Yes and the next thing I knew my house fell on a witch

@znexyish said:

Yes and the next thing I knew my house fell on a witch

Now we both know your name isn't Zorothy!

My dad was stationed at Chanute Air Force base (Illinois) when I was 7 or 8, we lived in Rantoul. Anyway, one day there was a reasonably big tornado in the area (caused quite a bit of damage around town). To make a short story shorter, my sister's mother threw us in a closet until it was all over. I was so mad, I wanted to see everything (I was basically fearless as a child). I didn't speak to her for a couple of days.

@bratface said:

My dad was stationed at Chanute Air Force base (Illinois) when I was 7 or 8, we lived in Rantoul. Anyway, one day there was a reasonably big tornado in the area (caused quite a bit of damage around town). To make a short story shorter, my sister's mother threw us in a closet until it was all over. I was so mad, I wanted to see everything (I was basically fearless as a child). I didn't speak to her for a couple of days.

It's hard not to want to see everything going on. We kept peeking out from the bathroom where we were hunkered down today. Although we did have the modern luxury of cell phones to keep up with everything and to know when the warning was cancelled.

My honourary brother (we're cousins, but consider one another sibs) lives in central Georgia and had an approximately 45-feet-tall tree blow down, right while he was looking, during the intense storming today, plus there was some wind damage to roofing shingles.

Where I live, on the East Coast, there was a tornado that ripped through last late spring or early summer, about 3 miles south of me. It roared through during the wee hours of the overnight. The wind on the south side of my house was so intense, and there was such a loud howling-whistling sound, and it felt like the house was shaking, that I went down in my basement for roughly 25 minutes, as I had just had the t.v. on and the local meteorologist confirmed that there was a band of tornados just south of my town and said that the National Weather Service directed that everyone should immediately take cover. It was terrifying.

The tornado created a strip of destruction stretching more than a mile in a rural area between my town and the next town south; fortunately the majority of landfall occurred on woods and fields. I drove through the impacted area about a week later, after debris had been cleared off the public road. Looked like a bomb had gone off, with roofs ripped off houses and barns, collapsed walls, smashed vehicles, downed trees, etc.

Superstorm Sandy.

@genplant29 said:

My honourary brother (we're cousins, but consider one another sibs) lives in central Georgia and had an approximately 45-feet-tall tree blow down, right while he was looking, during the intense storming today, plus there was some wind damage to roofing shingles.

Where I live, on the East Coast, there was a tornado that ripped through last late spring or early summer, about 3 miles south of me. It roared through during the wee hours of the overnight. The wind on the south side of my house was so intense, and there was such a loud howling-whistling sound, and it felt like the house was shaking, that I went down in my basement for roughly 25 minutes, as I had just had the t.v. on and the local meteorologist confirmed that there was a band of tornados just south of my town and said that the National Weather Service directed that everyone should immediately take cover. It was terrifying.

The tornado created a strip of destruction stretching more than a mile in a rural area between my town and the next town south; fortunately the majority of landfall occurred on woods and fields. I drove through the impacted area about a week later, after debris had been cleared off the public road. Looked like a bomb had gone off, with roofs ripped off houses and barns, collapsed walls, smashed vehicles, downed trees, etc.

That sounds very scary! Glad you were safe!