Kid clerk at the hardware store got my attention a while ago when he said there was a tornado down around Goliad that the TV said was headed this way, along with a storm bringing freezing rain. Winter’s last gasp, I guess. As for the tornado, I doubt it. We are under a severe thunderstorm alert, but mainly to the east and southeast of the rancho. The last time a tornado hit in Austin was eighty-six years ago–May 4, 1922, pictured above–and, while it killed thirteen and injured forty-four, it didn’t do much damage as it wasn’t on the ground for long.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Brr… I’ve seen one, from a safe distance, and it’s one more than I need for the rest of my life.
All my sightings have likewise been at a distance, or in photographs. An old Army friend almost died in one. He opened his front door in Kansas and saw it a half-mile across the road. He hustled everybody into the storm cellar, but it went somewhere else.