It just came a bad storm here. It was as close to a tornado is it comes. 5 mins before it gets here I took my sisters trailer back to her from where went riding yesterday, she just lives 1/2 mile up the road. Anyway I started to park it by her truck but at the last min pulled it by her shed. A tree about 6 ft around uprooted and lets just say the trailer looks more like a pancake.Took out powerlines and just missed the shed by inches. Pulled the power line out of it. The most of the county is without power and another storm is on the way. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/img] I will try to post a pic soon of the trailer.

 

sounds like someone needs to buy a new trailer... glad no one got hurt by the tree, that could have been bad.

 

The tree came from the next house up. It wasnt even in her yard.

 

i would say ur darn lucky, didn't touch ur fourwheeler at least. that trailer, well....... thats another story

 

I hadn't really put that thought in untill you said that. I pulled the trailer back with the 4 wheeler unhooked and 5 mins later the storm hit and the tree fell. If I had stayed and talked I would have more than likely would have left it parked there till after it blew through, it would have been a very bad day.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/img]

 

Yeah we just had the tornado's rip through here again. 3 weeks ago we had real bad damage and now we got lucky and only had small stuff. But the rest of the town had some real bad damage here. Stay safe everybody, tornado season is coming up.never thought springfield illinois would have so much bad weather but wow was i wrong.

 

glad to hear it wasnt you who ended up the pancake.

stay safe all

 

we had the same storm last night, a tornado dropped over in shelby county apparently. i was working on the soft top to my Jeep and these big dark clouds start rolling in ontop of the grey rain clouds (it was raining for most of the day, heavy and end of the world heavy). these clouds start dropping down really low. and when i say rolling i mean like litterally rolling, like how you see in the movies. the edge of the cloud was churning and churning itself over and lighting was sticking out and wraping itself around these clouds. so i grabbed my keys, shut the garage doors and set their deadbolts closed the window and locked it and grabbed my Surefire, my dog, and my Motorolla walky-talky with the national weather service button and headed for the basement. turned the fireplace on down there and waited it out.

the scariest thing you'll ever here is your house popping and groaning agasint 110mph winds. and my house isnt a weak one either, very strong and sturdy- half metal/concrete construction

we didnt loose any trees or roofing fence or barn, so its all good.

 

you got a sweet house

 

Just seen on the news 23 people died last night and 19 of them was in Tn alone. Sister still has no power, the power company said they had to get all lines out of the road before they got to her. Which makes sense. I know thats a hard job, my friend works for them and I have heard stories when they have to go out into weather. Good pay but you sure do earn it.