[Sender]

I lived in Lexington KY during the 1974 tornado outbreak. I was the only employee at the time in charge of a motel full of people that evening.

I remember the sky going this wierd gray-green, with a very ominous, powerful feeling. Greenage, dude. Luckily the tornadoes skipped all around us and we didn't get hit. I used the headlights of my own car to provide light on the motel during the hours of power outages though.

Before KY, I lived in...Pinellas county FL. Been there, done that. Don't care to see a hurricane any closer than I've already seen them. Good luck and God bless to all in this storm's uncertain path.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>I remember the sky going this wierd gray-green, with a very ominous, powerful feeling. Greenage, dude.<<<

I have seen that color once in my life. In March 1984 I was taking a class in Clemson, South Carolina when the sky quickly turned very dark at mid-day, with a color I described at the time as Greenish. As soon as the class was over, I drove home and noticed a huge disk-like cloud circling low over my city. There were similar clouds in the distance. It was like something out of a horror movie.

The tornados starting touching down shortly thereafter near the Georgia/South Carolina border about 30 miles south of Clemson, cut a swath across South Carolina and North Carolina, and killed 57 people. My city was spared.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Twelve years ago, on my parents anniversary, we had a tornado hit our town. I stood in the front window of our house and watched it go over our roof at about one hundred feet (yeah, I know that was stupid). We were fortunate in that it knocked over a couple of trees, twisted the tops out of a few others, and tore some shingles off the roof.

It was only an F1, but it ripped the daylights out of the town, wrecked the movie theater, a church, and two neighborhoods. For a long time the national weather service didn't want to admit that it was a tornado, since their Doppler radar didn't pick it up, but one of my neighbors had videotaped it and that finally forced them to admit that Doppler doesn't always detect smaller tornadoes.