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Well Hello to All
I wanted to share with my readers a childhhod memory that I couldn’t forget if I tried. The experience I am talking about is not one of drugs, sex, or anything of the sort but an experience of sheer terror. It was an experience of terror for me and my whole family.
I was about 10 or 11 at the time of this event. We were camping at Chicasaw State Park in Tennessee. We were fishing and swimming and picnicing and trail hiking and everything else that one could do when your camping in the woods. We wasn’t having much luck with our camp fires. The park maintenance crew did such a good job cleaning up the place, we couldn’t round up much firewood. Anyway, we were having a ball roughing it in the woods until our fourth night there. Right at dusk I noticed a change in the cloud color. The first 3 nights the clouds were a brilliant pink, fire red, purple, & orange just over the tree tops. That night they were the darkest blue and black I had ever seen. There was an elderly couple next to us and they said there was a string of thunderstorms moving in and they were coming in fast.
I heard that and I started getting upset like the 10 year old I was. My parents assured me that everything was OK and we would be all right and BLAh, BLAh, BLAh. I wasn’t hearing a word they were saying. All I could think of was STAY AWAY FROM TREES WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES. So I finally calmed down, we ate supper, put up everything light in weight that could blow away, and we went to bed IN OUR TENT!!!!!!!
About two hours later I woke up to the sound of limbs snapping and other campers screaming. I was HORRIFIED!!!!! We were in an old ARMY Tent that held about six people. My brother and sister, who were about 7 or 8 at the time, were curled up into a ball next to my parents in the back of the tent. I had the pleasure of sitting next to the entryway of the tent and could see out from time to time. The limbs breaking sounded like rifles firing. POW! POW!! POW!! The tent was blowing back and forth so violently, it would almost lay completely down in each direction and make a fwopping sound like someone shaking the dirt out of a quilt.
There was water rushing under the tent and it felt just like being on a waterbed with someone bouncing on one corner continuously. With all these sounds of POW! POW!, people’s terror screaming, large things being blown away like the 55 gallon drums that were nailed to trees for people’s garbage, wind howling and swooshing, then came the worst sound I had ever heard. A roaring freight train coming at us with an unbelievable banging noise. The banging had no repitition and it sounded like a sledge hammer hitting a steel drum and it was so loud it hurt your chest and head every time it sounded. Then came the trees being pulled out of the ground and slammed back down with a force so hard it would bounce you completely off the place you were sitting, GRRRSSHHHH! POW! POW! POW! POW! BOOMMM! GRRRSSHHHH! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! BOOMMMMM! again and again and again! All the while I could peek out the tent opening and somewhat see small, large and extremely large objects flying past the tent.
All of the sudden, faster that it all started, it was over. You could hear the noises fading farther and farther and getting softer and softer. What I failed to mention to you earlier is that this lasted all night long. We stepped out of the tent and the place was in total destruction and the sun was starting to come up. There were pine trees, too large for 2 people to touch hands around, laying everywhere, garbage dumpsters gone, debris everywhere, 55 gallon drums (for garbage cans) gone, & there was our little camp site, untouched completely. Except for there was a pine tree laying right beside our tent. All of this destruction and debris was laying everywhere and nobody was saying a word.
My little brother was the first one to speak and he said ” LOOK AT ALL THIS FIREWOOD, LET’S GET IT BEFORE THE CLEAN UP GUYS GET HERE!!
That is one Natural Disaster that I will never forget. I am not sure how strong that tornado was but it left a path right through the middle of Chicasaw State Park. The most remarkable thing is that no one was killed because almost everyone was camping in a tent!
April 24th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Childhood Natural Disaster Experience #1…
I was about 10 or 11 at the time of this event. We were camping at Chicasaw State Park in Tennessee. We were fishing and swimming and picnicing and trail hiking and everything else that one could do when your camping in the woods. We wasn’t having…
April 24th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Childhood Natural Disaster Experience #1…
I was about 10 or 11 at the time of this event. We were camping at Chicasaw State Park in Tennessee. We were fishing and swimming and picnicing and trail hiking and everything else that one could do when your camping in the woods. We wasnt having mu…
April 24th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Childhood Natural Disaster Experience #1…
I was about 10 or 11 at the time of this event. We were camping at Chicasaw State Park in Tennessee. We were fishing and swimming and picnicing and trail hiking and everything else that one could do when your camping in the woods. We wasn’t having…
April 24th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Childhood Natural Disaster Experience #1…
I was about 10 or 11 at the time of this event. We were camping at Chicasaw State Park in Tennessee. We were fishing and swimming and picnicing and trail hiking and everything else that one could do when your camping in the woods. We wasn’t having…
April 24th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Childhood Natural Disaster Experience #1…
I heard that and I started getting upset like the 10 year old I was. My parents assured me that everything was OK and we would be all right and BLAh, BLAh, BLAh. I wasn’t hearing a word they were saying. All I could think of was STAY AWAY FROM TRE…
April 24th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Childhood Natural Disaster Experience #1…
I heard that and I started getting upset like the 10 year old I was. My parents assured me that everything was OK and we would be all right and BLAh, BLAh, BLAh. I wasn’t hearing a word they were saying. All I could think of was STAY AWAY FROM TRE…
April 24th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Childhood Natural Disaster Experience #1…
I heard that and I started getting upset like the 10 year old I was. My parents assured me that everything was OK and we would be all right and BLAh, BLAh, BLAh. I wasn’t hearing a word they were saying. All I could think of was STAY AWAY FROM TRE…