Has anyone ever seen a real tornado or a hurricane?

I currently live in "Tornado Alley", here in middle TN. I have only seen one tornado in my life and I pray that I never do. It was around 6, I was in my room doing my homework. My dad knocked on my door and told me, that I needed to get into the living room, that a tornado was spotted near us. I was like ok dad, yea right. We have lived there a long time and never had anything like a tornado popping up or what not. I mean the house was built in the 30's, we moved there in the 70's, so I doubted that a tornado would destroy it. Well, right after I laughed it off, I noticed a large piece of metal go flying around one window to the other window on the other side of my room outside. I didn't get scared yet, I was like cool, it's windy outside. Then my dad didn't knock this time, just came into my room and said get to the living room now. Well, as I got to the living room, my mom was sitting on the couch with my sister, and I had to sit next to my mom. My two brother's was sitting around my dad on the other side of the couch. My sister was crying, and I was thinking why is she crying. Well, there it was, a small F1 heading away from the house going towards the field that a guy kept cattle in it. We were very lucky, only damage was some roofing, the guy that owned the cattle had to come and fix his fence. It was a mess outside, but at least we still had our home. My mom has heard a few of them going through the forest on my parents property, my dad doesn't mind, he goes in and clears the fallen trees and makes money off of them. I have seen a hurricane, while I was in the Navy. When a hurricane gets past a certain point, the ships head out to sea to deal with the hurricane there. Makes sense, than being tied up to a pier to get destroyed. You can hear the winds howling, the waves hitting the sides, plus the rocking. At night is the best, because it helps you sleep. While living in Norfolk, VA, I have delt with 1 hurricane out to sea, and two while at home. My oldest was born in between 2 hurricanes, my poor mom only used to tornados, was so scared, she kept saying wait until it's over to have her, please don't go into labor now, and that's when we still had power, . When she called after she was born to see how we where doing, I was like ok, just waiting for this hurricane to go pass over. She was like omg, another one. She was really worried because it was just her and me, my husband was out to sea with the Navy. I thought the big tree in the front yard was going to fall on our house. I had to keep water from coming into the house from odd places. Well, that's my experiences of tornados and hurricanes.

Tornados fascinate me. I've never seen one, but I would love to see one. I don't want to experience a tornado, just be able to see one from a few miles away. I've wanted to see one ever since I was little.

When I was about 8 1/2 months pregnant with my daughter (now 19) we had one of those 100 year storms here in Texas. There was haevy rains and one morning we woke up to a foot of water in our house. the water in the street was about 4 feet deep. The tornado sirenes were going off and we could not get to our car. My husband, put a life jacket on my 5 year old son and we headed out down the street in chest high water. There were boats passing us on the street! We made it about 3 blocks to "higher ground". Therre was a gas station that was on a hill and everyone was gathered there, but could go no further. We could see the 2 differant tornados in the sky standing outside. We could not all go inside the store. It was one of those all glass front Exxon's anyway! I was afraid of being too close to all of that glass incase it did hit there. It was pretty scarry. No where to go! I was terrified that I would go into early labor because of all the excitement and have to have the baby right there. It was an experience that I will not forget.