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To: Voption
During spring break of 1995, we took the kids to Big Bend. We were driving back and were west of Abilene and noticed some tough clouds ahead. We decided to stop at a KOA campground off the highway and let it all pass so we didn't have to drive through it. We are getting things ready for the evening and making dinner when I heard on the radio that that area had just entered a tornado watch. I remember standing at the sink and saying to myself - "I am in a trailer, in Tornado Alley, during a Tornado Watch. Well, Lordy, this just might be my time."

Whenever I hear of a tornado tearing through a trailer park I always say; "Somebody must not have removed the factory tornado magnet."

7 posted on 04/03/2018 7:35:38 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Slyfox

While my daughter was attending Florida Christian College in Kissimmee, a tornado touched down in the Ponderosa RV Park across the street, lifted up as it passed over the campus, then touched down again on the other side.

Students were the very first responders, pulling the injured out of the wreckage even as the storm continued to rage. God was at work that day, no question about it.

In the aftermath of the storm, emergency personnel and all the news organizations used the ball fields as their staging areas, and the faculty and students of the school worked with them non-stop for days and days afterwards. When they all pulled out, the ball fields were completely torn up, and a local person volunteered his company’s heavy equipment to restore it to its previous condition.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/keyword/ponderosa-rv


8 posted on 04/03/2018 8:17:01 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Capitalists sign their checks on the front. Socialists sign theirs on the back.)
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