Most Overhyped Storm | TheaterFire

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whiplash_7641@reddit

Why do people always act like this isnt the point? You were warned ahead of time of POSSIBLE SEVERE STORMS and they happened just not exactly where you were predicted to have them. If they did happened you would have been prepared hopefully thanks to the system wtf is this post ? Lmao

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VictoriaVonMaur@reddit

I heard Delkus make a comment about how the forecast models have been wrong lately, that he has an opinion why and will share that with us at a more appropriate time. (I'm paraphrasing)

The ability to protect and inform the public isn't happening as before. All this technology and we're more ignorant in spite of it.

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YaGetSkeeted0n@reddit

My office sent us home early as well. I appreciate prudence but yeah this was an absolute miss, maybe one of the worst in recent history lmao. Hell the sun's peeking out on my backyard!!

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Sightline@reddit

Residents recovering after EF-3 tornado destroys structures, sends at least 5 to hospital

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Sightline@reddit

North Texas residents report large hail falling across North Texas

"absolute miss" lol.

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SMF67@reddit

Very self centered take. Have you not seen what's happening in Johnson country and mineral wells? The forecast was spot on. Consider yourself lucky your specific area did not see its 60% chance.

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coinpile@reddit

Look farther than out your window. This has been a bad one, and is still ongoing. Cleburne is getting it bad right now sounds like, and they are not the only ones.

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WITX89@reddit

I’m sure Mineral Wells could use your help to cleanup after the tornado.

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bigredandthesteve@reddit

Worst in the history of this past 7 days?

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Snobolski@reddit

I never knew so many people could be so mad that their car wasn’t damaged and that they don’t have giant holes in their roof.

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AtomicSymphonic_2nd@reddit

Some folks working hourly wage jobs lost hours of work, meaning less money in their paychecks.

That’s the big problem. 🙃

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Snobolski@reddit

If they're paycheck-to-paycheck, why are they mad that their cars weren't totaled by hail?

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CatteNappe@reddit

Right? I "wasted" a bunch of time scrambling around putting new batteries in the weather radio, making sure the phones were charged and the flashlights at hand. Sooooo glad I didn't end up needing that stuff.

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5x4j7h3@reddit

I had to leave work early. Find a parking garage, spend a couple hundred at the bar waiting for the non-storm to pass. Knowing the heat island would likely split the storm, but I did it anyway. So yes. I wasted a few hundred bucks on the storm that never came to Dallas proper.

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CharlieTeller@reddit

You know you could just uh, plan ahead and have somewhere to go months before and keep that as your go to? You don't have to spend hundreds at a bar either. That's on you homie.

You can usually just time it and if you are someone who needs to go to a parking garage, go there maybe 30 minutes before. Chill on your phone, bring some food. Once that first wave passes, 90% of the time you're clear to go home. Takes 30 minutes to an hour.

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Snobolski@reddit

I wasted a few hundred bucks on the storm that never came to Dallas proper.

If it would make you feel better, you can find people on FB marketplace or Craigslist who will come break your car's windows and put dents in it and punch holes in your roof and flood your house.

So you can feel like you got your money's worth out of this storm.

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cometssaywhoosh@reddit

I'm sorry for losing out on your work, but if you spent a couple hundred at a bar then that's your own fault. Plus the good people of Mineral Wells without homes right now would think otherwise.

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matmoeb@reddit

They’re probably including the missed work part into the equation if they are an hourly worker.

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all2neat@reddit

Thank you for your service.

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cometssaywhoosh@reddit

Yeah if they had significant damage they would be yelling or asking for prayers because their roof got torn off or a tree landed on their car. Insurance premiums are already expensive as it is do you want them to go higher or even worse coverage?

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Wonberger@reddit

For real, I couldn’t be more stoked that this missed us

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firebreathingmonkey7@reddit

the actual area of downtown and close surroundings area like out to mesquite to tye east and grand Prarie(maybe not that far) seems to have a bubble over it, where storms come in looking like they will be awful just to die out super fast. if they even make it. I attribute it to the pollution/smog.

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fatyogurt22@reddit

Literally everythingggggggggg in this damn town is over hyped lol 😝

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SnooHabits3911@reddit

Dude go cry at Applebees or something

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KennyDROmega@reddit

How hard did your boss laugh when you said you weren’t coming into work because of a storm

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Emergency_Ad1152@reddit (OP)

They told us to go home!

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thehomeversion@reddit

It's always over hyped until it isn't, weather is hard to predict. You'd complain if it was the opposite.

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SuccotashOther277@reddit

Right. If the storm had been nasty, people would say “no one warned me!” Or “I risked my life to go to work “

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Excellent_Bet3931@reddit

When is the last time this storm has been so dangerous that you needed to stay at home or leave work early? When the bank 1 building got hit 100 years ago?

