kentuckythrower wrote on Mar 5
th, 2012 at 4:34pm:
You should have gotten a load of the swarm of tornadoes that came through here last Friday. Fortunately for me, we missed getting hit, but I saw debris falling out of the sky that must have been picked up somewhere southwest of here. Spring is in the air!!!
As I mentioned before, I was stationed at Ft. Campbell on the Kentucky/Tennessee border for seventeen months. Though we were never directly hit by a tornado while I was there, they hit all around us, one as close as Hopkinsville, directly to our north in Kentucky. That area has some of the wildest Spring weather one can imagine. One day while I was doing a twelve hour gate guard shift I saw it go below freezing, snow, we had a thunderstorm with tornadoes nearby, we had hail, rain, and it was sunny and went up to eighty degrees. Again, this was all in one twelve hour shift.
Anyway, you can keep your tornadoes, thank you. We get very few of them here in New Jersey and that's fine by me.