But, it did seem like a good situation for a tornado to develop. There was so much lightning that I probably have driven without my headlights - just one flash after another - what a light show... and the temperature dropped from 25 to 14 real fast,.
Because of the possibility of a tornado, I thought it best to keep going and get out of it. By the time I got to Uvalde, it was over, and became just another quiet night, and back up to 25 C.
Tuesday, I was talking to a driver who mentioned that there had been a tornado touch down near San Antonio, which is just a bit East of where I had been, but I really didn't give it another thought.
Wednesday morning, I got going North to Canada. Because of where I spent the night, my GPS routed me a different way from coming South, but that was OK, because I always like a "new road".
I'm not even sure which highway I was on, but just a few miles from the Interstate, all traffic came to a halt, and a couple of locals (Deputy Sheriffs) were directing traffic as it was one lane only at a time. I thought it was probably just construction, as it's that time of year again.
Wow, did I get my eyes opened when it was my turn to go.
Trees were splintered like cornstalks.
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I could have been a lot worse, and I've seen the aftermath of worse tornadoes, but it came in the night and I don't know if there was any warning.
Tornadoes aren't like hurricanes, where there is several days warning to evacuate. They form so fast that a published "tornado watch" or "tornado warning" is the best that can be done.
This one covered a fairly narrow path of about 1/2 mile, and past that, everything was as it had always been.
