Well, a couple nights ago, we had a bad storm. We actually had a tornado touch down in our neighborhood, which just happened to go right over our house...
It had been storming pretty bad that night. We were under a severe weather and tornado watch. I was woken up by a neighbor's alarm system going off and was sitting on my bed looking out my window. It was about 3:45am. I was surprised to notice that it was very calm outside. No wind, rain, or lightning. I sat there for a few minutes - half asleep. The wind started to pick up some, and within 20 seconds or so, I couldn't see the house across from us on our street. I haven't seen anything like it. At the same time, the power goes out and it was pitch black except for the lightning strikes. I ran from my room and woke everyone up as quick as I could to get them downstairs. It was very loud, and quite frightening.
After it passed us, we called people we knew in the immediate area to warn them. Once it calmed down outside, we went out to see what kind of damage it caused. The first thing we noticed was that we had lost our fence, which was laying in the yard. There were shingles everywhere - down the street and in the yard. Later, we noticed a shingle had flown into one of our windows and shattered it.
Overall, we didn't have all that much damage compared to some of our neighbors. One of them actually had a fence on their roof... Luckily, nobody was hurt.
It was an interesting experience to say the least.
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