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03-04-2014, 10:31 AM
(02-28-2014, 09:30 PM)deschutes dawn Wrote: Hey, Teresa! I lived in Nevada for 7 years when I was growing up. Couldn't be too far from where you currently live. Sorry to say now I'm as close to a native Oregonian as you can be without being born here! Don't miss tornado alley at all. Welcome to the forum.
Hey, Teresa, I lived in Nevada MO for 7 years when I was growing up! Couldn't be too far from where you currently live. I'm a "near native" Oregonian now and don't miss tornado alley at all.
Oops! The edit rewrote the whole thing not just the word I asked for. Sure glad goats are easier to use than computers!
hmmm... goats vs. computers. I'm equally addicted to both. LOL!
If I had to guess I'd say Nevada is probably an hour and a half south of where I'm at. I've been to Fort Scott a couple times, but never through Nevada.
I've lived here for almost 40 years and have yet to personally see a tornado, but the season is always exciting to me. I did think I was going to be swept away a few years back though, while doing foal watch out in my barn during a typical spring storm. I was chillin on a couch with all the barn cats when they suddenly disappeared! The air pressure changed and I realized things were getting ugly. I went to the front of my horse barn (a three sided structure, pole barn) and couldn't even see my house about 100 yards away. In fact, it was raining so hard that I couldn't even see the barnyard light about 50 yards away. As I stood there contemplating whether I could make it to the house, the wind picked up my round pen and moved it about 15 feet. The pen was only 40 feet from the barn. I turned on my heel and went to the center of the barn, sat down and wrapped my arms and legs around one of the poles. It shook and vibrated and I just knew those were gonna be my last moments but in the next few, it all went still. The next morning I found out that one of my neighbors lost their barn that night. I'm a LUCKY LUCKY GIRL!
Teresa :-)