Tornado Season

A couple years ago we were in a casino park in Louisiana when an EF1 tornado hit. It had to have passed very closely to us as it flipped a trailer in the next row over from us after it slammed us probably with what was a glancing blow. It was 5:15 a.m. and we were asleep. It hit so fast. I got up when we felt the blast and hurriedly got dressed but it was already gone. However, it took out the fence a short distance away and went across a vacant lot and took roofs off a house and a motel a short distance away. A man in the park was in his motorhome on his computer when it hit and he said all he felt was wind whooshing through his open window. I don't want to experience that again, but there were only tornado watches out, no warnings, but then we are used to the warning system in Indiana. There really isn't a uniform warning system for tornados nationwide. In Indiana we had watches which means conditions are ripe for development and warnings which means the danger is imminent and take cover. An EF1 stills packs winds up to 105 mph and no RV is a match for that. Plus tornados are not straight line winds, but twisty, violent spinning winds. Probably when it passed us it wasn't on the ground, but just ready to touch down. Fortunately the people in the trailer were rescued and not harmed. It was scary.

Dale