Jason and I were in Davisburg when the storms hit. We were doing weather spotting for the NWS at the time. We saw the tornado that hit Holly. By the time we got to where it was it was gone. We then dropped the kids off with the grandparents and went to Fenton to help provide amateur radio emergency communications.

It was a disaster zone.

The tornado started 4 miles north east of Fenton in Livingston County and began as an EF0 (they changed the way they rate tornadoes thus the name change, it means “enhanced Fujita”) and rather quickly grew to EF1 then EF2. It dropped and gained intensity as it travelled eventually slamming into downtown Fenton as and EF2. It finally ended 4 miles east of Holly. It averaged a width of 200 yards but when it got to Fenton it was 1/4 of a mile wide!!!

You can read all about it (and the other tornadoes that occurred) here: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/cms.php?n=aug07tor

You’re really lucky the tornado you saw didn’t touch down!

I’m glad you made it safely to your destination.

You’re right, it’s really stupid to try to outrun bad weather, especially tornadoes.