Ok, the other night... last.. Friday like around the 26th or something, the scariest thing EVER happened! Here's how it goes:
It was about 7 p.m. and I was at my lil bro's baseball game. The clouds to the south were looking really nasty, but no one thought anything of it. The game went on, it was tied at 1-1. Just before one of my brother's teammates was going up to bat, the coaches came out and called the game off. Apparently, this storm that I could see was coming right at us. The coaches didn't want anyone to be in danger, so they postponed the game until a later date. We hung around for about 10 extra minutes talking to people before leaving.
As we were driving east out of town to go home, I happened to turn towards the south to take a look at the storm from the passenger window. In the car was my mom driving, and my two little brothers in the back seat. One is 11 years old and one is 11 months old. When I turned to look, I saw a HUGE cloud of dust coming towards us. It hit another vehicle (Which was my uncle heading back to HC. He was headed south) and was coming right at us! I said to my mom as I watched it "Be careful. That looks like a strong gust of straightline wind." HAHA I wish it was that. I took a more careful look at the wall of dirt coming at us and saw that it wasn't in fact straightline wind because a straightline wind can't spin! It was a friggen tornado headed right towards us!
I screamed, "Mom! That's not a straightline wind! It's a tornado! Coming right at us! Get in the ditch NOW!" So, my mom slammed on the breaks (because it was too late to outrun it, it was practically on top of us at that time) and went into the ditch. We sat there as the tornado passed over us, kicking up debris everywhere and making our SUV rock back and forth like crazy! I seriously thought it was going to at least roll us over because of how strong it was.
Once it passed over us and we weren't flipped (THANK GOD!) 3 cars went flying by us on the highway, so we whipped in right behind them to get away from it. I looked to the driver's side now to see that the tornado had went into a potato field and was kicking up a lot of dirt. Now, we could really see the walls of this thing and it was HUGE. We thought we were safe and away from it as we started to speed away from it, but... it turned back towards us. Freaking out, I yelled at mom to ahem, quote: "KICK IT IN THE ASS WE GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE NOW!!!" So, she floored it as the tornado came back to the highway and hit a patch of trees, pretty much tearing them apart. Once it was behind us, I looked at the speedometer. We were going 98. In an SUV. With 100 mph winds. If the tornado wouldn't have killed us, that was going to. I was scared just because of wrecking then! Anyway, we got away from the tornado, were hit by high winds and nearly thrown off the road before reaching my Grandpa's and getting into the basement.
Oh and all the while if you were wondering where Katie was... She left earlier than us with my dad and she could see the tornado a few miles behind her and was freaking out because she knew we were still back there.
The end. ^^ We lived. It was scary. xD
Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:34 pm by 
Subject: Ze Tornado 
