In the Blink of an Eye
Guys, I live in Southwest Missouri. I’m close to Branson, in fact within about an hour and a half or so depending on traffic. I’ve ridden the Ride the Ducks there in Branson. And there has been a horrific accident that happened.
I’m not sure if this has made national/international news or not. I did get a notification from my Weather.com app last night about it, but that may be due to the fact I live in Southwest Missouri.
I don’t know all the details so I won’t pretend I do, but a huge storm blew through here last night. In fact, it may have been the same storm that actually blew through my corner of the state and headed that direction, I’m not sure. Again, I don’t claim to know all the details. But the Ride the Ducks is located in Branson and basically, it’s a land/water vessel that takes you around Branson and off into Table Rock Lake and then back to dry land. One of the vessels got caught up in 60+mph winds last night (google tells me that’s 96+kmh). It capsized the vessel and there were casualties.
The storm that blew through here, one minute it was hot out and I was sweating up a storm (haha… whoops) and in a matter of less than minutes it dropped at least 10 degrees, the wind picked up, the trees started whipping, and it blew through.
I was standing in our barn doing chores. One of the National Weather Service announcements came on issuing a warning for my area. Abug was yacking at me so I didn’t hear when it was supposed to actually blow through here, but I figured by looking at the clouds it was going to go around us. For the most part, the clouds were going North of us. (more…)