Date: 4/30/2003 9:39:00 PM
From Authorid: 32193
lol glad your ok :-D im in cali, where no tornados r LOL but we had a funnel cloud like 10 minutes away from where i live :-p LOL  |
Date: 4/30/2003 9:41:00 PM
From Authorid: 28848
Woohoo...Storms, and better yet, a tornado! How exciting! I love stormy weather...  |
Date: 4/30/2003 9:45:00 PM
From Authorid: 16671
Had one three miles out of town, and caught the tail end of one in new mexico, then caught the tail end of one near el paso texas. It was scary as all get out especially when your in a car and the hail is so big and the rain and the wind that ya have to pull off the side of the road and pray that no other cars plow into you.  |
Date: 4/30/2003 9:45:00 PM
From Authorid: 49976
I'm glad your okay thats pretty scary. We had a tornado here once and it was icky.
Hugs&Cookies  |
Date: 4/30/2003 10:01:00 PM
From Authorid: 59418
AGHHHHH typos, sorry *blush*  |
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Date: 4/30/2003 10:01:00 PM
From Authorid: 59418
I;m glad it didn't hit where you live. *hgus* |
Date: 4/30/2003 10:28:00 PM
From Authorid: 43807
had one two miles north of my house.  |
Date: 4/30/2003 10:30:00 PM
From Authorid: 53836
I LOVE TORNADOS and I MISS THE WARNINGS, and I know you all think I'm crazy...I didn't say I wanna be IN one, but I have watched one form over my head and form a tail as it went south behind my house, eventually whipping a neiborhood, less than one mile SW of my home. It threw a boat into a house, it twisted a huge swingset like a pretzel, but it was nothing like the Jarrell tornado two years before. It looked like a war zone....houses shattered like glass, human remains in trees miles away, sheet metal wrapped around trees that uprooted and were also carried miles. I will never forget what I saw. On the news, my sister's best friend huddled beneath I-35 with her toddler...I was like, THANK GOD!!! My son and I were shopping in HEB when the store went dark and NO LIGHT was coming from outside...it was pitch black, and the rain drops glowed neon blue, they were HUGE and totally blowing horizontally...Jarrell was 5 mis. up the road...they were COMPLETELY DEVISTATED by the F-5 MONSTER. Many students that my sister had attended school with that year were killed along with their parents and siblings. My brother had just had his graduation ceremony there the weekend before tragedy struck. I don't like what they do, no, but I am in deep awe at their mighty power. Searching for pictures from this tornado drew me here. I still have the link because this is a most special USM post... The link is entitled: A MIRACULOUS PHOTO, WHERE COULD I GET A COPY? The tornado in the picture, YES, there is a picture on this particular USM post made long before USM became the monster it is today, anyhow...the tornado looks like... hey, go check it out yourself!!! http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm84402.html I am glad you are ok and am sorry I was a post hog, but I HAD TO SHARE!!   |
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Date: 4/30/2003 10:55:00 PM
From Authorid: 53836
I forgot...I wanted to tell you about the beautiful colors in the sky that swirled like the brew in a witch's caldron the last scare (in Leander in 2000) My friend and I noticed the low, swirling clouds, wind, and then hail...I am too drawn in by the emerald eye forming over my head to care about a little hail. I had already gotten the kids in the bathroom, ready to get in the tub if it formed to quickly (I knew it wouldn't, I knew I was being allowed to witness something I have always dreamed of, though I have tornado nightmares all the time due to my facination.) The clouds swirled counter clockwise and there was vacuum action where I stood between the clouds and the ground. It was the most fearsome sight over my head, but my friend could've screamed until she turned blue and I wouldn't have paid her no mind, I was captured by the awesome chance I was getting. As the clouds came lower, they also moved southerly, but guys, it was like the sky coming down with the weight of the world. It was hard to breath and harder to stand still. AMAZING, one of the most fantastic facinating moments of my life! |
Date: 5/1/2003 4:15:00 AM
From Authorid: 47296
I have been through a few, as well as witnessing a few waterspouts up close and personal. Years ago, back when CB radios were still the rave, we had a REACT group that whenever bad weather would hit, we would set up an area wide network of radios to act as spotters, and reported to a base station that was set up to assist local authorities in putting out warnings, and providing assistance. The ones at night were always the most impressive, since you could see a green glow in the clouds around the tornado. A meterologist told me once that the glow comes from the intense static discharge that if often near the top of tornadoes. He said we see it as a glow, because the rain, dirt, dust, and hail are too thick to actally see it as lightning.  |
Date: 5/1/2003 4:21:00 AM
From Authorid: 44321
I lived in Iowa for about 5 years,my first year living there I was with my mother in law and we had a big scare,we had the tornado winds but not the tornado itself,her whole house had not one windowless room,she was saying if the tornado hit we were going to jump behind the couch LOL I got used to the warnings after awhile..but our last year there we lived in a trailer,made it scarier ...trailers are not known to be the safest during tornado season  |
Date: 5/1/2003 5:24:00 AM
From Authorid: 15400
Oh boy! I'm glad to hear that it skipped ya'll. I have to go through this EVERY spring! No matter how long I've lived here in this awful state I still get scared when a Tornado warning appears on the screen.  |
Date: 5/1/2003 10:07:00 AM
From Authorid: 35160
i go through this all the time, i live in oklahoma, right smack in the middle of tornado alley. and every time we have a storm i fear we will have a tornado. once 1 got so close it ripped up a tree and threw it into my stepdads door of his lawn mower shop, which is on the side of our house. now that was scary. 8^0 huggs shay  |
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Date: 5/2/2003 12:41:00 PM
From Authorid: 28848
LoL Stace! You wanna go tornado chasing with me? |
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Date: 5/3/2003 12:24:00 PM
From Authorid: 53836
RM, when you and I are older and able to go on such trips, I would absolutely love to chase twisters with you!!!!! We'll just hang out here at USM until then |
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