Dodging debris, racing to beat the tornadic winds!

Quite an evening. My brother has no electricity, as all the wires to his house were ripped off of it by a tree...that smashed onto his roommate's car. And I had a harrowing time myself, racing from my parents' to my apartment...lightning flashing, very conscious of the line of bright red I'd just seen on the radar to the west. Within minutes of my house...the wind picked up and it was like a sandstorm. Debris everywhere. Garbage, branches strewn onto the roads. Nervous a tree would fall onto the car, I raced past any sign of greenery. It seriously was pretty damn impressive a storm. I raced inside before any downpour, but fearful a lightning bolt would kill me in place. Then came my bro's phonecall. Wow.