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Temporary_Nail_6468@reddit

I canceled an appointment a few years ago because of the weather and a tornado hit the Sam’s in Grapevine right about when I’d have been heading through there.

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Excellent_Bet3931@reddit

I was working on the third floor of a building less than 1/4 mile from that Sams during that tornado. It wasn't that big of a deal. I'm a native Texan, I'm not that scared of tornadoes.

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PoliticsIsDepressing@reddit

Damn, you’re such a badass.

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Michael_DeSanta@reddit

Replied to the wrong person?

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Michael_DeSanta@reddit

Or I can just do my job at home and not risk anything? Why do you want to have to be somewhere?

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Excellent_Bet3931@reddit

Its kind of weird that you're angry that I'm not scared of tornadoes. I'm terrified of heights -does that make you feel better?

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rps215@reddit

It’s weird how negative you’re viewing being precautious with minimal harm and making it about yourself

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Excellent_Bet3931@reddit

I know, we had that really bad storm in Plano today. I definitely should have been more precautious. I hope you came out unscathed.

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Michael_DeSanta@reddit

Cool, good for you. That’s not a normal attitude, though. It’s never a big deal until it is. Most things aren’t worth the risk of the time it becomes a big deal.

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playballer@reddit

My shift at Sam’s ended and it was storming so I decided to wait it out before going home.

Not really but see how this works?

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fakejacki@reddit

If you weren’t working but were there, you were a customer and would have been owed more….

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playballer@reddit

Wishful thinking, acts of god are on you usually

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ChefMikeDFW@reddit

When is the last time this storm has been so dangerous that you needed to stay at home or leave work early?

2015 Garland and Rowlett got hit by a EF4 that killed several people on the PGBT/30 ramps.

2019 north Dallas got hit by a EF3 that was the most damaging to date for our area

2021 in southern Dallas and Ellis county, an EF2 hit along 35 that injured about 10 people and flipped cars off the road.

And now just 2 days ago, Runway Bay and Springtown...

But hey, let's complain when its "over hyped."

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rps215@reddit

I feel old knowing that the major 2012 storm was 14 years ago. I was 3 minutes from being done with my last class of the day in HS and they told us we couldn’t leave. The tornado hit right by my school but never touched us. Even if it doesn’t directly mean your life will/wont be saved as some zero sum, why increase unnecessary risk? It is wild to me how people are mad about this “over hyped” storm stuff when these storms do hit and cause major damage.

Like why is being cautious perceived so negatively by a few folks here

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ChefMikeDFW@reddit

Like why is being cautious perceived so negatively by a few folks here

Because it didn't affect them.

Too many don't think about their neighbors anymore and forget, these warnings, the reason why the stations keep on the weather for hours at a time, is to make sure everyone gets the chance to hear and react.

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Dry_burrito@reddit

Two people just died this past Saturday in North Dalla from the storm.

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playballer@reddit

Way NW of Dallas, like 100 miles. And highlights the problem with this weather reporting. The weather watch spans hundreds/thousands of square miles. There’s no way to predict where it will actually become severe. Only that it’s likely to somewhere in that huge area at some time within a few hours while the watch is on.

So there’s really nothing to fear no matter if you’re at home or work or whatever. Just be cautious and know where you’re taking cover if it does go down. There’s no reason to cancel plans or call off work. The severe stuff is just as likely to hit you if you stay home as if you are at work or whatever plans you’d normally be doing.

If you fear this you need to have a shelter and take cover always or just not live here. Otherwise just live your life during these events. Be cautious and alert. It’s about all you can do if you want to be sane living here.

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Snobolski@reddit

Way NW of Dallas, like 100 miles

Now find that location on the map of areas covered by NWS Forecast Offices.

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ChiDaddy123@reddit

The WATCH covers the amount of area where the convective energy and other factors exist in such a state that if a storm does form, the likelihood of it becoming severe is more probable than not. Watches just mean to be aware of severe potential over a widespread area.

A WARNING means a violent storm is actually occurring, is issued for a specific area plus an extended stretch along the current storms path, and is the thing that actually tells you to take shelter because weather is actually happening.

Anyone bitching about the system in place for weather forecasting quite clearly doesn’t know shit about weather forecasting, how it works, or how many variables are actually in play for severe weather to actually tip off. 🤷‍♂️

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Belle3901@reddit

Actually northwest of FW. One was killed in Runaway Bay and the other was killed in Springtown. But still close enough.

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Excellent_Bet3931@reddit

From the storm today? Wow.

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greelraker@reddit

How about when the tornado ripped through Richardson along 635/75? That was more recent than 100 years ago….

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Robo_e@reddit

Mineral wells got destroyed

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CuriousCamels@reddit

Yeah, some places got slammed. The metroplex is huge. Not every single spot is going to get tornados and hail. The part of the storm heading towards Dallas died out really fast this time.

