Tornados make for an exciting evening!Follow

A storm just finished passing through my area that created several funnel clouds and a tornado or two. Funnel clouds were spotted about 2 miles away, and a tornado about 5 miles. While I guess I should be happy none were close enough to be spotted, I was kinda hoping to see my first funnel cloud at least (I'm a sucker for tornados, always have been).

But it was the first time we actually had to throw our gear into the closet and get the kids hunkered down while Sick and I watched the sky and kept glued for updates. I believe this is the first time in 20 years we've had a tornado in our county.

I like the electricity in the air when the atmosphere is ripe for creating tornadoes.

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She doesn't remember any funnel clouds in her COUNTY, not country. I assume a simple reading error.

Lol, that is correct. I thought she said "20 years since a tornado in our country" Nevermind.

I really wish I could see a tornado someday. From a safe distance of course.

I live in a worry free area.

Been here for 15 years, and we had one mild wind storm that was left overs of a hurricane that came up the east coast. And we had one mild flood due to a lot of rain last year.

Western Michigan is peaceful. Eastern Michigan sucks though (I blame the darkies!)

Earthquakes > tornados

Damage wise yeah Earthquakes do more damage, but tornado's are more like god's number 2 eraser.

Traveling from knoxville to corpus I saw a tornado from a distance. It was awesome!

We just had a little 4.5 about a week ago centered about 15 miles to the East. The kids didn't even notice.

There use to be a restaurant in Nashville that had the best fried pickles and pickled onions. Yum...

If you have a few minutes to let it load up, this is a pretty cool vid of the supercell over Raleigh yesterday.

http://stormhighway.com/blog/may509raleigh1.shtml

We're under another tornado watch right now until 9pm. Should be fun!

DSD if you see a funnel before I do, Ima be a mad ho! I have been here, let's just say a long time, and I have never seen one!