re: Anyone ever seen a tornado in person?

Didnt see it because it was dark but I lived on a houseboat north of Atlanta in the mid 80s and was sound asleep one night when the damned thing started rocking and rolling like it was in 5-6s when it was tied up in the slip. I got up and the marina I was in was whitecapping and the walkway to the hill was moving up and down 5-6 feet. I got back on the boat because there was no way I could get to the hill. It was deafening loud, wind howling and hailing horizontally. it got eerily quite in just a little while...I knew it was a tornado but when it got light enough to see 2 docks down from me and the entirety of the rest of the marina had been completely destroyed. Entire floating docks of boats had drifted off and were sinking....it looked like a war zone. My slip lost a few roof panels but other than that it was fine...I went to work, nothing I could do.