Author Topic: Has Anyone Been Thru Seen A Tornado (Read 393 times)

Sparks · « **Reply #15 on:** November 13, 2002, 09:19:09 AM »

I'm up for storm chasing - we need an AH chasers week - maybe the week before con if time of year is right - would make a really neat holiday.

Yes I know I need a life buy hey - I'm happy

Sparks

Ddriag · « **Reply #16 on:** November 13, 2002, 09:54:35 AM »

It is my ultimate dream to come over to the US and be a storm chasing cameraman. For some reason I'm drawn like a moth to a candle when filming a dodgy situation. The forest fires we sometimes have in the UK (not as good as US ones) and BNP/National Front marches are my current favourites. I know it's no joke when you're stuck in the middle of a Tornado, but what is it that makes otherwise normal people want to get in there and do dangerous stuff.

And, to cross thread a bit.. UK weather is not as good as Americas on the whole, It's either miserably cold and wet, or miserably hot and humid. I want floods, tornadoes, 16 feet of snow and a heatwave each year just to keep the interest up.

Tracer-15 · « **Reply #17 on:** November 13, 2002, 02:43:20 PM »

I had my run in with a tornado back in 1995...i was in Bracketsvill texas for a NSS convention...one evening as we were all going to the dinner line it got real dark....then the wind kicked up....we just though it was going to thunderstorm or something....but all of a sudden we heard BWWOOOOOOOOO and ran like a bat outa hell for the shelter/vendor area...got in there...couple of guys shut and locked the roll up steel doors...and we waited...all 250 of us.....for about half an hour....the tornado hit the other part of town so no one was hurt...still was scary

Mighty1 · « **Reply #18 on:** November 13, 2002, 02:53:26 PM »

When I lived in my old house my son and I were outside looking at the green clouds when the phone rang and Kieren started asking me if we were alright. I just kinda laughed and said yeah of course we are why? He said because he just watched a tornado go right by our house. I laughed again and said yeah right! Well about that time every emergency vehicle we have in town zoomed past my house.

It seems Kieren was right, the tornado came within 4 blocks of my house and we never even heard it!!

Thorns · « **Reply #19 on:** November 13, 2002, 06:46:10 PM »

1990 - Living in Plainfield, Illinois at the time. Youngest daughter just got to the basement before the whole house? err whole south half of subdivision.... was flattened. I had to listen about the devastation on the radio while I drove from work to home. I was most happy when I saw her waving at me as I entered the subdivision. Lots of therapy for her, now she can almost tolerate a small thunderstorm, but you'll find her in the basement, sitting in closet with headphones on, listening to music, if it thunders more than twice. Tornado was an F5, moving from northwest to southeast(embedded in thunderstorms)....killed 29 people. Not a good time.

2000 - Omaha Nebraska, I was making a contact call at one of my Dealers, and the sky turned purple, sirens blaring, everyone ran out to look, and saw to the south, the most perfect tornado dancing about 3 miles away, headed for Lincoln, NE. I knew someone was having their life changed.

Thorns

715 · « **Reply #20 on:** November 13, 2002, 09:46:54 PM »

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Originally posted by Udie
Wait I forgot about my drives through the desert. I saw a BUNCH out there, but they don't count i guess because they're not as dangerous or big.....

That' a dust devil- it's generated by a completely different mechanism than tornadoes. They almost never do even slight damage- in fact they are kinda fun to stand in.

715 (denizen of the desert)