Sunday, August 24, 2008

Tornado!

This afternoon DH was getting ready to mow our grass and I noticed the sky looked rather yucky, so I went out in front of our house to see what I could see and a guy drives past and tells me there is a funnel cloud behind my house!

So I go back there and sure enough, there is!

At first it didn't look like much, but after a bit we noticed that there seemed to be a see-through part that extended towards the ground.  So I ran upstairs and watched some more.  It eventually stirred up some dirt so you could really see it.
From what we could see the tornado wasn't really doing much, and it was not going very fast.  It looked like it was about to give up many times before it finally did give up after about 20 minutes.
For some better pictures than I was able to get, check out our newsAnd here too!
I guess I must have made a mistake in showing this to Darly because it seemed to upset her quite a bit.  She started packing some clothes & her favorite toys to go down into the basement.  I wanted to show her the tornado so she could see what one that you didn't have to be worried about looked like.  I tried explaining to her that DH & I wouldn't be sitting there at the window taking pictures if there was any reason to be worried about it.  That didn't seem to work until sometime after it was over.  She can now laugh about it, cuz her friend called to see if she was okay.
I have to admit that I haven't seen a tornado in person that was any larger that this one.  There was a funnel cloud in Cheyenne once, but it never touched down.  Although they sounded the sirens for it.  (we don't have sirens in my town.  They figure we don't get enough storms to pay for them.)
We did have a larger tornado in TX, but I never saw it.  DH & I were having dinner at a friend's house and looked outside at the storm wondering if we should go put our car in our carport so it wouldn't get hit by hail.  Meanwhile there was a tornado hitting DH's office and a few other buildings near it.
Damage to his office wasn't too bad...it just knocked out a few windows.  But since a new office was already under construction, DH had to survive the winter in his office with plywood over the window.
OH!  DH never mowed our grass today.  :-/

13 comments:

  1. Wow that's crazy!! I'm gald you guys are ok and all!

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  2. Oh I do love me some tornado weather!! Were your weather people freaking out-telling you to take cover? Here in OK we live for this kind of stuff. Well, we live for it when it's in the next town, when the tornado is actually in your town it's a different story. I'm happy to hear that no one was hurt and not too much damage.

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  3. Oh wow - I'm glad it didn't become something more threatening, but how cool to see it form. Your pics are better than the news!

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  4. Those are cool pics!!! :)

    Poor Darly, lol.

    Glad to hear everyone is well!

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  5. Those are great shots although tornados are no fun :P

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  6. We get tornado warnings about once a week here during the spring.

    Gee, I can't believe DH wouldn't mow the grass while a tornado was passing by. lol

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  7. Thank goodness it wasn't anything serious. Must have been cool, though, to be able to watch it. I've never seen one in person before.

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  8. That's a great pic of the funnel cloud above the house. I'm so glad you are all ok and poor Darly to think she was packing.

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  9. You got wonderful pics of the tornado! I think I was a little late, catching it as it was heading back into the clouds. My kids were pretty freaked out by it too... R still wants reassurance that it's not coming back!

    RCY- Yeah, the cops were at the party, but in a different way then you would expect... I called them! It's kind of a long story, but we even had the K-9 team here that day... It was wild!

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  10. As a Californian who has never seen a tornado, I'm with Darly...basement here I come. Glad to hear that all it did was provide the opportunity to take some incredible photos!

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  11. I couldn't help myself...I was wondering why you went upstairs to take pictures of the tornado instead of heading down to the basement. Darly is clearly a good Girl Scout. She was getting prepared, just in case. Kudos to her = )

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  12. Oh my gosh! I'm with Darly. I'd have been in the basement. I was always scared of tornados when I lived in Nashville.

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