CURIOUS
"...everyone run to the basement but I wanted to see it."
"During the tornado warning I was at school, on my way to walk home but then my friend gave me a ride home because it looked like it was going to rain. Once I walked into my house my mother told me there was a tornado warning and not to cook, turn off the lights, no TV’s on (except the news in the living room) and take all the fans out of the windows and close them. Then we all sat in the living room impatiently watching the news. While watching the news said to go in our basements and we did but my mom stayed upstairs to call my dad from work. As time passed I fell asleep and woke up the next morning to go with my dad to videotape the aftermath of the tornado. This was the first tornado I have witnessed and survived and June 1, 2011 will be a day I will never forget."
"On the day of the tornado I was at my cousins house in was Springfild. I don’t remember the name of the street they live on better it oy the Cumberland Farm near the rotary.
We where all on the porch when it began to rain and when the wind was blowing hard. We all decided to go inside and it seemed like instant the wind grew stronger as soon as the door was close. Everyone run to the basement but I wanted to see it. I went to the door but it didn’t open. When we[tried] to open it. The wind was going crazy so I went back inside the basement and through the basement window I was the tornado. It looked like a huge cloud on the ground and I remember hearing trees snapping and falling to the ground. The tornado lasted about 45 seconds to a minute then was gone.
It was scary but no one on the street was hurt. Unfortunately some people down the street over had been kill by the tornado."
We where all on the porch when it began to rain and when the wind was blowing hard. We all decided to go inside and it seemed like instant the wind grew stronger as soon as the door was close. Everyone run to the basement but I wanted to see it. I went to the door but it didn’t open. When we[tried] to open it. The wind was going crazy so I went back inside the basement and through the basement window I was the tornado. It looked like a huge cloud on the ground and I remember hearing trees snapping and falling to the ground. The tornado lasted about 45 seconds to a minute then was gone.
It was scary but no one on the street was hurt. Unfortunately some people down the street over had been kill by the tornado."
"Before the tornado hit I was at school. Once I got home it was 4:10pm. My step father got in the house & told me to change the channel to the weather channel. He said that theirs a tornado coming. During the tornado I was scared that it was going to come towards my house after the tornado I was on facebook checking if everyone was okay."
“My mom had just picked me up from weight lifting after school at like 4:00pm. Then we got home at 4:30 and started doing what we usually do. She bought home pizza so I was just sitting in my room eating. And my mom was doing whatever she was doing in her room. Then at like 4:45 the wind started blowing really hard and because we had all of the windows open the wind started blowing everything around the house. So me and my mom start closeing the windows and then we heard a crash from her room so she wen t to check it out and I had to finish closeing the windos. Awnd when I got to the front of the house I looked out the window and saw the tornado and it was crazy because I’ve never seen one before. I honestly didn’t kno[w] what to do but I was kind of scared. But where was it didn’t stay long. The hosue was ok. We had no power, no service, on our cell phones, and there was a tree leaning on our house. So we though the worse was over. So because we had no power me and my mom were sitten down talking and we can hear people outside screaming and freaking out. So I told my mom that [I] was gonna walk around and look at the neighborhood. All tress were down everywhere and traffic was backed up everywhere. And so many people were freaking out. Then after a while I went home and around 9:30 the house started leaking like crazy and the roof fell in so me and my mom packed some clothes and drove to my uncles house. “