Well it was bond to be posted sooner or later. On our way to work me and my brother already felt on edge today like something was going to happen, (more like we felt shitty as hell). He felt a little sick, me I was sweating which I usually don't do, even on hot summer days when I wear a coat I never sweat. But today we both felt it something was way off.
After a while and the radio at work starts broadcasting the weather situation and at that time my boss leaves. ( I still had no Idea a tornado was expected to land, let alone two.) Turns out my boss knew before he left and didn't tell me.. There is a tornado, two of them heading this direction and a possible third one. There hasn't been a tornado in Tuscaloosa since I was little, so naturally I wasn't to focused about it.
I start talking to myself "naa it's just a bad weather out in the middle of no where no reason for it to draw my attention." The the radio goes out and no matter what window I look out I see lightening.
I go outside the streets are clear the wind is calm, and humid. The classic signs off a tornado about to form somewhere. At this time the first one is already rampaging through Tuscaloosa and the the second in Holt 6 miles away from where I work at. And the third one is a about to form about a half a mile down the street from me.
So I'm outside, I see a huge dark cloud on the Horizon (the tornado in Tuscaloosa). At that time I see another huge dark cloud come and go right over my head. For that 2 min over my head it felt like I was staring into the jaws of death, kinda.... It was freighting and amazing. I could see a the outer clouds spin in a clockwise circle and further inside of it I see another set of clouds spin the opposite direction.
It looked like giant mouth slowly opening, for a second it looked like it was going to form a tornado right behind my store. I was frozen. I could see the funnel starting to form. I wanted to move, everything in my body said "get in the car and drive the opposite direction." Another part of me said "no I need to see this" I never blinked the whole.. I looked into the abyss and didn't blink.
While in another place my brother and his weirdo gang friends was near the lake and watching the same dark cloud of lightening I was looking at before the one that passed over my head. That tornado was spinning fast enough to generate it's own lightening.
Theo and the rest of them was already getting ready to leave to help who ever was left after that devastating tornado. As for the one that went over my head. It turned into a tornado about 20 miles after it passed over me.(I really thought it was just my imagination, talk about luck)
I had a couple of people coming into the store and telling me about the one that went over my head. They all thought one was going to form right then and there too.,,,,, It's only the beginning a disaster like this has a way of bringing out the worst and best in people.
Cool story, the police found a boy in a freezer they asked him "how you get in here?" The boy replied "a man with wings told me to get in here."
It's late post the 2nd part tomorrow.
b.l.Tiger · Wed Jul 06, 2011 @ 10:29am · 0 Comments |