Jarrell Tornado 24 years later

[sharpstick35]

I remember that day and the aftermath. I had just finished highschool and was 3 weeks from shipping out to bootcamp.

[PROD49]

I can't believe it was 24 years. I had literally just started working at Dell which was out in the cow fields at the time. We all went down into the RR1 Cafeteria which is somewhat underground.

[RifleBowPistol]

I went to Dallas probably a couple after that tornado hit. I went through Jarrell. It was hard to believe the damage. There was no grass left in the yards, no trees, pavement ripped up. I never would have imagined a tornado could do what that one did. The ground was soaked everywhere, there was mud everywhere, no grass, no nothing that would have been in the yards. I almost want to say that some of the slabs were sucked up out of the ground.

I have seen all types of stuff over the years, but seeing the neighborhood I drove through was very saddening, seeing what all was not there, where a neighborhood used to be.