Tornado less than a mile from my house

[timgco]

yesterday was interesting for us. i got cell pics also, but they didn;t turn out too well.

http://www.9news.com/9slideshows/gallery.aspx?slideshowname=Severe%20Weather%206-7-09&N=0

[KenP]

Just after we moved back to the beach a tornado ripped through our old neighborhood wiping out many of the homes, damaging the hospital and leveling a shopping center.

http://www.acc-tv.com/images/wjla/blogs/suffolk_tornado_damage2(1).jpg

[frenzy1]

^^ wow !

[Mr_Pat]

I Had just dropped my daughter off at DIA and was heading west on 470 when we saw the twister. We got with in 1/4 a mile of it before we turned off on to 25 north...

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g277/simian420/twister3.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g277/simian420/twister4.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g277/simian420/twister1.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g277/simian420/twister5.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g277/simian420/twister2.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g277/simian420/hail.jpg

[splne1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Saragosa,_Texas_tornado

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFSdh1xAcq0

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pecos.net/news/images/ismael.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.pecos.net/news/arch87/sarpix.htm&usg=__jo_oUhxax9qD95BzRTO8FJftsBA=&h=238&w=236&sz=55&hl=en&start=26&um=1&tbnid=DwHVw-E3XTZnwM:&tbnh=109&tbnw=108&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsaragosa%2Btx%2Btornado%26ndsp%3D21%2 6hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D21%26um%3D1

I survived this one I was 5 at the time and my brother was in the preschool grad class. Mom decided we should leave rather than shelter in the church where the grad was being held, later we found out all those people had passed that stayed behind. We lived in Pecos but rural towns like saragosa all come to Pecos for schools. The pre kinder board opted to have the grad in Saragosa because if was the most central point for all rural towns to attend.

I was deployed for that one KEN but I remeber some of my fellow sailors had family out there, no loss of life just property damge for them.

[Mr_Pat]

wow man, your very lucky!

[ZigsRig]

****ing weather is following me around....

from today (after getting hailed on by Tim's house saturday, yesterday golfing, and now this ****...)

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h48/zigsrig/IMG00546.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h48/zigsrig/IMG00547.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h48/zigsrig/IMG00548.jpg

:crying:

[timgco]

Damn zig! You are getting pounded! :mad:

We're going to have the same weather pattern all week from what I just saw.

[timgco]

MR PAt, you got some good pics. all I got were cell phone pics.

[Mr_Pat]

Thanks man, those where from my cell phone (blackberry storm)

[Mr_Pat]

I was getting a little nervous as we were getting close to the twister. There really isn?t any place to go on 470 and I started eyeing places to take the old H3 off roading through the fields :lol:

[KenP]

Those are great pics, guys.