Chipk
Elite Member
A truly terrifying experience. A TRUE story.
Growing up in NE Florida I was experienced in hurricanes and severe lightning storms.
But I was totally a novice with tornados. In fact I didn’t believe we even had tornados here. But about 10 years ago a woman who worked with me reported her son had called to tell her they were having a tornado at their house. When she asked how he knew he said a cat just flew past his window.
And yes, they had minor tornado damage.
Once I was mesmerized to see a water spout traveling down the St John’s river. Last year a tornado missed our house by a few hundred yards. It knocked down countless trees and damaged a number of roofs. Most amazing were the number of large trampolines carried off and dumped randomly in our area.
Last year during the Hurricane Irma, a tornado hit our neighbor’s house at 5am. It tore off a massive sunroom and half of his metal roof while flattening nearly a dozen of his oak trees. It then knocked down 4 of our trees and dumped his roof in our yard creating a massive mess for me to clean up. It also trapped us for 2 days until the trees were removed.
Well yesterday I was metal detecting when suddenly the winds really picked up. Also heavy rain clouds blackened the sky. Realizing rain was about to dampen my day, I started walking towards my Jeep. However I had not gone far when my detector had a strong signal of what may be a good target.
I can’t say it was the smart thing to do, but I stopped and knelt down to dig the signal. As I removed yet another blasted bottlecap from Mother Earth, I heard it.
Every description of a tornado I have ever heard included the sound of an approaching train. And that was exactly what I was hearing as the winds increased and the rain began to fall. I stood up and looked around trying to determine where twister was so I could either run or hunker down where I was. The direction of the sound was hard to determine as it was bouncing off of the nearby houses and the many trees. I was getting truly worried about my predicament.
And then when I looked over my shoulder I saw IT. IT was right behind me. There through the trees I saw the tracks I had not noticed before and the 3:17 train barreling along on them!!!
It seems that a tornado is not the only thing that sounds like an approaching train. An approaching train also sounds like an approaching train....or a tornado.
Shortly after that the winds died down and the sun came out.
Growing up in NE Florida I was experienced in hurricanes and severe lightning storms.
But I was totally a novice with tornados. In fact I didn’t believe we even had tornados here. But about 10 years ago a woman who worked with me reported her son had called to tell her they were having a tornado at their house. When she asked how he knew he said a cat just flew past his window.
And yes, they had minor tornado damage.
Once I was mesmerized to see a water spout traveling down the St John’s river. Last year a tornado missed our house by a few hundred yards. It knocked down countless trees and damaged a number of roofs. Most amazing were the number of large trampolines carried off and dumped randomly in our area.
Last year during the Hurricane Irma, a tornado hit our neighbor’s house at 5am. It tore off a massive sunroom and half of his metal roof while flattening nearly a dozen of his oak trees. It then knocked down 4 of our trees and dumped his roof in our yard creating a massive mess for me to clean up. It also trapped us for 2 days until the trees were removed.
Well yesterday I was metal detecting when suddenly the winds really picked up. Also heavy rain clouds blackened the sky. Realizing rain was about to dampen my day, I started walking towards my Jeep. However I had not gone far when my detector had a strong signal of what may be a good target.
I can’t say it was the smart thing to do, but I stopped and knelt down to dig the signal. As I removed yet another blasted bottlecap from Mother Earth, I heard it.
Every description of a tornado I have ever heard included the sound of an approaching train. And that was exactly what I was hearing as the winds increased and the rain began to fall. I stood up and looked around trying to determine where twister was so I could either run or hunker down where I was. The direction of the sound was hard to determine as it was bouncing off of the nearby houses and the many trees. I was getting truly worried about my predicament.
And then when I looked over my shoulder I saw IT. IT was right behind me. There through the trees I saw the tracks I had not noticed before and the 3:17 train barreling along on them!!!
It seems that a tornado is not the only thing that sounds like an approaching train. An approaching train also sounds like an approaching train....or a tornado.
Shortly after that the winds died down and the sun came out.