Have you ever seen or experienced a tornado?

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   j. h on October 15, 2009 at 2:12 pm

   I have seen one and been in..about 3. I live in s. indiana and about 3 years ago we had about..oohhh..12 in a matter of 2 weeks. The first one i was ever in was that year and my son was 2. We live with my parents and just bought a new house. It was predicted that there was going to be some rough weather. Well..that nite..i think a thursday, we were watching some storms south of here and all of the sudden one just north west of us started rotating..they kinda ignored it and my dad ran outside..about 10 mins after he went out..he came back in..we grabed our police/weather scanner and sat there waiting. About 5 min later the lights flickerd..and i grabbed my son and ran down stairs.lol..it was funny becasue my dad started to say go in the basement but i was already down there. My dad stayed up stairs for wha seemed to be an hour..but it was only abut 10 min..he literay jumped down 4 stepps at a time..and got us in the tiny itty bitty closet under the stepps..closed the door..and then said he saw it..and it was HUGE. About that time we heard a rubble..then a train sound. The garage door started shacking..and i will never forget the look on my parents eyes. We were all think the same thing..what will we see when we get out. Well it lasted a good 5 min..if not longer. Thinkfully everthing was ok. We had no damage besides a few shingles off the roof. It turned my dads boat with i park behind..it torn up my sons swiing set..and some how..took a beach ball and floats from our pool…and we have never found them. About 2 days later we had 1 more then the following weekend, when my brother was home..we had 5 more..thats when we lost ur front porch, and about 6 trees..not to mentin our power. We didnt have power for 3 weeks..no showers..nothing. we had to make daily trips to walmart to buy lunch meat, propain, meat, ice, pop, water..since we couldnt drink water..and batteries. We had our lives turned upside down. We always went to bed around 10 or 11..then after this happened we went back to old days and as soon as the power went out..we went to bed around 8 or 9. It was realy fun. After 3 weeks we got our power back on..but unfort. we ended up losing a close community from here…English. There was a F3..one that came through here…it took i think a dozen or so life and almost completely took out the town..Keep in mind we had s many i might have confused the days. Its still a jumble even after 3 years. I still freak out over them..but atleast now mine and my sons rooms are in the basement lol.

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   ξℓ Çђαηφσ on October 15, 2009 at 2:12 pm

   actually i have seen two…one over the water (i guess a waterspout) and one in puerto rico, the clouds were spinning for awhile but it didnt hit the ground…it was cool though!

   no monster tornadoes though…lol…and i dont really want to see one either!

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   twanda_C on October 15, 2009 at 2:12 pm

   I live in Okla, and our house was hit by a tornado with us in the cellar only yards away., I was a very young girl, and I will never forget the sound & the panic that I felt from the noise of the tornado. Then about 15 yrs ago a tornado touched parts of our town, and to see it was horrible., the winds did over $5,000.00 worth of damage to our house. I don’t miss them, and pray every time a storm hits. They are not fun at all!!!!

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   mischa on October 15, 2009 at 2:12 pm

   We had a house that was destroyed in a tornado, when I was 4. I still remember the sight and sounds of it to this day ( I’m now 45). We lived in a house that did not have a basement and the house sat about 50 feet from the farm fields. My mother put a coat over me and ran out of the house into a large culvert the ran under the driveway, it was soo hot outside… I was able to left up the hem of the coat to breath when I say the funnel cloud baring down on us, all of the windows blew out of the house, and the doors flew off. The ground shook, and it sounded like a train was going over us, the air was so thick with dirt you could hardly breath, my Mom, my brother and sister were all huddled under that coat/ under the driveway. It was terrifying. A house was blown apart across the street, and a woman and her 5 children were killed. It was so terrifying, I am still afraid of storms.

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   snagelfritz on October 15, 2009 at 2:12 pm

   I have seen quite a few. They are awesome. I have a HAM Radio and years ago was trained to spot tornados and potential tornados and we would report them to the National Weather Service over the HAM Radios.
   Once some friends and me were in my Boat on the lake. I was showing them the cloud front coming in when this tornado droped out. Everyone was tripping. One guy was saying; "What we going to do"! I just looked at him and said; "Hope it not come this way"! We were laughing and he was flipping out. Not much we could do! But, I turned the Boat SouthEast and headed that direction. We were lucky as it went back up, thank God. Other time; our house sits between two hills that make a jump for tornados so most times it will come off one hill go over the house Roaring and touch back down on the next hill. If, one ever gets down in this valley, it will be like a slot car and I assume wipe out everything.
   I have a few more stories, but, leave room for others.

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   joey on October 15, 2009 at 2:12 pm

   Yes; enough to tell about, and live to tell about it, and enough to know better. The more spectacular sights, though, were only the funnel clouds that never made earthen contact. (They’re just not as scary, or as destructive, as the "real" thing, but just as awesome.)

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   Dancing Surgeon on October 15, 2009 at 2:12 pm

   I used to live in Kansas about…30 minutes from Oklahoma. I have been in many tornadoes. One went down our street and right past our house. Another time a friends house was damaged but not too badly. It is pretty scary, I have been in lots of earthquakes too, and nothing major, so far tornadoes are still scariest.

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   bprice215 on October 15, 2009 at 2:12 pm

   yes I have

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   confusisPC1 on October 15, 2009 at 2:12 pm

   I was in a tornado when I was in New Orleans and in Nashville Tn. The sky got real dark and it sound like a freight train was barreling down on me. The wind started blowing and then I could;t stand up it blew so hard. It was over Farley soon but not before it left my house standing without a scratch and my neighbors house demolished. Across the street they had a shed that was now in my back yard. It also blew out windows on tall buildings . It looked like a war zone. Some people lost everything,
   If somehow people could harness the powerr of a tornado it would give us enough powe to light up some major cities. I didn’t think it was beautiful. Amazing and distrustful yes. 3 people died in that storm