Well now that I have power back I can finally use the computer again. On tuesday night we had probaly one of the biggest storm systems this part of the state has ever seen and just as the storm approached I decided to take the family down in the basement just in case...well I'm glad I did because a twister totally destroyed my 40 x 63 foot shop not more than 100 feet from the house!! It was very scary... we ended up huddled under the stairs with a mattress over top of us. It is usually pretty quite in the basement during a storm, you can hardly hear thunder, but for about a minute it sounded like a freight train roaring outside...although it seemed like it lasted for 5 minutes. My shop was kind of a landmark around here because of the 14 ft. side walls and sits up on a hill...you could see it for miles around...and now it is completly gone. Kinda wierd. We found pieces of the building for miles around...including about a 30ft. x 40ft. section of roof about 2 miles away. It mangled 20 ft. 6x6 posts and speared them into the ground a mile away in a wheat field, left empty 5 gallon plastic gas cans alone while it hurled my tiller 50 feet away, wierd! I also lost my restored 1947 John Deere B, camper, and numerous other items...however left my pickup almost completely untouched. My forklift also had some damage. I am really thankful that my family and I are OK, I guess that is the most important thing! If that thing would have been 100 feet to the east my home would be gone! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

 

glad to here that your family did'nt get hurt that whats important.

 

u are very lucky ur family is safe, ive had a tornado come by my house, less then a mile away, let me tell u, the noise of it, i will never forget

 

Glad to hear everyone was ok![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

Glad to hear you and the family are OK!!!
I have to say I am in tears over the 1947 John Deere B[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-frown.gif[/img]

I went through close to the same thing in North Dakota when I was a kid. My grandparents had a old church about 200' from the house. Twister picked it up turned it 180 deg and dropped it back down (dang close to the same spot!) it collapsed on itself, 3" hale ***** puched throught the siding of the house, broke every window on 2 sides of the house. But there was other stuff that was untouched!! Weird as Hell !

 

I have not been near a twister myself, but streight lines winds I have. You are very fortunate that nothing happend to you or or family. One of my uncles has been a vicitim of the streight line winds and his house had shards of glass puncherd into his walls. Storms can be extremly exlerating, but they can also be very deadly. If a twister were to fall on us, the town would be pretty much screwed. A sevreal hundred foot bluff on onside, the river on the other....not much room for it to go away. Again glad to hear everyone is ok. The things that were destroyed can be replaced, the things that were kept alive can't...consider yourself a lucky man.

 

Glad to hear you and your family made it out OK. I bet it was scary alright.

 

Thanks for all the support. Adjuster was here and sounds like we had all the right insurance on everything...thank god! Well, I'm glad we had a bunch of wheelers around here, sure helped with the cleanup...also had a telescopic lift with debris claws and dump trucks, took about ten of us 12 hours to clean up just the building itself.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-frown.gif[/img]

 

Wow jayri.. That sounds like an experiance that no one should have to go though. I'm glad to hear that you and your family made it though safely.
BryceGTX

 

Yeah, I'm still a little shaken up about it but life goes on. You can bet I have a lot more respect for thunderstorms now!