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An UNBELIEVABLE event happened here yesterday…In our little town…
A tornado hit! This is normal for some parts of the country but never for us! Over the years, I have seen funnel clouds, one coming quite close a few years back…But, since 1958, we have never had one hit our town…
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Until yesterday…
It was surreal…
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DD was at a friends, heard the emergency sirens, went to get in the car to rush home to her family…And saw the twister out her car window…
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My sister, who lives in a modular, rushed to Mom and Dad’s to take cover in the basement…
Her daughter, my niece, was away with a friend…The friend’s mom saw the funnel, loaded the girls up in the car and fled to the East…
The roof was blown off the arena…Debris covered the road…
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A glass shop was blown away with only the walls left standing...
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A casino and marina were taken out pretty badly…
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Before it hit, I had just met Dad for a Father’s Day coffee…
Out of nowhere, it came…The darkness…
The down-pour…
As soon as the call came in from my sister, we headed out…
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Dad headed to his house…Me to mine…
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After the storm was over, and keeping in touch with Mom, who was out of state…
I could no longer make contact with Dad or Sis…So headed out to their end of town to check on them...
Water like this was everywhere…
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Downtown was flooded…Cars were up on dry patches, where they could be found, drying out engines that were water-logged…
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Every policeman in the city, I think, was out on duty…
There were firetrucks, ambulances, you name it, out in droves…
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I sat stranded for about an hour…Not being able to go North, South, East, or West…
I surged through the water the best I could, and my poor little car was about to die out…I told my dog that I thought we were in for it…
Across the away, a guy in a car similar to mine stalled out in the flooding, waded out to get help and pushed his car up to a dry lot…
After a long time of letting my engine run on a dry spot, I went for it, and we finally made it out…
It was just the weirdest thing to experience…
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Thank goodness we all were fine, but what a surreal day it was...