The weather was much more extreme; you got used to watching for Tornados – and whilst one never came any closer than a mile we did have a supercell storm that went over, depositing the heavy trampoline on the roof and taking out the power to us and over a million others in the DFW metroplex.
Most of the time the sky was blue and it was hot and dry.
We periodically got supercells – large clouds often with lightening ‘inside’ (air-to-air). One came over the house one year; the three metre tubular steel trampoline ended up on the roof buckled. It knocked out the power lines to us and over a million others in the DFW metroplex as well. We had no water either as the pump the local well company used was inoperable as well. The nearest a Tornado came was a mile away.
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