I'm officially living in a Natural disaster area.

[Simp]

Well it's been crazy here since EARY Friday morning when the first wave of a massive storm came in. The first wave brought a massive hail storm that brought golf ball size hail that seemed to never end. After that we just had some heavy rain until about 12:30pm. We had a small break and my dad asked if I wanted to go to walmart to get some supplies. We checked the radar and all seemed good. Well we didn't factor in a radar delay or something because when we get there the Tornado sirens are going off and all HE** is breaking loose. We run in and soon there yelling "CODE BLACK, CODE BLACK, EVREYBODY TO THE MIDDLE OF THE STORE". It wasn't long and a few walmart employees were loosing it and crying and screaming on their phone. I'll be honest I'm used to this stuff in the Midwest and I took a lax attitude to this. I was sure the storm would pass and a couple trees might be done here and there but no big deal. Well I was wrong!!

My dad and I made the brilliant decision to leave after sitting in the store for as long as we could take it. We headed out and we caught the tail ind of the storm and it about knocked me on my @**! Soon it passed and we headed out to spot the first death of the storm.

The driver was transported to a local hospital and died of head injuries.

This is the view of the storm in front of us while driving home.

We get to the turn that takes us to our subdivision. What we see shocks me! This is the fuel pumps and the roof that covered them at a local gas station.

Here's a house in our neighborhood.

A tree that sits by the property line of our house. By the way this tree landed on my neighbors cady!

This is the view from my back yard looking at my neighbors trees.

Finally here is the pick of a local dealerships massive sign collapse.

We were without power until just a couple hours ago and the Internet just came back on. We now have an army of Electrical workers and they have worked there buts off! The community has really came together and clean up is going well. My mom works at a local hospital and they finally got back full power as well. She told me that things were about to get dire right before the power came back on in the nick of time. Don't worry though I managed to get some fishing in hours before the storm Thursday and again after it on Sunday.

[firefightn15]

Geez Simp, you guys were lucky.  Glad your okay. that's some serious stuff man.  

[Jimzee]

Crazy story man!!!  I like how you ended the story with the fish pic.  ;D

[Sam]

Wow!  Great story and pics.

Glad you and your family are OK.

Scary story. I could happen to any of us at any time.  :-X

[Siebert Outdoors]

Thats crazy.  Glad your ok.  The last pic is great.

[MALTESE FALCON]

WOW!!

That was a close call. Glad you're OK.

Falcon

[fatmanslim247]

We drove through Illinois saturday afternoon, they had the highway at a stand still because they were having to cut the trees in the highway and push them off... 2 hours to go 10 miles.  Then on top of that when we were leaving kansas to go to kentucky we ended up barely making it through a town north of here b/c of the same storm.