Posted on 06/09/2019 3:01:52 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: One woman dies and six others are injured after wind gusts cause crane to collapse on Dallas apartment building
One woman has died and six others are injured after a crane collapsed in Dallas amid severe thunderstorms.
Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans told the Dallas Morning News that the crane fell into a downtown apartment building Sunday afternoon as strong winds, heavy rain and hail battered parts of North Texas.
The people's names and conditions were not immediately available.
Amateur video taken on cell phones shows a crane toppling over and onto the Elan City Lights apartment complex, KTVT-TV reported.
Amateur video taken at the scene shows a number of cars piled on top of each other in the apartment complex’s garage.
The crane caused so much damage that a number of floors of the multilevel parking garage were smashed.
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It was a powerful, but very quick moving, storm. It was apparently worse in Dallas than it was in the northern suburbs.
Here to the east of Dallas, it came on unexpectedly and was bad. I barely heard storm warning sirens through the storm noise. It stopped as suddenly as it started.
Very bad at Skillman & Northwest Hw. Trees twisted up, cellular service off then in and out, just got data back, power out all over. This area is a high spot and winds were 70-80, I have been in hurricanes, it was like that for 15 min.
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Howdy neighbor! Here on the border of Garland and Rowlett, it got so dark and lots of wind and rain. Lightning strikes, my main fear, were as close as 0.1 mile away.
One of the local weather guys here said we went from calm winds to 61 mph in 5 minutes, and a 71 mph peak shortly thereafter.
Yep, we were in the Frisco area, and the winds were strong, but it looked like they got much stronger as they moved into downtown Dallas.
And then within an hour, skies were clear.
That’s Texas for you.
Check out the intensity build in this car’s dash cam of the pop up storm:
I was about 3 miles from there at the time. I’ve never seen a storm quite like that one. Partly cloudy to that to sunshine in about an hour.
Hey, what part are you in? We’re up at 66 and Dalrock.
We had some good rain, cloudcover but no hail, nothing too bad. I don’t think many of the neighborhood trees really took any damage like some of the N Dallas neighborhoods. My boss’s area had almost every house with broken branches piled up out front today. Almost three days without power.
I’m close to 66 and Centerville. Down Centerville toward 635 a big tree had crashed down on a parked truck at a nursing home but that’s the worst I saw around here.
Yesterday I decided to go to North Park mall. Traffic lights were out all around NW hwy from White Rock Park onwards. I gave up. Even today I’m delighted to see working traffic lights from here to downtown.
Yep, that was it.
Visibility was about 30 feet when it was really hammering down.
Still no power at the house, at least it is gown down to the mid 60’s at night.
Mid 60’s for a low. In June. In Dallas.
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