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Snobolski@reddit

The metroplex is huge

and the NWS forecast area for the Fort Worth / Dallas region is even more huger.

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forkkiller@reddit

Not really, hit north @ Ventamatic plant.

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jsboftx1983@reddit

Thank you - let’s all enjoy that we lived another day.

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Batmanbettermarvel18@reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/aA2LvIKI2H

Reminds me of this, everyone was freaking out about this and I remember that one dude in his boat said he was just going to thug it out in his boat because that was all he had and everyone thought he was toast. Ended up not anywhere close to that high and he was fine and said it wasn’t even that terrible

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w6750@reddit

Exactly. No one is ever saying it’s 100% going to storm, just that the conditions are there for it. Just because it doesn’t actually storm, doesn’t mean that wasn’t true.

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onlyoneupvoteaway@reddit

Wait so you called off or were let go early?

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Emergency_Ad1152@reddit (OP)

I called off thinking it was going to hail "baseballs" according to the news. Big no no if delivering cars.

Then got a company message saying to go home if you were at work.

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Ohif0n1y@reddit

There was an area that got hail up to the size of baseballs. I'm just grateful no one was injured.

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CharlieTeller@reddit

And it did happen.

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onlyoneupvoteaway@reddit

Ahhh ok, ok! I gotcha now!

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3-DMan@reddit

I was Redditing away at work yesterday and the boss is like "Aren't you going home? Everybody else did." So I said sure.(lost a whopping 10 minutes of pay)

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Substantial-Ad-8575@reddit

Wow, tornado in Mineral Wells. High wind damage close to Weatherford. So potential was there…

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MuscleFlex_Bear@reddit

Yeah, it's always this way though. Never happens UNTIL it happens.

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Few_Entertainer_5523@reddit

My work sent out an organization wide email warning us about it lol

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DriftWoodBarrel@reddit

Yeah fuck your boss for making traffic utter trash at 3pm

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toodleroo@reddit

So that’s why I was sitting in traffic for an hour and a half 😑

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Sowf_Paw@reddit

So you got to go home. What exactly is the problem? Unless of course that means fewer hours and less income.

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Excellent_Bet3931@reddit

Duh.

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5yrup@reddit

It can also mean messed up schedules. Now that job is getting done when something else was potentially scheduled, meaning now that needs to be moved and can lead to other complications. Depending on your schedule losing half a day can lead to quite a bit of headaches.

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Emergency_Ad1152@reddit (OP)

Exactly that lol

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raynaldo5195@reddit

Years ago we were going to get hit with a bad snowstorm and were expecting up to 6” and my boss told me not to come in the next day if it was bad, so a buddy and I had planned to go drinking, since you know, no work. I remember I was living in the village and we took a taxi down to lower Greenville area and drank all night while the snow was coming down hard. Took a cab back home completely wasted and was woken up by my boss calling asking where I was. I reminded him that he told me to not go in because of the snow as it was too unsafe to drive. He chuckled and told me to look outside. I looked out my window and all of the snow had melted! I had to go in and had to stay late to make up the 2 hours I missed.

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lordaddament@reddit

Your boss would have to be a real douche to do that

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Koley_Kole@reddit

I dismissed my staff early in anticipation of a storm that never happened.

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Sightline@reddit

storm that "never" happened

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coinpile@reddit

The storms absolutely happened, they just didn’t happen directly on top of your location. Forecasting isn’t that pinpoint.

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nguyenulm25@reddit

Minerals Well isn't the DFW metroplex

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Sightline@reddit

Can you link me the forecast that said only the DFW metroplex was going to get hit, I can't seem to find it.

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RaisingCanes4POTUS@reddit

What do you do for work? Trim trees?

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yato17z@reddit

I work from home and I called off work too

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bananabob23@reddit

Just unplug the modem and send a photo of the “outage” to your boss

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bob-leblaw@reddit

If I did that it’d be an excuse to try to make me go into the actual office more than my current two days a week.

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bananabob23@reddit

If I did that I’d be replaced by a college kids ai agent

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bob-leblaw@reddit

It’s coming, friend. If they can they will.

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Emergency_Ad1152@reddit (OP)

I haul cars

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obvious_karma_stud@reddit

You haul? I used to unload for UP at the Mesquite yard. Boss would’ve of said “I don’t give a damn if it’s raining or not, you go out there and park a car!”

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Emergency_Ad1152@reddit (OP)

Man last time we got hail at the UP yard, ya'll unloaded like 300 and the whole yard got hail damage.

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obvious_karma_stud@reddit

Ey, jobs gotta get done. Ford, GM, Nissan and Tesla aren’t paying for those bays for nothing. Them rails get REAL hot in the summer.

