffee with some anxiety watching this. 😳 Very unpleasant.
Power flashes at 2:57 were from a tornado on the ground that ended up damaging HCA Cyfair ER where they ended up shutting it down for good. I have video of the tornado from a security camera.
2:40 definitely a bit of hail. That turquoise sky is an indicator of hail.
Okay this was epic this deserved an Emmy just for the satirical captions alone. Bruh you've got one hell of a sense of humor 🤣
Thank you so much for sharing this video! We were stuck at the outlet mall when this hit. I’ve seen some video, but this is the best one. It shows just how fast it came through, and it left just as fast. You were literally in a wrap around tornado. The scariest kind. I’m glad you were safe, and I hope you are doing okay now too. Texas strong. God bless.
They weren't in a tornado. It was NOT cyclonic.
This literally _wasn’t_ any kind of tornado. It even says it in the title. It was a derecho. Straight line winds.
@@Shikta-poobah67 Sorry, I live in the area and the local news even covered it that way. My daughter and I barely missed it. We had several tornadoes touch down.
@@tonyamari3 Ok? I was there too. As I recall, when it first hit, no one seemed to know what to call it because it caught everyone off guard. The only thing anyone seemed to know for sure was that it was no ordinary thunderstorm. The word “tornado” was bandied about for a day or two by the news media until the data came in, and then it was reclassified as a derecho.
As the first commenter pointed out, tornadoes are cyclonic. This wasn’t. It was a straight line wind, blowing at tornado-strength velocity. That’s what a derecho is.
I was stuck in this right at 290 and beltway 8 right behind you! It was definitely the wildest "thunderstorm" I've ever seen in my 38 yrs on this earth!
Hmm yes Sunday morning still no power. This Derecho slapped Houston in the face. Down trees everywhere!! Lights out everywhere, windows at my office almost imploded on us and the whole building shook like I have never experienced in my 30 plus years of living in Houston. It was crazy
WERE YOU IN A SKYSCRAPER
What area are you in? Im by Huffmeister and White oak ridge, we got power at like 3am
Was it worse than Hurricane Ike?
Excellent video!! Thank you for not screaming at the top of your lungs!! Yeah that was a whole new speed of rain! Crazy! Glad you’re safe.
Holy crap, this happened to us back in 96. We left Austin to go to Houston to take in a three game series with the astros and decided to drive to Galveston to show our young daughter the Gulf beach. On the way back, we hit exactly this. The wind was throwing us all over the road and the lightning made it almost impossible to see what little bit the rain would allow. No place to pull over, no exits...just stuck in torrential rain and wind, praying some idiot didn't rear end us. This left a knot in my stomach just watching.
I don't remember a derecho ever in Houston in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. I guess I must have missed that one. Honestly, this is the first derecho in my time from the 80s to present day that I ever remember hitting Houston, at least in daytime hours.
@@John-ct9zs Not really sure if it was a derecho...but it was 60mph winds and sideways driven rain for over 45 minutes. Tornado warning for Harris county. This was in 96.
Astounding video. Great captions. Glad you got through this safely and unharmed.
Awesome video, and LOVED the commentary! A few things:
9:40 - that is clearly an Ohio driver. I've lived here for 6 years. During clear and sunny conditions, the beltway turns into a parking lot that ceases all movement, and people somehow STILL manage to have a 900 car pileup. But let it storm or snow, and suddenly everyone turns into a NASCAR driver. It's beyond insanity.
15:15 - that was a d*ck move on the black car's behalf, especially when they just tried the same thing. Like, dude, nobody is going ANYWHERE, and clearly the white car is freaking out and wants to jump back on 290 to GTFO dodge. Just let them go. It's not that serious. I know everyone has a gun in Texas, so the last thing I'd want to incite is a panicked road-rage shootout during a derecho because I decided to play Traffic God. But thank you for letting them through!
Finally - what are y'all's power lines and light poles made out of?! Those things didn't move an inch in the apocalyptic winds!
My thought was the person was looking for higher ground. After weathering TS Allison on the freeway, it taught me to stay off the feeders during heavy rains. If you're from Houston, then you understand.
I wonder if a gun would even fire in that.
Not gonna try it, I don't want a gun-shaped lump of rust.
