09-11-2016, 03:36 AM
Creepy crawlies and critters don't really bother me....but rather annoy me.
Being as I'm bigger and meaner than them, I can squash them if need be.
Guess what bothers me is Mother Nature herself, being as we work outdoors.
Being caught in a tornado when working.
We came close 2 or 3 times in the past being hit by a tornado, scared the shit out of me, being as we had no where to go really for cover.
Once we were working a rodeo in Springdale, AR (outdoor arena)
A storm came up quick, cops were able to give us a slight warning to allow us time to get our merchandise inside our concession trailer.
I was inside getting our money out of the register when the lights went out and it was pitch black.
Everyone around us screamed...it was eerie like out of a horror movie.
That scared me even more.......I told Jim DO NOT leave me. LOL.
By then, the cops would not let anyone leave the grounds being as the tornado was on ground, not sure where it was.
Luckily nothing happened. It dissipated about 10 miles west of us.
Believe it or not, the rodeo went on once the storm passed.
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Another time we were driving thru Oklahoma, I was following behind Jim and at that time, we had no phones or radios to talk.
I had been listening to the weather reports on the radio and had no way of warning Jim that we were fixin to run into some bad shit.
Jim could sense that the storm was gonna get bad and pulled over at a service station to let the storm pass.
Once it blew over and calmed down, we took off again and about 7-8 miles down the road, there were vehicles turned over where either straight line winds caught them or a small tornado. We weren't sure....just glad that we stopped when we did.
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This time we were in MS and there had already been storms popping up all over the place, with severe wind damage and hail.
A couple of tornadoes had been spotted during the day.
Jim and I got in our blazer when we heard that a tornado was coming our way....we knew of a drive that had a huge culvert under it not far from the fairgrounds, so we drove to it and parked the blazer, waiting, watching the sky.
We had planned on jumping in the ditch and climb inside the culvert if we saw it.
Luckily, nothing happened so we went back to the fairgrounds.
But yeah, Mother Nature can be a bitch and scares me with her unpredictability.
Being as I'm bigger and meaner than them, I can squash them if need be.
Guess what bothers me is Mother Nature herself, being as we work outdoors.
Being caught in a tornado when working.
We came close 2 or 3 times in the past being hit by a tornado, scared the shit out of me, being as we had no where to go really for cover.
Once we were working a rodeo in Springdale, AR (outdoor arena)
A storm came up quick, cops were able to give us a slight warning to allow us time to get our merchandise inside our concession trailer.
I was inside getting our money out of the register when the lights went out and it was pitch black.
Everyone around us screamed...it was eerie like out of a horror movie.
That scared me even more.......I told Jim DO NOT leave me. LOL.
By then, the cops would not let anyone leave the grounds being as the tornado was on ground, not sure where it was.
Luckily nothing happened. It dissipated about 10 miles west of us.
Believe it or not, the rodeo went on once the storm passed.
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Another time we were driving thru Oklahoma, I was following behind Jim and at that time, we had no phones or radios to talk.
I had been listening to the weather reports on the radio and had no way of warning Jim that we were fixin to run into some bad shit.
Jim could sense that the storm was gonna get bad and pulled over at a service station to let the storm pass.
Once it blew over and calmed down, we took off again and about 7-8 miles down the road, there were vehicles turned over where either straight line winds caught them or a small tornado. We weren't sure....just glad that we stopped when we did.
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This time we were in MS and there had already been storms popping up all over the place, with severe wind damage and hail.
A couple of tornadoes had been spotted during the day.
Jim and I got in our blazer when we heard that a tornado was coming our way....we knew of a drive that had a huge culvert under it not far from the fairgrounds, so we drove to it and parked the blazer, waiting, watching the sky.
We had planned on jumping in the ditch and climb inside the culvert if we saw it.
Luckily, nothing happened so we went back to the fairgrounds.
But yeah, Mother Nature can be a bitch and scares me with her unpredictability.