I remember as a kid when we lived in Iowa, my mother would move all us kids to the basement any time a storm came through. She was scared to death of Tornados, and just knew one was going to hit the house. After a tornado hit close by, Mom packed us kids up in a 1955 Ford and drove back to Tennessee, saying we don't have tornados in Tennessee. But just before I left Tennessee for the Air Force, I was sitting playing the piano with a friend when I looked out the window and saw a Tornado coming. It did damage to the house across the street up, then jumped the house I was in. It came back to ground in the back yard, then went out onto the lake. We ran into the kitchen to watch it through the kitchen window. We saw it pick up a Cabin Cruiser out on the lake, turn it upside down and drop it back in the water. While the boat was in the air we could see people falling into the water. The boat was taken a short distance, then it fell back into the water. We learned later a small boy died in that accident.
