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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: krazyhorse on November 12, 2002, 04:25:33 PM
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I've seen 3 in my life,one was a twister,one was about a f3 i rome ga and one i didn't see but felt in aiken sc, anyhow just curious about your experiances
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I've been close enough to see them before but was too busy hiding in the basement to actually see them. :)
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I've seen 2 and heard 1 (was inside thank god) never seen one on the ground though. When I was in 3rd grade they evacuated my school one day because there was one forming about 2 miles away. I remember being scared toejameless watching that thing as we rode the bus home, but it never touched down.
The one I heard was when I was in college and it touched down in a field 1 mile from the house. I was inside watching tv at like 2pm and I hear this rumbling howling sound and the house started to shake. I looked out the window and saw a 3' plastic garbage can fly accross our back yard. It's path was parallel with the ground and it was about 15' in the air and it took about 2 seconds for it to cross the 60' back yard :eek: :eek: I spent the next hour in my bathtub under a matress :D
Tornados are the one wether item that scare the crap out of me. Some of my worst nightmares growing up were about tornados.
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with me weird , but i was at work all 3 times,closest was the nite time one i'm driving just thought heavy winds till a tree gets blowd in the road in front of me big tree i stpped and trun went other way real fast, nice thing bout emergency brakes used properly you can turn on a dime
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I,ve been thrue three. saw one, that tore my freinds house into pieces. the other two i sleept thrue.
ComrradII
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saw two in Denver if you can belive that!
one was friggin huge.. but luckily far away and moving away
the other was pretty small and tough to see.
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Add that one to lazs' thread about things that are better in England (or its territories) than in the US...no tornados!;)
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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.....
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I see them in my dreams sometimes...They chase me and always seem to find where I'm hiding...Then when I run,it's like in slo-mo.
But the weird thing is I never seem to die in sleep.(a dream analysis book says something about tornado= my fears)
Bloody horrible what happened recently in USA...I hope the survivors can get on with their lives and sleep peacefully.
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I've seen at least 4 tornados that touched down, several more still hovering above ground, and a few that I wasn't positive whether they were tornados or not. We don't get many twisters here in Ohio though; Microbursts are the real threat--far more common and just as dangerous as the average tornado, yet tougher to predict.
A lot of people out driving in the weather will confuse a microburst with a tornado...but if you get caught in one you will know the difference...a tornado sucks but a microburst blows :)
J_A_B
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Two. in 1965, survived the Minnesota "Fridley" tornado that destroyed the neighborhood next to us, then the tornado retracted and missed our neighborhood, had debris in our yard from it...2nd worst death toll at the current time for a tornado. We heard the "train" going by, as my mother called it to calm us (5,7 and 9 yr.old)
1976, I watched a small twister coming toward our pole barn, fascinated by the whole ordeal, in the safety of our house (yeah, right)...the twister picked up our pole barn (anchored) while the horses were still in it, the horses scattered while the structure lifted up, they looked like they were running in slow motion probably due to the suction but managed not to get sucked up. Once I saw the horses clear, I ran like hell downstairs to the basement skeerd like a little girl.
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Yep. Go here for pics. http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/ilm/archive/07-06-01/tor.html
When I went out the back door of my office at the PD, this sucker had just passed and was at the next block. Too stinkin close for me.
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Wow Apache, cool photos. I always wanted to be a storm chaser. That shiit gets me off.
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well I don't know 'bout gettin' off but I would dig being a storm chaser :)
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Erm, thats "Getting off" like skydiving...you know, adrenline..the other white meat.
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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
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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.
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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
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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!!
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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
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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)