On Friday evening, a little tornado hit the town I live in, and knocked over this little tree in front of my house!  Luckily my house was not damaged!  There were lots of downed trees and roof damage all over town, and some houses and businesses more damaged on the other side of town, but no one injured, although my neighbor's dog was killed by a large falling branch.  All in all, we were very lucky!

I don't post to the forum very often, but maybe some of you have heard of me.

Take care and give your loved ones an extra hug - it can all be gone in an instant!

I'm glad no one was hurt and that your house went unscathed. We had a tornado warning here the other day, which is very unusual for this part of the country. I hope your tree can be righted and will continue to grow.
Take care

Oh I think Mother Nature gives back far more than she takes!
We're still rebuilding our village after our tornado. Nice tree BTW.

The tree was broken off entirely at the ground line - no recovery possible!  It can be replaced :) 

Glad no one was hurt, now you can shop for a new tree. :)

SEQUOIAs are nice at this time of year!

Glad no one was hurt. Too bad for the dog. That was a nice looking tree too.

Hey Bryster, I didn't know you ever had tornadoes in Wales (er, excuse me, Mars).  What's up with that?  (I live in the part of the US where they're pretty common).

Attached Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6190372.stm

Yes we even got one in London (the Capital city). Where I live we had the wind system blow through, which was scary enough, but we escaped the worse as it did quite a bit of damage when it touched down a wee bit north of us.

Knock me over with a feather.  I never would have thought it! 

hmm...at least you don't live in a Tornado Magnet (trailer..;) 'round these parts, you can buy a tree that size from a nursery, but it will cost you.

Yup! Orbital's link takes you to my Earthly residence! LOL The Village of Bow Street.
It was 1am and I was surfing/working when a foldaway ladder I had leaning against the side of the house went flying into the garden. The noise was terrific!!!!
Being very near the sea we sometimes get squawls when the wind changes. They last for an hour or two and usually no harm done. I went round the house (inside) and checked the doors and windows, even waking my wife up - oops! I looked outside and the rain was horizontal. Oh well, nothing to worry about I thought.
But 5 minutes later the thunderous noise had stopped and so had the rain! WTF was going on?
Well I wasn't going outside to find out so about 2 hours later (3am) I went to bed. During what was left of the night I could hear what sounded like machinary in the distance - that low kinda vibration you get from refer trucks stopped at the lights. I couldn't figure it out and went back to sleep.
The phone went at 8am and Mrs Bryster answered a call from a friend who lives about 300miles from us. She was asking if we were alright. My wife said what are you talking about?
Our friend's reply was surprising to say the least. "You've had a Tornado in your village!"
We turned on the tv and saw what was left of the west side of our little village in the headline news. 
The photos in Orbital's link tell the story - our house is about 300yards to the right of the railway tracks. We didn't get touched but the damage to some properties is still being repaired to this day. The Tornado was a class 4 or 5! That's like the most powerful you can get BUT!!! it was only about 3 feet across!!!!!
Well the trains were cancelled and of course the machinary noises I'd heard in the night was the rescue services trucks, they were putting lights up and looking for people who might be trapped and all that, but no one was hurt. A guy said he woke up in time to look out the window and see his chimney stack passing on its way to his car.....
The media descended on us en masse and interviewed everyone and his cat which was bullshit because the bastards never come this far north unless there's a war or a tornado. When we want them to report on an event they usually can't be bothered to leave Cardiff on the south coast. That day we couldn't get rid of them.

Later, London decided that it could use the publicity so it had a tornado too - lots more damage but then London is falling apart anyway.  Tomorrow the builders are coming round to start work on our storm shelter..........yeah right!

Well there goes my dream of living in the UK.  Your weather's just as bad as here!  Seriously though, tornados are scary!

Consider though that we average around 30 touchdowns a year and the don't last more than a few seconds. You guys get nearly that amount on one day in some cases.

Attached Link: http://www.stvincent.ac.uk/Resources/Weather/Severe/oct87.html

Oh, UK tornados are feeble things really.  Far more damage is done by near-hurricane-force winds in the winter when Atlantic storms come rolling in.  These can last for hours on end..

"After the storm had passed the landscape was changed - some 15 million trees were felled and whole forests decimated."

Oh  , that`s terrible @BecSchm  , but  it is  a luck the fact that you and did not happen to your house anything.
Where do you  come from  ,  I´m  from  Germany  ,and  Tornados are  here  not  often.