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What is the scariest experience you've had with Mother Nature?
Submitted by jacolily.

Let's just say stepping outside your house and seeing a tornado heading straight for you is not exactly the most peaceful feeling in the world. Not to mention that the panic of actually seeing one approaching pretty much freezes you in your tracks. Not that you could really outrun one anyway, but being able to make the effort would  be good. If you've never seen a tornado before consider yourself lucky. I have witnessed a few of the scary bastards and would rather not do it again.

You know the saying... Everything's bigger in Texas. Well, that includes tornadoes.

A tornado went over Kemp when I was a child. It was kind and spared this entire town. It didn't touch down until it was right on the edge, where it wiped out a mobile home sales lot. They were twisted like pretzels. Scary sight indeed. Fortunately no one was living in them since they were just demos. There were a few that were still standing after that, but the Lot soon went out of business. No one wanted to buy a mobile home after seeing what the tornado did to them. I can still remember the sound the tornado made as it was passing overhead. Bone Chilling really. It sounded like a freight liner passing by... amplified about 40 times. The house was shaking and I felt certain the windows were about to shatter. I just knew we were all going to die.

That memory was the first thing that flashed into my mind when.. as an adult, I was staring right at a cyclone heading for my house. I was only frozen in place for a few seconds.. but it felt like an eternity. Luckily the tornado changed it's path and I was spared again.