Me and my family moved to a new house like a month and a half ago! It's in the same town that we were in before, but it has more rooms, is bigger and has a basement! That last part is pretty important to this house, for you see, we didn't move here just because..

We were in a tornado. On February 24, 2016, a freakin TORNADO of all things went through Appomattox. Our house was one of the ones that was caught. I was just waking up, when suddenly, the house started shaking. I started to run out of my room, and my cat was running the other way. I was trying to get to my Mama's room, and i was in the hallway leading to her room, when suddenly, everything came down on me...

I have never been so scared or really thought I was going to die before in my life, but a this point, I really thought so.... The floors came down on me, and a washer and dryer were holding it up so i wasn't completely crushed, but I was scared, felt helpless, and was screaming. Eventually, i heard mama calling my name, and she was crying. So I forced myself onto my back and into a more comfortable position, and calmed down. It took her like 25 minutes to find me and about 30 more for guys to be called and to get me out. I was in the hospital for a week because i hit my head and had a brain bleed. Mama's BFF let us stay with her, and this woman let us rent to her, but our trailer that we lived in was DESTROYED.

My sis and her baby were visiting a friend of her's when this happened, which we're all very thankful for, because they mostly stayed in the living room, which was demolished more so than the other rooms. But, get this! Most of our STUFF, books, toys, games, and consoles, survived with little more than a scratch or some dust, and yesterday, we managed to get our stuff here with help from some friends. We're all okay, and 2 days ago, we found out my brain bleed is completely gone.


Me and my family are doing okay, but I still am scared to be in the house by myself, awake when no one else is, and since I was asleep when it started and trying to get to Mama, she's sleeping in a bed separate from mine in my room.


I couldn't decide whether to tell anyone about this, mostly because i didn't want to cause some undue worry for me, or anyone to think i only wanted to garner pity, but today I finally decided to get this off my chest. I feel alot better for having shared this, and please, no one worry about me. We're doing good for ourselves, we've had alot of help, and this new house is awesome!

Wow! That is insane! I couldn't imagine waking up to something like that. It would surely be terrifying though. I'm glad you guys made it out okay and that you weren't more seriously hurt.

I imagine it is pretty tough to be alone or up late or anything for a while. I had a similar experience when I was your age when my parents house burned down. We lost basically everything (thankfully they had insurance so we were able to rebuild) and had to live somewhere else for 6 months while the house was rebuilt. Even now when I smell smoke I can tell the difference instantly between a normal campfire smoke smell and a house fire smoke smell. There are also a couple places in the foundation of the house that still smell if you put your nose right up to the concrete. And I still get nervous any time I smell smoke even if it is for just a few seconds.

geeogree : A FIRE??! Dang.... A fire would be awful, too, but.. we had a fire plan, an exit strategy, but we didn't have an idea on how to prepare for a dang TORNADO! Even before it started, mama couldn't pull up the weather channel because the power went out. Insurance is always good, at least, though. We didn't have insurance, because we only rented this trailer, but we've made it clear we're not staying in a TRAILER again!

For mama's ptsd, she freaks out whenever there's a bit of thunder... For ME, there's one room where the wind is a bit stronger, and I was just playing my Xbox 360 when i kept hearing it, and was like "Okay, i'm done, good night!"

But I can totally see something like this affecting someone for the rest of their life, I don't blame you for freaking out at smoke!

P.S, I totally did not mean to make the duplicate thread, that was an accident.

No worries about the duplicate. It happens if you double click the submit button or if there is some lag in the submission. Not much you can do about it.


Yeah, we burnt a bag of popcorn one night just after moving back into our new house and it freaked us all out a bit. The smell took forever to get rid of too. So annoying. Especially in the microwave.

And yeah, the smoke got into EVERYTHING. You think your fridge is sealed.... it's not. It's sealed enough to keep food cold but smoke got in there too.

I feel sorry for anyone who suffers through something like this because it's so hard to see it coming.