| About 6pm we (people I work with, military) were in a formation
discussing what we were gonna do (we were deployed) that day..we were
told to stage our gear quickly as bad weather was expected..then we were
told to look behind us..we could see the sky turning very dark, wind was
picking up, and it was drizzling. As we rushed to secure our work tents
the best we could, and get our gear in its place, it began raining, and
the clouds were alive. I remember looking up and seeing a huge cloud
amongst them all that seemed to be horizontally rolling rapidly, and
growing in size (I am guessing that is a roll cloud?). There was
constant lightning, downpours, the whole thing..then I noticed clouds
right above us swirling and I was trying to tell people, but in my
position, I had no choice but to stay out there and get everything done.
I seriously thought a funnel was going to drop right on us. After we
finished, we sat in the tents to see if it was going to end so we could
get to work. (Of course noone is allowed on the flight line in that
weather) Hours went by. It would hail, rain (with lightning constant),
hail then stop. It just kept going. Finally some of us were allowed to
leave. Back where we were sleeping, noone was asleep. Tin roofs, the
hail, downpours, cracks of thunder, there was noway. Eventually our tin
roof on one corner of the building began to be pulled up...at first it
was just a few inches, but each time it was a little bit more...it was
so loud when it would slam back down. I was waiting for it to blow off.
Even when the rain stopped you could go outside and it was almost day
time it seemed because of the lightning storm that came with it. Through
the many years of living in tornado alley, and all them I have been
through, I have to say it was one of if not the worst I have seen face
to face. (when I was younger I was always made to go in the basement,
though I wanted to watch). This storm lasted from about 6:30 pm to at
least 2am...8 hours at least! |
