Have you ever had a close encounter or been hit by a tornado?

I watched a movie wizard of oz and saw play "wicked" that's closest I've got .. maybe . I love that play so very much :) 

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I've had several close encounters! I've seen a couple tornadoes up close and personal having lived in the Midwest all my life, but the scariest moment was when a tornado essentially ripped a house to shreds just about a mile from my home. A huge two-story farmhouse was flattened. It even sucked all the gravel off the gravel roads.

Yes, as a teen, I watched the black sky coming, then I saw a flash of blue electricity as the power lines ripped away and the neighbors' garage spun upwards and scattered all over the place.  We just thought it was straight line wind but it was a small tornado. Fortunately, it passed us by but not before bending our TV antenna. 

I've been through tornado warnings but I only remember seeing one actual tornado that was on the ground.  It was three years ago in early August and it was on the ground four miles from my house but fortunately it was off to the east so it was moving away from me.

I've seen more funnel clouds than actual tornadoes.  One night when I was 11 or 12 I was sleeping on my front porch and I woke up and saw a large funnel cloud lit up by the lightning.


My husband actually proposed to me during a tornado warning but it wasn't planned that way lol.

No, unfortunately. I've seen 2 supercells that had potential to produce, but they didn't. If one ever comes close to my area I would probably go out and try to see it. I love tornadoes, I love watching tornado videos. 

I've only encountered wimpy tornadoes. Most tornadoes I've experienced struck during hurricanes. Hurricanes seem to spit out little tornadoes left and right. I remember the eerie sounds they made and the wind got even worse, the doors would rattle and larger debris would go flying by the windows. Sometimes I would hear trees snapping and explosions from power poles. Luckily they were never strong enough to tear the house apart, except for the shingles on the roof. But I wouldn't want to be outside what with the debris and possibly electrified flood waters.

Palm Sunday, 1965. It destroyed much of North end of our city. It was so bad, President Johnson came to visit and survey the damage.

This post was edited by Element 99 at July 29, 2017 10:15 AM MDT

Tornado Alley is home.  I've been around them my whole life.  I have never seen one.  I would like to see one.  The joke is that people from my home state are the only ones in the country who walk out side to look for a funnel cloud.  

not yet but weve had tornato warnings where i live

I have seen the damage done by a tornado in town. But never we me on that side of town.  Like Thrifty, I also live in tornado alley and yes people do go outside to look. 

The closest I have come to damage, I was sleeping  about 10:00am (I worked nights back then). I heard something "fall on the metal roof"...I  did think anymore about it and went back to sleep.  When my husband  came home, he was all in a panic "Are you alright?" I said "I was fine. Why?" 
He took me outside and showed me the roof had blown off the basement house. It was lying in the backyard. I had heard it as it came off....I just thought some stick fell on it.  I get teased to this day about be a heavy sleeper.