Eastland Texas

Havent been to the lease in a couple months. Not sure what to expect. How has the storms been? Kind of worried moved my blind on a hill.

There has been a lot of rain, raining now in fact. There have been storms, hail, had a tornado just west of me a couple of days ago. Everything is growing like crazy. Your blind situation is hit or miss, might be fine and might be wiped out.

Heard the weather is bad there again. I will be at the lease next weekend

Tornado 7 miles south of Cisco today killing one and another in critical condition. Egg and baseball hail along I-20.

was told by the land owner he couldnt get to our camp site. Said trees down blocking the road and the hill was nothing but dirt. Doeasnt sound good for me,God bless those that live there

Might head out to see what the damage it tomorrow. Our place is below Lake Leon

Hoping the worst of it went South of us, we're far Northern Eastland county. Radar has made it look like the severe stuff went around us.

Having said that, I'll probably go out there to find my trailer on it's side.

I will know more in a few hours, will be out there today. Land owners house is gone, they are bruised, battered cuts and scrapes but alive for which I am truly thankful, not worried at all about the stands and feeders.

Know there is lots to do, one if fix gate where emergency services when in. Beyond that lots of cleanup and try to help salvage all we can for them.

News said there was an unconfirmed touchdown at lake Leon? Hope you find everything the way you left it.

Straight lined winds will probably get as many folks as the twisters have, as far as property damage.

Never a good thing when the landowner calls you at 8am on a Sunday. We had built a 40'x12' patio cover on our trailer a year or two ago, apparently it's in one piece, about 75 feet away from where we built it. Gonna take mom out to lunch for her special day and then head on out there. Hopefully the tower blinds made it.

I hate, hate, that punched in the gut feeling.

My lease is north of Cisco about 3 mi south of Moran, was watching the radar last night, looked like worst part of that storm just brushed the property. Sure hope my trailer is still right side up. Fighting the urge to head that way myself.

Feel for those folks just S. of Cisco.

I'm 7 miles south of Moran. No wind damage at all. A little over 3 inches of rain in the last 24 hours and probably the worst lightning storm I've ever experienced. You should be OK. Unless you have a gravel road, probably be pretty muddy getting in.

That's reassuring for sure. Really appreciate the update. Save me a trip in this weather.

Our lease is about 8 miles south of 20 off of spur 490.
getting word it went right down the Leon river.Our camp is on a hill and was told most of the trees are gone.

I live 6 miles SW of Eastland on CR 190 We had high winds and baseball size hail along with 6 1/2inches of rain ripped limps off of trees and destroyed our roof. we actually watched the path of this storm out our front door. I haven't been down that way yet but also heard there was a path of destruction along the path of the leon River.

VTR
Mike

Preliminary estimate from the NWS is that it was an EF-3 tornado.

Anyone close to Pleasant Hill Cemetery off of 2526 near Carbon? Any word on the weather out there?

Just got back from the lease, really strange out there. There were a couple trees with limbs knocked off, lot of leaves and twigs on the ground, trash and stuff blown about camp, but that's about it. Then it took a 40'x12' barn tin awning and ripped it completely off the trailer. Evidently flew straight up, impacted the power lines 15-20' above the trailer, and flew roughly 50 yards to the west, without ever touching the roof of the trailer.

The other trailer on the lease is an 8x20 construction trailer, that's still standing upright as well, but it was blown completely off the hadite blocks supporting the frame.

And on neither trailer is there so much as a cracked pane of glass.

So whatever came through there was strong enough to blow one trailer off it's foundation, tear the awning off the other one, but only knocked a hand full of branches off the trees in the area.

Really glad I didn't go out there this weekend like I had planned.

Tornado ran down and in the area of county road 160 off hwy 206 lots of houses blown to pieces right in that area.

damage at lake leon was out by the bait shack that closed down past the second bridge.

I ran out to check for damage on our family ranch just below the Leon dam. I wasn't able to get onto the ranch since the creek was up. Our house tank was completely full( only been full one other time). Didn't notice any damage around the houses or equipment barn. I did notice a lot of broken trees and structure damage near the Leon dam. The lake was still a foot low as of noon yesterday






Leon dam morning glory

I remember when Leon was almost finished and we had a huge rain. Was supposed to take 2 years to fill up. Took a week
Lot of heavy equipment still on the bottom of the lake

Was out at our place on Friday south of the Eastland/Brown Co line. We lost a tank dam and there was water in places I have never seen it:





I can't imagine what it looks like now with the additional rain.

6 pm it went over the morning glory .

A lease member went to the lease today. He said camp was in pretty good shape. Within 100 or so yards to the south of camp was leveled. All trees are down and scattered everywhere. A few blinds are nowhere to be seen. The others are still unavailable to be reached. We are going down this weekend to help out. It could have been worse for us. God bless the residents of that area.

How close are you to the river?

The river runs right through our lease

Can you see your place on this map? Just curious since you saw property damage

no sir

I tried to post the pic of the path that's on ktxs,s web site, without luck as you can see.

VTR
Mike

Resized it a little bigger, lost some clarity but you can get the general idea.

Thanks Shotgun Willie, that's the one. I live about 1 mile north of the path on CR 190, we watched it and heard it. We were truly blessed!!

VTR
Mike

I can't really see the county rd. number I think it's 275. We are about eight miles down it by the cemetery. We sometimes go in by the Mangum church

Pretty bad if I don't know the roads where I hunt. What if I have an emergency? I will make sure I do know next time there

Just found out we are at CR 190 and 192

Check this out...I might have major flooding issues at my place. I don't exactly know where this ranch is

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Texas-Cowboys-Save-Horses-from-Flooded-River-303368661.html

Knew I was going to find bad things when I got there from what I was told and having seen a couple pics of the place. The Landowner and her son are in the Eastland hospital battered and bruised but alive for which I am truly thankful. They were in the house, the room they were is is just bare slab now. .,

View to West from Land Owners house



This last pic is from a news source and is of her house.

Glad they are ok. That looks horrible!