tornados

[tyecko]

well out here in MN we got tornadoes going off so before i die id like to say it was fun being a cheap ass gamer. c yall

[SneakyPenguin]

good luck in the afterlife, if such a thing exists. its nice to see your going off with dignity.

can i have your stereo?

[Wlogan31]

I used to want to be a stormchaser (I'll go ahead and put dibs on your videogames :) ).

[dustyeff]

Haha, I'm in MN too. but I'm not near the tornados - up in Duluth... we got some nice hail though.

[dustyeff]

Oh, and I think I'll call your CD/DVDs.

[st0neface]

Haha, I'm in MN too. but I'm not near the tornados - up in Duluth... we got some nice hail though.

I used to live in Duluth, those cold fronts off Lake Superior suck ass.

[Mr. Anderson]

Oh, and I think I'll call your CD/DVDs.

Damn beat me to it! Oh well. I'll take all your games.

[CaseyRyback]

I used to live in Tornado alley and have never seen one. Closest one was about an hour from where i lived

[tyecko]

ok well im fine at the moment so i still hold possession of my items, lol. Besides. I think if there was a tornado my cds, games, and dvds would be destroyed

[chrisp450]

I'm here in MN too....all our freaking network channels have gone away from normal TV and are only doing storm coverage.....very annoying.

It is VERY windy here, and their is a lot of rain....but this is nothing. BTW, I live near the TC..

[SneakyPenguin]

two years ago in upstate new york it was hell. there were neders everywhere, and an incredible amount of hail. lignting struck in front of my house, and a tree fell into my lawn after being struck. it was awesome. everytim theres a storm i get my camcorder, put it on slow shutter, and sit on my covered porch and film the havoc. i love storms.

[tyecko]

i live in plymouth and i agree, nothings happened. i assumed more would happen due to all these weather people freakin out on the news

[RedvsBlue]

Minnesota here too! How can there be all these Minnesota people and the meetup didn't go through?

[st0neface]

Minnesota here too! How can there be all these Minnesota people and the meetup didn't go through?

I haven't lived there since '95,.

[tyecko]

Dane lives here too

[alongx]

About 3 years ago, there was a tornado that touched down about a mile from my house. Tore apart 10-15 houses and destroyed a lot of trees. At the time, I didn't believe it was actually happening, since I live in Jersey and all.

[Darke Katt]

two years ago in upstate new york it was hell. there were neders everywhere, and an incredible amount of hail. lignting struck in front of my house, and a tree fell into my lawn after being struck. it was awesome. everytim theres a storm i get my camcorder, put it on slow shutter, and sit on my covered porch and film the havoc. i love storms.

You are just like my father. he loved storms; he would sit on the porch whenever there was one and watch them. He would videotape them from time to time.

I myself am scared shitless of them, and for good reason. Here goes the story that I've told hundreds of times since it happened..

It was the morning of Saturday, March 13, 1993. it being a Saturday, we liked to sleep in. But since there was the Winter Storm of that year tearing through, my brother, who was big on storms as well then, got us up and made us watch the storm. I was 10 then, my bro was 12, my sis had just turned 16. Anywho, he went outside to watch the storm blow, and was busy watching this enormous dead pine tree in a small wooded lot beside our house sway. Soon, mom called him in to pick up his room. I was watching the Weather Channel. Sis was watching TV in the backroom; mom was doing laundry in a small room by the kitchen. She had just walked out of that room. It was 7:15 in the morning. There was no warning.

KABOOM!

The tree had fallen lengthwise across the whole house. The kitchen, the Laundry room my mother was just in, my brother's room, my mom's room.

I nearly jumped out of my skin. My sister ran screaming from the backroom to her room, which I wonder about because the kitchen was decimated. My bro was still in his room.

Its fuzzy here because you know how things speed up during a catastrophe. But I was the one to discover my brother. Standing in the middle of his room, a total disaster area, a huge hole in the ceiling, debris from the attic and the tree everywhere around him.

His right arm hanging, torn nearly off by the elbow. He was just lowering his arms, as if he was protecting himself from the fall of debris.

I ran screaming around, pointing to his room. "Mom! Mom! Mom! Bryan! Bryan! Bryan!"

He came stumbling out over the debris, in obvious shock, because he didn't cry. He wasn't screaming. 911 was useless. Mom wrapped his injured arm in a towel and sped off at light speed. Mom recalled later how Bryan asked her during the car ride, amazingly calm, that if they were going to be in that TV show, Rescue 911.

It's funny how this stuff happens when you least expect it. What's even stranger is that he saved my life, and my mom's, without knowing it. I was sleeping with my mother, of course, scared of the storm. We would not have gotten up if it weren't for my brother; like I said, we like to sleep in on saturday. My mom's room was totaled after the tree. There was a huge rafter sticking into the pillow I was sleeping in just a few moments before, not to mention other heavy debris all over that waterbed.

I shared a room with my brother at the time; we had bunkbeds. If he was only sitting on the bottom bunk, he would have been unharmed.

Amazingly, all the cats we had were also unharmed. I remember mom carrying our oldest cat outside when we went out there to see the storm like Bryan had wanted us to; it was as if she knew what was going to happen. She squirmed out of her arms and tore into the wooded lot, in the opposite direction of the falling tree.

While mom was gone, we stayed at the house across the street, with an elderly couple we knew and were our babysitters for years. They recall seeing a huge spark as the tree hit the antenna.

So, yeah. That's why I dont like storms.

For the curious, my bro is fine now. His arm looks like a mass of flesh stitched together, and his hand can't bend backward past a certain point, but the docs were successfuly able to put his arm back together. He can tie his shoelaces, eat, and most importantly, play his video games. Amazingly, his injured hand's thumb is his fastest trigger finger. He still had to learn to write left-handed, though.

I remember seeing surgery photos of his arm still open. Ugh.
He wears a stocking (usually an old sock with the toes cut out) to cover his arm. There's a metal plate in there somewhere that held his arm bones together.

No matter how many times I tell this story, it always gives me a bad feeling in my gut.

[ZForce915]

I'll take dibs on your girlfriend.

[JimmieMac]

I'll take dibs on your girlfriend.

Have you seen her? You're on the losing end there.

[Gothic Walrus]

two years ago in upstate new york it was hell. there were neders everywhere, and an incredible amount of hail. lignting struck in front of my house, and a tree fell into my lawn after being struck. it was awesome. everytim theres a storm i get my camcorder, put it on slow shutter, and sit on my covered porch and film the havoc. i love storms.

You are just like my father. he loved storms; he would sit on the porch whenever there was one and watch them. He would videotape them from time to time.

I myself am scared shitless of them, and for good reason. Here goes the story that I've told hundreds of times since it happened..

<insert story here>

Wow...I guess you've definitely got a valid reason. Still, you ARE alive...which, as you said, may not have happened otherwise. That's gotta count for something...

Personally, I love storms. They're just so powerful, so refreshing, so...spiffy. :D I love being outside after it storms - everything's dead silent, and the air has a great smell in it...the smell of rain.

[snotknocker]

Well being from NJ we don't get very many twisters. However I can offer up many a tale about biohazards seeing as how I live in the
TOXIC ARMPIT OF THE WORLD!!!!