Originally Posted by
TAV2
Got caught out in two at the same time during the outbreaks in Jan 99. Was a senior at ASU and had been home duck hunting that w/end. The buddy that had went with me worked for a chemical company in Jonesboro that had a field rented somewhere SW of town. We decided to hunt there that Sunday afternoon knowing nothing about the weather other than it was awful warm and muggy for late January. Anyway, we park my truck and walked a good ways out to the pit. Killed a greenhead and then the rain started, few minutes later it started hailing. The hail started getting really big and hurt like crazy. We decided to make a run for the truck, but had to lay in a ditch b/c the hail was beating us to a pulp. Raise up from the ditch and see one of those skinny, twisty white tornados bout 1/2 mile to the west. You could see the debris being kicked up at the bottom of it. We start running to the truck again and another one comes down to the south about the same distance. At this point I'm pretty well freaking out and my buddy had the sense to say let's get in this big culvert that the truck was parked over, otherwise I'd prolly still be running lol. We crawled right into the middle of that sucker and I held on to him for dear life. It got really loud and there was a strange pressure/suction type feeling. The trash that was in the ditch outside the culvert went straight up into the air. As quick as that, it was over. Crawled out of there to find my truck had been spun around and dead ducks and geese were everywhere. Sun was out within a minute or so. I couldn't get right for several hours after that. What's crazy is that same day, our duck blind on our family land four counties to the south was wiped out by a twister there.
