OMG! Can you imagine...

[cloudy]

...being that damn close to this thing? Close enough to take this picture:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/13/us/13tornado-blog.jpg

When the weather turned violent and stormy on Tuesday evening, Lori Mehmen, who lives in the small farming town of Orchard in northeastern Iowa, looked out her front door and saw a funnel cloud bearing down — and evidently had the presence of mind to grab her digital camera and capture this shot before taking cover.

Full story here.

 

[rgraham666]

Sends a shiver down the spine. Scary.

 

[Chantilyvamp]

*giggles* and they say southerners are nuts in storms.

That is one wicked photo though

 

[cloudy]

*giggles* and they say southerners are nuts in storms.

That is one wicked photo though

We've got enough sense to get the hell out of the trailer park when one of those is coming, at least.

 

[BarbarouSevil]

...being that damn close to this thing? Close enough to take this picture:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/13/us/13tornado-blog.jpg

When the weather turned violent and stormy on Tuesday evening, Lori Mehmen, who lives in the small farming town of Orchard in northeastern Iowa, looked out her front door and saw a funnel cloud bearing down — and evidently had the presence of mind to grab her digital camera and capture this shot before taking cover.

Full story here.

The "presence of mind?" If I ever get that close to anything that looks even remotely like that, and my mind says, "say, let's stick around for a photo," I'm declaring it absent without leave and abandoning it to its fate.

I can get along without it. It doesn't put in appearance that often anyway.

 

[Carnevil9]

I wouldn't even wait the 1/250th of a second for the shutter to expose. I'd drop the camera and take off like the Road Runner down the road......Carney

 

[jomar]

Once due diligence proves it's not photoshopped: Whoa!

 

[cloudy]

Once due diligence proves it's not photoshopped: Whoa!

It doesn't look photoshopped to me, and I've seen a few of them. AP apparently picked it up, so chances are it's real.

 

[kiten69]

Once due diligence proves it's not photoshopped: Whoa!

Agreed, if it's real that's amazing. . .and scary. *shiver*

 

[kendo1]

I have a photo of drizzle.

It was damp.

 

[The_Fractal_King]

Whether that's a shop or not it's an incredible picture.

 

[jomar]

It doesn't look photoshopped to me, and I've seen a few of them. AP apparently picked it up, so chances are it's real.

That would be awesome.

 

[Liar]

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/13/us/13tornado-blog.jpg

Ah, the light evening sunshine, the lush green trees, the tidy lawn. What a peaceful picture, if it wasn't for the HUGE FUCKING TORNADO next door.

 

[The_Fool]

I need to get another digital cam (mine died) and a camcorder.

We had a stronger than normal thunderstorm the other day with some really nasty cloud to ground lightning, that was incredible. I really wanted to capture the moment. But I am not sure that I could really capture the impact as thoroughly as I would want. So hard to capture the concussive force of those storms. Similar to standing next to a howitzer when it is being fired. You feel the entire house vibrate. The rain comes down so hard, you have to look out to see if it is hailing. Then the hail comes and you so know the difference. After the storm moves through, you step out to air that is crisp, cold, clean. The grass so green with the sunlight breaking through, but still having the gray of the cloud not too distant for contrast.

That was the day the tornado went through town and didn't stop in for a drink.

 

[TxRad]

Ah, the light evening sunshine, the lush green trees, the tidy lawn. What a peaceful picture, if it wasn't for the HUGE FUCKING TORNADO next door.

Don't worry, a few minutes later, there was no next door.

 

[Liar]

Don't worry, a few minutes later, there was no next door.

Am i going to hell for laughing at that?

 

[tickledkitty]

Am i going to hell for laughing at that?

You'll be in good company.

 

[Liar]

I wish I had had a camera at hand today too. It was one of those thunder storms.

One that looked like a ten mile pitch black singularity framed by levitating glaciers and insane rainwows, with a static zap riot that would give Nicolai Tesla a nerdgasm, and with diamond cut hail that ripped through umbrellas and stripped the leaves off birches.

Not an 'omg we're all gonna die'-moment. More like the kind of spectacle you want to rip all curtains, open all windows and have wild, abandonless sex in front of.

 

[The_Fool]

I wish I had had a camera at hand today too. It was one of those thunder storms.

One that looked like a ten mile pitch black singularity framed by levitating glaciers and insane rainwows, with a static zap riot that would give Nicolai Tesla a nerdgasm, and with diamond cut hail that ripped through umbrellas and stripped the leaves off birches.

Not an 'omg we're all gonna die'-moment. More like the kind of spectacle you want to rip all curtains, open all windows and have wild, abandonless sex in front of.

Pffft.....that is everyday. Weather has nothing to do with the desire for wild, abandonless sex. Windows might have an affect though....

 

[rgraham666]

Ah, the light evening sunshine, the lush green trees, the tidy lawn. What a peaceful picture, if it wasn't for the HUGE FUCKING TORNADO next door.

Actually Liar, that's a small one.

 

[cloudy]

Actually Liar, that's a small one.

you're right, that's a very small one.

An F5 is called the finger of god, and they can get up to, and bigger, than a mile across:

http://images.usatoday.com/weather/tornado/outbreak/xeniaf5l.jpg

Massive F5 tornado rips across on Xenia, Ohio, April 3, 1974 (photo by Fred Stewart, courtesy NOAA).

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

you're right, that's a very small one.

An F5 is called the finger of god, and they can get up to, and bigger, than a mile across:

http://images.usatoday.com/weather/tornado/outbreak/xeniaf5l.jpg

Massive F5 tornado rips across on Xenia, Ohio, April 3, 1974 (photo by Fred Stewart, courtesy NOAA).

Yeah, that one looks similar to the one that ripped through here a couple of years ago. It just looked like a huge cloud that went from the sky to the ground. They said the top was over a mile wide.

 

[DesertPirate]

Ah, the light evening sunshine, the lush green trees, the tidy lawn. What a peaceful picture, if it wasn't for the HUGE FUCKING TORNADO next door.

That is about the perfect description

That may not be a big one but it's more than big enough!

 

[MagicaPractica]

An F5 is called the finger of god, and they can get up to, and bigger, than a mile across:

LOL I remember that phrase from a movie but I misheard it as "fender of God." Hey, it made sense too, like God's car zooming down the highway about to run you over.

 

[DesertPirate]

Am i going to hell for laughing at that?

There will be a lot of us there.