Holy CRAP!.....a Tornado!

Gerry

Gerry

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SO, I'm sitting on my couch at 7:30am today, and a nasty rain storm starts rolling in. Slowly the wind is picking up, and my dog starts pacing the floor and looking at me? Then all of the sudden it starts hailing.....and I hear a GIANT crack outside. Looking out the window I see my neighbors garage blow into pieces, and just frigging haul azz across the field, and there was debris flying sideways down the road. Right then I called the wife out of bed to head for the cellar with doggy........but, just like that it was over!:(

Looking out side I noticed something different?.....1/3 of my 50' tall oak was lying in the yard.....and the worst part was our neighbors 60'x100' pole barn was GONE!....unfriggin real. His tractors are there, but 90% of the barn just flew away!!! Luckily none of the houses were touched.....a few shingles here and there, but no one physically hurt.

I was amazed, and scared, and shocked all at the same time. How is it pool related?...as I was calling the wife out of bed I headed to the office to get the safe, and my George case....:D Thats the order in my life I guess....her first, then the dog, then my important papers, then the cue case!:p

What a friggin morning! but hey, the Expo is almost here! woohoo.

 

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I've rode about two out in my days and they are something you dont want to be in. Its good to hear nobody got hurt.
 
Wow you actually seen a tornado in person. I've always wanted to. I chased a few in tx to see it but never did. There was supposedly one outside of a pool hall once and I opened the door to see and got pegged in the head with hail which.. hurt. so I closed the door.
 
I'm personally requesting a site ban for putting your wife, dog, and important papers ahead of pool. :eek:
 
Tornado

They aren't cool. I use to think I wanted to see one. I don't anymore. I live in Nebraska and they happen. Three years ago one came through my neighborhood. It didn't even touch down. I was working on some cues late at night. I hopped on the internet while waiting for some epoxy to dry. All of the sudden it sounded like my house was being taken apart by hail. I mean out of the blue. I looked out the window and saw tree limbs flying over my house. I knew then what it was. I could hear the air pressure making a wierd sound. I wouldn't know how to type it, sorry. I had a 1 year old boy and a pregnant wife sleeping. I screamed for my wife as I was yanking my kid out of his crib. Just then my sliding glass door exploded sending glass through every inch of my house. We got to the basement and it was over. That quick. It literally started right behind my house and went about two blocks. If it would have touched down we would have been done, because there was know sirens or warnings on the news. It shattered my deck, tore down my fence, and ripped the shingles off my roof. It uprooted and threw trees fatter than truck tires over my house. There were twigs shot into my siding like darts. I've had guns in my face and this was way scarrier. I never realized how powerful they were and what I experienced was childsplay compared to a big one that actually touched down. I had no idea. If I hear loud thunder or it's storming out I can't even sleep now.
 
My home survived a tornado last year. My car was a bit damaged by a flying tree, but I'm thankful that I wasn't injured. This is the same one that hit Enterprise High School (killing eight students) and Albany, destroying a hospital with fatalities as well. Thank God you and your wife were left uninjured!
 
Gerry,

The case has to come before important papers. Good to hear you guys are ok. If I only knew of someone who can take care of that tree for ya.:D What are your plans for the expo.
 
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July 31 1987 I lived in edmonton,alberta,canada.Not a place known for tornados.A F5 tornado touched down a block from my house,then hit evergreen trailer park,and industrial areas killing 27 injuring hundreds.It was the most bizzare day I have ever experienced.Considering a tornado of that caliber is VERY scarce in those parts.
I will never forget it because for about 3 weeks it was blistering hot,not a cloud in the sky then BOOM it turned ugly,hail stones as big as softballs(infact my brother kept one in his freezer for years to show people).
Infact if anyone is interested google Edmonton tornado and you will see what I saw.
 
We had one go right by my place in Brooklyn a few months ago. It didn't last that long. You can't cause a big stir in Brooklyn and expect to stick around for long.
 
well thats using your head ...your best shot at seeing one and you just closed the door 2 it
 
luckily we dont get many down in South texas. We gotta worry bout hurricanes though but at least we get some warning beforehand. Those tornadoes aint no joke they can come from nowhere and can be gone just as quick and leave you with nothing
 
That must be a great wife, if she is ranked nr 1 before the dog, papers and cues ;)

good to know everything is ok!

I thought at first you meant that Tony "The Tornado" Drago had done some damages to the houses, trees and the barn, but I was pretty sure he was in London yesterday. Took me some seconds to realise it was mother nature you were talking about ;)
 
kryptonite9 said:
Gerry,

The case has to come before important papers. Good to hear you guys are ok. If I only knew of someone who can take care of that tree for ya.:D What are your plans for the expo.
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Hey big K I'm way ahead of ya! I just finished a water heater with you brother, and he's gonna bring big brother up here as soon as I get the tree chopped up.

I'm going to the Expo as much as I can....which will be daily!:D were gonna head down with Jimmy, and meet Ray there.....and sample a few beverages. Of course Missy cue will be there to keep me in line, or drive me home:)

yup, I'm lucky in the wifey department....she likes pool just about as much as me, puts up with my stupid jokes and keeps my business in line....not a bad deal!:D thanks for the kind words everyone.
 
Glad to hear you and yours are OK.

I lived in Tornado Alley between Lubbock and Houston. I have seen 5-6 tornados and been up close and personal with two of them.

Back in the mid 80's, I walked into Rusty's in Dallas with a bad storm going on outside. I heard what sounded like a freight train coming and I yelled "Tornado!!". Everyone looked at me like I was nuts. Suddenly, the lights go out and the roof over the pool counter caves in. I dove under one of the tables but then decided that wasn't such a good idea. It was over pretty quick.

Afterwards, it was raining so hard, you couldn't see much out in the parking lot. As the rain finally let up, I looked for my car. It was still there but the brand new Cadillac next to mine was flipped upside down on its roof and about 50 feet away.

I walked out to my car to see if it had been damaged. It looked like someone had shot it with a machince gun down one side. There were about 15 holes in the windows and side panels.

On the news, later that night, they said 7 tornados had moved throught the DFW corridor.

A couple of years later, a tornado came down the middle of my street in Katy, Tx. just outside of Houston, when I was standing in the middle of my garage. It flattened two houses to the ground and made one story houses out of two story houses throughout the neighborhood. What was wierd about it was I had light weight lawn furniture and it didn't disturb it. About a hundred feet away, my next door neighbor had a gazebo that had to weigh 3-4 tons and the tornado picked it up and lifted it over three fences, set it down and rolled it through a couple of more fences on its side. Thank God, no one was hurt.

Once you hear the sound of one coming, you never forget it. I still get a helpless feeling and a little nervous to this day when I'm in a bad storm.

Stones
 
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