Thread: close call!

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here is a few shots from my front yard about an hour ago, thought you guys would dig em.

I grew up in the Midwest, and saw a few of those. I would have been in the cellar instead of taking pictures! The scariest was at night, when you could hear it...but not see it!

Cool!, As long as it's Not in your front yard!

Pat

Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT

The scariest was at night, when you could hear it...but not see it!

and have the warning siren go off at 2:30AM, a 1/2block from the house, at 2nd story level where you are sleeping .
What a fine wake up call in Polk Nebr. while visiting family ...joe

Is that thing over water at this point?
I see a lot of clean moisture with little or no debris at the bottom.

To clean, must be a water spout! (over water)
Still close!!!

Pat

WOW,at first I just saw the birds nest or what ever it is on the wires, thought, what...Then I looked right whoa.Id be in a cellar if I had one.

Yes guys it was over water at that point. Good call guys! you have more experience than me. It was creepy and cool at the same time, i was waiting to see debris before i hid under the house. I know stupid move, but i could not stop watching it.

We even have them occasionally in the normally frozen tundra of Upstate NY. NOT MUCH fun when you see a neighbors house 4-500 feet away get scrambled. Or see the local Ford dealer have a few cars wiped out by debris. I've seen enough of those twisters to last a life time - NY, Okla, Kansas, Texas New Mexico and waterspouts like pictured, in Puerto Rico

I agree with others - in the basement or where ever is safe, not the front yard - they scare the ---- out of me!!!

Living in KS, we have many opportunities to experience them. I have a storm chaser in my congregation and he was on the Greensburg tornado a few years ago as well as the one that glanced Salina and hit Chapman last year. He has some awsome pictures of storm clouds and tornados.

ahh...just a baby

We get a couple of tornado warnings every year. I have had the misfortune and fortune of being very, very close to a couple and survived the event. Nothing like those in the midwest. I was in Kansas once and also in Ok when they were developing nearby, and I could never bring my self to live in that environment no matter how nice it may be or how profitable. I like my sanity just as it is.