Thank you for using correct spelling and punctuation in all of your captions. Unfortunately, so many memes are created from people who put in incorrect spellings and it just perpetuates the idiocy found on the internet. I applaud you, a man of letters. 👏
I was on a flight from Houston to OKC at the time. A flite that normally takes 1 hrs, 15 took an extra hour to divert around it.
I'm so glad we did 🙏
My dad was flying into Austin and had to loop for two hours to avoid the storm.
I was going to cheer practice from my game at school and before the game we saw there was a tornado watch but we cheered there anyway in the rain. when we were going, we got the alert about the winds and rain, but it was too late. we literally couldn’t see out of any of the windows. there were downed powerlines everywhere in katy. my gym have a stream of water leaking out if the roof plus no power anywhere. so scary! 😭😭😭
I remember like it was yesterday! I got out of school happy and went into my dads car, (4:30 - 5:00 pm) and we got food, I think it was whataburger or something and we went back home and saw the news about it. My friend was at some sports game and got a tornado alert.
I get that people should heed storm warnings, but what are we supposed to do? Not go to work? Not even the meteorologists expected this to be of historic proportions.
For me I left that part of Texas in 2018 after multiple 100 year 500 year floods every 6 months the science isn't in there favor
@@thinkIndependent2024 It’s so true. We had the 100 year flood, Hurricane Harvey, then the deadly freeze all back to back in the last 4 to 5 years. It’s been crazy !
The warnings came in only minutes before that's the insane part!
@@stephanie_smithSomeone is slacking off at their job. I also predicted it minutes before it happened by looking up at the dang sky.
@@christhepocketmasterr Emergency warning Alerts and Tornado Warnings always come in just before... The weather service has a band of area in front of the storm that they predict the worst to occur and only the people within receive the warnings on their phone. Then as the storm progresses they update the area as needed to the next spot and those people receive warnings.
It's quite neat... and prevents everyone in an area (like houston) from getting the message all at once when the storm is not near them at the moment.
I’m gonna listen to this video tonight to fall asleep to. Love it
Wicked lightning. Man, that was one powerful line. So much damage, even in downtown Houston. I’d only seen radar loops and a few brief clips…This was really good as it gives you the perspective of what it was like that afternoon.
If it’s one thing that irks my soul, is someone driving in the rain without their lights on(White Silverado). Also, I’d apply some sort of water repellent (Rain-X) to the windshield and all of your windows. In combination with your windshield wipers, your visibility will improve greatly when it rains. 🙏🏼
My grandson lives a few blocks from 290 on N.Eldridge Pkwy. He is so far away from us. I went there in April to drop off some furniture for him...about had a conniption when I noticed the “N. Eldridge Pkway” exit...🙁So glad you made THIS commute home safely, and thanks for the video!❤️
Heyyyy Neighbor! I live in JV! This is my route/exit. When this started I had just got home. I turned on the TV and saw the weather report that a tornado was headed toward Bridgeland. I called my friends and neighbors to make sure they were in a safe spot. The lights flickered, so I grabbed my trusty LED coleman lanterns. I walked into the bedroom where the power gave out. My closet was the safest spot (who knew a lovely skylight in the bathroom would be soo scary); grabbed the cat and shut the door. It sounded horrible, it was loud, it sounded like someone was aiming a giant waterhose at your whole house. I have water damage around the skylight, but it didnt break thank goodness! My rickety fence that the HOA is eye balling - it held up!
I got caught in horrible rain earlier that week Tuesday, so when Thursday rolled around I did NOT wanna be stuck on the freeway again, so I headed home early. I feel so bad for the states up north having these tornados so frequently.
I live a few blocks East of Hwy 6 North and West Little York. Lights went out. Around this time. My daughter and I already had a trip to South Padre Island to leave Friday around noon. She lives near Huffmeister and 290, but her lights didn’t go out. She lives on a cul-de-sac and houses on the other side of the cul-de-sac lost power.
She packed and came to my house. Before we left, she helped me empty all the perishables in m dead refrigerator.
As I write this (Sunday morning, the 19th), the number of people without power is around 300,000. Down from 800,000 when we left Friday. We will leave the island around 10 am and hope the number without power will be even lower when we get to Houston later and my power is on.
