I've seen the power of lots of tornado"s, some up close and personal, and some just a few miles away from me, and not by my decision either. These are nothing to play with, ever. When i was a younger man, even my grandfather and grandmother told us stories about chickens getting their feathers sucked right off of them, and straw being in trees -like someone took a hammer and drove it in like nails. But the one story that got my attention was when grandmother told me that when she was a teenager, they lived in an old shack of a house out in the middle of a field. A storm came up, they were all in the bed sleeping, until the house started moving. She said when they opened the door finally, the house was sitting on the Bank of the river a 1/4 mile from where it use to sit.....but it was still all together, not a board out of place, and no one got hurt, but everything else was gone from where the house use to be, The sheds, livestock, barn, all the fencing and post, her dads truck. I thought she was really just telling stories to us.....but now as i have seen such things with my own eyes....I hope everyone can just get out of the way of these things and be safe.
