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That August Tuesday started like any other ranch visit outside Pampa - scorching heat shimmering off the caliche roads, the smell of dry sagebrush thick in the air. I'd just finished checking irrigation lines when the horizon did something unnatural. One moment, clear blue skies; the next, an anvil-shaped monstrosity boiling up like a bruise. My phone buzzed with a generic severe storm alert from my usual weather app, showing a county-wide warning area the size of Rhode Island. Useless. When you

That sickly green sky still haunts me - the kind that makes cattle restless and old-timers squint westward. We were celebrating Grandpa's 80th at the ranch, tables groaning with brisket, laughter bouncing off the barn walls. I remember wiping coleslaw from my chin when the first gust hit, sudden as a shotgun blast, sending paper plates swirling like panicked birds. My cousin yelled about hail coming, but we're Panhandle folk; summer storms are background noise. Then my pocket screamed - not a ri

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