The Weather in My Part of the Country Yesterday

@sgbrown (1638)
United States
May 10, 2016 7:03am CST
Hubby and I watched as some really nasty looking clouds came around yesterday afternoon. He loves to scare me, saying something about a tornado coming. (He only does that when there is no real danger.) Little did we know this would happen about an hour later, about 50 miles north of us. This is probably the best tornado video I have ever seen! It really shows what a tornado looks like, up close and too personal!
These are some of the scenes straight out of the Heartland tonight
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fishtiger58
@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
10 May 16
Glad it didn't get to close to you. We had a gloomy day with some rain, and more rain today.
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Sheila Brown
@sgbrown (1638)
• United States
10 May 16
Me too, @fishtiger58 Tornadoes scare the "you know what" out of me! So far today, the sun is shining and it should be a beautiful day!
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fishtiger58
@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
10 May 16
@sgbrown I live in the middle part of the country, the thought of a hurricane scares me more. The ocean is a powerful thing.
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Sheila Brown
@sgbrown (1638)
• United States
10 May 16
@fishtiger58 It is and hurricanes also produce tornadoes! I'm glad I don't live in "hurricane country"!
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (339721)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 May 16
I am SO glad we don't have tornadoes here. I would be terrified I think. I'd be down in your bunker quicker than you could say Jack Robinson.
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Sheila Brown
@sgbrown (1638)
• United States
15 May 16
You would have to fight me going out the door! LOL I am quick to want to go to the shelter.
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Juliaacv
@Juliaacv (51150)
• Canada
10 May 16
Those video clips are so awfully scary. We've only had 1 tornado touch down in our area that I can recall. It did a lot of damage, and it wasn't of the same magnitude that these are. We're in for a cloudy and somewhat wet day today, not a nice day really. I hope that you have a nice day.
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Sheila Brown
@sgbrown (1638)
• United States
10 May 16
I know I would have wet my pants, had I seen that tornado up this close! I thought this was an awesome video! Today should be a nice, sunny day. I hope you have a beautiful day as well!
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Anna
@LadyDuck (471390)
• Switzerland
10 May 16
What I fear most are the forces of nature, tornadoes, earthquakes, flooding, all pretty scary.
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Sheila Brown
@sgbrown (1638)
• United States
11 May 16
Yes, they are all scary! There are very few places in the world that do not have some type of "natural" disasters such as these.
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
10 May 16
Wow, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that - glad it didn't affect you.
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Sheila Brown
@sgbrown (1638)
• United States
11 May 16
Thank you, @jaboUK So far the bad storms have stayed north or south of us and managed to go around us. I hope we stay lucky the rest of the season!
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Ruby Hawk
@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
11 May 16
I have been close to a couple of tornadoes and I can tell you it's scary. They do a lot of damage, we had a community almost destroyed by a tornado a couple of years ago.
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Sheila Brown
@sgbrown (1638)
• United States
11 May 16
They are scary, @RubyHawk Several years ago, a small community just west of us was hit hard. Several people were killed and many homes were destroyed. A small tornado came through our property and took out some trees and we found part of a camper trailer on our pond dam. We were very lucky!