johan's Journal

Large hail and high (70 mph) winds last night, around midnight, here in Central Austin. (Reports of funnel clouds a bit more North, around Marble Falls about 21:00.) Lots of very big parts of trees down. Broken car and house windows from hail and tree limbs.I got lucky -- screens on my W-SW facing windows probably kept them from being broken by the hail, and i parked my car under a branch. (Luckily the branch didn't fall, and it seems to have shielded the car from the hail.)

About 1am, me and my neighbors were clearing the tree limbs out of the road. I gave a couple of flashlights to my neighbors across the street who were without power. I never lost power, but cable Internet service went almost right away, and only came back about 09:00. I had a small crown of a hackberry come down in the backyard, but i don't have any big trees left in my yard after last year's ice storm, so there wasn't really anything to get blown over.

I'm starting a new blog category for bad drivers. Seems like i see a "fresh" automobile accident every 2-3 days, and pretty much daily, i see a driver do something dangerously illegal. So i might as well take pictures. This first one is the South-bound lanes of N. Lamar, just South of 29th St., about 19:30 14 May 2008.

(Sorry, just the camera phone... i need to get a decent but pocket-sized point and click digital.)