one year, I thought for sure I was gonna meet my maker...back when I was a teen man...
ok actually 2 different years
one year I was at my friends house getting ready to have dinner with his family and we're all sitting there and he keeps looking out the window like wtf
so we turn around and there's nothing
he's like seriously look out the window
we look again, there's nothing
this happens a few times and we're like ok dude, it's not funny....
finally he's like forget you guys, and ran for the basement...then the dogs all followed him
by this point his dad has had enough and went outside....
came back in like sob he wasn't joking, everyone to the basement!
thankfully no real damage done that year, trees torn up and stuff
another year...yikes...that one was bad....I had moved back in with my mom because of my health and so like I'm looking outside and see a tornado...my mom's freaking out...I mean we lived in a trailer so I mean, what'cha really gonna do....there's no place to go...I mean there was sort of a place maybe a mile away I could have run to and told my mom if it came down to it I will grab the dog and
throw him into pillow cases (it was a dachshund) and run for the old abandon train tracks where there's a concrete wall I could hide behind.
My dad calls, he's down the street at the dry cleaners telling us he just saw a tornado going past him and down us 40 headed towards us...my mom's like yeah we just saw it over by post rd and he's like no because I'm still looking at it...
at this same time my cousin is calling because she's like 7,8 or 9 months pregnant and freaking out because she now has 4 mailboxes in her front lawn, she lived maybe 20 minutes away and also had a tornado
by this point I'm outside trying to weigh my odds and just watching as not one, not two, oh not even
three but 4 tornados are circling our area going up and down every other street around us...
I forget how many tornados they say hit that day, it was a record...it was over 25, I want to say even over 30 all in the span of a few hours
but right where I was, there were 4 circling our blocks
3 down where my cousin was
and another 3 not that far away either
so I mean within a span of less than 50 miles there were 10 - 12 tornados
one demolished a daycare center, thankfully all the kids had already gone home for the day and most of the staff, I think there were 2 deaths, could have been a lot worse.
my mom's freaking out and I'm just like, eh if it's time to go it's time to go, you're not going to out run a tornado let alone 4 or 5 of them...
we got lucky...they just kept going up and down the surrounding streets but never came into the magical box that was our trailer park....
I'm just like, living in indiana, I mean everyone else freaks out and I'm just here like, what really are you going to do....if a tornado comes, you're screwed so stop worrying and watch tv and when things start to really get bad, ok grab some pillows and blankets and go sit in the bathtub...I'm not saying it ain't scary but I mean really, what are you going to do? You can't out run them, you can't hide from them....just relax and pray that everything will be ok, because it's totally out of your control...
lmfao my teachers hated me during tornado warnings in school because I'm over there looking out the window instead of following instructions

and I'd tell them the same thing, what difference does it make if I'm standing here or if I'm under my desk or against the wall....if that tornado hits we're all screwed.