I've had a small one hit my house. It was more of an airburst than a tornado, but a picture the local news station took made it look like a badly formed one. Now, I've been within a mile of one of the picture-perfect ones. It wasn't raining where we were, the light was hitting it amazing, and there wasn't even a bunch of debris at the bottom. I'm pretty sure I almost started crying. So freaking scary. I was seven, in my defense, but I think everybody should experience extreme weather once in their life. Hey, maybe I can take you sometime ;) (Although right now Alabama is hogging them all.) The last tornado to come near our house was when I was about seven also, and I don't even think I got a chance to see it before I was rushed to the basement. Since then, the only one was during last years outbreak in Iowa, and it was completely rain-wrapped. Now that I got my license I can actually go out and hunt them down though, which brings me to the next item on my bucket list: [hide=11. Build a storm chasing vehicle based on Sean Casey's TIV (top), or Reed Timmer's SRV (bottom)] [/hide] That'd be awesome if we ended up chasing together. We should start a TipIt storm chasing team :o