[Iron_Ranger]

I was sitting here fooling around with some beads that came out of a sutffed animal, you know the stuff thats its beanie babies and such..Er, anyway,I noticed the design I made kind of resembeled a Tornado, and that got me thinking..Has anyone here ever experinced a Tornado? And if so what was the power of it? F1? F2? F3?

As for my experince, I have infact witnessed one. A few years ago..In about 97' or 98' I guess it was..A town about 5 miles northwest of my house got rocked by one. It was an F5, some of your from Texas might have heard of it, it as the one in the town called Jarrel a few years ago, it was all in the news. Quite a few people died, cant remember how many though. It as really huge, I could see it from my back porch, 5 Miles away, I could see it damn good too. Very frieghting..

They are really something else when you actaully see one. Its a very ominous thing. Very ominous. Dark sky, violent winds, and often violent lighting.

We have had some other very close calls..Funnel clouds coming down, but never quite doing anything..And I remember one time a few years ago there were clouds circuling right above my house, right above it!! Thankfully nothing ever came of it..

I have only experinced one 'touchdown' and hopefully that will be the only one.