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Originally Posted by DaFace
Kind of surprised it didn't even damage the utility poles and wires.
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I was just going to say that....
Quick Tornado story...
In May 2003 a Tornado went though Liberty MO and right though our family business. I live just south of town and watched it from my house in the front yard drinking a beer with my neighbors like an idiot.
I said that I thought it went toward our business and Mom and Dads house so we jumped in a truck and headed that way. Trees and limbs everywhere.
Made the corner on H highway right before B Highway where our shop and business is and whoa! Everything flattened.
When we pulled up I could see my Mom waving out the window of her Cadillac in the rubble of the shop/garage. Police and fire were already there and had to hold me back because of power lines down between me and Mom / Dad and not sure if the lines were still live.
THEY RODE OUT THE TORNADO IN A 1978 CADILLAC!
The shop was destroyed and so was the office. They had just beat the storm to Liberty and instead of going up the hill to home Dad put the car in the shop to keep hail off it.
They were thinking of going next door to the office but it was raining. Dad sees the roof come off the building across the creek and pushed Mom in the car right before it hit.
If they had went to the office they would have died, nothing left of that block building. Somehow that car was basically untouched. No windows broken some damage but Mom drove it till it was totaled by the insurance company. Amazing...