May 3, 2003- Tornado hits Carl Junction, Missouri (the small town that I grew up in). I was 17 years old, a junior in HS and school had 2 weeks left to go. It was a Sunday afternoon and I was at church. We left church to seek shelter (me and the other 4 who were there) about 3 minutes before the church was destroyed by a tornado. My small town was pretty much destroyed and it devastated everyone.
May 2009- Straightline winds hit Carl Junction, Missouri. My aunt was in her "house" when the winds hit it and destroyed it. Her, my uncle and her grand daughter all survived, but the house did not. It was devastating to see a house that I did a lot of my growing up in (I lived there with her 2 times growing up) in pieces and then to see it bulldozed down.
April 16 2011- Tornado hits Fayetteville/Sanford/Fort Bragg,etc... North Carolina- I told Matt that the clouds and the air looked like we might actually get a tornado here, but I have a "gift" (if that is what you want to call it) to predict the weather and I am pretty accurate a lot. Well, since we know that it isn't common weather here, we still decided to run into town. While we are in Target, the electricity went out, and for about a minute it was pitch black in there before the generators kicked on. Both of the boys handled it well, no noise or freak outs! We decided to leave the store since there was no point to be in a store that had no electricity, and then we realized that the power would be out in the streetlights as well, but Matt decided to try other routes home. As we were driving, on the other side of Fayetteville a tornado touched down (or more than one, I am not sure yet) and caused a lot of damage to trees, businesses, houses, power lines, streets, apartment buildings... There was one death and 83 reported injuries. This was nothing new to me, but it brought back bad memories from when God saved my life (that part wasn't bad, but the tornado itself was) and told me to leave before something happened to me and the four others. Thank God that more damage wasn't down and that we were completely spared.
Tornadoes are no joke, and to the people that say that they are no big deal, they must not have ever witnessed the devestation of one. God bless you all.
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