BigNorsk
8th July 2008, 10:28 AM
Tornado went through yesterday afternoon. I just got home before it came. Sirens in town were blaring.
It went through the north end of town where the town is literally only two block wide. Destroyed some homes. Pictures at http://rolla.nd.utma.com/rolla_tornado_pictures.htm
Then it came by here. I had a basement full of highschoolers, including one who was going home and saw the tornado about the time it was hitting his house so he came here.
It passed right behind our house. I don't think I could have thrown a baseball into it, but my son could have.
The debris cloud was pretty well held out by our trees, the yard had a few napkin size thing whirl through, right behind the trees, about 150 feet away, things that were a couple of feet by a couple of feet were whirling. The tornado center was about another 150 feet out in the field. The tornado wasn't visible right then except for the debris whirling and the pattern in the grain.
Real strange, the trees at the back of the lot were all twisting in the wind. I don't think the wind made it to 20 mph at the house. In front of the house, my cooler was sitting open and it never even blew.
They are correct about the sound like a freight train, that got pretty loud as it went by.
We are just one row of houses along the highway, if there was another row behind us, they would be gone today.
One fireman was injured while following the tornado and one person was medically evacuated from Belcourt after the tornado hit his house.
The family who's house was most severely damaged actually watched the tornado coming and fled in their pickup just before it got there. It was a small tornado that if you made it couple of blocks you were completely out of it.
The Lutheran mission north of Belcourt was supposedly severely damaged, but I don't know it for a fact at this time.
Marv
It went through the north end of town where the town is literally only two block wide. Destroyed some homes. Pictures at http://rolla.nd.utma.com/rolla_tornado_pictures.htm
Then it came by here. I had a basement full of highschoolers, including one who was going home and saw the tornado about the time it was hitting his house so he came here.
It passed right behind our house. I don't think I could have thrown a baseball into it, but my son could have.
The debris cloud was pretty well held out by our trees, the yard had a few napkin size thing whirl through, right behind the trees, about 150 feet away, things that were a couple of feet by a couple of feet were whirling. The tornado center was about another 150 feet out in the field. The tornado wasn't visible right then except for the debris whirling and the pattern in the grain.
Real strange, the trees at the back of the lot were all twisting in the wind. I don't think the wind made it to 20 mph at the house. In front of the house, my cooler was sitting open and it never even blew.
They are correct about the sound like a freight train, that got pretty loud as it went by.
We are just one row of houses along the highway, if there was another row behind us, they would be gone today.
One fireman was injured while following the tornado and one person was medically evacuated from Belcourt after the tornado hit his house.
The family who's house was most severely damaged actually watched the tornado coming and fled in their pickup just before it got there. It was a small tornado that if you made it couple of blocks you were completely out of it.
The Lutheran mission north of Belcourt was supposedly severely damaged, but I don't know it for a fact at this time.
Marv