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//**__NEWS FLASH!!!!!!__**//

April 24,2007
=//STRIKE TWO!//= //**This is the second time we've experienced the wrath of tornadoes...share your stories here.**// //We had to wake up at 9:11 last night and go to the bathroom again because we heard the sirens. A woman from Richland Hills somethis department called us and said it was a code red. My little sister was all mad at me because I was the one who woke her up. I mean she was CRANKY!!// //- Ruzseth//

April 13, 2007
//**OUR VERY OWN TORNADO**//



I never thought I would say this but now I do belive in Friday the 13th.Why??Because of the fierce storm that blew over the northern part of Texas.I knew that a storm was coming but I didn't know how bad it would be......Soo...I got very very scared and then the storm FINALLYY blew in.At first it started raining lightly and then the hail started pouring down!!!!The hail was atleast the size of 2 golf-balls put together.So me, my mom, and my big brother went outside onto the porch to see the action and while we were watching the hail fall the wind started to pick up so when the wind picked up a chunk of hail came right towards my mom!!!Good thing she moved in time!!!Before the hail started raining down the tornadoe was over my house in a funnel form and me and my big brother were pointing at it like we had just been struck by lightning!!It was sooo scaryyy!!!!!Back to the hail so right after my mom dodged the hail we RANNNN inside as FASTTT as we could!!Even though your not suppose to stand next to the windows during a storm like this one....well we did.We watched as the hail pourded down so fiercly!!!Then the sirens went off and man let me tell ya those sirens are LOUDDDD!!!!!!Thats what put me into total and complete shockkkk!!!!!The only tornadoe I saw or atleast that I can remember is the one I told you about earlier.I was relieved when the storm was over!!!It felt like ALLLLLLLL of my pain had gone away.Finally all of the blood rushing through my body and all of the adrineline had finallyy calmed down after awhile later.I am just happy that nobody got hurt.:]] -Shelby.<33
 * Witness Accounts:**

//you all know friday, 13th, we had a big storm, well, it was really, really awsome for what happened here. It wasnt actually considdered a tornado, just a storm, but we were all outside eating and stuff, watching the NEWS on T.v too. My dad felt the air stop for half a second, we knew that was a bad sighn, so we walked around the side of the building.... there we saw a funnel forming, not a tornado funnel, but a darkish, looked like deadly storm of hale, right above my house! I decided to walk around to the really, really dark side, almost black. It hurt so bad! hale started falling on my head, like 2x the size of golf balls big. I ran for my life to get in, because it was like a warzone of hale falling, like cannons coming from the sky diagnolly, and vertically. From there, in my house, we watched it rain like crazy. Man, it was a crazy situation, and the bast thing about it, was my dog was out in the hale chasing chunks of the icy stufff, cause he thought they were his babies, we had to scream at him to get him in, or he could have been knocked un contious.// //- Knikki

i am so freaked out about that tornato!!!! i was at softball practice when we hered the tornato worning! my dad said 2 look 4 a funal cloud...next thing u no, there it is! RIGHT BY MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!! i was crying. it scared me, what about yall?

-Knisti

is every one ok. it acumulated right over my house the funel fluw like right over my house all the clouds were pulling together to make a funel. i never new it came together that fast im still shocked wow holtom is torn up realy bad. i mean wow. it waz like a funel and like my brother said if the rain stops and starts to go up were ___. 1st the cloudes were above my house then all the sudent fewwww they moved to one place.i did cry a little caz my dad waz at texas moter speadway i thought i would never see him agin i waz soooooo mad.my brothers friend waz im a forist whenit happend and he said"the tops of the trees were pointing up and twurling".my brother kept going outside then back in for a long time. but ecsept the horror it waz soooo butaful\ awsome but is every one okthats what matters.

- Celene__//

//We were all watching tv when the tornado alert came on. My mom was sooooo scared and my dad actually had to go to work. Then we heard the sirens go on and my mom told us to go in the bathroom. Hail was falling everywhere and some were landing on the car. My dad wanted to go outside and get the cars to NorthEast Mall so they won't get hit but my mom said no. Later on, my mom got phone calls from my aunts and uncles. They said that their wind shields were broken and stuff.