I didn’t see any damage to my townhouse, but tree limbs and trees were down everywhere. I will have to buy a new garbage can because mine disappeared in the storm.
Stay in south padre as long as you can. Majority of cypress area are gonna be without power until Wednesday or Thursday, maybe even longer.
Might as well just stay in South Padre, unless you have to be back for work or some other obligation. The northwest and west side of Houston like Cypress, Spring Branch and Katy was hit hard. I have friends in Missouri City and Pearland and to them it felt like a nothing old regular thunderstorm, because they got the less intense version of it, they don't get what the big deal was. But if you go to the northwest or west part of the city, uprooted trees and downed power lines everywhere. Downtown Houston was just completely f---ed up, due to all those tall skyscrapers getting windows blown out.
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Some of my friends live close to West Little York. I hope you're doing well now.
Watching this as severe weather is hitting us rn. Stay safe and weather aware everyone. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
When the sky turns green, it's about to get mean
Every fucking storm here between April and June is a hail storm now. And every other year since 2018 we are getting temps in the low teens with ice damage. Lived here since 1995 and it was never like this until 2018.
Lived here my whole life...51 years and everything you said is so true!!!
70s and 80s had solid freezes every winter. T S Claudette dropped 12" of rain on much of Houston in '78. Snowed three times in early '73. Crazytown.
That's why it's called climate *change.*
Something to keep in mind: we don't care about "climate change" because it is bad for the "earth" or the "environment". The earth and environment won't care, it will adapt. We care about that stuff because it SUCKS for us. Climate models predicted that California would get even more rain. What they DIDN'T say is that said rain would come as more intense but more rare super-rain events, which is the worst of both worlds. Droughts followed by flooding. Or even droughts COMBINED with flooding. Stuff like that sucks for humans. Makes farming much more difficult, causes land slides, makes water management insanely expensive...
I'm glad scientists started pushing for the term "climate change" instead of "global warming". Yeah, overall the planet will get warmer, but the thing we care about, how it affects us, isn't really that it gets warmer, it's that the weather gets more and more nuts, and more and more unpredictable, and more and more expensive to deal with.
Places like the plains or midwest probably won't get unbearably warm, but maybe the "typical" severe weather season gets extended by 3-6 weeks. That just sucks for people. Stuff like that is why it puzzles me when environmentalists talk about climate change as a "save the earth" type thing. The earth doesn't get hurt by that stuff, we do.
@@jordanledoux197 I'm actually concerned about the weather manipulation that's impacting these super strong storms.
I live in Sugar Land and was on the freeway when all hell broke loose. I’ve never seen it get so dark so fast. I couldn’t see a thing and my windshield wipers were on crack. That wind chunked a nice sized piece of debris into my windshield and completely shattered it. I grew up in Houston and its suburbs and have never seen a thunderstorm that violent. This was a wake up call for hurricane season for sure!
We had one of these in the DC area about 10 years ago. I had never heard of a derecho. It happened on a Friday night just after 10pm. My cats came running upstairs to tell me something was happening and then ran under the bed. That’s when the storm started. It knocked down huge old trees and the power in a lot of places.
I remember that. A friend lived in Bethesda and had a tree fall into their bedroom.
Friday, June 29, 2012. The derecho came at 9:30 P.M. I watched it from my car at Target in Gainesville, VA. The wind was incredible. A few small trees fell over. Others had the top halves of their leaves sheared off. There were limbs down on the road. The railroad crossing gate on U.S. 29 before Route 66 was blown skew (and replaced two years later with a bridge). A construction drum stood in the middle of the road. The grills on display at Lowe’s had been blown into disarray. One had fallen on its face, and some of the others piled on top of one another. Only one stood.
Does no one look at radar before leaving work when it looks this bad?? Lol . I would've stayed at work until the worst blew over. We have to start thinking ahead when we see such dark clouds!!!
I was on my home from the store when the wind hit. Tree branches were flying everywhere.
Terrific video - it really communicates the experience of being in the Derecho. And the subtitles were major humor.