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Emergency_Ad1152@reddit (OP)

Ive always wanted to ask a loader, do you guys hide the keys on purpose to fuck with us? Sometimes ya'll put them in the weirdest places lol

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obvious_karma_stud@reddit

Honestly, some just don’t give a damn like straight up. AAR standards are that the keys are place in the cup holder or glove compartment. Anywhere else will be considered a strike. And sometimes the keys are misplaced while the vehicles are still in the rails. Looking for keys in a chassis on the middle of August was a bit torturous.

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xanaxsmoothie6969@reddit

Professional window dryer

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RewardImmediate3865@reddit

STATEMENT OF THE DAT!

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Faedaine@reddit

You do realize that south Dallas and other cities got waylaid with softball size hail, right? The storm wasn't overhyped. It just dipped south when it got close to Dallas.

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BoyFieri@reddit

I mean, maybe for Dallas-proper, but south of us definitely got hit with some pretty severe weather that caused a lot of damage. I don't know if I'd consider storms "overhyped" just because it destroyed someone else's house in North Texas and not yours.

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RagnarDan82@reddit

Yeah, south here, power’s out till tonight at least and heard plenty of fire dept/police sirens when the storm hit.

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SoUnga88@reddit

Northwest got hit hard too.

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el_dongo@reddit

Yeah I drove from Graham back to dfw and the storm was crazy, I know mineral wells got hit with a small tornado or strong winds, literally right after I passed through there too

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themysts@reddit

My ex lost his car, his daughter's car, her home, and their business all in Mineral Wells. My cousin lost her home too, also in Mineral Wells.

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virgo_em@reddit

Yeah looking at the radar, it all seemed to just go directly with a clear path over most of Dallas

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WITX89@reddit

Except for those people who had large hail and damage from the tornado. Look at mineral wells.

Yes, it ended up being southwest and away from most populated areas. Just because it didn’t hit a 400 square mile area that impacts you doesn’t mean it was over hyped.

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syzygialchaos@reddit

I got 3-4” hail in Cleburne (I measured myself). Posts like this are infuriating.

Also, if we hadn’t elected a nut job that defunded NOAA, these forecasts would be as accurate as they were a few years ago and these posts wouldn’t be happening.

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WITX89@reddit

Sorry to hear that. Any damage you’ve noticed?

I guess I haven noticed any significant changes since the defunding. In the past were the able to accurately predict where these isolated cells develop? I’ve lived in DFW for over 10 years, I wouldn’t say this type of forecast and result is abnormal.

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syzygialchaos@reddit

A few good dings (like, doesn’t even look like hail damage) in my trucks and brother’s Subaru. Haven’t looked at my roof. I’m sure I’ll have 65,000 volunteers tomorrow.

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WITX89@reddit

So why would that occur? I don't believe people got defunded, at least at the local level. Like the FW NOAA center has the same quantity of staff. I'm basing that off of the Camp Mystic fact checks that stated this. Just looked up things from that time frame - stating the National Weather Forecast was exempt from cuts and increased hiring.

https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-did-the-trump-administration-defund-the-national-weather-service-ahead-of-flooding/22108710/

So all of the data analysis should be exactly the same. It would be odd to see accuracy go backwards, strictly from a technology perspective. As in - they SHOULD have the same tools available, and the same amount of people using those tools.

So I guess I'm wondering what specific cuts would impact the DFW areas accuracy.

It almost seems like it's an ongoing issue, that is more job related, not cuts related:

“The agency, for years, has been slow to hire,” said Jeffry Evans, who recently retired as meteorologist in charge of the service’s Houston/Galveston office after nearly 34 years with the weather service. “We've had hiring problems for almost a decade.”

https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2025-07-10/meteorologists-national-weather-service-austin-san-antonio-texas-floods-staffing-trump-administration-doge-cut

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syzygialchaos@reddit

There’s a whole lot more to this issue than simple staffing friend.

As near as five years ago, when NOAA could fund weather balloon data collection accurately, they could take detailed and accurate atmospheric information of these systems well before impact that, when plugged into their (expensive to run) models, would provide much greater accuracy on the actual locations of severe weather impact.

I recall one specific forecast around 2019 that called for “up to 80 mph straight line wind” within 20 miles of my house - that wind speed was recorded at a municipal airport 12 miles away. I saw a max of 65 at my house. To me, to pinpoint a weather forecast within that percentage, was basically sci fi.

Then the budget cuts. read more

The drop in data analysis due to budget cuts that reduced weather balloon launches has been directly linked to the deadly Texas floods that wiped out a girl’s camp. Yes, you’ll see sources refuting this, saying A balloon was launched. One balloon wasn’t enough, and it didn’t collect data in the right area. You need to sample a wide range of altitudes and locations to know the entire system; as with any model, the more data you have, the more accurate AND precise the forecast will be.

This storm and the one last week are supreme examples of the loss of data providing inferior models and “wrong” forecasts: yes the weather happened, as predicted, they were just wrong on WHERE. And that is 100% due to the defunding of NOAA.

