Man, April 27th.. I will never ever forget that. I was awakened at about 2:00 in the morning by my grandfather calling to tell me that a tornado was headed right for me. I got my family up and we went into the crawl space, I was watching the radar on my phone while we were down there. Things seemed to clear about 30 minutes after we got in the crawl space and we went back inside. Then it started to get VERY intense, I looked at the radar and a hook echo had formed and was sitting right on top of us. To this day that was the most intense storm I have been in and it actually is the reason I now have a phobia of strong storms. The tornado passed about 1.5 to 2 miles south of us, it was borderline EF2/3 when it did, it was a 3 for sure to our west and weakened to a 2 somewhere around us, I'm not sure what it was officially when it crossed our street. The next morning I went to work and passed the area of I-75 where it crossed and I have never seen destruction like that. Every tree for a path about .4 miles wide was gone, the interstate was completely covered in trees and tree pieces. It was horrible. There was also a little girl down the road from me who lost her life by being pulled out of the bed in the middle of the night. Since then I have been very conscious of the weather, I honestly didn't even know it was supposed to rain that night.
