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Lst night was FREAKY!I didn't get to go to bed until midnight!
It started as a beautiful warm spring day.When my dad was done with all his projects outside at around sundown,we went in and watched this program on tornadoes he had recorded from PBS.It was really cool...I LOVE shows about tornadoes.I love watching tornadoes.I'm fascinated and terrified of them.I just don't like it when they decide to stop by my area.
No sooner than the program was over,and we were watching regular TV again,then there were T-Storm warnings and a Tornado warning for a county north of us.I had a feeling we were going to get a storm,but it didn't look like the tornado area of it was coming for us.So we ate dinner and kept the TV on,and it seemed strange that every channel except like,PBS,had the weather going.Apparently a tornado had really touched down in that northern county.All I cared about was whether they were getting any footage of it or not.And we had to shut off the computer because the lightning was getting bad out,but there was hardly any thunder and it wasn't raining at all.
So I started drifting off in the chair with the news still going.A little bit later I was kinda half awake,and my mom tells me we have to go to the basement and I hear my dad tell her the Dave and Judy(my grandparents that live in a trailer) are coming over.It still wasn't raining,I saw as I practically sleepwalked down to the basement.I flopped on the couch down there and curled up and went to sleep while my parents turned the news back on down there.I kinda half woke up again when I heard my grandma come.My grandpa was coming in his truck in a few minutes,I don't remember why grandma had to go without him.
Well now I was awake enough to sit up and ask why we had to go to the basement,and my answer was that now WE were under a tornado warning.My eyes bugged out,and I'm like,"Are you serious?!Has one touched down yet?!"All that had been seen so far were funnel clouds.My grandpa arrived minutes later.
My mom got the little portable radio from the second floor bathroom,and was listening for reports there while we were all watching the TV.We could all hear it whent he rain started.Me,my dad,and my grandpa were all standing by or outside the front door watching the lighting,which didn't cease for a second.Still hardly any thunder,but constant falshes of lightning.And then everything just sounder different.The wind sounded different.The rain was splotchy,I don't recall it ever pouring.I was wide awake by now.
My grandpa went outside to watch it.I went back down to see if there were any new reports,but nothing much.I heard someone else talking outside and went up to see who it was.Our neighbor,Bev was saying something to my dad.She and her husband Clark came over to stay in the basement too.They had a small house with no basement like my grandparents.I got my video camera out and recorded the lighting for awhile,but it had a low battery and little tape left so it didn't last long.
Soon there were reports of two tornadoes touching down outside of town and making their way south(which would be right for us).I continued looking out the door for awhile,terrified that when the lighting struck it would reveal the silhouette of a tornado.
Later when I decided to stick to the TV and the rain had stopped,I thought I heard yet another person at the door.No,it was hale smacking against the door and windows.First pea-size,then marble-size and ping-pong ball-size.At some point we could hear tornado sirens in two different towns next to us.
A funnel cloud sighting was reported barely a mile from my grandma's house,and her house is barely a mile away from our house.Luckily it never turned into anything.Eventually the hale calmed and the worst of the storm passed us,with another tornado touching down south of us.Only one person died last died.
This link has a little bit of footage of the tornado,then it just goes on about how college students were affected.