I live in middle Tennessee. In May of 1995 when we had a tornado, I was at the mall buying some new clothes, since I had a baby that March. As I was walking through the mall I saw some birds fly right by me. I was thinking, why are there birds flying in the mall? Next I saw leaves and felt the wind. Someone came on the mall intercom and said for all shoppers to go to the food court. I thought, Hell no! Because the food court has a glass dome ceiling. I went in a bathroom instead. When I left the mall,it looked like a movie set. Cars flipped over,etc. on the highway you could see how the tornado zigzagged across the highway. Second tornado was in April 2006. I was at the hospital getting a test done for my heart,where they shoot dye in your arm and run you through a machine. The next thing I know, is that the whole office staff, except for one nurse,was hysterical,crying,not telling people where to go. My nurse took charge and we had to sit in the hospital basement for an hour. I still had the IV in my arm and finally removed it myself. My kids were trapped at school,because buses couldn't get pass the debris. Cars couldn't get to school either because of debris. My kids bus got home at like 6:00 that night. All cell phones didn't work. I was scared to death about my kids. Some kids at some schools had to sleep at the school until the next day. One last tornado story, in 1999 a tornado hit my city. My family was in the closet hiding, and my husband wanted to drive us somewhere safer. Dumbest idea ever! We go to the car,get in it,and hubby realizes he has the wrong keys. So we get in the other car. He couldn't see,so I had to stick my head out the window to tell him where the road was. We turned around and came right back home after about 2 minutes. My daughters school was closed for a week in 1999 because of that tornado.