-Ruzseth

I was at home when the television started messing up. I heard some thumping, and I thought it was my little brother messing with the desk. I went inside to tell him to stop. I saw that he wasn't doing anything, and my dad called us out and we ran out to look past the patio doors. There were humongous balls of ice (hail) and my dad shouted over the racket ," GET AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS!!!!!!" I ran into my room, and turned off the computer. I guess there was so much hail that I couldn't hear the siren, though I heard a small wailing coming from outside, so I guessed that was it. I grabbed the book bag and hid in my parents' bedroom closet and started reading, because it was quieter in there. My dad told us it was okay, but I still hid, because I have never seen an actual funnel cloud, tornado, or even tornado damage face to face. I hope next time, if there is a next time, I won't panic, I almost did this time.

-Vy

I was watching 7th heaven and my little sister started screaming " tornado warning!! Tornado warning!!" and i was just sitting there, doing nothing. and then my mom said it really was a tornado warning and stuffed us into the closet. then my cousin sarah came over crying cuz her mom was outside rolling down her car windows, and we sat in the closet and i could hear hail coming down and it was really loud. and a little while later we got out and my dad was watching the news about all the damage from the storm.

- Karly// //We knew we were in for rough weather from the meterologists forecasts. Once the sirens went off I gathered up the family and headed into the hall. We rode it out and lost a few trees but nothing that can not be replaced. Our little dog slept through the whole thing under the covers on the bed. Must be nice. I am glad you all are ok. I am grateful that we have the technology to forecast these things. Imagine what it was like not too long ago before there were tv's and satellites. Anybody know what causes tornado's? Mrs. Isbell

~Alex My younger brother and I where watchin t.v and in the house alone when I heard something so I turned the t.v off then it stoped so I turned the t.v back on then I had heard the noise again I turned the t.v off again and said go get your stuff.We got our stuff then the hail started and I went to the bathroom my brother was cryin like crazy then the phone rang,it was my mom she said stay in the bathroom so I said ok,a few minutes later she called again and I started cryin she said she was at a pizza store she said some kids had droped all their stuff on the way to the car so she picked it up and put it on the place where she ordered pizza after that she hung up.A few hours later my dad came home and after that my mom (with PIZZA).We waited a while in the bathroom then came out everything was over.My dad and I went out side,my mom's car was messed up,my dad went to the grass and picked up two peices of hail and put them in our frezer (I still have them).That storm was just,the old Fiday the 13th,BAD LUCK it was scary and some people won't forget it but it's in the past now.I mean the world can't be the world with out bad and good!!!!!!// ___ you all know friday, 13th, we had a big storm, well, it was really, really awsome for what happened here. It wasnt actually considdered a tornado, just a storm, but we were all outside eating and stuff, watching the NEWS on T.v too. My dad felt the air stop for half a second, we knew that was a bad sighn, so we walked around the side of the building.... there we saw a funnel forming, not a tornado funnel, but a darkish, looked like deadly storm of hale, right above my house! I decided to walk around to the really, really dark side, almost black. It hurt so bad! hale started falling on my head, like 2x the size of golf balls big. I ran for my life to get in, because it was like a warzone of hale falling, like cannons coming from the sky diagnolly, and vertically. From there, in my house, we watched it rain like crazy. Man, it was a crazy situation, and the bast thing about it, was my dog was out in the hale chasing chunks of the icy stufff, cause he thought they were his babies, we had to scream at him to get him in, or he could have been knocked un contious. -Knikki

Well, i'm like deathly afraid of tornadoes, and i was freaking out the whole time! So i was in my room, fixing my hair, and i heard faded sirens, i knew we were in trouble. So my brother was in the living room and i said wheres dad, wheres dad? He said i dont know, so i was checking everywhere, then he finally came inside. So he went to go get the baby, and he got a matress, and we sat in the bathroom with our dog. and we couldnt find the cat, so i was scared for him. I wanted to cry but i was staying strong for my seven yr. old brither cuz he was already scared as it is. My mom was doing something at texas motor speedway, so i was scared for her too. - Kaylee g.