Thanks to all for the warm and enthusiastic welcome - much appreciated.
Heh - in the photo above, you are actually looking at less than
half of the tornado. This is the most dramatic I have ever seen. I wish I could say it was mine, but alas, it is not. I'm a couch chaser now - too old to run like hell anymore.
If you liked this pic, here is another that should make you pucker - as dramatic a wall cloud as has ever been seen (by me anyway),