Agreed Dennis. In 96 , a tornado came thru here the first time and I'll never forget the creaking and popping as the 150 year old trees fell and well... I'll never forget that.. We had no safe room and were all crammed in a little 4 ft bathroom. That was before cell phones and Kubotas .. I had been working on a burn pile and was driving an old Ford truck.. I heard the weather alert on the radio and it said would be in the Flora area at 12 :34 I looked at my wrist watch and it was 12 :30 so I jumped in and put it in go... went under this dark cloud bank about a 1/2 mile from the house.. zipped to the house and grabbed some instructions laying on the steps for putting a gate together and as Sis and I herded the kids to the little area ( bil at work), the power went and as we shut the door, the trees cracked and the house groaned. Lots of damage that day .. We found a feed trough a mile away . I am a tornado magnet I guess this is #3 direct and 2 others indirectly affected , ( Hamburg Ar and Dumas Ar )- a true miracle- no one killed where it hit the assisted living where my Mama was administrator.It was on national tv back then.- I helped salvage people's personal belongings because I was visiting at the old homeplace not far from there when it happened. I was so grateful for this miracle - most of the place was gone and there was a car in the "room" were my Dad's chair sat. collie
