On Friday March 31st, severe thunderstorms and tornados blew threw Iowa. The first picture is of a tornado just south of my town. We had no damage here. The same storm system hit my aunts house and damaged her shop pretty substantially. Since I don't have much garage space at my house, the Challenger has been stored in my aunt's shop for awhile now. I don't know how, but the Challenger came away unscathed. It's dirty but no damage that I can see. Somehow the metal ceiling stayed intact and didn't come apart even though the entire south side of the shop roof is gone.

wow! I have a customer that last year on May 12th had his shed ripped apart by the Drerecho that hit our area. He had his 2 late model Shelby Mustangs receive minor damage. His 2021 Suburban various damage. His 21 Chevy 2500 various damage. HIs 66 mustang various all over damage but the worst was his 70 Chevelle 396 convertible that had metal and shop doors bouncing all over it. Did not total any of them but the Chevelle will require a complete including top. So yeah you dodged a major bullet by the looks of the shed behind the challenger! I think you had someone looking over the car!

corey

Tornadoes do strange things, they'll level two houses and leave a middle one untouched.

Wow! When the news said your area got hit,I was hoping you and your family was ok...

Wow! Glad everyone (and everything) is relatively OK.

We had one come through our back yard last spring.

Scariest sound I've heard.

Wow glad you escaped that one!!!

They are odd things for sure. I've been through a few and seen how they can destroy. The first one I went through was here in Florida about 25 years ago and I found out why everyone says "it sounded like a train".

We had tornados rip through here several years ago and I still hate the word. I lost hundreds of trees but lucky the worst damage to my pole barn was bend ridge caps and a wrecked sky light which luckily I already had spare panels on hand from another one that I had filled in instead of replacing. There still lots of trees left we're slowly cleaning up.

We generally don't get really bad storms around here but lots of snow instead so it's usually a good compromise.

Yes, but without the click clack sound.

Every time I hear a train I ask my wife: "how do we know it isn't a tornado?" All kidding aside, they are NOT to be joked about, but boy are they fascinating freaks of nature. I was in the outer ring of one back around 1985 just North of Abilene, TX, but it was rain wrapped & we did not see the funnel. I had to pull over because whatever it was, it felt like we were going to get blown off the road! The winds subsided after about 30 seconds & we resumed heading South to Abilene. It wasn't until we got to the hotel & turned on the TV & they showed the path of it that we realized we were in it!

Its not a fun thing to be driving on the Interstate at night and have a "Tornado warning for your area." pop up on the phone. Those warnings always tell you what counties the storm is in or heading for, but when you have no idea where those counties are in relation to where you are, they are not very helpful.

one time we hit one of those warnings. They gave the mile marker where it was expected to cross the interstate, We had just passed a mile marker one mile off the one the storm was suppose to cross the interstate at! We pulled over and stopped. Got a lot of wind and hard rain for a few minutes, even with the wipers on high speed, we couldn't see through the windshield. Pretty happy we stopped where we did. After a few minutes, the storm was pretty well gone, and we took off again.