Back in April, Tom Korosec wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park a story that asked, Just how prepared is Dallas for an F5 tornado? Short answer: Not very. But only because "it would be too big for a simple quick response," wrote city of Dallas emergency management director Kenny Shaw in the comments, in response to an earlier quote from the story in which Tom quoted him as saying that "a level-5 tornado hitting inside the city limits is too big to plan for."In his story, Tom mentioned that
Apologies for the delays. The weather forecasts for yesterday evening called for a 30 percent chance of rain, so I spent part of my time in a tunnel at Pizza Hut Park and potential funnel clouds developed. Good thing they didn't say 40 percent--we'd have an F-5 tornado ripping through downtown.Anyway, when was the last time a real restaurant diner tried something actually cooked by Gordon Ramsay. The foul-mouthed media machine has enough crags and wrinkles in his face to give a fair impression o
Web MayfieldWe're under a tornado watch till 11 p.m., and Oncor's still working to get power to some 80,000 homes still in the hot, sticky dark. So, fittingly, we'll end this long, wet week with an image provided by Web Mayfield, taken yesterday on Bryan Parkway just east of Beacon Street. "Limbs, garbage cans and garbage flowing down the street had jammed between the two cars and made a sort of dam," he writes in an e-mail sent to Unfair Park. Sounds delicious.
