About 20 years ago we had a rare hurricane come through our area. I say rare because we are at least 3 hours from the coast. It awakened us in the middle of the night and then we heard a terrible roar as though a train were coming past our house.

When it finished we looked outside in the dark and noticed a huge cedar tree in our front yard had fallen away from the house and toward the street. If it had fallen toward the house it would have fallen on our children’s bedrooms.

The roar we heard was a tornado spawned by the hurricane. It was the most scary thing I have ever been through.

Here’s a shot of a tornado posted on YouTube on Friday. This one touched down in Oklahoma.