Reports yesterday included a tornado warning. Sure 'nuf, one touched down about a mile away. It was on the ground for 2 miles.
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That's scary. We had one come through about 35 years ago, and it took my garage with it. Glad you're OK.
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Thanks. During Wilma, a tornado removed the whole shell of one of two 10'x12' metal sheds. It left the contents (discombobulated). In the picture below, you can see the sister shed to the left. it was well protected. I shudder to think of all that sheet metal flying through the air. I never found it.
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About 25 years ago, I had the good fortune to have a tornado destroy 2 houses 500 yards to the west of me, then jump over my house and destroy 3 homes 500 yards to the east. I only lost a half dozen shingles. Why that happened that way, I will never know, but I'm sure glad it did.
Storms that came through south of Orlando a couple of days ago had tornadoes, wind gusts of 80-100mph and 2"-3" hail!
Glad that one missed us, too... 
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I feel for ya. We had plenty of damage from tornadoes in '08. One about six months prior to Ike, exactly one week after I put up the new fence, then Ike spun off a few tornadoes that didn't quite touch ground but spun the tops off of several of my trees...Please like and subscribe to my YouTube channel. Please check out and subscribe to my Workshop Blog.Comment
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There were a couple tornadoes here - about 40 minutes west of me. Somebody I know had 4 trees blown over along the edge of his property. The kids' trampoline also got blown into the pool. About 10 years ago my folks got some more pasture land after what they think was a tornado blew some trees over.David
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Glad no one had an uplifting experience. We usually have to worry about forest fires from the storms and not tornadoes.
Today they are forecasting heavy rain and thunder, wonder how it's done without the lightning?
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When I lived in TX, a tornado (maybe a micro-burst?) destroyed a new townhouse complex about a mile from me - and nothing else. The complex was nearly finished, but fortunately was unoccupied. I also worked with an older woman who had been carried 2-3 miles by a tornado when she was ~3, and only had minor injuries. She had some interesting photos and newspaper stories from the event.BillComment
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They're rare up here but we do sometimes get them. One many years ago took out the screen of the local drive in theater. What was playing? You guessed it....Twister
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Richard in Smithville
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We have had a couple of deady ones in our area the past few years. One of the stranger things that happened was one of them took out 1 in a series of Turkey houses and left the turkeys. The turkeys having never been out of that house before just stood in the same area that the builing was in. It was warm and most died from the heat. There was shade available, but they never left the area they were used to. The owner had major damage in several places and by the time he got there it was too late.
Bill"I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in."-Kenny RogersComment
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our weather can be downright scary!! C-man, is that a gumbo limbo tree in the upper right quadrant?
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tornado was close
The tornado that hit here on Sunday was close to us as well. It hit about
15 minutes before 6 o'clock and we were at church and starting the evening service when the lights went out and a fireman from the fire dept across the street came and told us a tornado was headed our way. The tornado missed
the church but it did hit in a housing development across the street and did some damage there. It then went across the interstate highway about
1/4 mile away and hit in our preachers' back yard, took down a couple of pine trees, jumped over his house and hit in the front yard and took down several
Bradford pear trees...and never touched his house or his daughter's car in the driveway ! I guess the good Lord is looking after some of us all the time whether
we realize it or not! eezlockComment
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