Two near misses with Tornado's today

[Sal-XK]

Well, we decided to go to the boat show today up in Raleigh NC. We knew bad storms were coming so we put our outdoor stuff away in the shed and got on the road. The entire 2hr trip the wife tracks the storm on her phone we were staying just ahead of it. While at the boat show we get hit with a tornado. Yup no crap we get skirted by a tornado while downtown Raleigh today. We were in a concrete building built when things were done correctly and I never worried about it actually. Anyway time to go so we get on the road and start heading South west back home. Well my son had to go number two and I told him to hold it I wanted to get home. He complained the wife made me pull over and let him go to the bathroom. I was being impatient at this point and not happy the weather stunk and I wanted to get the drive over. Well we get to Sanford NC and no lie missed a giant tornado that cut right across the highway we were going to take. Yes we missed this tornado by about the time it took my kid to poop. The tornado took out a good chunk of the town destroying the Lowes among several other buildings. So thank god my kid had to take a poop or I might not be here today or at least the XK might not be in real good shape anyway. Took a few extra hours to get home all the roads were blocked or closed so had to take a big detour. So I pretty much was in one tornado today and thanks to kid needing to poop just missed the second one which would of diffidently hurt to get caught in. I guess someone has different planes for me and my family.

[CT-riverrat]

Hows that saying go? sh*t: happens
Good thing too. Glad you and your family came through OK.

[Sal-XK]

I felt like a turd for throwing attitude because I had to stop and it probably saved our lives or at least us or the jeep from damage.

[LWM]

I remember tornadoes all the time when I liven in North Dakota, they are nothing to mess with.

[Sal-XK]

The one in Raleigh wasn't that bad at all knocked some trees and stuff down. The one in Sanford we just missed was pretty bad took me hours to make my way threw the town normally takes minuets. We had my wife her two parents and my two kids in the Jeep. My wife was explaining to the kids what we would do if we got caught by a tornado and I jumped in listen here everyone was listening very carefully to me and I said " if we get caught by one what we will do is pull over and get out of the jeep and everybody will lay on top of the jeep to protect it" LMAO they all laughed and it cut the tension relaxed everyone for a bit.

[Matt]

lol i expected to read something different when i saw the thread title.

Glad everything turned out OK for you guys!!!

[Sal-XK]

lol i expected to read something different when i saw the thread title.

Glad everything turned out OK for you guys!!!

LOL I was thinking of that as I titled the thread. I originally titled it Tornado but realized not a good idea

[cico7]

Thank God for little kids eh? You were joking about the XK? Shoot, bones heal. Broken cars take more time and money.

[Sal-XK]

Thank God for little kids eh? You were joking about the XK? Shoot, bones heal. Broken cars take more time and money.

The old man and I do a lot of fishing and he's always saying can we get over there or don't look like we can get down there. I always reply with dude were in a Jeep, I said that several times yesterday don't worry were in a Jeep

[CmmdrDan]

Man the lesson I learned from this. Is if you or someone in the car has to poop. You stop and let poop!