So there were some storms in the area last night, I really didn’t even know about them until everything had passed.
I guess back home it got pretty nasty as well, it even made national news. The winds were 160+ mph and the tornado touched down about 12 miles from where I live. There were a lot of housing additions damaged and a several parts of the 3 RV plants were really damaged. My little brother was home alone since my parents are out of town for their 25th anniversary, he went to my grandparents house for a while after work though, he said on his way home there was a lot of horizontal rain, good thing he didn’t drive his motorcycle that day. When they went back to our house to check for any damage they saw a house just down the road was crushed by a tree, besides that there really wasn’t too much damage to our area. I guess we have a few little trees down and quite a few branches of all sizes but that’s normal for a big storm. They didn’t have power for a good 7 hours that evening either.
This isn’t the first time tornados have been this close. About 4 years ago we had a nasty one come through, it hit right behind my aunt and uncles addition, about 5 miles from my house, went over the highway and my house and hit a business/factory at the end of the road, just a hair over a mile away. My dad, brother, and I stayed outside for most of it, he made us go inside for a few minutes but he stayed out. It’s pretty obvious where I get my love of thunderstorms from, he sat at his picture window when he was a kid and watched a tornado drop the roof of a barn in the field across from his house. We left for Canada the day after and you could just see the trail of damage from that storm all the way up through Indiana, it was crazy.
Here are a couple pictures