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WITX89@reddit

Your link is about 11 locations: The NWS, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced last week that it was halting or reducing weather balloon operations at 11 locations, citing staffing shortages.

Fort Worth still launches two balloons per day. Same frequency as this quote from wfaa from 2022: Part of the responsibility includes launching weather balloons every day twice a day. This is a practice that is done around the entire world at the same time every day.

Mineral Wells still has twice a day launches. So does Wichita Falls.

I am sure there are plenty of anecdotes of storms in years prior to 2025 being as inaccurate as this one.

Satellite technology, data from airplanes/drones, and other inputs to models like the HRRR Model was supposed to complement weather balloons. This is part of NOAA. This model accurately predicted the Camp Mystic floods, however the official forecasts used other models. There were still two weather balloons launched daily at the time, and the Austin/San Antonio station was double staffed with meteorologists.

Source: TEXAS FLOOD: A Meteorologist’s Perspective on the Camp Mystic Tragedy.

"The Washington Post reported that for the month ending on May 26, 17% of all U.S. balloon launches that should have occurred have not, mostly because of NOAA staffing losses. Though it appears that lack of balloon data did not have a significant detrimental impact on the Texas flood forecasts, "

I'm not sure how that model predicted this event.

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PM_ME_YER_MUDFLAPS@reddit

When Dark Sky was an independent app it was pretty damned accurate. Then Apple bought it, enshittified it, and then after the NOAA trimming it has been all downhill.

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la-fours@reddit

The posts would still be happening because people don’t understand Texas spring weather even when it’s properly forecast.

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virgo_em@reddit

For Dallas proper, “overhyped” sure. But yeah, damage in Mineral Wells is pretty bad. Storm system over Cleburne had produced more than one tornado.

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Snobolski@reddit

Maybe you hadn’t heard, but weather forecasts are for a region not for your block.

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Delicious_Hand527@reddit

IMO our region is too large - that's part of the problem. Mineral Wells is 80 miles from Dallas. Austin & San Antonio are closer together than that - if it was the east coast, it would cover like 4 different MSAs. I'm sorry they were hit, but it's relevance to the eastern side of DFW is pretty low. And that makes our weather forecasting trash.

The DFW region goes from the Oklahoma border all the way down to Stephenville. It's huge.

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Snobolski@reddit

Sorry, best we can do is elect more climate deniers and completely shut down the NWS. I'm sure the paid-for-access weather forecasts will be way better.

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virgo_em@reddit

Maybe my comment was unclear, but I was agreeing with the comment I was responding to! Sorry if I worded that in a confusing way. Balancing Reddit, dinner, and watching Max Velocity lol

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PM_ME_FIRE_PICS@reddit

Weather is way too unpredictable to be able to pinpoint exactly which suburb will be hit by a tornado more than an hour in advance. Tell the people of Mineral Wells this was overhyped.

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virgo_em@reddit

I already sort of responded to a comment below but, I was agreeing with the original comment I was responding to! Lol sorry, I’m not sure how to reword my comment to convey that.

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WITX89@reddit

So the only way ‘overhyped’ would be accurate is if you expect meteorologists to be able to predict these types of storms city by city.

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virgo_em@reddit

Exactly. To be fair, I think that’s what most people think it’s like. Honestly, I think that’s what I thought it was like until I randomly took an interest in learning about tornadoes specifically for no real reason.

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bballjones9241@reddit

It was overhyped for the majority of the population.

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WITX89@reddit

Obviously. Unless a squall line comes through that’s generally the case.

Same logic could say basically every storm is overhyped since it’s not like 51% of the entire metroplex is within ten miles of a tornado, even the Oct 2019 ones when there were what, 5?

There were tornadoes and softball sized hail. So the hype was accurate. They can’t predict where exactly it’s going to hit.

So that leaves two choices. Not notify anyone, since people will complain it’s overhyping. Or tell people theres a chance, and have people say it’s overhyping.

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YaGetSkeeted0n@reddit

It’s just crazy to me when it totally doesn’t happen. Like, usually there’s at least rain yknow

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Veronica612@reddit

It rained very hard in Lakewood.

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YaGetSkeeted0n@reddit

Don’t erase my lived experience

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rickyroca73@reddit

Exactly, it was a reality until it wasn’t.

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mrmcbeer@reddit

It was a storm that produced a tornado and softball sized hail west and south of the metroplex. Just because it didn't hit you specifically doesn't make it overhyped.

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YaGetSkeeted0n@reddit

we need a moonshot program but for super high-res detailed down-to-the-square-mile forecasting

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justonemom14@reddit

We need to stop having weather reports for "North Texas" like we aren't spread out over hundreds of miles and experiencing different weather. Too many crying wolf incidents and then people don't pay attention when it's actually dangerous.

