04-26-2019, 10:35 PM
(04-26-2019, 06:17 PM)Ed Hurst Wrote: I've had an F5 miss me by just about 300 yards, and my home at that time was just a trailer house. We were huddled in a sort of storm-shelter provided by the trailer park. It reminded me of standing too close to military cargo jets when they take off. We had to pick up a lot of debris from the yard after it passed. That was back in the 90s. The rest have been quite far from us since then.
ooh...our puny wind only sounds and shakes the house like freight cars.
A C17 flew over the holler one day and I thought it was the second coming. It started by rattling the windows and then came the sound and I jumped up and run outside, looking up expecting the sky to be splitting open, I tell you I was excited, then this humungous plane came over. The tree tops spun in it's wake, I was expecting a fireball because that thing was surely not gonna clear the ridge but, it did. Too bad, my excitement was cut short and I didn't get to play first responder.