Tornados, ever witness one?
 

its lookin bad as shit out right now, maybe i'll get lucky and see one.

i've seen about 2.. although neither touched down, it was pretty cool.. one was at an amusement park, people were stuck on the top of a hill on a rollercoaster while this fuckin funnel cloud was near them, i'd shit myself. luckily i was on the ground :winkwink:

With the way these freakin' storms formed down here in Texas today, I thought I was gonna see one.

Yes, they are cool as hell. What power and force. Excellent if you not in it's way.

Of course, it is not cool when they kill a town though.

Witnessed the strongest tornado ever. It came within a mile of my house. http://www.newsok.com/?w_may3
Amazing more people did not die from it.

Not some fun thing, tornado.

Best get the fuck out of it's way....

I've seen several & don't want to see anymore

Jamdin

Location: Kansas
Posts: 2174

heh, i'd imagine so.

I'm in Ohio, and I guess we're supposed to get some badass storms tonight

I've never seen one, but really want to... as long as it's not headed in my direction. we had some bad shit last year I believe it was

Came within 1/4 mile of me

Lived through four, watched three of them. The latest was this past March 19th. We have storm sirens in our town, (thankfully), and I had just sat down in history class when the fucker goes off. Instructor says, "You know what that means: Get the fuck out of my classroom." (2nd floor classroom with lotsa big purty windows)

Everyone hustles down to the basement except me. My dumb ass gets in the car, drives the ten blocks home, grabs all four of my cats and shoves them into their kennel and shoves said kennel into the hall facing the wall. I shove the dog's kennel opposite the cats', then open up all the windows in the house.

Then I realize the siren isn't going off anymore. I look outside and the sky looks funny, so I grab camera and head back to campus to find my husband. (Besides, campus is safer than my house: I have no basement.)

I get to the turn-off for campus and the alarms go off again. Park the car, see my best friend standing outside staring up at the sky, so I grab her by the backpack and start to steer her dumb ass toward the University Center basement when she points to the pavilion center sky. I look up and HOLY SHIT!

Across the back highway near the barns we're looking at the beginnings of the funnel cloud. (Yes, I'm dumb enough to stand there and take a fuckin picture.)

http://www.ethicalporn.com/avatars/bythebarns.jpg

It touched down about 8 miles east of town and killed one person, meanwhile those of us who saw the sonofabitch forming are huddled in the basement of the University Center. About an hour later, we're told to go get lunch. We go upstairs to the grill, get lunch, sit down, sirens go off again. The grill is NOT the place to be at that point, so we head back to the basement, and on the way we look outside and the whole sky is BLACK, but no wind. That's enough to scare the shit outta me, so I make a run for the basement. The tornado from THAT wall cloud touched down about 3 miles west of town, no one got hurt, but some serious property damage.


...and the season has only just begun. I'm seriously looking into property prices in Nevada.

I've been through a couple of them, they are not even remotely entertaining...

Cheers to the Midwest and the beginning of tornado season!

one eye on the sky, the other on the weather channel ;)

Born & raised in Garden City, Kansas. Now living in Lawrence, Kansas. Needless to say I have seen a tornado or two in my life. Been lucky so far and never lost anything to one.

are you from the sooner state?


p.s. my friend found a check book in his yard(in tulsa) from someone who lived in moore.

Lived in KS for 5 years, 3 in Overland Park and 2 in Lawrence.. saw a few, nothing too big though.

Also lived in Miami (Dade) for 10 years, lived through a few smaller hurricanes. Moved out 4 months before Andrew.

Are you going to school at KU? Pretty tough loss, I've been a fan since 92.

I've been out looking for them out in the country all kinds of times but, only ever seen the funnel clouds.. Never seen one touch the ground.. Been threw some wicked weather a few times..

zebra, rockdaddy and nap where are you guys in oklahoma? We live in Norman and my husband is a storm chaser for channel 9 news. He chased the May 3 tornadoes. He had some primo pictures of the awesome power of it but when he divorced his ex wife she bailed with them.

i'm in edmond right now. born and raised in tulsa.

how are women and tornados similar

first there is a lot of sucking and blowing and then you loose your house.

how cool. I thought I was the only lonely webmaster in oklahoma that hangs out here. I'm in Norman.

overland park is a nice area. i still have fam. that stays up there.

nap: cool deal, it is nice.. gotten rather developed lately, I hear.. a lot of corporate parks and whatnot, hopefully it'll keep the gangs and other bullshit that's been going on in Witchita out.

