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A tornado touched down in Burnet County, just outside Bertram. It even carried a home about a football field distance away. The home is still standing, the family of four inside was not hurt. Surveyors with the National Weather Service said they haven't seen anything like this. They spent the day there following the path of the tornado.
"We were calling on God. Have mercy on us please," said Jeremiah Ashworth,
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The Ashworth family is trying to salvage what they can from inside their home after a night they'll never forget.
"You could feel the pressure. The windows blew out and you could feel that pressure, extreme pressure," explained homeowner Trenton Ashworth.
"It was worse than any amusement park ride I've ever been on," Trenton said.
"It's literally like Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz when the tornado comes and lifts the house up," described Jon Zeitler with the National Weather Service.
Zeitler has been with The National Weather Service 25 years and said he's never seen anything like it.
"If you told me a house was a 100 yards away, I'd tell you it would be a pile of rubble," he said.
Zeitler and his team went to Burnet County to figure out the path the twister took and just how much damage it did.
"We're thinking this is the start, then where that house is, it will be about 10 miles," he said, pointing to a row of twisted, broken trees.It also hit another home just a few miles down the road.
"We knew it was a tornado right away," Zeitler said.While it seems like nothing short of a miracle the Ashworth family is alive and well. Zeitler said it's because they did everything right.
"What saved their life is the way he built that house and the safety measures they took," he explained.Still, the family said they give credit to a higher power that carried them through the most terrifying ride of their lives.
"We were just praying, just hunkered down and thanking God for everything. Just praising Christ and lifting him up. He saved us," Trenton said.While they didn't end up in Oz, they're reminded there's no place like home.
Comment: There is good possibility that Tuesday's X-class solar flares, which were expected to hit earth Friday/Saturday, played an important role in charging the ionosphere and setting off discharges like this event, as well as the rich
electric storms over Europe on Saturday.
The sun's positively charged 'wind gushes' create big potential differences between pockets of positively charged layers of atmosphere (clouds and dust) and its attracted electrons from below, leading to discharge events. In a nutshell, much in the same way our sun's activity's interaction with earth's conductive environment creates other discharging 'air-spirals' like hurricanes and lightning.
For an interesting and helpful read about our solar systems electromagnetic setup, see
Pierre Lescaudron's book:
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