Tornado Outside My Window

blondie

About 15 minutes ago Irreverent comes down and tells me to look outside the window. There we see a twister snaking down to the field behind us. I grabbed our important papers and grabbed the phone and ran into the laundry room in the basement. We had to look again, it was if we were watching TV. We called 911 and reported it. Never a siren one did we hear and they still haven't gone off. The twister evaporated. Irreverent is upstairs with the camera, hoping and not hoping to see another one. He would love to be a tornado chaser!

Blondie

SuperMommy

How eerie is that. I would be so excited/scared to see a tornado like that. We don't get many in Orlando, but in Kansas City we had quite a few. We never heard any sirens either...even if they were later reported very close to home. I wonder if they ever really do use the sirens or just like to test them now and then.

talesin

Scary! We had one here last year, and my parents had one rip through their backyard about 20 years ago. It uprooted a lot of trees, and destroyed part of their home. It was a weather anomaly. (small ones, but still ...)

BE SAFE, BLONDIE AND IRREV!!!

tal

ps. love the new avatar

copsec

Blondie,

We are having tornado weather also! Last summer I had just looked outside and it was sunny and three minutes later when I looked out a twister had picked up our decorative wishing well in the front yard and it was holding it straight up in tha air and then thre it across the road into a fild. ended up taking down several trees too. The whole time I stood there with my mouth open like some kind of idiot cause I was just in awe of the power. But, I hope to never see one again!

Celtic

Tornado chasing eh?!! Can I come please, I've always wanted to do that, get some photographs, wanted to ever since I was a kid.

Two best storms I ever saw were in Cornwall, one where there was so much lightning simply everywhere, forking all over the place in every vivid colour imaginable, was absolutely incredible. The other was a storm with humongous waves which battered the coast, the waves were reported over a 10-12 hour period of time on the high tide as being over a 100' high and coming it pounding everything in their path at 45-50 mph. Destroyed the port of Porthleven, I know, I was there watching it.

Seen other superb lightning shows too.

Is it just me or do others get hyperactively excited just before impending thunderstorm, like you can feel the electrified particles being charged up?

Must visit Kansas one of these days for an F4 or better still an F5 with clusters of others around the central one, frighteningly awesome.

The sea, shes a cruel mistress, not one to be trifled with.

edited, a spelling mistake

xenawarrior

Wow Blondie !! Careful down there !!

But, LOL, I'd be chasing tornadoes too- I'm just fascinated with them.

I lived down in Verona when the tornado tore through southern WI and ripped Barneveld apart. I had just moved into a newly built duplex-it wasn't even totally completed yet. It was at night and my brother had just gotten into town on leave from the army. We were up gabbing away catching up -not paying any attention to the storm or the sirens that were going off every ten minutes or continuously at times. I went to bed in the upstairs bedroom never thinking about any of it. The next morning I turned the television on and was in total disbelief at what I was seeing. And the path of the tornado had hit the edge of Verona before it turned to head north.

After that I have much more respect for tornados and when sirens are going off I'm on alert. I remember hearing stories about people's paperwork from Barneveld and other areas down there being found up in Oshkosh!!

Be safe you two !!! Many hugs from the north !!

XW

blondie

Thanks everyone. Now Irrevernt is going out for his daily walk....men!

Blondie

Jim_TX

Tornadoes are not 'fun'. Repeat after me... "I shall not play with tornadoes."

I remember a few years ago when one rip[ped through North Austin... Cedar Park, actually. I don't live there, but have a friend who does. She just about went out of her mind... trying to get to her two girls - and then safely home.

The tornado headed towards a local Albertson's grocery store. The manager there herded all of the people into the stores' cooler - in the center of the store.

The tornado blew away all of the store. All that remained was the cooler... and the people, safely inside. The manager was a hero.

Yall be very careful.

Jim TX

Sassy

oh wow.. glad you are ok!!

Black Sheep

Wow, awesome, I'm jealous. We don't get many here.

I have seen three small ones coming out of one cloud, many years ago and took a photo of one a couple of years ago, but that's been my lot.

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