This one started off looking so innocent but the numerous tornadoes that hit Wisconsin yesterday were incredibly destructive. Causing one fatality and destroying over 30 homes in Stoughton alone, these tornadoes were a force to be reckoned with.
For a complete slideshow, where I found these images, check out:
http://www.wkowtv.com/index.php/photoviewer/tornado-081805/
It was hard to concentrate at work today, and for once not just because it was a Friday, we couldn't stop talking about what had happened; what we'd heard or seen, and what our own, personal, experiences had been with tornadoes. Laurel sent me an email of her eye-witness account of yesterday's events and agreed to let me post it:
Jered, his dad, and I, we all went to dinner at this place called Springer’s (in Stoughton), it's where my sister waitresses, used to be the old Sunnyside, ya know? Anyway, it's Mexican night there, we sit down, and just as I'm deciding that I want the Enchilada dinner, I hear someone say, "Holy shit, look out the window".... (remember this place is on the lake)....and low and behold, THERE IS A FREAKING TORNADO circling on land ACROSS the lake from us--I MEAN A REAL ASS M-FUCKING FUNNEL CLOUD. It's ready to touch down, and it's forming a definite tornado...so I'm like "Jered, Dan!! HOLY SHIT! There's a tornado!" (AND REMEMBER, this is RIGHT after they called off the tornado warning in DANE COUNTY!--go freakin' figure!) But then everyone crowds to the window, the waitresses are freaking shit, and they're like, “No one can go home, everyone stay in the building.” So I'm like AHHH! and I run towards the bathrooms, but then everyone is still watching it, so I'm like, okay...I guess it's still far enough away, but what if it just comes across the freaking lake at us!?? (I know, very unlikely, if not impossible)...so I'm like HOLY SHIT! This is amazing, and we could watch it clearly, as it touched down, you could see it grinding on the ground, and ripping things up--I could LITERALLY see roofs off houses being blown around and getting sucked up into the monster. It was TERRIFYING...I couldn't believe my eyes, it all felt like a dream. So the tornado keeps doing it's thing, it's lifting up, looks like it's going to vanish into thin air, and then it comes back down, grinds on the ground, picks up more and makes homes into debris. It was circling the lake like it was on a mission for the restaurant we were at, I'm not joking, it was circling counter-clockwise around the lake, and pretty soon it's at like 7 o’clock... and everyone was screaming! "It's going to circle around, everyone, get down, get in the bathroom!" There was no basement at this place, so I felt so unsafe, and some people were acting like it was no big deal, ordering drinks still, BUT THERE WAS A FREAKING TORNADO COMING RIGHT FOR US. It got to be about a mile away as it circled around, and I'm not kidding, a mile away feels like it's in your back yard--this sucker was monstrous! It was the scariest thing I've ever seen. Obviously we are fine, the tornado must have lifted then because all the sudden, everyone was walking around outside looking for it, and nothing...it was just gone--vanished. During this whole thing, people were calling others to warn them, some were telling their loved ones to get in the basement and that they love them. It was unreal. And when I thought about my family, I couldn't even stand it anymore. I thought I might have passed out from shock and I was feeling so nauseous and just like I was going to barf the entire time. It was crazy....
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