Lived through four, watched three of them. The latest was this past March 19th. We have storm sirens in our town, (thankfully), and I had just sat down in history class when the fucker goes off. Instructor says, "You know what that means: Get the fuck out of my classroom." (2nd floor classroom with lotsa big purty windows)
Everyone hustles down to the basement except me. My dumb ass gets in the car, drives the ten blocks home, grabs all four of my cats and shoves them into their kennel and shoves said kennel into the hall facing the wall. I shove the dog's kennel opposite the cats', then open up all the windows in the house.
Then I realize the siren isn't going off anymore. I look outside and the sky looks funny, so I grab camera and head back to campus to find my husband. (Besides, campus is safer than my house: I have no basement.)
I get to the turn-off for campus and the alarms go off again. Park the car, see my best friend standing outside staring up at the sky, so I grab her by the backpack and start to steer her dumb ass toward the University Center basement when she points to the pavilion center sky. I look up and HOLY SHIT!
Across the back highway near the barns we're looking at the beginnings of the funnel cloud. (Yes, I'm dumb enough to stand there and take a fuckin picture.)
It touched down about 8 miles east of town and killed one person, meanwhile those of us who saw the sonofabitch forming are huddled in the basement of the University Center. About an hour later, we're told to go get lunch. We go upstairs to the grill, get lunch, sit down, sirens go off again. The grill is NOT the place to be at that point, so we head back to the basement, and on the way we look outside and the whole sky is BLACK, but no wind. That's enough to scare the shit outta me, so I make a run for the basement. The tornado from THAT wall cloud touched down about 3 miles west of town, no one got hurt, but some serious property damage.
...and the season has only just begun. I'm seriously looking into property prices in Nevada.