Tornado Outside my Door!

by Calvin
(Anniston alabama)

It was the 25th of August, a Monday and the National Weather Service had issued a tornado warning for Calhoun county Alabama.

I was at home doing school, because I am home schooled, when the sirens went off. Well I turned on the tv to hear what was going on, and they said that a tornado had just been sighted in dearmanville, which is just a few miles from where I live. It was going toward White Plains, so it was coming right toward my house! My dad had come up from his garage to check the weather, and about that time a customer pulled in to the shop to get his car, so my dad motioned him to come up to the house. That's when it happened, the man came up onto the porch and the wind started to blow kinda hard so my dad said "Hey come on in the house". Then the tornado touched down and we where watching it through our storm door, not knowing it was a tornado until the trees started to lay down, Almost touching the ground! Then my dad said to the man "Come on, this is a tornado! we'll go to our bathroom, it's our safest place". As we were going toward the bathroom, A big limb came crashing through our front window, And things started to get ripped off our porch and sucked up into the air never to be seen again. At that time I thought that we also would be sucked away never to heard of again, But our lives were spared and we all made it safely through the storm, But our shop and most of our trees did not make it. Our house was barely touched. Later we came to find that the tornado was rated at a EF1.