re: Anyone ever seen a tornado in person?

I've seen a few. I've been in a few. It's the scariest thing you'll ever experience as it's on you because in your bones you know that there's now nothing you can do. If you live or die it's not going to be up to you.

Craziest one was in Greenwood. We were under a warning and it was close. We were catching softball sized hail and when the wind got up it was flying horizontal. It was bad enough it blew holes in my neighors roof. Knocked out the other's skylights. But that's not the crazy part.

The crazy part was once I got nailed with one of those because I wouldn't get out of the door looking for the tornado, I then went to hide in the bathroom with the old lady. It had a window that overlooked a big field behind the house and I was looking that direction because that's where the tornado was supposed to be coming from when I saw three deer run out of the woods into the field in this hailstorm. And when they got about fifty yards away from where they left the woods, I saw a tree get stripped of all it's leaves as the thing came down. Within two hundred yards it had crossed the field, hit the woodline, and I watched it take a hundred year old oak and pull it out of the ground and kinda throw it into the trees.

That one went on to kill people in Bossier.