Of course, more money in the area means more people to rob..

Nope, I did go to KU though. Fortunately I have been done with that for several years. And yeah, tough loss. At least we got rid of some dead weight (Roy Williams) and now have a kickass new head coach. Bill Self is the man. :thumbsup

my uncle teaches law at OU. all my family is from oklahoma. damned red dirt and sweltering summers, but the people are great.

Nap and dchottie.
I'm in Moore.

Maybe we should do an Oklahoma get together sometime.
We had one about 2-3 years ago at a bar here but I don't think anyone that went is still in the biz.

There used to be a few other webmasters here but they all either quit or moved.

Took a direct hit on my building by the Fort Worth tornado a few years back.

Pretty scary shit, I was at home. As I exited my apartment with my dog tucked under my arm like a football I started to run down the hallway. As I did I could hear windows blowing out behind me...when I reached the interior stairwell the tornado hit the building.

The winds inside the stairwell were enough to move me around and bounce me back and fort between the handrails...quite an accomplishment imo...completely inside and I'm a pretty heavy guy.

The building wasn't demolished, but the lobby was tore up pretty bad, most apartments suffered damage and I ended up couching at different family members places for about 6 months while they repaired everything.

That shit sucked.

been there done that, seen a few. i've seen a lot more funnel clouds than touchdowns though. fun stuff. i enjoy watching them still, we've only lost a few things to them. parts of barns here and there, that's about it. hehe... it's really kinda disconcerting to hear absolutely no sirens, but look directly above your house (after we moved in town) to see a funnel cloud rotating right over your head. crazy.

Hey Zebra I think that would be excellent I can always hit the other boards that I frequent and post that there will be a get together. If you seriously want to try to do this let's talk and see what we can come up with. You can grab me on icq 59075257 or email [email protected]

email me if you all decide to do anything.(i hope i'm not the youngest out of the crowd...21) [email protected]

I live in LA so no I havent witnessed one, but I saw the movie Twister

I've seen 1 and was in a building hit by another one. That was 20+ years ago and I still have nightmares, I have my weather radio on all the time, and I'll never live in house that doesn't have a basement with a windowless room. Those things are scary as crap and the power is just incredible. In the room where it hit, we had an old black phone that was virtually indestructible and the glass from the window exploding shredded it.

YES was at the gym and it was durning the oncomming of a hurricane and I just got my ass off the bike and looking out the window saw what at first looked like a ton of birds flying around untill i saw a tree get up rooted and blown off the face of this earth then saw a big rig get over turned I was zabout a mile from it when it hit me what i was seeing me and my trainner started to scream to every then there was this BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOM and power went off we flew down stairs I went outside like a dummy to see if i can see anymore of it and by the time i got out there it was gone, pretty wild

I saw a few when I was took my pilot licens in Crystal River / Florida - All of them were small, so no real drama

Growing up in rural Indiana, I have been through a lot of tornados and nasty storms.

Also, our pool pump seemed to act like a lightning rod. I remember my dad had to replace it 3 times in 5 years due to lightning damage. Also had to replace the privacy fence due to wind damage, constantly replacing roof tiles, and our chimney was destroyed in one storm.

There was a nasty one that hit here in Indianapolis last year about a mile from where I am. Took out a lot of houses and some stores.

several, one, was fishing when a water spout crossed within 200 hundreds yards of us, very scary being on the water.
Another one was on the ground for about a mile, then it went back up as it got to our house missed our street then set back down and desstoyed another section of house, several deaths from that one, then another one caught me in my car I had no where to stop and run so I just drove my car got pounded with limps and pieces of houses.
I thought I was clear but when I reached the next town the same tornado caught me again(they dont take roads:) twice my car got pushed off the road.

They are a amazing part of nature.