17 People Reveal The Heartpounding Moments Their Gut Instincts Told Them To “Leave Now”

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“I was doing some basic bushcraft camping — nothing fancy, just finding a random spot in the wilderness. I had a site set up, fire going, etc. Everything was ready for a weekend of camping when something in my gut told me to leave.”

“I had spent a good chunk of time setting up, but the feeling was overpowering. So I broke camp and left, thinking, ‘Okay, I’ll do it next weekend.”

I came back the next week because I felt guilty about cutting my stay short, and noticed downed trees and ripped-up landscape. As I continued hiking in, I saw that this path of destruction had gone directly through the spot I had set up camp in.

Turns out, a tornado had passed through. We don’t get tornadoes often in my state, and the ones we do get aren’t usually this destructive. Further research showed it happened about an hour after I left and tore right through the site.”

—u/ERedfieldh