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SSG William Jones
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You are very welcome, SSG William Jones, and good morning to you!
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SPC Michael Terrell
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Good news!
My Junior year in high school, I was helping my girlfriend's family rebuild their home after their furnace failed and overheated. I was at the rear of the house and saw a tornado, coming towards us and growing larger. Their back porch was made to be used as a shelter, so I got everyone out of the house, and we went under the thick concrete, watching as it grew closer. It suddenly made a right turn, and was heading away from us.
Monday morning we discovered that it had hit our high school, and it had broken or sucked out over 1000 panes of glass. The roof of the gym had been picked up and dropped back into place. Some glass blocks were sucked out of the walls. Window frames were damaged, and the building was full of broken glass as we went to class, with over 100 workers trying to repair the building during our classes. It removed the press box from our stadium, and bent several of the light standards over, right above ground level. The site looked like it had been bombed.

A lot of other buildings were damaged, as well.

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Sgt Commander, Dav Chapter #90
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Awesome story from your past, SPC Michael Terrell!!! Thank you for sharing it!
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SPC Michael Terrell
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Sgt (Join to see) - You're welcome. We thought that all of our hard work was going to be destroyed. I was riding her school bus home after school, and we worked to 9:00 PM, and all day on Saturdays and Sundays. The wire was on Christmas eve, and we didn't finish until our summer break.
One idiot at school was showing off and said, "I'll bet that you've never been in your girlfriend's bedroom!" I smiled at him. "I wired it, insulated it, hung the drywall and did the joints. I painted it, and I put her new bed together." All of his idiot buddies were laughing art him as he turned bright red, and tried to sneak off.
It was a true labor of love, for me.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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Glad all's well with you, amazing the difference a hundred miles cam make, we had damage but mostly related to trees being blown over. Testing days for JWST, hope it aces all of them.
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Yeah, Tornados unlike Hurricanes do tremendous damage over a relatively small area, but it can be horrific in and around that small area as it steams through! Six more days to go in the testing mode unless they protract it... Have a great day, Jack...
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