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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 11:06 PM Original message |
Post your tornado stories. Have you been in or very near a tornado? |
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Mutley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. Nothing like the LaPlata tornado, though a friend of mine was within a |
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Beausoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
2. Fargo, ND. My aunt and uncle. They headed for the basement... |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 11:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Straight line winds can be just as destructive |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-14-06 03:42 PM Response to Reply #2 |
36. They were in Golden Ridge? dang! I was across town |
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Robeson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
4. Oh, yes. I live in Nashville, aka, tornado alley.... |
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Nicole (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 12:00 AM Response to Original message |
5. Two of them, both bad |
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txwhitedove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
6. There are always tornados with a hurricane. You can hear |
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Langis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 12:10 AM Response to Original message |
7. About 16 years ago |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
8. Spring of 1965, Twin Cities |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 01:20 AM Response to Original message |
9. yes straight line wind |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 06:31 AM Response to Original message |
10. Yes, once when I lived in Opa-Locka, FL, |
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Cannikin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 06:45 AM Response to Original message |
11. I live in Little Rock, Arkansas. I've had three close calls |
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Benfea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 06:55 AM Response to Original message |
12. I've seen them forming all the time.... |
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NewWaveChick1981 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 06:57 AM Response to Original message |
13. When I was six years old, there was a tornado that touched down less than |
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eyesroll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
14. I ended up stuck on Amtrak when a March tornado touched down a few |
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noonwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 08:26 AM Response to Original message |
15. My dad outdrove one once with us in the car |
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Aiptasia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 09:00 AM Response to Original message |
16. Several |
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huskerlaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
17. I grew up in Nebraska...so, yes |
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TheMightyFavog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
18. My Story |
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Corgigal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
19. It was on Mothers day a few years ago |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
20. The May 3rd tornado (F5 in Oklahoma, 1999) |
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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-14-06 03:21 PM Response to Reply #20 |
33. Holy. Shit. |
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gollygee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
21. I was riding home from school when a tornado hit our town |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
22. Small tornado in Oak Brook, Il in the early 80s |
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Crazy Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
23. Very near, my own front yard two weeks ago |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
24. Saw one form over my head when I was a kid |
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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
25. when i was a kid, we camped in a travel trailer |
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YankeyMCC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
26. Story that isn't full of danger but |
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tigersumtin (285 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
27. F-5 Tornado |
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Pithlet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-14-06 03:50 PM Response to Reply #27 |
37. I watched a show about that one. |
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Pithlet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-14-06 03:56 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. We had one come within a mile of our house this spring. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
28. A number of times. |
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WoodyTobiasJr (528 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
29. Pine Lake, Alberta - July 2000 |
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ironflange (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 03:02 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. I flew around that storm |
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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
31. TO EVERYONE |
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mvd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-14-06 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
32. An F3 tornado came near us - Limerick, PA |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-14-06 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
34. A week before I was due to give birth to SonOfGoG the younger, |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-14-06 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
35. Lost just about everything to a tornado in Missouri... |
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