It's incredible reading all of these close calls...oh yeah...i can think of several but one really nuts event was near Truscott Texas and we were watching this gorgeous supercell moving Southeast. We parked the Avalanche and took photos as it approached this gorgeous golden wheatfield. Jeff kept watching radar as I was snapping shots and he was saying come on we've got to go...and I am asking if he is seeing any rotation in the storm and wanting to wait until the last minute to take shots. The core of the supercell was going just to the east of us...and I ran to the Avalanche and just as I got to it the wind just ripped up to I don't know how high and I barely got the door open. Just as I got the door open, Jeff is yelling he is sure a tornado is wrapped up in rain and this old antique heavy wood/iron wagon wheel that is mounted on top of a nearby building flings off and sails right over our vehicle, I still wasn't completely in the vehicle yet and i watched as the wagon wheel goes "THUD" into the ground. I get in the Avalanche and the back end of the truck starts to move around...like we were sliding on ice, and then everything dies back down pretty quickly and we take off to our South and see this fat tornado pull off to the South and East.
Oh...ok...one more on I-40 near McClean TX Jeff and I were on a tornadic storm after dark heading east on I-40 we are on I-40 Jeff can see the tornado crossing I-40 up ahead and then suddenly we are in blinding rain and out of no where a tree...ripped out of the ground with a root system facing us bigger than our Avalanche is in the middle of East bound I-40 we swerve to miss it and there is an 18 wheeler flipped upside down just a few feet further on....kinda felt like the Twister ride at Universal Studios.
Oh...ok...one more on I-40 near McClean TX Jeff and I were on a tornadic storm after dark heading east on I-40 we are on I-40 Jeff can see the tornado crossing I-40 up ahead and then suddenly we are in blinding rain and out of no where a tree...ripped out of the ground with a root system facing us bigger than our Avalanche is in the middle of East bound I-40 we swerve to miss it and there is an 18 wheeler flipped upside down just a few feet further on....kinda felt like the Twister ride at Universal Studios.
