Wheww... home just in time
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RE: Wheww... home just in time
ORIGINAL: Kedawei
I got stuck in a F3 in AR, driving from GA to OK. Growing up in OK I know how serious tornados are. My parents called me up. I was pulled over at the time because it was raining so hard, visibility was zero and I had almost hit two cars. I told my mom where I was and she said it didn't look good. She and my father were watching radar online and telling me where everything was. I had been there a minute, looking to the north to see if it had passed me already. It was pitch black so I had to wait for lighting to strike and light up the sky. No sign of it. However, the sky to the south of me wouldn't light up. It was just pitch black. I knew it was out there. My mother told me to gun it, and I did. Where other cars were driving no more than 20mph, I was going 80. Luckily there was little traffic because most people had pulled over. As I drove along, more lines of storms collapsed behind me. It took about 30 minutes to get clear of them all. I had come to find out, several people had died on that interstate (I40). I remembered being pulled over in that shoulder, looking at the other cars around me there before I took off. I knew it was them who died.
I got stuck in a F3 in AR, driving from GA to OK. Growing up in OK I know how serious tornados are. My parents called me up. I was pulled over at the time because it was raining so hard, visibility was zero and I had almost hit two cars. I told my mom where I was and she said it didn't look good. She and my father were watching radar online and telling me where everything was. I had been there a minute, looking to the north to see if it had passed me already. It was pitch black so I had to wait for lighting to strike and light up the sky. No sign of it. However, the sky to the south of me wouldn't light up. It was just pitch black. I knew it was out there. My mother told me to gun it, and I did. Where other cars were driving no more than 20mph, I was going 80. Luckily there was little traffic because most people had pulled over. As I drove along, more lines of storms collapsed behind me. It took about 30 minutes to get clear of them all. I had come to find out, several people had died on that interstate (I40). I remembered being pulled over in that shoulder, looking at the other cars around me there before I took off. I knew it was them who died.
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