On Friday, June 13, 2014 2:36:11 PM UTC-4, Frank wrote:
On 6/13/2014 11:05 AM, George Shirley wrote:

On 6/13/2014 9:31 AM, songbird wrote:

a few days ago, could have been a tornado

skipping over, but others just say strong

winds, all i know is that it's not every

day you look out and realize the neighbor's

garage is gone. i've been through times

where the house was shaking before from

strong winds, but this time it was just wind

and rain from all directions at once (and a

calm eye for a moment), but no pressure change

so we were either off to one side or it didn't

form up until it was further north of us.



turns out it was two garages gone, other

another neighbor lost a bit of their roof,

one a few houses further down has a large tree

on top of it (a two and a half story house with

a large pine tree on top of it). more damage

to trees, tree lots, house with a brick wall

partially gone, another tree smashed someone's

car, garage door blown outwards, hmm... the

road to the north of us which runs EW looks

like a few hundred trees down.



our place, no damage other than a few small

things tipped over, but i'd just finished

24.5 pints of freezer jam that needed to go

in the fridge/freezer and it couldn't because

the power was out. so it's soupy freezer jam

now known as tornado jam.



the roof did not leak. i think.





songbird



Sounds like a "skipper," a tornado that doesn't touch the ground. We had

one drop the top of an oak tree on our roof many years ago. Scared the

hell out of us, including the dog. My folks home got hit by one in the

early seventies, just banged up the roof a bit. Skippers are fairly

common in the south. Glad your home didn't get hit.



George



Seen it happen here too in Delaware.



Also saw a tornado here. Son was driving us home and 2 miles from home

a tornado was taking out a school gym. Looked like the Wizard of Oz

with stuff flying through the air. We were only 200 yards away and it

was coming our way. I told my son to floor it and it never bothered us.

Besides the school gym, 6 houses lost roofs and siding. Police kept

cars out of the neighborhoods but the houses were not all together and

one I saw with out a roof while neighbors on half acre lots were untouched.



Saw a skipper too. Neighborhood a couple of miles away had many trees

felled and one house demolished but they did not call it a tornado.



I won't grow trees next to the house that will hurt the house if they

come down in a big wind.

Straight line winds are crazy too. We had a Rubber Maid Shed blow completely apart at 2 am one time. Of course it was full of crap we had to put somewhere so it didn't all blow away. We had a tree come down on the house in Hurricane Fran and now will not have a tree close enough to hit. We have even talked the neighbors to cut down some of theirs. They probably wouldn't hit the house but if they were willing........
MJ