Twister!

Just wanted to take a quick second to post a video of the F-3 tornado damage that went through my neighborhood and the neighborhood across the street from me.

The tornado came through at about 2 a.m. and woke everyone in my house out of a deep sleep.  We jumped up and literally couldn't hardly hear each other over the roar.  We were just saying we should probably go to the basement when the power went out, the house started shaking, the pressure in the house changed, and the chimney sounded like a whistle from the air rushing out of it.

Thank God, we got down to the basement all right and the tornado must have been overhead at that point because we lost a good portion of shingles from the roof and everything outside got blown away, but only 3 houses down from mine is where the real damage started.  The third house down had all the windows, doors, and a portion of the roof blown out and ripped off, fences flattened, trees snapped, etc.  It only got worse as you continued northeast as there were homes with huge gaping holes in them from flying debris, whole walls and sections blown away, roofs nowhere to be found, and literally complete houses flattened to the ground and one that's completely missing!  The only thing left of it is the concrete foundation.

Thankfully, nobody was killed or even critically injured.  Hard to believe considering it hit at 2 a.m. with everybody asleep in their beds, the tornado sirens never went off, and it came upon us so quickly.

Here's a pic of where my house is in relation to the major destruction - just a few houses away.  The news' little twister icon is actually too far west, the tornado followed the path at the tips of the arrows I've placed on the picture below.

Here's a link to some local coverage of the damage http://www.kmbc.com/video/16142148/ - the first 3:30, and where the main reporter is, is in the neighborhood across the street from me (around 109th - I live on 106th Terrace).