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Posted on 6/7/16 at 11:23 pm to WeeWee
Posted on 6/7/16 at 11:23 pm to WeeWee
That is a frightening image.
I have been fortunate enough to have only been witness to one major tornado in my almost 40 years. Luckily it bounced completely over our house and both sets of my grandparents houses.
I have been fortunate enough to have only been witness to one major tornado in my almost 40 years. Luckily it bounced completely over our house and both sets of my grandparents houses.
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Posted on 6/7/16 at 11:47 pm to AshLSU
Had a meeting in baton rouge 2 days later and drove instead of flew. Passing McFarland there was nothing but emergency vehicles and from there through green county was just destruction.
Going to games the following fall was surreal. Basically all that was left was the campus. The rest of the area around 15th looked like someone had just wiped it clean. No trees, buildings...just dirt. It was eerie to look at that scene and try to enjoy a ballgame.
Going to games the following fall was surreal. Basically all that was left was the campus. The rest of the area around 15th looked like someone had just wiped it clean. No trees, buildings...just dirt. It was eerie to look at that scene and try to enjoy a ballgame.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 11:53 pm to AshLSU
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I have been fortunate enough to have only been witness to one major tornado in my almost 40 years. Luckily it bounced completely over our house and both sets of my grandparents houses.
I have been in one, but I was only 18 months old so I don't remember alot of the details, but based on the picture it destroyed my dad's shop and threw his combine 100 feet or so out into the field. Luckily, our house which is only 100 feet away only had minor roof damage.
I have also been too close for comfort before. It early december in La, and I was ~15years old. I was about 20 feet up a tree in an Ole Man climber. The temperature dropped about 25 degrees from the time I went in the woods and then it got still and by still I mean it was eerily still. Then I heard it, but by the time I got out of the tree it was gone. When I walked out, I came across its aftermath, and it had passed about a quarter of a mile behind me. By the looks of it, the tornado touched down, took out about a 400 yard by 30 yard section of woods and then just disappeared.
I was taking gross anatomy final @ MS in Clinton Ms when this system came through. Nothing lowers test anxiety than having to stop your lab exam and crouch in the hall while wearing a lab coat that smelled like anatomy lab.
On 2nd thought it might have been good luck because I did make a 100% on that exam. 
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