And a little weather (Tornado wipes out meeting hall where High School Prom was about to Occur

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**Frazzled**

Multiple tornadoes went through in Northern Texas. 4 dead. One tornado track was over 35 miles long.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2017/04/28/tornado-canton-four-dead-dozens-injured-van-zandt

CANTON, Texas (KETK) — An evening meant to be spent in celebration turned into chaos as a tornado ripped through a prom venue in Canton.

Reagan Sumner, owner of the Rustic Barn venue off of FM 1255 in Canton, said two tornadoes hit his property at about 4:45 p.m. Saturday evening.

“I own about 400 acres,” he explained. “And you can tell where it all went through.”

He was at his home just a few hundred yards away from the venue, when a tornado tore through his garage, missing his home by inches.

“We looked in the sky to the south and we could see twisting in the tree line. We didn’t even know the first tornado was going to hit, because we didn’t get the alert until right before. So the barn gets destroyed, and that’s when we came down here when the second one hit.”

Around 20 people, including young children, were inside the venue setting up the Edgewood High School prom, which was planned to take place around 7 p.m. Saturday night.

As the tornado tore through, everyone became trapped inside, taking cover in bathrooms and closets.

“We got the kids and the parents and we got them in the bathroom. We put a few inside the closet,” Sumner said. “Then me and another dad went out to close the barn doors. We came back where I hid in a bathroom with my back covered. The pressure I had against my back and the door. I knew when the roof went because of all the insulation on the floor — just a very loud and scary moment.”

Everything except the shelter where the 20 people were huddling was destroyed.

For Sumner, the venue was a place to enjoy retirement. Now it’s a memory of survival.

**Stevefamine**

Nature is a mighty beast

Thats terrifying

**Orlanth**

I wonder if these Texan tornado strikes are a myth, a bit like how every strange object seen of downed in farmland is a "weather baloon".

Methinks these 35 mile long tracks of devastation are just Frazzie letting his dogs off the lead, and the US government are covering it all up as 'weather phenomena' to prevent mass panic.

**Frazzled**

Shhh or the Men in Plaid will come get you.

**Nevelon**

Orlanth wrote:
I wonder if these Texan tornado strikes are a myth, a bit like how every strange object seen of downed in farmland is a "weather baloon".

Methinks these 35 mile long tracks of devastation are just Frazzie letting his dogs off the lead, and the US government are covering it all up as 'weather phenomena' to prevent mass panic.

That or the aftermath of a drunken texas prom and a tornado are not that dissimilar.

**Orlanth**

Who brings Dachshunds to a prom?

**Tactical_Spam**

Orlanth wrote:
Who brings Dachshunds to a prom?

Before anyone says "Frazzled," I'd like to remind the Dakka community that that man probably predates the concept of a prom.

**Frazzled**

Tactical_Spam wrote:
Orlanth wrote:
Who brings Dachshunds to a prom?

Before anyone says "Frazzled," I'd like to remind the Dakka community that that man probably predates the concept of a prom.

Some say he predates "the wheel" and "homo sapiens sapiens."

**Orlanth**

And he refers to himself in the third person.