I just witnessed my first tornado since living in the midwest, it was very scary. Luckily we're safe.. :scared:

Scary Stuff, stay safe

I carn't get enough of the things .... scary as all hell but exciting .... I love to stand there and watch the clouds rotating. We had 3 touch down a few Sundays ago, small blighters but they sill tore up some farmers field.

I work at Parson's Manufacturing ....it was completely destroyed by an F4 in 2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Tornado_of_2004

Same here, we had a few when we lived in the Chicago Burbs. Sirens going off and the TV giving out warnings. Blackest sky I've ever seen and Hail the size of Golfballs. The Family had to remind me to get in the basement, I was so fascinated by it.

We also had a small earthquake back in 2004, I think it was, popped all the nails in the drywall, I slept through that one

Lets be honest though the nails in drywall would pop if the dog farts too loudly.

Or the toast is ready.

Hope you stay safe! I live a few miles to the West of Oklahoma City and I've watched a few of the blighters myself. Fascinating, but scary. A couple of years ago we had an F3 "hop-scotch" over the house - if it hadn't "hopped" when it did, I shudder to think .... 'course I was in the cupboard with the scotch

We had a tornado hit our apartment complex weeks after we came here and that was pretty scarey. You learn to be weather aware and watch the sky since it can change so very quickly. We live in tornado alley but for some reason didn't take that into account when buiilding the house. We have no safe room and no room that doesn't have an outside wall or window. DUH.

My husband is a storm spotter so once the alert goes out he is on the phone reporting conditions to the met office. While I am huddled in a corner, he is outside taking photos and on the phone. lololol

If your local emergency services do classes on tornado awareness they are well worth going to.

My folks live in Waterloo/CR area. Luckily all is well for them as well.

Glad you came through it unscathed.

Me and one of my business partners have been thinking of going on one of those tornado chasing breaks. I am fascinated and appalled by them at the same time.

Meanwhile, I would love to have an F1, would be down on my back in a ditch with an F2, and making my peace with G-d with an F3. Gulping down an F4 I would be kissing my ass good bye, and in with the F5 I would be no more. Anyone had an "F6"? I am talking cocktails here.

Havent seen a tornado yet & fingers crossed I wont either but for the third Friday in a row we have been under Tornado Warning for most of the night.

Thankfully once again it seems to have passed us by. Lots of thunder & lightning now but I can live with that. Just hope everyone else is lucky enough to survive without damage or injury.

Have to admit ive hated the recent tornado warnings and problems. After the big storm with the indianapolis downtown building window blow outs, we had some damage to our apartment, but nothing horrendous. Ever since i have been quite freaked out by thunderstoms and tornado watchs/warnings, I run into our windowless bathroom and get a lil freaked. Have to make up a good emergency kit just in case now, see if we can get a good weather radio. My one big complaint is that we barely hear (if at all) the tornado sirens from inside our apt.

We live in Chenoa,IL, three days after we moved into our house the sirens went off....thank God we have a house with a big basement!,after everything quieted down we went out to see a load of branches had been ripped off the tree just outside the basement window....then a few years ago,the sirens went off and I went down to the basement while my husband(and most of the men neighbours) stood out on the front door steps and watched the tornado float across the top of the tree line above our houses and some people watched it reach down to the ground just on the edge of town,it destroyed two farm houses and a couple of barns and there was a huge ploughed up line right the way across the field all the way to the farmhouses,luckily no-one was hurt....we think our house is in a slight valley and the bad weather just seems to miss it....(touch wood!)
We had those huge storms the other night as well...I never saw lightening like we have here while I was in England,it scares but fascinates me...so long as I'm indoors!.....Hope everyone here will be safe with all the tornados and hurricanes and everything......Sophia

I hope you have a blanket to put over your head when you hide in the bath, then.