re: Anyone ever seen a tornado in person?

Seen two. One in Taylorsville, GA when I was a kid. We lived in a trailer with no underpinning that wasn't tied down in the middle of a cotton field. Tornado came across that field and directly hit a trailer about 100 feet from us...flipped it over and the 2 old lesbians that lived in it came out the back door like they had springs in their asses. Knocked ours and several others off the blocks but only damaged the one the lesbians lived in. Consensus was that it was because they were lesbians...I didn't buy it then, don't buy it now.

The other time I was in a room on the top floor of The Point Mallard Motel. I think it is a doubletree now but back then it was not...it was a dive motel but cheap lodgings for working at Browns Ferry. AT any rate I was sound asleep when the tornado sirens went off and looked out the window and it looked like the damn thing was about 3 feet away but clearly defined...it was actually a couple of miles away but in the haze of sleep I thought I was dead for certain. Through on a pair of hair hangdowns and ran down to the lobby and the lady at the desk laughed her arse off...said the sirens went off every Tuesday when they tested them. I told her I saw the tornado and she did not believe me but changed the channle on the lobby TV and lo and behold she believed me then.