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CharlieTeller@reddit

Or you could just ya know, pay attention every time. It takes no effort. You're showing you have 0 understanding of how supercells work. "Oh north texas is spread over hundreds of miles". Yeah so are supercells. You never know exactly where its going to develop in that range, but it did develop and there was a lot of damage yesterday. Just be glad it wasn't you because I'm sure you'd be over there whining and playing victim if your car got destroyed, or you needed a new roof from hail.

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syzygialchaos@reddit

We were doing really well just a few years ago, like crazy accurate. NOAA no longer has the funding for weather balloons so the accuracy took a nosedive. This isn’t technology driven, it’s federal funding decisions that killed weather accuracy.

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YaGetSkeeted0n@reddit

Thanks Trump, Elon etc. We great again yet???

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CharlieTeller@reddit

It's never overhyped. The weather pretty much always happens somewhere in the area when it's predicted. It's just not you. Yesterday there were multiple tornadoes and I'm sure millions in hail damage. Luckily no one died. However 2 people did die from the storms over the weekend too.

This is always the dumbest take. It takes literally 0 effort to be prepared for severe weather, yet people always act like it was some major inconvenience. Just stay aware and prepared. You don't have to make major changes to your day for it.

This is the type of person who will whine about it when nothing happens, but will whine that they had no warning when it does happen and they werent paying attention.

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Real_Ant2726@reddit

Be grateful you didnt have to work in Mineral Wells

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dard12@reddit

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXswK_UgISS/?igsh=a3lzZnZscGxuYm9s

Mineral Wells got rocked

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themysts@reddit

My ex lost his car, his daughter's car, her home, and their business all in Mineral Wells. My cousin lost her home too, also in Mineral Wells.

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llbeanjamin@reddit

My friends car is totaled. Overhyped for you, sure

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Any-Tennis4658@reddit

And reddit ran for their lives from it. Weather reports since like 2021 HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTELY ATROCIOUS.

They cry wolf EVERY TIME.

The problem is when there will be a real storm, nobody will react.

To those in the earlier thread that said "CoMe BacK aNd Put yOuR MonEY whERe YoUr MouTH iS LatEr"

GET COOKED

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coinpile@reddit

Mineral Wells got hit. Cleburne is getting hit. Forecasting isn’t super specific and today’s was pretty good.

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syzygialchaos@reddit

In Cleburne. That was the worst storm I’ve seen in the 7 years I’ve lived here.

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coinpile@reddit

Sorry you had to go thru it. How bad?

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syzygialchaos@reddit

2-3” hail by my own measurement, I think that’s between baseball and softball? I don’t play sports lol. Somehow, only two dings (okay large dents), one on my old truck’s roof and one on my brother’s car’s roof. House looks fine. But damn it was rough watching it fall and bounce off my Ranger Raptor :-/

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coinpile@reddit

I know the feeling. It’s been some time but I had just got my car repainted and had to watch progressively larger hail batter it less than a month later. Had to get it all done over again.

Good thing it wasn’t worse yesterday!

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Sightline@reddit

lol wrong, the town of Cool was hit with a tornado.

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Any-Tennis4658@reddit

There are 200 people there.

We had a weather warning FOR THE ENTIRE NORTH TEXAS AREA OF LIKE 10 million people.

BUSINESSES SENT PEOPLE HOME.

SCHOOLS SENT KIDS HOME.

Holy shit "tHe TowN of CoOl got WimDy wHaT sAy You?"

You listening to yourself?

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cheapcouches@reddit

you almost got me with the bait ngl. you are a master at your work

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PhoenixAquarium@reddit

I agree. Luckily this season has been good to me so far (knocks on wood).

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El_alacran214@reddit

Our weather suffers from Advanced Delusionary Schizophrenia with Involuntary Narcissistic Rage

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bringjar@reddit

2016 me, an atheist. and an apartment renter in DFW with covered parking: haha, yes, bring on the rain! thunder! hail! wind! this will be awesome!

2026 me, a homeowner in DFW with street parking and a tree over my house: please jesus, spare this home and my family. in return, i shall ….

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Loud_Inspector_9782@reddit

Mineral Wells says hi.

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Imaginary_Attempt_82@reddit

I’m in Sherman and we got nothing. Maybe a few sprinkles.

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Dazzling_Song_6766@reddit

My wife was sent home 🫥

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Ok_Bookkeeper2170@reddit

I got a text from GEICO saying move my car because of incoming hail. No Hail. Hardly any rain🤷‍♀️

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emiTfOgnoS@reddit

4” hail here. 0/10 do not recommend

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CTthrowaway26@reddit

damn how bad did ur car get hit

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emiTfOgnoS@reddit

We got lucky. Just some big dents. Lots of windshields and even windows in people’s homes are broken in the neighborhood.

