Tornaaaadows

[Tarryk]

Big storm just ripped through here at my work, and a tornado touched down about 50 to 80 meters from my building about a half hour ago. I didn't get to see it, but it tore up the power lines something good.

Eep.

[Lauri]

Holy moly! *shoves Tarryk's head between his knees!*

Be careful!

[Troxytutu]

Whoa Dude. Glad you're able to post. That means you're okay. Hope nobody got hurt.

Can't wait to hear all about on you're next show. Epicine verses the whirlwind!

All kidding aside. Glad you're okay.

[Shigy]

Go man go
Glad to here your fine.

[Jugsmalone]

Nothing can hurt our Tarryk he has a flight booked for D-Con and he is going to be on it nothing in the verse can touch him..

[Sneakpastu]

I'm glad you are safe. I don't like this time a year for the very fact of tornados. They scare me. Was at school when one touched down in the playground as a kid. It was scary to a say the least.

[Firia]

Cheesey creesy T-man! I'm glad you're ok. Tornados are nuts!

[Ashval]

Glad you're okay, dude. We got rocked pretty hard here in St. Louis, too. Power finally restored.

[Tarryk]

Ah cool, good to see you got power back up, V!

And thanks, peeps, everything was okay. Interesting story, though. I saw my first real-life tornado, and didn't even know it.

The rain was falling straight down, very calmly. Middle of the afternoon, but seemed like evening with the clouds and fog in the rain. Tornado warning sirens started going off, and our operator went over the PA and announced that there was a tornado warning in effect and everyone needed to go into the basement.

Myself and a few other adventurous souls (all smokers, ironically) went outside to the garage and watched. One of the guys with us is also the weatherman on one of our local TV stations, so he had a bit of a keen eye on what was going on.

So the rain is falling straight down, a little heavy, not too much lightening. Seemed WAY too calm for a tornado warning.

Tim, the weatherman dude, says "No, this is definitely a tornado warning." He steps into the rain with me and we're looking up at the sky, and it looks like the clouds are going in two different directions.

Tim goes "Holy s*&# we're right in the middle of it."

On queue, the wind picks up and in ZERO time flat, the rain goes from straight down to horizontal. Tim and I run back into the garage with everyone else, and we all start to stare at it. The change was amazing, it looks like a hurricane just landed on us out of nowhere. We watched a tree get torn in half by the wind, and saw from outside the view area of the garage this HUGE plastic (and very heavy) garbage can drift by like a leave, eventually landing in the parking lot across the street.

"We might want to get inside now," Tim says.

Fog lands as fast as the wind did, and visibility becomes practically zero. We can no longer see the lot across the street, it's nothing but a wall of horizontal rain, fog, and debris.

I couldn't go inside, it was too amazing to watch. After a few minutes it died down, and almost just as quickly turned back to a calm rain.

Found out a few minutes later from the news report that the spot I was staring at (but couldn't actually see at the time) in the lot across the street was the exact spot that the tornado actually touched down, and began moving away from my location for a hundred meters or so, then picked back up and dissipated.

Intense. Moreso that if it had decided to go in the opposite direction, I'd have been brought somewhere other than Kansas.

[GruzzyFunt]

Well glad your ok. Dude, you should broadcast that on air, like those old-timey suspense stories. And have all the sound effect and what-not. Then after the REAL part, you could just make up the rest, and have a kick-ass thriller storyf or all of us

[Demongirl]

Well at least that's one more thing to check off the list of things to see ONCE in your life.

Glad you're alright Tk, just wish I could've been there having a smoke too... and probably another one when it was over!

[Aameul]

I didn't know a tornado hit that far west... glad you came out okay.

I got nailed by that storm too. Thankfully most of our power grid is fed by the rich suburb north of here so the power lines are all underground. There was one blip of lost power, about 5 seconds worth... just long enough to reboot my computer and Tivo. Lost a good hours worth of progress on Bioshock, though. The lightning show was incredible, completely nonstop. Thankfully the tornado that hit in the Detroit area was pretty far north of here, a good 20-30 minutes away.

[ivanelme]

necroing this, tornadoes are insane. The one (mabey two I don't really remember) went right by my house. Was insane, me and my dad standing outside looking at the pitch black sky. Heard the sound of something like a jet plane going overhead. Walk back inside and BAM! Power goes out and we can hear the wind whipping by our house at what was probably 100 mph. Stops for a few seconds, dad goes outside, second he steps back in wind picks up again before it finally dies down. About a week later when we got power they were showing clips from the cameras they had on the Bellsouth building. Freaking thing managed to take up the whole of downtown Nashville.

was an amazingly scary and exciting experience. If I can ever get my hands on it I'll post the video.

[Drhecate]

That's freaky. I had a nightmare about a tornado a week before this incident ( keep in mind I live in Canada and have no experience with these kinda things ) and I went outside and it was rapidly approaching the house. I think I had to dropkick my boyfriend into the house or something cuz he was moving so slow, which I took absolutely no satisfaction in *straight face* The idea of a tornado or an earthquake freaks the hell out of me, relieved to know you and everyone else are ok Tarryk

[Kyrros]

I'm chiming in real late here. I gotta say two things. First: Good thing the tornado didn't pick you up, tK.. I'd hate to see you in ruby slippers.

Secondly:

Holy moly! *shoves Tarryk's head between his knees!*

Be careful!

Shouldn't that read "*shoves Tarryk's head between her knees!*"

[Sefus]

wow! cool stories

This hurricane came through here last year (VA) and I'm at a friends house who lives right on the river. So we're chattin it up hanging out. We didn't really think the hurricane was that close but my boys gf comes in screaming "Look out the window!!" and holy fuck... not one but 2 WATERSPOUTS like a half mile away in the middle of the river!! Freaky!

Dang I wish I could find that picture... it made the local paper. Scared the shit out of me tho

[Stiofain]

We used to live in a valley in the panhandle of Texas, tornadoes came through there all the time, and lucky us living in the valley they'd skip right over our ranch and go about their destruction further on. Had to have had dozens of tornadoes while we lived there, most we ever lost was a few shingles, thogh the hail was a different story....