I'm sure I missed this already, but anyone see a Tornado yesterday?

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Louisianna to Pennsylvania. That's fucking scary.

 

[Rubyfruit]

Thankfully, I've never seen a tornado up close and personal. Lived through a lot of earthquakes though.

 

[Sillyman]

Yeah. I've seen hundreds of the fucking things. They're a pain in the ass when you have to return your porno to the video store.

 

[Problem Child]

Warnings here, but all we got was marble to golf ball size hail. Lucky us.

Weird thing was they said the storm was moving at 50 mph...not 50 mph winds, but actually travelling that fast.

Strange.

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

Warnings here, but all we got was marble to golf ball size hail. Lucky us.

Weird thing was they said the storm was moving at 50 mph...not 50 mph winds, but actually travelling that fast.

Strange.

Al Qaeda must be behind it

 

[teddybear4play]

Warnings here, but all we got was marble to golf ball size hail. Lucky us.

Weird thing was they said the storm was moving at 50 mph...not 50 mph winds, but actually travelling that fast.

Strange.

Really violent storms usually haul ass. It's why they're over really quickly.

TB4p

 

[Sillyman]

Warnings here, but all we got was marble to golf ball size hail. Lucky us.

Weird thing was they said the storm was moving at 50 mph...not 50 mph winds, but actually travelling that fast.

Strange.

Welcome to the South.

 

[freakygirl]

I really have no right to bitch about our 50 degree rainy weather here.

Atleast the wind isn't blowing. I feel sorry for you guys over there.

 

[Azwed]

Bedford, a town about 2 hours away from me and home of the D-Day memorial, got hammered. A couple of houses were destroyed but I don't think anyone died.

We had some real hard rain and wind but no Tornados.

 

[Sillyman]

I really have no right to bitch about our 50 degree rainy weather here.

Atleast the wind isn't blowing. I feel sorry for you guys over there.

Yeah, that constant drizzle is really nice. I hear they actually have predictable weather in some places.

 

[Azwed]

Yeah, that constant drizzle is really nice. I hear they actually have predictable weather in some places.

Its a myth.

 

[Guest]

Tornados have got to be the scariest things...... so random.

 

[Sillyman]

Tornados have got to be the scariest things...... so random.

Not really. Humans are funny. You can get used to anything, even 80 mph winds and golf ball hail.

 

[Coolville]

Isn't tornado season in the spring?
just curious.
maybe they moved tornado season because the networks were too booked up with the NHL playoffs and the impending invasion of Iraq.

 

[Sillyman]

Isn't tornado season in the spring?
just curious.
maybe they moved tornado season because the networks were too booked up with the NHL playoffs and the impending invasion of Iraq.

Tornado season is in the spring, but the fuckers will show up whenever they feel like showing up.

 

[zach79]

Here's a strange but true fact:

Tornados only occur in North America



BTW a tornado occured in Hartford City, IN, some 20 or so miles north of where I live

 

[Coolville]

Here's a strange but true fact:

Tornados only occur in North America

I was curious about this and did a bit of research. There was a tornado here last year. Minor compared to the midwest in the states.

But tornados are not a North American phenomenon, I discovered:

-HEAVY SHOWERS AND TORNADOS CAUSE DAMAGE IN UKRAINE
Heavy showers accompanied by hail and tornados, which struck several regions of Ukraine over the past two days, have damaged hundreds of residential and administration buildings and dozens of tension wire lines.
According to the Ukrainian emergencies ministry, the calamity wrecked the roofs of 400 buildings and destroyed 74 power and communication lines, leaving 53 populated areas without electricity. 5 people were hospitalized with different injuries.

-On Monday a tornado destroyed dozens of shops and houses, injuring seven people and blowing up thousands of bottles of beer from a shop in Guangzhou city, Guangdong province.

-On October 28, 2000, conditions were certainly right in the quiet British seaside resort of Bognor Regis: A tornado cut a swathe of destruction, causing over USD 7 million equivalent in damages.

So, is this a new phenomenon, perhaps even an indicator of a change in climate as Time magazine had it in November 2000? Not quite, as tornadoes have been recorded in Europe for nearly 1,000 years.

