06-02-2013, 11:58 PM
I watched a thing on Discovery tonight that dealt with the tornadoes that hit oklahoma a few weeks ago.
When they got to the part about the tornado hitting the school and hearing the screams, I cried. In my 23 years of living in this small town in northern illinois, I've never seen a tornado, but I'm pretty sure last year we got hit by at least an EF 0. Knocked down a bunch of trees, and the whole town was without power for at least 12 hours. And that entire storm only lasted a few minutes, if even that. The very heavy winds lasted like 30 seconds or a minute. But it felt much longer than that.
When they got to the part about the tornado hitting the school and hearing the screams, I cried. In my 23 years of living in this small town in northern illinois, I've never seen a tornado, but I'm pretty sure last year we got hit by at least an EF 0. Knocked down a bunch of trees, and the whole town was without power for at least 12 hours. And that entire storm only lasted a few minutes, if even that. The very heavy winds lasted like 30 seconds or a minute. But it felt much longer than that.