[rwfromkansas]

The folks up in the northeast don't know what real thunderstorms are...lol.

When the city lights go out, you have hail several inches deep in your yard, and 80 mph winds........that is a real thunderstorm...:)

[Husker24]

I live in a little town in SE, Nebraska and I heard over the scanner a police man reported a funnel dropping about 3 miles west of me headed my way. We have no sirens in this town since there are only 40 people in it. A few minutes after the scanner report everything just went dead calm outside, the wind stopped completely the rain stopped and in a matter of seconds it got as dark as it is close to 9:00pm, then all the sudden the wind just hit it must have been around 75-80mph. Im guessing the funnel bounced back up and went over me, a barn was destroyed a few miles west of here. I actually got pretty close to going into the basement, I had the door open. To tell you the truth, i love this stuff. Although when confronted directly with it it is very frightening.