EL CAMPO, Texas (KHOU) – Storms brought several tornadoes to the area southwest of Houston Thursday, including one that damaged an 80-year-old farm.
“I couldn’t believe it. I mean, I’ve never seen a tornado, you know,” Reid Strnadel said. “I mean hurricanes are all we really get down here.”
Strnadel helps run the farm and ranch that’s been in his family for 80 years.
Thursday afternoon, Strnadel said his wife was sent cell phone video from a friend.
He realized the massive tornado was bearing down on his land.
The tornado first destroyed the first of the Strnadel family’s barns in its path, sending pieces of sheet metal and wood flying.
They said they found some of the debris deposited in their corn fields hundreds of yards away.
“It went right between this front barn and our back barn, right in the middle of them,” Strnadel said.
The tornado knocked out a wall of one barn and lifted off the roof of another, even moving the boat that Strnadel had been storing inside.
All of this is better than what could’ve happened, though. The tornado passed right next to the family’s home.
“It could’ve been worse, definitely,” Strnadel said.
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