(72 quotes found)
“From what we have seen and from all the reports, this is probably one of the most devastating tornadoes that we've ever seen.”
Herbert Mitchell
“Hey, Mark, you can't see the tornado now,”
Ralph Moore
“We've been very fortunate where we've had some tornadoes touch down in the Carrollton area or, as much as tornadoes, straight-line winds which can be as devastating in their own sense. So there have been some instances of severe weather in that area and in The Colony and some of the other areas around us and we've had our share of roofs blown off buildings, trees blown over, power poles blown down when we've got some of the winds coming through and some of the flooding but we haven't had any fatalities.”
Richard Lasky
“The tornado touched down, then lifted off, then came down again south of downtown.”
Richard Payne
“The rain is coming down sideways. We've had a handful of tornadoes. We're still in the middle of this hurricane so we're not sending anyone out right now.”
Jaime Sarbaugh
“In one area (of Camilla hit by a tornado) there are about 200 mobile homes and there are very few of them that are still there,”
Jay Powell
“Often when you get hurricanes moving like this in the eastern Gulf, we'll have some isolated tornadoes in the rain bands well away from the center,”
Max Mayfield
“You can climb a mountain or jump out of a plane but can never tame a hurricane or tornado - that's for sure. It's one of the last frontiers that no one will ever conquer.”
Roger Hill
“What we found after the tornado was the other homes were not tied down as well as the standards the state had provided for there to be tied down.”
Roger Lehman
“We look at the temperature and moisture profile and very closely at the wind profile because...the nasty tornadoes tend to occur on windy days, and that's because it's the wind that helps organize these storms into killers.”
Russell Schneider
