How many here have seen tornadoes?

[deerman]

Was in the April 3rd 1974 tornadoe. 3/4 of the town gone after it passed. My house also,and my work place.

4:39 pm still have a clock were the hands stopped.

 

[deerman]

Oh Xenia Ohio class 4

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I've seen several as they happened. I helped clean up a small town near me that was hit by an EF-4. My sisters trailer was fine the neighbors was gone. I made a video.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=29159012

 

[schmije]

I took this picture from my front yard in May of '07. It was far enough away that we weren't in danger, but it was really interesting (and scary) to watch.

 

[Pumpkinpup]

It's a very sobering thing to witness. I would be quite content not to ever see another one nor a hurricane either. I hate volitile weather. I have seen my share of it and don't care to be in any more!

 

[grundail01]

I've seen and been in several when i lived in OK as a kid and in Tulsa when i went to college. Give me earth quakes over tornadoes any day lol

 

[conradpdx]

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Hahaha....When I moved here to Oregon in 92 I was living in a Studio apartment on the fourth floor of a 100 year old building. At about 5:30 am there was a quake that woke me, and in my morning haze went and sat in the bathtub, rather than under a doorway.....bout the time my butt hit the tub bottom I realized I was in Tornado mode and this was an earthquake, I got to the door way to watch the last of the earthquake through my bay windows overlooking downtown Portland.

Many might wonder why the bathtub for a tornado, but it's what where you're suppose to go in multistory building during a tornado. They say that often the shell of the building will implode (on bigger buildings) and often all that is left standing is the plumbing (especially in older buildings with cast iron pipes- no so sure if that's the case anymore with the plastic pipes that have taken over). Though personally I've never seen anything that was hit that was taller than 2 stories other than grain silos and barns.

And where we lived in Kansas everyone had a basement or a storm shelter/bomb shelter. I can't think of anyone growing up that didn't have one or the other.

 

[lilshadow]

I have seen funnels, but that haven't actually touched down, and I am glad they haven't. The storms here are pretty scary, the sky turns green, and the clouds start to swirl. We had one where the sirens went off, and I am looking around driving the car in the mean time, and my sons girlfriend yelling at me to drive faster because it was behind us. That was really scary, but the scarest was at night. I came home to find all of my clothes scattered in the pasture, but my house was okay.

 

[lilshadow]

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I have been in several earthquakes. I almost pee'd my pants. It was in Japan, and I was on the 8th floor of our Navy housing. That was not fun at all. We had earthquakes daily there. Also, a typhoon, and 1 volcanic eruption. Not pretty at all.

 

[Redfeathers]

I was born in PA and remember seeing a tornado through the window of the garage. It was amazing and I was too young to be terribly afraid. I watched it tear the bricks from our neighbors chimney clean off, then the roof. It didn't harm our house. I remember the sky and air was green.

We live in Oregon now...nothing like that happens here much....we just get lots of rain and wind storms.