· The earliest record dates from April 30, 1054, when a tornado hit Rosdalla, Ireland. Towards the end of the same century (October 30, 1091) one of Britain's most severe tornadoes destroyed the church of St. Mary le Bow and 600 dwellings in central London. Four of the church's rafters, each some 8 meters long, were reportedly driven so hard into the ground that only 1.2 meters of them remained visible.

· Since 1587, over 500 tornadoes have been recorded in Germany. The most severe case to date is the July 1968 tornado, which devastated the town of Pforzheim in southern Germany and caused some USD 25 million equivalent in damages.

· The 1854 tornado in the French département Seine-Maritime is the severest recorded in France to date, having killed 70 people. More recently, 19 deaths and 276 injuries have been recorded here between 1960 and 1980.

· In 1916, a tornado claimed 32 lives in Wiener Neustadt, Austria.

· In 1930, the Treviso-Udine area in Northern Italy was devastated by a tornado that caused over 20 deaths.

· In 1984, a single tornado killed 300 to 400 people and caused extensive damage in Moscow, Russia. No tornado in the US in recent years has had a similar number of victims.

· In Europe in recent years, an outbreak of tornadoes occurred on November 21, 1981, in Britain, where 104 of the twisters were spawned by a cold front in just five and a quarter hours. Fortunately, most of them were short-lived and none were violent. No deaths occurred.

From these few examples you may deduce that the UK is the most tornado-prone country in Europe. Indeed, it holds the world record on a land-area basis, with an average of 33 tornadoes per year.

However, most British tornadoes are only moderately intense and cause little damage. If you live in Britain all your life, you have some two chances of experiencing an intense tornado, according to the UK Tornado and Storm Research Organization TORRO.
But because the US is 38 times larger than the UK, the UK's average is still higher on a land-area basis.

 

[zach79]

Hmm...well I guess I'll take my crow and go eat in the corner.


I can't remember where exactly I read that but it was a few years ago.


Oh well nobody's perfect

 

[Coolville]

no worries!
I've heard the same thing and, in desperate need of a displacement activity this morning, I just thought I'd check it out.

pasta or potatoes with the crow?

 

[Ishmael]

I've seen two tornadoes when I lived in Nebraska and a few water spouts.

Odd, the water spouts were like big 'dust devils'. Not scary at all. Quite beautiful in their own way and something that I would be tempted to try to get into the core of, just as I did the 'dust devils' that were so common in El Paso as I was growing up.

The tornadoes were frightening. No other word fits. What I remember the most about the tornadoes was the sky. It was an eeirie color. Like that of an old bruise. All of the dark purples, blues, and grays were there that you normally associate with thunderstorms, but there were greens there as well. Not the bright greens of the earth, but the dark drab greens of decay.

The tornadoes never came very close and we never suffered any damage, but they are one of the reasons that I just don't like the Great Plains.

Ishmael

 

[Coolville]

Such astounding beauty in the wrath of weather.

 

[christophe]

we had several here in ohio sunday night...the largest was an f-4...they had video on the news of it ....that was one big fucking tornado....i am glad it wasnt near my neck of the woods!

 

[Cheyenne]

If I'm ever close enough to a tornado to actually see it, I hope I don't because I'm safely in the basement of my house waiting for the storm to go away.

Some of my more vivid memories of childhood are trips to the basement to sit in the SW corner until the storms blew over.

 

[floridaguy64]

Yeah... I saw some really freaky shit going on Sunday night-Monday morning here in the skys above Atlanta. I was working all night, driving at that... horizontal rail that hurt like hell, some hail, a lightning storm that looked like a never ending eplosion of light that lasted for sever hours...

Yeah, that was one freaky ass night, to say the least.

 

[Cyan BloodsBane]

I have been through one Tornado, and that was one to many. I never believed anyone when they said that they sounded like a frieght train. Now, I am a believer....


One of the other scarier storms to be in is a sand storm, those dam things are down right blinding, painful, and scary. You lose all sense of direction and being in them.