These are the sounds of a storm in West Texas, specifically Southwest Lubbock: a tornado warning.
https://drive.google.com/drive/recent: Having received at least one National Weather System alert on my phone I decided to sit out in the backyard and capture what I thought would be a run-of-the-mill wind storm, not the hail storm that it became. (Certain parts of Lubbock and surrounding areas did get hit by a tornado, so we got off easy.)
https://drive.google.com/drive/recent: We've lived in Lubbock for close to 20 years in the same house, and in that many years we've not heard a siren go off. Last night they sounded forever, it seemed. Loud and annoying, but they knocked me out of my blah attitude and got me to take the warnings more seriously.
https://drive.google.com/drive/recent: This is the second or third round of sirens, at which point I stepped inside the house, when a few moments later the hail came.
https://drive.google.com/drive/recent: Finally, the sounds of the morning after a monster storm. Nothing like the deafening sounds of high wind and hail to make me appreciate the songs of birds. (Speaking of birds, poor them last night when they didn't know either how serious the storm brewing would be and they had no shelter. This morning I put 5 dead birds in the dumpster.)
