Wow. Glad you are OK.
Tornado - My First Time...
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Caryw
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I took a golf ball sized on to the collarbone! Raised a nice bruise!Absolutely nerve racking..!! I hate storm season..
Glad you are alright sir.. if you have to witness something like that, it's a blessing to see it from your vantage point in that video..
We had a tornado warning a week ago in Lawton, 8:30 pm.. it was radar indicated and never touched down but still caused alot of damage.
I was on my porch looking for it, no wind.. that's scary because you don't know where it is.. then the wind hit, out of the north, strong enough to take down a mile of utility poles..
The north wind let me know I was on the inflow side of the storm, so I knew where to look but darkness, rain, and hail covered everything..
BTW, wind driven hail hurts real bad..
I took a direct tornado hit in 2018. Didn’t total the house but did about 35k in damage. I almost waited too long to bail out. I was too busy watching for it.
Bill Ferris
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Chris, I assume, and dearly hope, that your property has a functional underground storm shelter !
One was estimated as an EF3. A second was thought to be an EF1. Final assessment is usually done by surveying the damage, from there they can classify it.
Quadman2
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Caryw
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I am always on the porch during storms!I can't explain why I go outside.. facing a fear I guess..
HB3
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I was there October 1973 to April 1974 and was lucky weather wise. Never had rattlesnake. Me and a couple other guys were walking around the downtown area and came across a club where the locals were square dancing. We stood at the door very curious and they invited us in. We declined but looking back that could have been a lot of fun. To my 18 year old self, you missed out.Rattlesnake is delicious..!! Tastes just like chicken..
But I let the others hunt em.. and cook em..
April 10th 1979.. Wichita Falls and Lawton got hit.. the last 'official' tornado in Lawton..
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The roof coming off my late office during Hurricane Charley. The photographer, Jim Eds made enough money off the images to quit his state job.
mfrench
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Another survivor of lots of ground movement. That, I can handle. That schiff dropping down from the sky, and clearing large swaths,... that scares the bejeez out of me.
As close to it as I've come are some dust devil dirt twisters that I ran into as a kid; literally ran to get into them. i quickly found out that that was stupid.
And, as a surfer, I've seen my share of water spouts offshore. Those can get pretty intense, and its weird to see water getting sucked up into a greater force.
Tornadoes,... how big of a hole in the ground do you need to sink, or, build an underground storm structure?
As close to it as I've come are some dust devil dirt twisters that I ran into as a kid; literally ran to get into them. i quickly found out that that was stupid.
And, as a surfer, I've seen my share of water spouts offshore. Those can get pretty intense, and its weird to see water getting sucked up into a greater force.
Tornadoes,... how big of a hole in the ground do you need to sink, or, build an underground storm structure?
Bill Ferris
Lunatic Member
Me too, Mike.
The sound they make while sucking up the water is pretty cool as well (think shop vacuum from Hell !), as I experienced ~100 ft. from one in the bay off of South Miami in 1979 while fishing with a friend in his boat one spring afternoon.
We weren`t scared, with the open bay all around us to turn away from it should it start heading towards us and I told my friend to keep the motor running while we idled up close to it and checked it out until it dissolved.
Very cool example of mother nature for a couple of early twenties stoners to experience !
We have a couple more days (Wed/Thur) for potential Tornados. This was a 1/2 hour ago. Click to enlarge
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