Were okay, thanks for the concern, we made it to the spider hole....power lines are down for several miles, most of my neighbors are completely totaled, we had to shoot a few of the neighbors horses (8 out of a herd of 55-60 at our next door neighbor, as well a few other neighbors lost some horses, cattle, one dog), none of the neighbors dead, a few injured....the most amazing thing happened, our home was undamaged, but our property suffered major damage on all four sides, my barn roof is completely gone, kiddos play fort totaled, a lot of trees busted up, my shipping container (holds my sandcar, conv vw and various other toys) weighs 15,000-20,000 lbs plus the cars inside was tossed about twenty feet. the pic of the busted shop is directly across the road, the homes are the next three neighbors to the East, I can't make it West to check on those neighbors yet. My friend, Kevin, got one pic of our tornado and the car in the tree was the neighbor to houses down. Glad to hear that you other Okies and Kansans are okay. we are definitely putting in a very large hidey hole / spider hole, not very much fun stacked in like sardines, the roar of the tornado, the 200-300 mph winds, the crash of debris...but worst of all was the silence, it happens three times, first just before it hits, the second (when it's large enough) is when your in the eye (the middle) and third when it passes...and as the name implies hidey hole/ frady hole you don't want to stick your head out, foe fear of getting it knocked off, when we did emerge you could hear the roar moving East for the next 8-10 minutes. Gotta go, taking coffee and chow to the neighbors, lots of reclamation and clean up to do. Everyday above ground, is a good day Tim

het guys, sorry about the video / pics quality. and before anyone asks, I won't post, send, any folks / animal pics (no insult intended, but people always ask and I don't take injury / death pics). Tim

good to hear you are safe and sound. if you need anything we are in Dallas and will get you what you need. our son goes to OU so we know the way.

I think Piedmont got it the worst last night, they're what, 20 miles East of you? Wiped out an entire lake house community. Haskell got hit with a tornado as well, which is about 20 min. south of me, but I think it only took out a few businesses and some homes....

Tim,

Glad to hear the family and home are all ok. Very scary stuff.

Wow! Glad to hear you and your family are alright.

Please let us know if you need anything Tim!

Glad you are Ok Tim...

Tim, Glad to know you and the family are well. My heart goes out to all of you and your neighbors. If there is anything we can do from here, please let us know!

I'm close tim, all you got to do is call if you need me, got your pm, glad all is well and you made it thru ok

Condition of sand car in container?

priorities, don'tcha know...

John

Wow, glad you and the family are ok Tim (and Yoshi too!). Best thoughts and prayers heading your (sorry, I refuse to write "yore", I know that will bum you out). Let me know if I need to put together a local LEO posse to help your family out....

Damn Tim. Glad your family is ok. I have lot of family in OK that we are still checking up on. I'm sure our farm took a beating.

Yikes! Glad you guys are OK.

HAHA, sandcar okay...VW is banged up, body damage down the drivers side.

Thanks for all the concern, but were really in great shape, were so lucky, in fact were in such good shape, wifeys been making coffee and sandwitches / snacks and I'm the neighborhood delievery boy..gotta make a run to town for gas / 2 stroke oil (you two strokers just love that...zing, zing), bread, sandwitch fixins (probably grab a bunch of wally worlds deli subs). Tim

Yoshi, Yep Piedmont got hit hard, lot more congested houseing (there's a house every 2 1/2-5 acres...city slickers) and yep their about twenty miles NE of me.

On a sad note, my neighbor found two more folks that had drove into a tornado, driving on I-40, got dropped / thrown into the field behind our place.

On an educational note, if you have downed power lines, completely blocking you in, streched across your property, four feet off the ground, blocking you and your vehicle in. I discovered that you can slowly approach while listening for arcing power, and if you aim very carefully you can completely sever three power lines with only four 12 gauge slugs.

Tim

Thank you for being you TinyTim, all that you're doing for your neighbors... You are good people. I will continue to think positive thoughts for all thouse being affected by the tornados and storms back east.. I now get to try to find out more on family back there to see how they survived yesterday's storm in Joplin...

Tim!!

Hardcore!

Hey Scat, don't believe it, I'm just a troop and my wifey orders me to do stuff, I don't dare say "no", I say "yes Ma'am" and move out...I'd much rather sit in the lawn chair and drink the ICB, but alas, that's not the life for a man that married a tyrant (she doesn't visit this site and I can be really brave). Oh yeah, shoulda seen her face when I told I was still leaving Thursday, to go fishing in San Felipe (hey, I already payed). Tim

Tim!!! Glad you still can see the humor in it all!

If you need anything let me know? I can bring up a water cooled Ex 5500 Honda generator if you need power.

Do I get to keep it? Yeah, yeah I know the answer, really appreciate the offer, but Okla and the electric companies are pretty tight, we break and they fix us...they completely replaced 6-8 miles of power poles and four power lines in under 8 hours and will have me back on the grid within the hour....wow, my electric companies customer service is second to none, have come to the house twice today just to explain the progress and keep us informed.

Sadly I was informed that one of the fellas that was found two miles down the road was a friend, Austin...he was young and a good guy to ride the river with.

Tim

glad to hear you made it, and hope the fishing is good .......

I'm glad everybody is ok. That's some scary chit!

That's straight hardcore right there!!!

I read that they had two tornadoes near Sacramento, CA today. CA!!! I grew up in CA and have never heard of tornadoes in CA!!!

I'm glad you all are ok and thanks for the pictures. If you look at the big radar picture, that looked like a hurricane, in this case a landicane that went through those states!

Glad you made it out alright. I was in eastern Kansas when the twister came through Reading and spotted the wall cloud.

I was back in Western Kansas for yesterdays storm, holy crap I saw that one unfold it was a supercell for sure.

I have some family members that are storm chasers and this was recommended to me http://www.grlevelx.com/grlevel2/ if you are interested in seeing some real good radar.

Dang Tim....glad you are ok!

I can't even imagine going through something like that.

db

Wow Glad to hear you are OK.

I have friends and business associates in Joplin. I was finally in contact with them today. thank god it missed their plant, i have contracts in there. Not so good for many employees. 28 lost everything. 1 employee dead. My friend Larry, Tornado missed his house by 1 block.he and his wife were on the back porch, heard a sound like a giant electric blender the size of the empire state building. they ran into the center of the house. then the power went out. He says the Tornado literally cut the town in half. in his words, it's worse than you could possibly imagine x 5.

I have always told folks that I most associated the sound to a speeding train, but yesterday, on the plane, I decided that up to the point that it strikes building material it sound more like a jet spooling up, as it begins it's take off run...at least from underground. Tim

That is just madness....I am SO thankful that all of our GD.com family came out of this OK physically. Your stuff can be replaced/fixed, but NOTHING can replace great GD.com peeps. RIP and prayers to all of the victims....