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about 6 years ago i had my first scary tornado experience. i woke up late night to the windows screaming from the wind. i opened my drapes to see all the pine trees in the backyard parallel to the ground. i knew what it was. i ran out of my room to find my dog. as i ran past the picture window it was ratteling and shanking like it was going to burst. i grabbed my dog and high tailed it to the basement. before ducking under the heavy wood bar i looked outside for one more peak as a grain bin blew by about 70 yards away in between my house and the next.
the next morning while surveying the damage i guess the tornado touched down a few miles away and got about a half mile from the house when it hit a big hill and propelled itself back up to the clouds and quit. it took a bar from the neighbors just before the hill and pieces of it were in my yard a half mile away. his barn and a bit of his house was destroyed. the lumber from the bar was shot into the sides of his home like they were shot from a cannon, some still sticking out the side.
the good part of the story was that this guy was a member of a local motorcycle group and a month later about a hundred bikers showed up, lumber trucks and all... all paid for by the bikers themselves and rebuilt a new barn. totally awesome to see. the beer trucks and resulting bonfire were awesome!