----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:17 AM Subject: Re: Homeowners Associations - Dictatorships in the US?
> > p.s. Rob or Dan, how does the tornado incidence in the Houston area > compare with that of the Dallas area? Dan grew up around Dallas, and > that's colored his perception of tornadoes a *lot*. We seem to get tornados several times per year. I've not been lucky enough to get a good view of one, but I've seen the start of them several times. At least I've seen suspicious looking clouds that can be found to have been in the path of a storm that soon afterwards produced a tornado. Hurricanes are a much more realistic threat here. I remember a few years ago when a force 4 hurricane was going up the coast and building. It ended up going in at King Ranch, but another 12 hours on the path and the weather service said it would miss the turn and end up hitting us. IIRC, it has 145 mph sustained winds and was still building at the time. A hurricane is much larger than a tornado, and that hurricane was near the top end of the F2 scale for tornados. We are a ways inland, so we wouldn't get much more than 75 MPH sustained winds for about 2-3 hours. :-) Rob would probably get 120 MPH sustained winds. Dan M.
