Posted on 01/25/2017 2:00:21 PM PST by deplorableindc
In the Southern United States, the weather can be deadly, but it can also be surprisingly courteous, as an elderly Texas woman learned this weekend when a tornado picked up the bathtub she was hiding in, spun it in the air, and put her back down in the woods without injury.
According to KSLA, 75-year-old Charlesetta Williams was watching television with her son on Saturday when the twister approached her home. They then raced to the bathroom and hid under a blanket in the tub for shelter, a choice that proved to be wise.
“The tornado continued in a northeast direction, crossing CR 3300 at which point it removed the roof of a home,” wrote the National Weather Service in a (characteristically unimpressed) storm report. “A woman inside took shelter in a bathtub and the tornado lifted the tub out of the home and deposited it in the woods with the woman still in the tub but the woman was not injured.”
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
Excellent outcome!
tough old Texas broad! ;)
I was in the shower. Did anything happen while I was gone?
Woman Flies Through Tornado in Bathtub, Lands in Woods Unharmed.....Shiite. Who HASN’T done that?
Tubnado!!!
That must have been some real potent Cialis.
well it is EAST Texas.....
This happened to a woman in NC about twenty years ago and her published account was hilarious, but I can’t locate it online. Going on memory, she described herself as “a-rockin’ and a-rollin” but I done rode it out into the woods.”
A guy I knew since we were kids was killed by a tornado. He and his son. They scare the crap out of me. Glad I don’t live where they happen.
She’s lucky the gators didn’t get her.
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Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas...
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Didn’t remember that part. But then, I only saw it once and that was a long time ago.
I’m guessing the son died. I mean, when a tornado destroys the house you are in and you die, that’s not really news now is it?
Obviously I hope the son is okay - I couldn’t imagine if I was 75 and made it like that in such a freakish way but one of my kids died....
From someone’s comments linked to a more complete article:
“We heard a boom,” she said. “We were laying in the bathtub in the bathroom, and we heard a boom. Then when we woke up, we were in the yard.”
I’m guessing by “we” she means herself and her son. Although I have known people that use plurals when they mean singular. (”What - you got a mouse in your pocket?”)
New 2017 FAA Flying Bathtub Pilot Regulations:
FAA requires all pilots of flying bathtubs
1 to pass a written test first
2 pilot the flying bathtub accompanied by another trained licensed flying bathtub pilot for at least 15 seconds
3 solo for at least 10 seconds
4 attain a 4-point landing without spilling any water
One heckuva jacuzzi.
I have full faith that there will be some government burocrat who will charge her with flying an unlicensed experimental aircraft, for failure to have a pilot’s license, and probably a dozen safety violations, beginning with ‘no seat belt.’
“”Yeah what the heck happened to the son?””
We all want to know but I also want to know how in the heck two adults get in a bathtub to begin with....I’m assuming it wasn’t one of the fancy tubs seen in remodeled or new homes today but just a regular old tub??? I might get in our tub even with back trouble but no way would my husband - I think he’d head for the closet!
“”Glad I don’t live where they happen.””
That used to be true for us but we’ve been riding out some in GA. Thank the Lord - none as close as those last week across the south. Those poor people in Albany, GA really need our prayers. They went through one on 1/2/17 and FEMA has yet to come to their aid when they were hit again last week. That one on 1/2 is on obozo’s watch FEMA.
Came here from CA 10 years ago and I prefer earthquakes. You don’t stay up all night worrying about one hitting and you don’t have to stay tuned to the Weather Channel to see how close they are coming to you. Not fun!! I still keep a bag handy and pack medications etc., when we get the warnings but realize it’s just a holdover from CA emergency preparedness I can’t break. I don’t think having a bag handy with essentials would do any good at all.
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