I spent last night in the basement waiting out storms!

We just got some really bad storms a few weeks ago here. We also just had one about 15 minutes ago luckily this one didn't have any tornadoes in our area. However the last one killed a total of 6 people in a town about 15 minutes from here (we just barely missed the bad part of the storm part of our county was under a tornado warning my half was barely not apart of it) It was at about 2 AM so it was dark and it was really hard to spot the tornado but one ripped across the town killed five people and left tons of houses destroyed and even demolished the High school and police station there aren't any school buses left in the town and the cop cars are gone as well. It ripped one woman out of her car and sent her flying. One woman was on foot trying to get into the police station where her husband just barely made it before it killed her...it's sad they are really trying to clean it up and tonights storm probably had people freaking out there. It just sucks that things like that happen. I was up watching the tv for information and I keep an ear out for the weather if I know it's by me I will take cover in the bathroom we moved and no longer have a basement. I have several siblings (I have 7 siblings hence several) that fear tornadoes but yet will stand outside and look and take pics it makes no sense to me, I always have to pull my boyfriend off the patio to get him inside during the storm and he is terrified of storms I don't understand people. I prefer to be as safe as possible during a storm they are not something that should be messed with.

Oh no, how scary for you...Though we get some pretty good storms, the worse we ever got was when the remnants of Hurricane Ike came through and did some damage to our trees. Though tornadoes are always around us, where we live I think it is too far in a valley to ever have one come here, but sometimes I wonder... I am glad you are fine and if one ever was to come this way..We'd have to do the old mattress over us in the bathtub trick because there is no basement here..

Goodness Jill I am so glad that you got through that ok it is terrible It is so sad when this happens and that Mother Nature can cause so much havoc and pain

Glad you are ok and didn't have any damage. I am so afraid of high winds. Was in a tornado at 11 years old and have always been concerned and scared when the tornado sirens blow around here. We don't have a basement but do have a lower level of our house but it's not underground. I will go down there and can get into a closet which is away from any windows if necessary. We have severe storm warnings for tonight and then again tomorrow. Straight line winds hit Kansas City earlier today. Saw pictures on television and it looks bad. The severe storms tonight are focused around the midwest so I need to pay close attention.

I don't have a basement. If a storm is really serve O will seek shelter . But if it is just a storm with heavy rain, I'll stay and watch. I love rainstorms.

Oh my gosh, you poor little thing down in the basement waiting that horrible storm out. Did anyone else go with you? I know you said one woman didn't. Mother Nature is no one to fool with, that's for sure. We don't really get too many storms here. We have had some bad one's but not that often, and of course, usually in the Springtime. How far away does that lady live from work, the one you said the tornado was hovering over her house. Was it close to you? Yes, I'd be down the basement if it was going to be that bad. Well, I live in an apartment but there is a first floor which is actually in the basement. I'd be gone underneath the table in the laundry room, haha.

I read about that! I'm so glad you had a basement. Even so, the terror must have been awful.

Oh Jill! Sorry to hear that! The weather is changing quite a bit these past say, 20 years, where there was drought, there's floods now and where earthquakes aren't common are happening and so on. Hubby and I lived in Texas for 10 years and endured a lot of storms like you described but we didn't have basements. Texas' ground is too hard to put one in so majority of the people who own homes, don't have basements so we didn't have anywhere to go except for the bathrooms or closets. Then we moved to Arkansas, we had a basement there and we used it quite a bit during the storms that came through that area too. We couldn't wait to move from the middle states because of their nightmarish storms only to move to North Carolina where there's a lot of major storms too. Oh well. No where is safe, really so we have to go with the flow of things whether we like it or not. We're at nature's mercy and boy do I hate it! Anyway, glad you and your family are safe!!

That sounds terrible , you poor people. We have had some horrendous weather of late, a mini tornado further up the coast and weeks upon weeks of rain. When it rains here it can be torrential and we easily floods. Once I had to find my children who were stranded in the floods, one was on a school bus , the other at work. It is the most nerve racking experience I have ever had not knowing where your family is. So I did not have time to seek shelter , I had to wade through water to find my children. I hope you are all well and safe now

I have never seen a tornado, but if there were one coming my way, I sure the heck wouldn't be taking pictures. You OK?

Hi jill, I'm sorry that you had to have such a scary experience. I live in a Garden Apartment and although there is an unfinished basement under my apartment it is padlocked so I couldn't even get in there. I would have to just pray! I have a ground floor apartment, but there is one over me!And these buildings are made really poorly so my neighbors could end up downstairs with me! We have no protection, emergency plans so we would be on our own! Just glad you are all ok and things weren't any worse for you and you even still have power!

Yikes! That is incredibly scary. I'm so glad I live where I do. I grew up in Pennsylvania - very few tornados in that neck of the woods. Now I'm living in New York and I think there are even fewer here!

Hiya jill, Wow what a night you have spent down there in that Basement listening to all going on outside. We don´t have basements but I can imagine a little of how you felt. Although I love Thunderstorms there is a limit. If I knew that I was going to run risks being in the House I would leave and go somewhere safe too. I like to watch the Storm taking place big flashes of lightning and the enormous roars of Thunder and the heavy Rain splattering against the windows. We can have some really way out Weather here too you know. The kind of Weather People don´t expect unless you live in an area that is already prone to that kind of happening. Great to see you are fine. Sorry about the Lady. We have had some very bad floods near to us and they have been left without anything either. Some of the blocks of Flats will have to be knocked down and rebuilt.