From: "Robert Comer" 

I was about 60 yards from the outside edge of a good sized tornado.  All I
could really see was all the dust and pieces of houses flying past my
window.  I didn't see the actual cone of it until it was well past and I
was brave enough to got out of the basement.

- Bob Comer


"Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
news:MPG.183b97225a77a07198b055{at}news.barkto.com...
> I'm in awe because Geo. says...
> >
> > We've had them come a lot closer than that. Had one about 5 years ago
rip
> > the top off a big ol oak tree in the woods about 500ft behind my house,
> > twisted it like a pretzel, also about 2 years ago had one come thru a
> > housing development in Middlefield, about a 3 minute drive from my
house.
> >
> > These last ones weren't even close.
>
> The closest I've ever been to a tornado was about 5 miles (east of where I
was).
> When my hometown was about destroyed in the 70s, I was on my way back to
Virginia
> from a Med cruise.
>

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