Just another day in Oklahoma

[Snattlerake]

I was a spotter for my community. I have seen many of them. My neighbor's bass boat was found 30 some odd miles from his farm about a week after it was hit. I saw a picture of an I beam identified by it's markings from the hospital construction project at McConnell AFB that had landed between two houses in Andover. My cousin was contacted by someone in Stillwater who found a cancelled check from their house about 80 miles away.

We moved back to Oklahoma days after the F-5 Moore tornado.

 

[Perplexed]

All these years in OK, and I've never laid eyes on a tornadie. Tried, went chasing a few times... now I just watch from the front porch.

I saw the tornado that flattened a bit of Stillwater in May of 1990. It passed several hundred yards from my apartment west of town, and when I realized the windows were bowing in and out, I better seek shelter. I was fortunate, but the hotel immediately to the east of my complex got hit, and from there on parts of town were nailed.

 

[saddlebum]

my house in moore got hit 3 times . I have seen all I want

 

[n423]

All these years in OK, and I've never laid eyes on a tornadie. Tried, went chasing a few times... now I just watch from the front porch.

Moore tornado in 2013, we watched a mile away from our back patio.

 

[rlongnt]

I know I've posted this a few times but here it is again. This is from my GoPro pointing west north west in my front yard in Stillwater: May 9th, 2016

At 23 seconds in you can see it on the ground crossing highway 177 by the water treatment plant.

 

[THAT Gurl]

I've been way too close to more than a few. I'm not terrified of them -- more like have an extremely healthy respect for what they can do. I'm content to watch them on the news -- or from my fraidy hole, thankyouverymuch ...

 

[DRC458]

I lost count a long time ago. I spent nearly twenty years in broadcasting, and chased a bunch during that time. First one(s) I remember seeing were from our back yard when I was no more than twelve-years-old. We had twin tornadoes go through North Enid ... one right behind the other ... and we stood and watched them from about a mile away. The closest one ever got to me was probably less then a quarter of a mile, while out chasing.

 

[Seadog]

I was a spotter for my community. I have seen many of them. My neighbor's bass boat was found 30 some odd miles from his farm about a week after it was hit. I saw a picture of an I beam identified by it's markings from the hospital construction project at McConnell AFB that had landed between two houses in Andover. My cousin was contacted by someone in Stillwater who found a cancelled check from their house about 80 miles away.

We moved back to Oklahoma days after the F-5 Moore tornado.

I have a house is on Sunnylane south of 240. I watched that Moore tornado in I think 2013 out my back door. It was hard to recognize it for what it was. It was so big and low to the ground. The rain on the outside edges of it. Bout the only way you knew it was there was the the bright flashes from the electric poles. First and only one I’ve seen. Not like the tall skinny ones that you see on tv

 

[Seadog]

Look at his direction travel. Opposite of the tornado. And he appears to be moving with great haste.

Hard for me to tell the naders direction. Kinda looked like it was going at him to me. Maybe it’s the tiny phone screen.

 

[Snattlerake]

Hard for me to tell the naders direction. Kinda looked like it was going at him to me. Maybe it’s the tiny phone screen.

That is what it looked like to me. Going right at him which would be right toward the camera. The tractor was on a vector line that was intersecting the tornado's line of travel. It looks like the tractor got to the spot first and if he kept going he would barely miss the tornado.

That tractor reminds me how I got hit by lightning twice trying to beat the storm by finishing a field. It was two back to back years and the same tractor, same field.