It's not like in the movies! It's pretty darned scary and loud. Anybody else ever have this experience?
2007-05-03 16:31:47 · 18 answers · asked by I_cook_its_wot_I_doo 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Alternative ➔ Other - Alternative
I have been in three tornadoes. When I was 8 years old; 22 years old and 32 years old. Ironicly the Tornado when I was 8 is the most vivid
I remember the sky turning green and my mother called us in the house. She started opening all the windows and then we all got on the back porch. We lived in rural Louisiana. When the tornado hit the sound was like a freight train going threw. It did not do any damage to our house but it did suck the wall paper off the walls. My mother did the right thing opening all the windows. We had a barn over to the right and behind the house. It literally picked up the barn and carried it sailing away. Our cow was in the barn when the tornado hit and I still remember the look of atonishment on that cows face as the barn went flying away leaving her standing where the barn once was. Her calf was picked up and thrown up against a wooden fence but was not hurt. We were lucky that day. My dad found our barn a week later more than 3/4 miles away.
2007-05-06 20:24:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. about 13 years ago. but luckily it went around the lake we were living by. and decided to go the other direction the only thing that woke us up was the wind that came through the window..we didn't know what it was until the next day we found out it was a tornado. I am glad that is all I felt. That is the last thing I would want to experience in my entire life.
2007-05-05 22:10:48 · answer #2 · answered by lincolnduttonfamily 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Once when I was a kid we watched twin tornado's dance in the cornfield behind my house. My grandmother let us watch from the sliding glass doors before it got kinda close and we all ran to the basement. Another time at a friends house in Kentucky, didn't see it but it passed close enough to top mature trees and take the chimney off the top of the house. We were in the basement hearing all the destruction, it was loud and quick.
2007-05-06 10:59:25 · answer #3 · answered by oracleofohio 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My parents and grandma, who were in Moore Okla., got to expierence the May 3rd tornado a few years ago. They were about 4 blocks from the path it cut. The only way my dad could describe it, being that he used to work for a railroad, was that it sounded like 100 trains. My grandma had a stone pot with flowers in it. The tornado TOOK the pot & left the FLOWERS!
2007-05-04 19:12:43 · answer #4 · answered by Koklor 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, one passed right over the top of the little town that I was raised in. I was 16. My sister and I heard a loud roaring noise that sounded like a train passing over head; we didn't know what it was. Later when we looked outside, we saw a large black funnel cloud that had landed in a field to the east of our town and headed away from us. Had that thing landed in town, it would have torn the place to shreds.
Later in life, I've seen others at a distance; eerie dark fingers touching the ground and just sort of moving around.
2007-05-03 23:57:58 · answer #5 · answered by TRAF 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One passed right over our apartment when I lived in central Illinois. It touched down about 2 miles away. We were sitting in the bathroom listening to the weather on a radio...it was the only room in the house without windows! Scary!
2007-05-04 15:13:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes my younger sister decided to be born during 2 tornados if FL 1986. my mother gave birth in the hallway. because there were no windows there.
also saw one about a mile away right before a storm and what was cool was where I was the sun was still out and where I was looking it was like a weird green color
2007-05-04 03:08:13 · answer #7 · answered by Kristenite’s Back! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have. I was in my trailer at about 7:15 a.m. with my husband and a weak(very loud,though) tornado blew right over us. It was pretty nerve racking!
2007-05-05 21:18:09 · answer #8 · answered by clovenstar_9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, about 22 years back. It was indeed a memorable experience. It was really very noisy, and scary, but not as they show in Movies. Then, I was more worried about the safety of my German Guests.
2007-05-05 07:22:37 · answer #9 · answered by manjunath_empeetech 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, when i was a little kid. my grandparents lived in Oklahoma city and one night my granddad said, put away the lawn chairs it's coming and then there was a sound like a big train and the wind went bananas...i was only about 4 so i didn't really understand what was going on, but then my granddad picked me up and held me and pointed to the funnel in the air moving through the air...pretty frightening
2007-05-03 23:41:07 · answer #10 · answered by coastcheaney 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