Well we had to take our poodle Barley to Austin today for his eye check up (he has had one removed already just making sure the other one is doing fine). I knew the weather was going to be bad back in Waco around 5pm our appt was at 3:15 and its a 1.5 hour drive back so I was sweatin it already because this time of year it does not just rain in Central Texas it pours, hails and when it is really pissed off it drops a few T-Bombs on us. Just as we were coming into the Belton area near HWY 190 it gets dark, rain is so bad you can barely see in front of you the hail is about the size of a quarter and pounding the Cayenne (no do not drive the Jeep out of town) I was not worried until it all STOPPED and if you live anywhere along I-35 from Missouri to Texas and its raining and hailing bad and it up and stops you look up real slow kinda crossing your fingers you dont see what you already know is there yes a TORNADO. Traffic freaks and I mean FREAKS, people stop, pull over, wreck you name it. At this point I drop the Cayenne into off road mode like I am piloting a fighter jet it's all instinct, I hit the sport mode button for a quicker throttle response and Wendy looks at me and just says I trust you just get us home. At this point I nail the shit out of it, water is coming over the windshield at points but oddly enough the Cayenne sticks to the Hwy (thank GOD I just ordered the same Micheline Latitude Tour HPs for the Jeep yesterday they are on the Cayenne) not once did I feel it get loose or hydroplane I was at 90mph at one point and realized the 4 wheel lock was probably getting toasted so I turn it off (all of this was probably 20 seconds) calm down a little and see that the Tornado has crossed the highway and moved south east from us there is debrit all over the road but I just keep on goin probably dumb but something in my mind told me If I stop I am right in its path it is moving west to east I am going south to north so what would you do. We get home and just sit there for a minute, I get out to look at how bad the Cayenne is dented from the hail and you know what not ONE freakin dent, not one. Sorry if some of this is poorly written but I still have not calmed down yet. I love my Jeep but I dont think it would have handled like the Cayenne did so hats off to a well built German ride
haha we know that ALL too well Wade. I was stationed at Ft Hood the last 8 months in the Army... Belton... BLAH Killeen, even worse than Belton. lol
ummm yes. lol Rolling Rock was the growing community when we were there. We spent the majority of our time in Austin. Great city.
glad your porsche aint dented and glad your okay. awesome story, you should make a movie out of it, ill play you!
I never experienced a Tornado but when I lived with my brother in Plano outside of Dallas we had some scary ass storms and hail. This has to be the same storm that missed my brothers house by a mile and half, he said he only had some slite wind damage and shingles torn off the roof. Good driving Wade, very glad everyone was O.K.
wow wade, now that is sure to get the balloon knot a bit tight!!!! i was very glad that i did not see any bad weather while i drove through your neck of the woods last month!!!!
move to orlando then rick!!! i live in the lightening capital of the world!!! seriously, more lightening strikes here in central florida than anywhere in the world!!! the joy of having the gulf to my west and the atlantic to the east......
I spent 2 months in Orlando back in 1988.....July and August! Felt a lot like Houston!!!! I was in boot camp so I really didn't see anything outside the base!
holy crap, you picked the two WOOOORST months to visit orlando!!!! 8 months out of the year it is paradise..... june through sept....no so nice....oh:
Intense story Wade. I remember that night. It sucked. It seemed like the storms just kept coming and coming. My buddy had picked his truck up that we put a bedside on that week about 2 oclock that day. He called me and 4 and said he was watching it get pounded with baseball sized hail! So I told him well ill see ya next week. Haha.
