When I interviewed my sister she told me how she remembers one morning getting woken up by these big bangs and crashing sounds. She tried to look out her window when she had her upstairs room but all she could see was the brightness from the lightning. It wasn't little lightning flashes, it was just straight light that was shinning in. Her trophies were falling off her wall and pictures falling of her dresser. All she thought it could be was a bad storm but nothing major to worry about.
When she woke up for her paper route at 5:30 a.m. she still couldn't see anything. It wasn't from the lighting this time though. It was so dark out she couldn't see the car 10 feet in front of her.
When my mother and my sister arrived back home at about 6:30 a.m. she was able to see the neighbor's houses. There were fire trucks and police cars there. My dad went next door to find out what had happened and they told him there was an acute tornado. He didn't really understand what that meant but he new it didn't look to go.
The neighbor's houses are trailer houses, and two of them were all smashed together. One house was on its side and the roof was torn off. The other one had part of its siding torn off. When we looked at our house to see if anything was wrong, all we had done was some of the siding was damaged. In our front yard though, our trampoline had blown over our house and cars and landed on the railroad tracks. It was completely ruined. Our tree house was originally connected to our swing set but it had been torn off. Our flag pole was cemented down but it had too blow over.
The weird thing about all of this though, is that, the neighbors houses are about 50 yards away and we didn't get any damaged compared to them. Another weird thing is that the trampoline, flag pole, and tree house all blew different directions. There were multiple wind patterns. The trampoline blew northwest, the tree house blew east, and the flag pole blew southwest. It's just kind of amazing that no one was hurt in that bad storm. Another amazing thing was that we were lucky that we didn't get really anything.