A Miss is as good as a mile (or 4)

[OLD fashioned preacher]

Tornado sirens went off last night.

Headed for the church (.9 mi away) to open it up. We don't have a basement, one church family lives in a mobile home.

Got hail ranging in size from 1/4 dollar to golf ball plus 80 mph winds.

One funnel lifted and went over the top of town, one passed 4 mi E (near a house and 45 acres I want to buy).

Only 4 windows busted @ the church and a tree down (I'm still trying to finish laying carpet).

East and north of town lost about 20 sections (20 sq. miles, 12,800 acres) of corn lost (probably 1/2 million bushels or more). At least the wheat had already been cut.

[water5]

Tornado sirens went off last night.

Headed for the church (.9 mi away) to open it up. We don't have a basement, one church family lives in a mobile home.

Got hail ranging in size from 1/4 dollar to golf ball plus 80 mph winds.

One funnel lifted and went over the top of town, one passed 4 mi E (near a house and 45 acres I want to buy).

Only 4 windows busted @ the church and a tree down (I'm still trying to finish laying carpet).

East and north of town lost about 20 sections (20 sq. miles, 12,800 acres) of corn lost (probably 1/2 million bushels or more). At least the wheat had already been cut.

Wow. Glad you are still in Kansas after all that! :)

[OLD fashioned preacher]

Wow. Glad you are still in Kansas after all that! :)

Hey, it was a tonado that took out our home in Fl during Hurricane Ivan (the NWS quit counting after Ivan spawned 200). And no, that's not why we left there.

[JrChurch]

I am originally from Knsas City (MO) and that is one thing I don't miss. When we lived in CA we experienced a few earthquakes and I remember thinking I liked them less than tornados. Couldn't look out the window and say, "Looks like earthquake weather."

Praise the Lord that you all are safe.

[OLD fashioned preacher]

tornadoes, fires, hurricanes, mud slides, rock slides, earthquakes, sink holes, hail, lightning strikes, floods, flash floods ---- anywhere you go has its weather problems.

Actually, I think we have an ideal area - low humidity, very few days above 100, very few days below 0, always cools of to the 60's or 70's in the summers at night no matter how hot the day, always a breeze. This tornado is the 1st one this close to town in 20 yrs.

[JrChurch]

Low humidity? Must be the western part of the state. We enjoy low humidity, temps do not reach the 90's, it cools off every evening, it rarely gets into single digits and most people in this area respect the Lord's commands, even if they don't obey them.

[OLD fashioned preacher]

yeppers, ifin you'll look @ the location heading -- I'm in Extreme WEST Kansas (pert near Col). However, I'm from the lower Appalachians (N Ga/N Ala).

[SouthernLady]

I just saw this and am glad y'all are okay!! We've had a few close scares since 2005--a few serious tornado "drills" (not really drills but I don't know what else you'd call them. We got a Christian school). Back in the end of April/first of May we had a double-funnel cloud come by my church and the decision was made to keep everyone in our old church building. It went over the church and some of our people saw it, but praise the Lord it never touched down.

How is your church coming along now? Everything fixed?

[Swampfox]

Hill country isn't normally favorable for twisters. That's why the Lord,

lift me up and let me stand,
by faith on Heaven's TABLE LAND (i.e, the Piedmont)
A higher plane (the foothills) than I have found;
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground (the Appalachians)

:D

[SouthernLady]

Hill country isn't normally favorable for twisters. That's why the Lord,

lift me up and let me stand,
by faith on Heaven's TABLE LAND (i.e, the Piedmont)
A higher plane (the foothills) than I have found;
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground (the Appalachians)

:D

Haha!! I gotta remember that one!!