Those blueish green skies are ominous
I'm starting to wonder if I'm colorblind. I do see green in footage of some tornadoes, but I have not detected any green in any of the pictures or footage from the Houston storm. When the video said the sky was green I paused and turned up the brightness, I can't see it. I see only varying shades of grey. It's weird
@@drea409 My dashcam has some mild color shifting because of where it's mounted. The sky was greener in person, and the effect was more pronounced off to the west/left, out of view of the camera. I do agree with you, I've seen much much greener and more ominous skies, but it was definitely a bit green for this storm.
I've been in Texas for over 20 years and I promise, none of us needs an official warning when the sky goes green. We just watch for the storm and then head to our safe place. Unfortunately, the only thing remotely safe for us is the beer cooler at the Buckees two miles away. Everything else is combo brick and siding homes. Anything stronger than a mid-level F3 and we are screwed.
It got quite green where I am, east of IAH.
Yeah possible tornado in area...see rain sideways is telling ya.
At the first tornado warning, I would have got off the freeway and headed to a convenience store. I’m in DFW and have been through my share of driving in storms. I guess I don’t understand why you didn’t try to exit off to a safe spot earlier?
That was intense! Glad you were safe.
I had never heard of this type of storm until friends in Cedar Rapids experienced it. Then on June 29, 2023, our town was hit by one. No power for days and days 90plus degrees and homes and buildings damaged.
Fast forwarding this video was the best part.
Holy cow ... I am so glad you made it through all that. Also, your commentary ... totally hilarious!
I am very glad I work from home now since one of the buildings I use to work in was damaged. I'm further NW than Jersey Village and we only had like 5 min notification to shelter when we received a tornado warning. I agree to not get on the edge of the overpass during a windy storm, but being on a feeder road in Harris county is worse I think. The feeders are made to flood - we are told this often. Then there were power lines along the feeder which could have blown over.
In case some drivers don't know this, put your vehicle flashers on so the other person can see you. Not for rain, but in fog. Even snow storms
It does help visibility but it is illegal to do that in FL. People do it anyway.
Wow I feel stupid now, I had no idea that is why people used their flashers in bad weather...lol...I thought it was just to let us know they were moving slow because of the weather. Your explanation makes much more sense. Thank you for letting us know!
Nononono don't do that. I live in an area with plenty of fog, and it's actually WAY WORSE if you put your blinkers on. It's the equivalent of going, "now I'm here! Now I'm not! Now I'm here! Now I'm not!" And it actively distracts me and other drivers who are watching for rockslides and other dangers in the road, including your taillights.
No, please NEVER do this
@@Michelle-dx6uz It's stupid and illegal. Now you can't signal properly. Only use your flashers if you're stationary.
I live in Pasadena, and this storm got bad REALLY fast.
It was unbelievable how fast
the humidity and heat kept increasing through the afternoon. by 5:00pm it felt like standing in a hair dryer. i made it home (290/1960) around 430, an hour later the 45 minute hurricane began. weirdest thing was no cell service for about 10-12 hours.
It was so incredibly sticky, and my sinuses always deteriorate before we get green weather.
This video had the best soundtrack of anything to come out of Texas. Very educational. One smart driver there !
Glad you're alright, but @9:41 made me lol. Weeeeee 😂
Same, I'm goofy though😂
Those are the morons of Houston who cause accidents in times like this lol apparently heavier rain means go faster 🤷🏽♂️
I’ve only been learning/watching radar for a bit but never seen a velocity reading like this storm.
Instead of a couplet from tight rotation, this thing had a massive flank of strong wind.
Wild stuff
Thank you so much for posting this. I was so lucky to not have been on my drive that night down to the Medical Center.. I would’ve been crying in my lifted Jeep with monster tires. Love the Grateful Dead reference. Glad you made it out okay.
Biggest upgrade I have ever done for any car is using RainX wiper fluid. Most of the time I don’t even need to use my wipers, the water flies up and off and the wipers just get in the way. I can see and drive much safer than most people that putter along during rain storms. People that come to a stop with their hazards on are just becoming hazards themselves.
Rain x works so good I don’t even need the wipers most of the time. The water just rolls off.
The rain makes it look like that car's tail lights are on fire 🔥 😮
That was my thought too.
Well done 👍 Thank you, now I get it when NOAA say “rain may be heavy at times” But I will forever prefer your scale of rain to the official. Glad you made it home safe💜💛💜💛
Love this drivers attitude!!! This was awesome video! Thank you for posting!❤