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kiranlightpawI will tell you that, in the more than 5 years since I've moved to Huntsville, I've never been as scared as I was today. Hell, I don't think I've been as scared as I was today since I rode out Hurricane Ivan in Auburn.
The first tornadic cell went north of Madison, with a confirmed touchdown in the Highway 72 and Jeff Road area (near the new Super Kroger they're building up there). That one went north over northern Huntsville. But later in the day, another cell formed south of Decatur. This strong, tornadic cell tracked over the river and over the airport, following right along the south side I-565.
The office, where I was, is located on the south side of I-565 in Madison.
We took shelter downstairs, but there's no place in the office that doesn't have windows, so we were in the lobby. As we watched out the window, the rain went from light, to heavy, to driving. Then the trees stared to bend varying ways, losing what little leaves they still had left, and ground debris began to blow around in the air.
All at once, everything got really fucking loud and clouded. We couldn't even see across the parking lot. In about 30 seconds, the rain went from blowing north, to blowing west (or maybe it was east) to blowing extremely loudly against the windows. And that was it. It got quiet. Eerily quiet.
In other words, the fucking tornado went right over my fucking office building.
Now obviously, this was not a major tornado and we were also in a brick reinforced building. But it still scared the living hell out of me in a way very few things have. Had the storm tracked about 2 miles north, the tornado would have hit my house. I'm pretty sure a home such as mine (wood construction) would probably have sustained some damage.
On the way home, there were trees down in various places and the roads were covered in debris.
The clouds started forming 5:00 PMI really wasn't expecting such a severe weather day. All I saw this morning were really high crosswinds from the local airports. Around noon, it really started to cloud up and by 2PM, we were in the type of severe weather I haven't seen since the Madison tornado last year.
The funnel clouds touched down five miles north of Russellville
Siren's were blowing, clouds spat rain
and as the thing came through, well I swear, It sounded like a train
The first tornadic cell went north of Madison, with a confirmed touchdown in the Highway 72 and Jeff Road area (near the new Super Kroger they're building up there). That one went north over northern Huntsville. But later in the day, another cell formed south of Decatur. This strong, tornadic cell tracked over the river and over the airport, following right along the south side I-565.
The office, where I was, is located on the south side of I-565 in Madison.
We took shelter downstairs, but there's no place in the office that doesn't have windows, so we were in the lobby. As we watched out the window, the rain went from light, to heavy, to driving. Then the trees stared to bend varying ways, losing what little leaves they still had left, and ground debris began to blow around in the air.
All at once, everything got really fucking loud and clouded. We couldn't even see across the parking lot. In about 30 seconds, the rain went from blowing north, to blowing west (or maybe it was east) to blowing extremely loudly against the windows. And that was it. It got quiet. Eerily quiet.
In other words, the fucking tornado went right over my fucking office building.
Now obviously, this was not a major tornado and we were also in a brick reinforced building. But it still scared the living hell out of me in a way very few things have. Had the storm tracked about 2 miles north, the tornado would have hit my house. I'm pretty sure a home such as mine (wood construction) would probably have sustained some damage.
On the way home, there were trees down in various places and the roads were covered in debris.
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Date: 2010-10-27 02:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-27 03:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-27 01:26 pm (UTC)I'm very glad that you and your coworkers were all quite fine.
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Date: 2010-10-27 08:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-28 01:17 am (UTC)Still, it's nothing compared to what you went through.