Journal #6613
Posted 14 years ago2010-06-23 20:28:19 UTC
So, in relation to JeffMOD's journal, I experienced some shaking of my own. This morning (although anyone else is dumb enough to say last night) at about 2:30 AM, I was awoke by sudden, loud noises. Come to find a violent storm casting itself down outside, consistent lighting, maybe every second or so was a flash. Judging by the thunder, some of it was AWFULLY close.
Just to be safe, I grabbed my phone and prepared to relocate to the basement. I sat back in my bed for a brief while, waiting to see what happened next. This is when I panicked. The whole house began to shake from the violent winds, and unable to tell what was going on over the heavy rain, thick darkness, and loud sounds of the wind and lightning, I prepared to die. They say when a tornado hits, it sounds like a freight train, and boy, it was a damn loud one too. I knew at any second the house would lift off and I would cease to exist. But as quickly as it started to shake, it stopped.
Come to find out this morning, it was purely straight winds, only reaching 70mph, supposedly. Our fence was collapsed, most the panels removed, 5 of them obliterated and located far out in the field. Each of these panels weights roughly 70-80 lbs... many trees, maybe even most of them, had fallen in the neighborhood. Sheds, shacks, hand-built garages, were down. Most of them had been eaten by the storm. Some trees weren't knocked down, they were just plain uprooted, bringing the turf with them... needless to say it was traumatic... From about 2:30 AM to about 6:40 PM, our house had no power, along with a good majority of people. Before 7:15AM, at least 6,000 were without power, until 5:30AM, at least 4,800 were without...
What a day.
Tl;dr: Big storm, scary as fuck, lots of damage.
Just to be safe, I grabbed my phone and prepared to relocate to the basement. I sat back in my bed for a brief while, waiting to see what happened next. This is when I panicked. The whole house began to shake from the violent winds, and unable to tell what was going on over the heavy rain, thick darkness, and loud sounds of the wind and lightning, I prepared to die. They say when a tornado hits, it sounds like a freight train, and boy, it was a damn loud one too. I knew at any second the house would lift off and I would cease to exist. But as quickly as it started to shake, it stopped.
Come to find out this morning, it was purely straight winds, only reaching 70mph, supposedly. Our fence was collapsed, most the panels removed, 5 of them obliterated and located far out in the field. Each of these panels weights roughly 70-80 lbs... many trees, maybe even most of them, had fallen in the neighborhood. Sheds, shacks, hand-built garages, were down. Most of them had been eaten by the storm. Some trees weren't knocked down, they were just plain uprooted, bringing the turf with them... needless to say it was traumatic... From about 2:30 AM to about 6:40 PM, our house had no power, along with a good majority of people. Before 7:15AM, at least 6,000 were without power, until 5:30AM, at least 4,800 were without...
What a day.
Tl;dr: Big storm, scary as fuck, lots of damage.
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That's somewhat the same feeling I had when they made the flood announcement in my area. But you were prepared to die without doubt in those seconds.
In my case, I wasn't really frightened about the flood announcement, but I immediately thought about the barrage that was overwhelmed. If it failed, I was now sitting at the bottom of a lake...
The problem is, this feeling was painful... being doubtful a few hours...
Happy you're ok though :). These kinds of events really pump up the adrenaline :D.
Glad to see you're alive.
Our local station would be KWWL, Jeffmod. City being Waterloo, IA. So if you saw any of that, it could be possible. I also know a few counties before us, and some after us also got hit. Some worse, some not as bad. I remember reading someone about one house getting shifted from its foundation.