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PoliticsIsDepressing@reddit

Did you NOT GET THE GEICO MESSAGE?

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Showertosavewater@reddit

Wfaa and Pete with the fear mongering year after year and people putting up with it is wild.

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ToddtheRugerKid@reddit

About 30 minutes before it hit I was able to hear what sure sounded like a consistent hum of Thunder, then the main part slipped by Fort Worth to the west on it's way South East.

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Showertosavewater@reddit

welcome to having to deal with Pete and channel 8

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Electronic-Mine-3575@reddit

😂😂😂

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HeilStary@reddit

In Tarrant and Dallas Counties sure, but tell that to those in Parker county

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Popeyes-fil-A@reddit

We had wall clouds and mid level rotation in Tarrant county as that cell was approaching big northern suburbs. Hard to call it overhyped even here.

Like others mentioned, its crazy to me that people like OP are actually mad that we dont lose the tornado lottery in the metroplex itself.

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HeilStary@reddit

Yeah Im in Tarrant too was lucky enough to avoid the brunt of it though, and yeah people getting mad at not getting a nado are....odd.....

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Masterfulcrum00@reddit

I cant believe they interrupted the champions league game on tv for that bullshit.

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Willtexas1@reddit

Dallas weather sure is strange

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JenIee@reddit

Storms are unpredictable. That thing dropped several tornadoes as it matched towards Dallas. Better safe than sorry when it comes to that sort of thing. There's no way for them to know precisely where and when a storm system like that is going to do the most damage.

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JenIee@reddit

I don't think it's over hyped at all. I know at least one person died yesterday. I have a family member who had most of the trees In their yard knocked over. There was a tree that I've been sitting under since I was a little girl which had survived every other storm over the years up until the one yesterday.

It may not have been bad directly over your house but it was really bad for a lot of other people. Also, some of that hail was the biggest there has been in quite a while around here. This storm system has been bad news for a lot of people.

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DeezChonkingNuts@reddit

What a shitty take, there was confirmed 4in hail in the area they said had a potential for gasp 4in hail and you're upset that your house and car didn't get pulverized with it.

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Texasville44@reddit

Day 2 of hyped storms but some hot hit.

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Thesinistral@reddit

Tell that to the folks in Runaway Bay a couple of days ago ( 2 fatalities) or Mineral Wells tonight…

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Cansum1helpme@reddit

WFAA forecast yesterday seemed to show the storm developing from the south and intensifying north of Dallas towards the Denton/Collin county line.

This one fired from the Northwest and moved southeast.

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PoliticsIsDepressing@reddit

Wichita Falls has been using their weather technology to destroy DFW for the last week!

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Mynameisdiehard@reddit

There was no way to know that another super cell would form to the southwest and suck all the energy from the northern one. I'm sure those that got hit by the tornado and the 4.5" grapefruit sized hail on the southwest side of DFW wouldn't say it was overhyped

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fractal_sunny@reddit

It wasn't overhyped for counties south west of dfw... They had tornados and hail.

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GeorgiaBlueOwl@reddit

It’s fine with me. I’d much rather be prepared for something and it not happen than to be surprised. I’m grateful not to have to deal with damage.

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ExtraCozyDoggDogg@reddit

Did y’all not grow up here??

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Ed-Sanz@reddit

It was caught in heavy rain on the wait to my night shift. Rained hard for like 5 minutes then nothing. 😂

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Penguinbuddy91@reddit

Rather you go home then lose your home.

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agentxscully@reddit

Dallas got SO LUCKY. The storm cells that literally sandwiched Dallas were NASTY.

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argylemountainlion69@reddit

Tell that to my dick. Winds torn my whole johnson off. If you find it, plz let me know. It’s fat as it is wide and my wife’s name is tattooed up near the hole area. Man, the world is just so fucked up nowadays. I get slabbed when the weather says no slab. I get no slab when the weather says a slab is incoming. I just wanna get slabbed at a time of my choosing. Tired of not knowing. Anyway if u find my dick, plz reach out. Thanks.

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Axe_Em_ERock@reddit

Tell that to Mineral Wells who got hit by a large tornado tonight

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SugoiHubs@reddit

That’s showbiz baby. Plenty of people are still getting pounded right now. For every year of a nothing burger for some, it’s a shit show for others. Had a tornado come through my neighborhood back in 24. Complete carnage, and everything looked normal a half mile away.

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No_Potato_8178@reddit

Hehe. Yeah, your mom is one of those people getting pounded rn

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SugoiHubs@reddit

She wishes. Been nothing but ash for years.

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YaGetSkeeted0n@reddit

Who knows if there’s life beyond life, she could be very pleased for all we know!

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matmoeb@reddit

I lol’ed at the darkness in this thread. Thanks.

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Illustrious-Ad5575@reddit

Unless you live in west Tarrant, Parker , and Palo Pinto counties.

