This afternoon when I got home from work we had some storms moving through the area but it wasn't raining right then and I talked to my neighbor for a couple minutes. About a minute after I went into my house I heard a strange kinda roaring noise. Around here one thing you often hear from people who've experienced a tornado is that there was a sound like a rushing train. I looked out the window and the wind was blowing like mad between the house and the garage. I headed toward the basement stairs but the wind was dying down before I got there.
When I went out a few minutes later this is what I saw in front of my nextdoor neighbor's house. There was one other house down the street that had a rotten old tree leaning against it but that seemed to be the only real damage. That's as close as I want to get to being in a tornado. I don't think this was strong enough to be one, but it sure scared me.
Afterwards I took a drive to look around and like the way the clouds looked over St Lawrence church just east of town.