November, 2013 (Sunday), we were in CG in East Peoria Illinois, which shares a border with Washington on one side and Peoria on the other. We were still having coffee late morning when the warning sirens went off. Thought it was a mistake until I turned on television. Several tornadoes had been reported in the area, with one less than 5 miles away headed our direction!
Needless to say we were in the F350 and heading into Washington where our friends live. They have a rather nice basement which is where we wanted to be, UNDERGROUND!
The drive was only about 10 minutes away but the tornado changed its path and tried to intercept us. I know they say "you can't out run a tornado", but I guarantee you that at 90mph you certainly can. It was a EF4 and destroyed hundreds of homes in the area. We wish we had taken some pics as it passed directly behind us but I was too busy driving and the DW was too busy praying!
Later that day when we returned to the CG there wasn't even a tree branch down. We should have stayed there.
