We just had our first tornado of the year.

It's springtime in Nebraska!! Tornadoes in the eastern side of the state, and blizzard warnings in the Panhandle!

Earliest one that I can remember.

No really big damage here that I can see. I'm pretty sure we have some hail damage on our roof tho. I'm only really basing this on what the plastic window cover on the side of our house looks. I counted about 18 hail strikes with actual holes in the plastic cover in a few places.

I'm guessing the hail damage on our roof might not be quite as bad as what we had last June in the straight-line wind storm that blew thru then. (30+ strikes in a 10sq ft spot on the roof...insurance adjuster quit counting at 30 then, and just told us to get it fixed then.)

I hope we dont have serious hail damage...we only just got it fixed last october from the last huge storm.


Looks like most of the bad damage in my part of Nebraska were in rural areas...a car got picked up at one point, with 4 people in it, I'm guessing they lived, but someone had to be taken out with the Jaws of Life.

I like thunderstorms, and kind of enjoy tornadoes if they're not taking my house with them, but I really really really HATE hail. Hail sucks.

If I could have the storms without the hail, they'd be great.

I took some video of the storms, not sure if I'm going to be posting any to the internet, because my mom goes completely wonko during storms and starts yelling at us.

It was warm this morning, and we had our a/c on to test it, and surprise, it wasnt working. Good thing we found this out now. At least the storm cooled things off so we dont need to have a/c on. (my mom's allergies are driving her nuts, so we were hoping the a/c would help her and we wouldnt have to keep the windows open)