What happened? Was his place totally destroyed?
I've been in 3 tornados (well, 4 if you count it hitting the town, but not THAT near).
1 was at my grandmother's in Kansas when I was little. The tornado went right down the street she lived on........never strayed off the street, though, so there was mainly tree damage only.
Another at my own house in Oklahoma as a teenager. It actually hit the house while we were in it. Tore off one section of roof and half the living room, downed a tree in front, totally collapsed our barn and our greenhouse was just gone completely. Insulation and tin (from the barn roof) everywhere. What I remember most is having to go pick up all the insulation right away so the cows wouldn't eat it, having our dad congratulate us (we were home alone) on thinking to get plastic over the piano before it rained (it was under the section of roof blown off), having to rake the sides of the chicken house because all the chicken feathers that normally lay around on the bottom of the pen were stuck up against the chicken wire like a white wall, and that it was the day before Thanksgiving.
Then again, in college. We were at a friend's apartment and it hit the complex. No damage (just minimal debris damage) to the complex, but the housing subdivision nearby was flattened. I remember the power being out and the red cross van bringing us sandwiches.
Then as a young mother, my oldest was 4 or 5, one hit downtown Ft. Worth. We lived about 5 min. away, so sometimes I don't count that one. We were in the crawlspace under the house for it, though. He had to pee and I didn't know what to do with him, so told him to go over a ways and stand up on his knees to go. I couldn't take him up to the house to go, as they were just then saying on the radio that it was on a street two blocks away!
