Bullet dodged

Photo credit: Scott Cook via KSHB weather blog

I think this photo has had the color adjusted, but the cloud formations absolutely happened. I know because I was watching from my office on the 32nd floor of the second tall building from the right edge. It didn't look quite this green from my vantage point but it was seriously dark. I was in a meeting when the sirens went off, followed by the severe weather app on my phone. (Weather Alert USA, $3.99 from the App Store and totally worth it)


Shortly after that our COO stuck his head in the conference room and said "everyone to the stairwell!" The next hour and a half or so was spent milling around in the interior hallway, elevator lobby and stairwell with my phone watching the radar map and listening to National Weather Service radio before finally walking down 31 floors. Shortly after that it all passed and the sun came out. Totally strange.

7 comments:

soodie :: said...

David, that is so funny we posted the same pic. i think it is that eerie stillness and funky, sickly sky that is so chilling.

Toad said...

Mayberry had the same sort of weather today. the local channels preempted the last Oprah show to tell us about it. Some in my house were not amused.

Craig said...

Amazing cloud formation. Glad to hear that all is safe and well.

Raina Cox said...

I saw that building from the east as I was driving home from Target yesterday. I thought to myself "David's in for ugliness."

Raina Cox said...

P.S. I'm so very glad you're safe.

home before dark said...

Remind me again why we live in this part of the country. Still scares the livin' bejesus out of me. Glad you are safe.

MFAMB said...

balls. looks like a harry potter movie.

as a midwesterner myself..this type of shit was par for the course growing up.

i also have that APP...it saves lives and is the coolness.