Last year while at my grandbaby's house the patio cover from the back yard of this house (now laying in the front yard) came flying at our home. We still don't know if it was a tornado that picked it up and hurled it at our house or not...but we were under tornado warning and there was a strange whistling noise in the air right before it came flying at us. I had prayed a "hedge of protection" around our property, etc. and as God is my witness that patio covering came flying straight at us and stopped in mid air right at our property line...and fell straight down on to the road (last picture)!
@Ken Anderson The only one I somewhat experienced when I was down here in the 80s, was Hurricane Alicia, but we caught the last flight to Brownsville before she hit. There was quite a bit of damage in the area, but thankfully, not to my place. There've been a lot more tropical storms/hurricanes this time of living down here. Although I've sustained some damage (from Ike, when I lived up in Houston), thankfully no place I lived during any of them was a total loss.
Seems like the violent storms and especially hurricanes, have diminished in the Houston/Gulf Coast area. Last year, and for a few years now, all that was blowing from the Sahara Desert (Africa) was dust!
Oh no, you do not want anything even dust, coming from the Sahara! It's a little known thing that the winds get so violent coming from the Sahara that small living things can get picked up and carried for hundreds of miles and dropped off. Even dropped off on another continent like North America. Why, a little known piece of trivia is that the infamous Afrikanus Caenum Vipera (African dirt snake) has been found as far a Corpus Cristi. Apparently they like to be around water so when one finds its way into a home they like to hang out under toilet seats. In order to make sure they do not get under the seat, instruct your husband to leave the seat up and you do the same. Good home safety cannot be preached enough.
It's very simple really. You'll notice that when there are a greater number of politicians from the U.N. converging into any given area that some sort of storm kicks up. If we keep the politicians, especially American politicians, out of the Saharan regions then they will have less problems with the haboobs that now frequent that part of the continent. Less hot air, less wind storms, less dirt snakes.