My house is point A and the tornado was spotted from the left point B to the right point B (moved farther than that of course, but those were spottings).



I had to stay in the bathroom with my brothers, aunt, and mom (Dad was at work). That was fun.

Wow you were really lucky not to get hit if one of those things came over to my house i would be hiding under my bed and repeating to myself it will be over soon.

What a nice day for your aunt to visit.

terrifying(ly awesome). I cant imagine how scary that must have been. The map doesnt have a scale, but Im assuming less than a half mile away right?

And just to cover all the bases are secure, no flying cows, no straws through trees, no old ladies on brooms and bicycles?

Enough with the joking, anyone seriously hurt?

Cool now that i know where you live i'll come visit you and john this weekend.

I don't want to interupt your privacy so I'll just wait over by the caboose saturday evening.

Akward.

At least everyone is ok

...dude...

It didn't by any chance hit a trailer park, did it?

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i no how ya feel sorta. a tornado hit by us and caused a good amount of havoc. it didnt really go through us but it caused high enuff winds to blow stuff down!. what was the rating of your tornado F-???????

Wooooow. It was closer than I thought. Rathert han bypassing us, as I thought earlier, I've recently found out that the tornado went OVER us! It was on the ground, skipped up to the sky above where I live, then came back down right afterward. It's crazy how close it was.

Did the exact same thing at my church, where my Dad was. Only thing is was a lot lower, because my dad heard it. He was hiding under his desk in the office.

If the tornados would have stayed on the ground, it wold have taken Dad out at church, and it would have taken my brothers, Mom, my aunt, and I out at our house. Craaaazy.

I had to take a different way to work today because they closed the road that I normally take, near the local airport. There's airplane debri all over the place! It even took stuff out of our yard. And right down the road from us, it tore up a house real good. Thankfully the family was safe though.

It's crazy stuff, but I get a huge thrill out of it. The scariest tornado story I have is when I was about 12 or 13. My mom, brothers, and I were here in Arkansas (Dad was still in the army at this point and stationed at South Korea). One night we woke up because it was hailing super bad, it sounded like our windows were going to bust. We all got into a room in the middle of the house and closed the doors. Our power went out, then we heard the tornado. The thing was so ginormous, it had over smaller tornados inside of it. Without a doubt, I thought it was gonna hit the house, but similarly to what just happened last night, the tornado skipped right over top of us. It was so loud though, scared me to death, I thought we were all gonna die.

It was exciting though, especially when it was over.

Though I'd like a house with a basement.

@boobiesphere. Great! John's gonna be here tomorrow and stay until Monday, you should join us.

Been there myself when I was 9 years old. Again when I was 32.



This was back in 70 when I was 9 living on Offutt AFB outside of Omaha Nebraska. My dad actually saw the tornado.

The 93 tornado apparently skipped over the house I was living in at the time too. I was listening in on a scanner to all the police reports of damage and they were all around where I lived, some as close as in the pic above.

A category-5 hurricane (we don't get that many tornadoes here) was really close to my house. And I think Katrina was supposed to hit here, too. I was praying all night that it wouldn't.


Glad you're alright, Mel

Where do you live pheonix? I'll come visit you too.

Have fun John maybe there will be another tornado while you're there

Dang, thank God you and you're family are ok. I remember one time when I was around 5 years old, a tornado came really close to our house. My mom, my brothers, and I were all in the bathroom, It was a pretty freaky experience...

o.O scary stuff! I live downunder and used to live in South Africa so I've never been in a tornado but that sounds pretty freaky.