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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIncredible video of supercell spawning 10 tornadoes in one day:
https://vimeo.com/218994650Laffy Kat
(16,402 posts)They mesmerize me.
tblue37
(65,592 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 5, 2017, 08:26 PM - Edit history (1)
because I was napping and didn't hear the alarm. Fortunately for me the tornado hit closer to the edge of town, not the center where I live.
Laffy Kat
(16,402 posts)Be careful, tblue37.
tblue37
(65,592 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)One I guess never actually made it all the way to the ground it just ripped the tops from about 20 feet up out of the trees in the yard. The other one tossed one of the out buildings where we were living onto the power line. It was leaning on the power line. The line was holding it up. the building started out about 30 feet from the house I was sleeping in. I had gone to work but came back home cause it was raining cats and dogs and you can't pour concrete in a rain. When my step son went out to go to school he comes back in and says, I guess we must have had a tornado or something. We go check it out and sure enough it was obvious what had happened.
MuseRider
(34,151 posts)but did not know about the videos. Wow.
mnhtnbb
(31,450 posts)of the airport in Lincoln, NE. They were back from one of their summer adventures
they called "great adventures". My husband held a general aviation license and would fly
the boys on a 7-10 day trip just for the guys.
So, I was looking out the huge window at the general aviation terminal while my husband was finishing his flight paperwork and I counted five--yes 5--tornadoes out on the horizon.
None of them touched down. None of them came in to town. Still. It was quite a sight.
uppityperson
(115,682 posts)I grew up in the flatlands and miss the sky
tblue37
(65,592 posts)violently downward instead of spiraling) I went outside to watch he wild weather.
The wind uprooted my neighbor's pear tree and threw it right at me! I scrambled backward, tripped, and landed on my bottom. The tree missed me by inches. If I had stayed standing where I originally was, that tree would have gone through me!
Around town roofs were ripped off buildings by the downburst, and trees were embedded in walls.
But oh, my goodness, that storm was beautiful!
tblue37
(65,592 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,402 posts)It was outside of Elizabeth, Colorado many years ago. The weather was very unstable which is good for thermals and we had gained a lot of altitude when suddenly, it was almost like someone took a flyswatter and tried to swat us out of the sky, we encountered a micro-burst. I can't remember how much altitude we lost in what seemed like a split second; it was impressive. Nothing to do but let go of the controls. Of course we recovered, but had we been closer to the ground we probably wouldn't have survived. Just a freak thing.
tblue37
(65,592 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,939 posts)is one of the most gorgeous things I've ever seen!
I've never slept through a tornado, but I did once sleep through an earthquake.
tblue37
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