I live in Dallas, but the world doesn't revolve around us.

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Selfdonkeypunch@reddit

Not a drop of rain in OED.

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coinpile@reddit

Cleburne is getting walloped as I type with large hail and a tornado. This storm event is not overhyped simply because your exact location wasn’t hit, this post comes off as self centered.

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csonnich@reddit

Someone in Dallas self-centered? No way.

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syzygialchaos@reddit

Posting from Cleburne - that was awful

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emiTfOgnoS@reddit

Godley. That sucked.

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Dull-Village6385@reddit

Tell that to my flooded and totaled car

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smokybbq90@reddit

South of Fort Worth had ice softballs falling from the sky

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Popeyes-fil-A@reddit

Can always count on the dullards to complain about weather forecasting.

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coinpile@reddit

It always disappoints me how many people take OP’s attitude.

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Timely_Cranberry1270@reddit

Just left my aunts house in fort worh no power since Saturday roof is off and neighbors house is demolished. You were right to call off just incase

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smoke_inyoureyes@reddit

Id rather be underwhelmed in the severity of the storm I was expecting than overwhelmed. My whole office left at like 3:30 today lol and it didn’t even end up storming super hard on us. We get lucky here in the metroplex sometimes with these storm predictions not being as bad as expected, but that storm did look far worse at first than it ended up being. This time of year it’s always better to be safe than sorry

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Yerawizurd_@reddit

Except for the people in Mineral Wells… that place got wrecked

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Driveshaft1982@reddit

0/10 no whiskey hail

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Channel258@reddit

The DFW area is the size of Connecticut. 11 Counties with almost 8 million people. Pinpoint forecasting is impossible. The hazards were not overstated. There were tornadoes and softball size hail.

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neatgeek83@reddit

Storm blue balls for sure.

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Excellent_Bet3931@reddit

No kidding. Pete Delkus should be fired. He actually told people they should cancel plans and watch the Stars playoff game at home.

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poptartheart@reddit

im ok with my windshields and windows unharmed, thank you

my hometown in missouri got hit earlier today with baseball and grapefruit sized hail. tons of damage

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ArtVandalay__@reddit

Nah…there was one during Covid where Delkus basically predicted armageddon. So much so that I paid for my kid to park her car in a garage at her school so her car wouldn’t get destroyed by the basketball sized hail.

“The cap held” and no one got a single drop. Nothing

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thetower333@reddit

you called off of work?! bro i’m a young girl who works OUTSIDE and my boss didn’t let me leave until it started raining

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yellowsun_97@reddit

I brought all my plants in too 😩

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NoCodeHarmed@reddit

Hype for the inconvenienced. Horrible for the impacted. Science of prediction is literally improving with each minute. We'll eventually get to a point when we are able to predict down to the last square mile. Till then, guess we all have to live with a few false warnings.

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IranianLawyer@reddit

This is the first time I learned people actually call in to work because of a tornado watch in DFW. We have tornado watches all the time.

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Emergency_Ad1152@reddit (OP)

It was the "historic" hail threat.

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syzygialchaos@reddit

That hit me. You realize DFW is huge, right?

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SMF67@reddit

We don't have SPC moderate 4/5 risk days more than like twice a year.

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CatteNappe@reddit

More like once every 1.5 to 2 years, per Delkus.

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rickyroca73@reddit

Tell that to the folks in Mineral Wells.

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syzygialchaos@reddit

And Cleburne

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ldblackston@reddit

I will never understand people complaining about a weather forecast 🤷🏽‍♀️.

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Fit-Classic-9295@reddit

They usually are but there’ll be that one day you ignore it and then you’ll end up in a closet at midnight.

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Wonberger@reddit

Well to be fair, you’ll be there even if you don’t ignore it too

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No_Potato_8178@reddit

For real! My wife got upset because I "made" her leave work early. Now she won't listen to me next time a big storm is coming

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ForzaFenix@reddit

I left work early. The roads barely got wet over here.

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throwaway67130@reddit

Pretty much everything west - southwest of fort worth got cooked, not really overhyped if you’re outside of dallas

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Victor-LG@reddit

Yep, missed the rangers game🤦‍♀️

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3Time4Eater3@reddit

Toyotathon

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TexanLoneStar@reddit

I work in sales and the weather industry's titles are frankly out of control.

In addition, I live near a creek and sometimes when it rains it overflows -- one night the governement issued a "Prepare for Possible Evacuation Order". Evacuate from what exactly? In the 50 years the house has been standing the water has never risen 5 feet across the whole land and begin seeping into my house like a horror movie.

I think Dallasites need to realize two things at this point:

Weather industry is over-hyping things to get your clicks and earn ad revenue.
The government purposefully overhypes it to cover themselves from lawsuits.

This has been going on for years and it's very tiresome and as someone in sales I see right through their embellishments and LIES 😡

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