Ever experience Mother Natures wrath?
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Has anyone here experienced an extreme force of nature? I’m just curious. Last night as I sat at home watching tornado warning after tornado warning go off I started wondering.
Dimitrispearljam commented on another thread how earthquakes are fairly common in his area, but no experience with tornados and I'm curious if anyone has an experience.
I have been through 1 tornado. The water was sucked out of the pool, ping pong table was never seen again, the roof ripped off and the cat got sucked up too . It was just as most describe it, we were at a slumber party and the dog woke us up at 7 am pacing and whimpering. I tried to let her out and she refused to step outside the door, barking instead. Next thing I know there is an odd quiet, like the sound was sucked out of the house then a huge boom and then all we could see was gray swirls. My friends’ mom ran out of her room yelling for us to go to her bathroom and get in the tub. We made it half way down the hallway when someone tripped and we all fell. I remember looking over at the bookcase and seeing the cat on top and the pages of the books turning. Next thing we knew it was over then all you could hear was the chaos of people yelling outside. Gas lines had ruptured; houses were on fire but thankfully no human deaths. News reported it was an F1 which is usual for hurricane spawned tornados.
My second round with Mother Nature was when we were evacuated from a beach house. We had rented a beach front home for a week for summer break. The 2nd morning we woke up to people hammering looked out the window and our neighbors were putting up plywood on the windows…not something you like to see. We hadn’t been watching the news since we spent the days on the beach and nights watching movies so it was a surprise. The owners of the house called to let us know the storm was expected to be only a category 1 so we could ‘ride it out’ and to expect the beach house to sway as that what is was designed to do. NO THANK YOU. Later that afternoon the local police came to tell us to leave as the storm was getting stronger.
Anyone else have a story or two??
Dimitrispearljam commented on another thread how earthquakes are fairly common in his area, but no experience with tornados and I'm curious if anyone has an experience.
I have been through 1 tornado. The water was sucked out of the pool, ping pong table was never seen again, the roof ripped off and the cat got sucked up too . It was just as most describe it, we were at a slumber party and the dog woke us up at 7 am pacing and whimpering. I tried to let her out and she refused to step outside the door, barking instead. Next thing I know there is an odd quiet, like the sound was sucked out of the house then a huge boom and then all we could see was gray swirls. My friends’ mom ran out of her room yelling for us to go to her bathroom and get in the tub. We made it half way down the hallway when someone tripped and we all fell. I remember looking over at the bookcase and seeing the cat on top and the pages of the books turning. Next thing we knew it was over then all you could hear was the chaos of people yelling outside. Gas lines had ruptured; houses were on fire but thankfully no human deaths. News reported it was an F1 which is usual for hurricane spawned tornados.
My second round with Mother Nature was when we were evacuated from a beach house. We had rented a beach front home for a week for summer break. The 2nd morning we woke up to people hammering looked out the window and our neighbors were putting up plywood on the windows…not something you like to see. We hadn’t been watching the news since we spent the days on the beach and nights watching movies so it was a surprise. The owners of the house called to let us know the storm was expected to be only a category 1 so we could ‘ride it out’ and to expect the beach house to sway as that what is was designed to do. NO THANK YOU. Later that afternoon the local police came to tell us to leave as the storm was getting stronger.
Anyone else have a story or two??
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But we got out in time.
Looking at the ocean with all those powerful swells is quite something to see though.
I was in awe
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tore the roof from the garage and dropped it upside down across the yard without breaking the light bulb
and missed the house entirely
destroyed a huge grapevine built on pylons, circled around and uprooted huge pecan trees and left the tomato plants between still standing
"what a long, strange trip it's been"
Right in the middle of the storm my husband called. Thinking I might have seen something about the storm on TV, he wanted to tell me that they had driven through some hail on their way. The car had a little damage but they were OK. I yelled at him, "Well, I'm NOT OK! Come home RIGHT NOW!" He told me there was no point in him coming home, the storm would be passed when he got there, and just sit tight.
After it was over, I walked around the house. The windows were all broken on the west side of the house. The ground was covered with baseball sized hailstones. Our patio furniture had huge dents. It was even worse for my next door neighbors. Part of their roof collapsed. I grabbed a couple of hailstones and stuck them in the freezer to show the insurance adjuster.
For a long time after that, all around town you saw lots of cars all bashed in by hailstones. It took months to get my car into a body shop for repairs, they were all so busy.
I've always had a healthy respect for spring storms but I think that was the most scared I've ever been.
This house had water in it 6ft high from Fran and another hurricane in '95 & '96. The washer and dryer wound up in different rooms of the house. We also lost our 50ft pier from these 2 canes.
It probably wasn't the smartest decision we ever made.
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My grandfather lived in South Carolina and mentioned several 'hurricane parties'. A bunch of people would bring food and drink and hole up in the second floor of the strongest building they could find.
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I was in a few hurricanes in Florida. Jeanne and Wilma a few years back. I think it was Wilma where the eye of the storm came over us. It was creepy.
The worst thing I ever saw though, was the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew in Homestead Florida. Luckily I was living in north florida at the time, but I drove to the Keys a few months after, and there was still shit everywhere -- neighborhoods leveled. It brought a lot of attention to builders constructing houses that didn't meet code requirements.
can split a tree right next to you and you'll think you died
I just barely remember when Mt St. Helen's erupted in 1980...ash everywhere.
During the Clinton Inauguration (in 93) we had a huge windstorm...90MPH winds...knocked out power everywhere. I remember being at school, and they tried to corral everybody into the cafeteria/commons. Most of the students couldn't leave since a huge tree had fallen and was blocking the main entrance/driveway. Also a live power line was down in the same area. We had to wait till work crews could clear it so the busses could get in. The Senior lot was there too...so most of the lower classmen (who parked in the upper lot) were able to leave.
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I live in Texas too, south Texas though, so we get to be on the southern tip of Tornado Alley AND we have to worry about tornados generated from hurricanes that hit the Texas coast.
The tornados from hurricans are the scary to me as there are usually more than 1. Yes they are smaller than the average tornado but a tornado none the less.
Very strange feeling and not so good feeling of being helpless
It was around a 5...got us out of work for about an hour
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