Hello, I just got my power back on from losing it last Wednesday. I was watching the weather on TV where they was tracking some hurricane bands with tornados coming north through West Palm Beach toward me, in Fort Pierce. Abruptly, it started raining HEAVILY. The power then went out. After that I heard a noise that sounded like hail or shooting my shutters with a bb gun. I looked out and no hail. When I went outside the front of my house was covered in dirt, shredded leaves and sticks. It was in the crack of the front door. I saw in the vacant lot across the street there was channel cut in the trees. Then on the other side of my house I saw the major damage where giant trees were broken and shredded. Apparently, that tornado jumped over me. Can you believe that?
I went back in the house and a few minutes later I heard a roaring sound. I never heard that before and opened the door. Facing straight out, 2 blocks away was a gigantic tornado and I saw it sucking up giants pieces a metal straight up. I slammed the door and we hid in the bathroom. When we came out from that there was constant sirens.
I now know the tornado I saw killed 6 people. It was only 2 blocks away from me.
I was out of power 6 days.
The damage is unbelievable. The trailers where the people lived was shredded to small pieces and in some cases nothing but a piece of concrete was left. There was semi truck not just knocked over, but picked up and moved across a highway. There is a million foot warehouse, supposedly for Amazon that was finished a month ago that is totaled. There are many businesses in steel buildings with steel I beam frames that are bent over double.
Topic: Hurricane Milton - Tornados (Read 1695 times)