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    People shared stories of surviving crazy weather: [1] Lilly Smith got caught in a desert storm in Arizona (or New Mexico) with giant dust clouds and multiple tornadoes forming on the road. She and others took shelter at a motel as hail started falling and the cameras outside were destroyed by the storm. [2] Mark Wellsh was driving through a thunderstorm in Arizona with his convertible top leaking when lightning struck near the road. A police officer pulled up but let them continue in the dangerous conditions. [3] Martha Oak and her husband were driving home through Oklahoma when they got caught in a large tornado formation on the highway with no exits available. They pulled into a

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    People shared stories of surviving crazy weather: [1] Lilly Smith got caught in a desert storm in Arizona (or New Mexico) with giant dust clouds and multiple tornadoes forming on the road. She and others took shelter at a motel as hail started falling and the cameras outside were destroyed by the storm. [2] Mark Wellsh was driving through a thunderstorm in Arizona with his convertible top leaking when lightning struck near the road. A police officer pulled up but let them continue in the dangerous conditions. [3] Martha Oak and her husband were driving home through Oklahoma when they got caught in a large tornado formation on the highway with no exits available. They pulled into a

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    People shared stories of surviving crazy weather: [1] Lilly Smith got caught in a desert storm in Arizona (or New Mexico) with giant dust clouds and multiple tornadoes forming on the road. She and others took shelter at a motel as hail started falling and the cameras outside were destroyed by the storm. [2] Mark Wellsh was driving through a thunderstorm in Arizona with his convertible top leaking when lightning struck near the road. A police officer pulled up but let them continue in the dangerous conditions. [3] Martha Oak and her husband were driving home through Oklahoma when they got caught in a large tornado formation on the highway with no exits available. They pulled into a

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    People shared stories of surviving crazy weather: [1] Lilly Smith got caught in a desert storm in Arizona (or New Mexico) with giant dust clouds and multiple tornadoes forming on the road. She and others took shelter at a motel as hail started falling and the cameras outside were destroyed by the storm. [2] Mark Wellsh was driving through a thunderstorm in Arizona with his convertible top leaking when lightning struck near the road. A police officer pulled up but let them continue in the dangerous conditions. [3] Martha Oak and her husband were driving home through Oklahoma when they got caught in a large tornado formation on the highway with no exits available. They pulled into a

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    People ShareTheir Stories of Crazy Weather Survival

    Lilly Smith

    While driving to California from Mississippi, we got caught in a huge desert storm somewhere
    in Arizona (or possibly New Mexico). There was a lot of rain and wind but it started off
    normally enough. After about five minutes though it started getting crazy. The dirt and sand
    was so dry that all of the water coming down was kicking it up more than soaking it, so after a
    few minutes both sides of the road were completely hidden by dust going up about 30 feet, and
    then above that was just rain, with the freeway cutting through it. It looked like Moses parting
    the sea except it was a freeway parting a giant dust cloud. So that was kind of neat, but then it
    got intense – every time lightning flashed, you could see into the dust clouds, and there were
    multiple tornadoes/dust devils on each side of us.

    Deciding to take shelter, we pulled into a motel that was ahead of us and ran into the lobby
    along with about four other people who had come off the road. Just as we were getting into the
    lobby the storm really took off and we started getting hail too. One guy slipped in the parking
    lot and started bleeding everywhere and me and my husband had to dash outside to literally
    drag him into the building. Then us, the guy, the others from the road, and about 6 people from
    the hotel including the staff just huddled in the lobby watching the security camera feed from
    outside on their desk computer. One by one, the cameras were getting taken out by hail or wind
    until eventually it was all just static and howling wind and dust outside the windows. Was like
    something from a disaster movie, I’ll never forget it.

    Mark Wellsh

    My wife and I were driving through the desert in Arizona and got caught in a thunderstorm. It
    was bucketing down and our convertible top was leaking so we had to stuff towels across the
    top of the screen.

    Then it got much heavier and there were multiple lightning strikes to the ground and cactus
    either side of the road. I was driving at about 10-15mph because I could hardly see the road
    had headlights and emergency flashers on and wipers going full pelt.

    Then in my rear vision mirror I saw red and blue flashing lights and a cop car slowly gaining
    on us. I said to my wife I am not stopping for this guy. He slowly pulled alongside and looked
    us over and continued on. We have some intense thunderstorms in Australia but I have never
    been in anything like that before.

    Martha Oak
    My husband and I were driving home from an out of state trip a few years ago, in late March
    (start of tornado season). We stopped in Joplin, MO to get dinner before finishing the last few
    hours of our drive into Oklahoma and I caught a glimpse of the television… It was a weather
    forecast showing a pretty nasty storm system a couple hundred miles away. It looked bad but
    it also appeared that we would just miss it if we left right then and stayed on the turnpike.

    There is a zone between Missouri and Tulsa, OK where there’s like no exits anywhere to get
    off for gas or anything. The storm ahead of us looked pretty bad and we knew we needed to
    turn off but there literally were NO exits. Lightning struck the side of the road as we passed by
    and that’s when I realized we were in trouble.

    After a little while of staring at a wall cloud, my phone started buzzing that there was a tornado
    warning in our area. I showed my husband and not 5 seconds later a funnel cloud started
    forming in front of us, not a mile up the highway. Finally an exit showed up and we swerved
    through it as this at least appeared to be a rather large tornado touched down (not sure how
    big). We pulled into the gas station and ran inside with a bunch of strangers, then the power
    went out. I called my mom and told her what was happening and that I loved her. I was 100%
    sure I was about to be in serious pain.

    At the last second, this big tornado turned away and destroyed a few houses I believe… I can’t
    remember if anyone died although I believe there were a few casualties. We got back in the car
    and drove home. It was one of the scariest moments of my life.

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