Tornado rips away security cam

[Petra]

I've never actually been in a tornado. I saw many a funnel cloud when I was in Florida and I think it was Hurricane Wilma where I was called into work and there were two big looming tornadoes on either side of the highway (probably about 20 miles off either side). But never been in one...

Nature is kinda scary...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bec_1385060419#1YBAHFRLLiukBzOW.99

 

[CrimsonBolt]

don't worry, hurricane will never take the cthulhu

he's smell too much!

 

[Vanilla Bear]

Was there a house flying by? :eek:

 

[Petra]

Was there a house flying by? :eek:

House of cards!

I've been through a lot of hurricanes my 5 years in Florida, one even a category 5 (pretty terrifying) and that was the one where I had the tornadoes on either side of the road. However, I've never been able to see things get destroyed quite like that because I was always evacuated to a juvenile prison (concrete walls, couldn't be much of a safer place in the county) with all the kids. Probably the worst I saw was our basket ball get blown into the razor wire.

So it's pretty impressive.

 

[Petra]

don't worry, hurricane will never take the cthulhu

he's smell too much!

Unfortunately, a hurricane DID take my turtles once. ;-\ I had 3 little turtles out on my balcony and when we got evacuated I was at work. Because I was on the clock and couldn't leave, and my roommate worked at the juvenile program too, there wasn't anyone to take the poor things in.

I imagine they got blown to the big lake in the middle of florida and grew into huge turtles. ;-)

 

[gunslingingbird]

I don't know about tornadoes, but there's a wind advisory in effect until 10 tomorrow morning for several counties. I was driving through Oakland on my way home a few minutes ago, and there were all sorts of downed trees, road signs, garbage cans, hell, there was even a smashed store sign in the middle of an intersection. Crazy.

 

[squallumz]

its raining here. i fucking love the rain.

 

[klies13]

I imagine they got blown to the big lake in the middle of florida and grew into huge turtles. ;-)

or died.

 

[BlkHawk]

That was impressive. Iowa gets a few every year, I have never been directly in one. The closest I came was maybe half a mile while on a road trip. I was driving in a storm and saw the thing form in the distance, I ended up crawling into a ditch until it passed.

 

[Ace Bandage]

Last Sunday, the tornado leveled a manufacturing facility that's about a half mile from my house. It also destroyed my old middle school's gymnasium. That was the first time I've every actually taken shelter during a storm. It was a little scary...

 

[Anonyne#017]

That's some mother natura playing a magician... Now you can see, now you...

The biggest storms around here have only made some trees fall I think, but I've never been outside or close at those times. When I was kid there was sometimes winds so strong that when I did lay my body against the wind, it wasn't strong enough to hold my weight anyway...

 

[lurkingdirk]

Sunday I drove through Kokomo about 30 minutes after the tornadoes hit it. It as terrifying. I had to sit on the street, locked in traffic, while they used bulldozers to clear houses off the road. The place is devastated.

Natural forces are scarey as heck.

 

[lurkingdirk]

Related, and will hit you right in the feels.

http://weruletheinternet.com/2013/11/20/man-finds-his-dog-in-rubble-of-illinois-tornado/

 

[Vanilla Bear]

Unfortunately, a hurricane DID take my turtles once. ;-\ I had 3 little turtles out on my balcony and when we got evacuated I was at work. Because I was on the clock and couldn't leave, and my roommate worked at the juvenile program too, there wasn't anyone to take the poor things in.

I imagine they got blown to the big lake in the middle of florida and grew into huge turtles. ;-)

Aww man this is a fucking sad story!

Related, and will hit you right in the feels.

http://weruletheinternet.com/2013/11/20/man-finds-his-dog-in-rubble-of-illinois-tornado/

And that is fucking awesome!

House of cards!

I've been through a lot of hurricanes my 5 years in Florida, one even a category 5 (pretty terrifying) and that was the one where I had the tornadoes on either side of the road. However, I've never been able to see things get destroyed quite like that because I was always evacuated to a juvenile prison (concrete walls, couldn't be much of a safer place in the county) with all the kids. Probably the worst I saw was our basket ball get blown into the razor wire.

So it's pretty impressive.

I never understood why the Americans build most of their houses in those storm areas of wood anyway. I mean sure it's cheap, but then it's no wonder it can get destroyed so easy. Why don't you build more solid like other people? Yes brick houses or houses built with concrete will get damaged during such a storm, too, but I doubt they will get completely destroyed like those kind of houses over there. :dunno:

 

[gunslingingbird]

There are no such things as tornadoes in the Midwest; Chuck Norris just hates trailer parks.

 

[himperv203]

pretty scary

 

[Petra]

I never understood why the Americans build most of their houses in those storm areas of wood anyway. I mean sure it's cheap, but then it's no wonder it can get destroyed so easy. Why don't you build more solid like other people? Yes brick houses or houses built with concrete will get damaged during such a storm, too, but I doubt they will get completely destroyed like those kind of houses over there. :dunno:

I have no fucking idea...I grew up in the northwest US where there were brush fires and severe sand storms, but no hurricanes or tornadoes (though we'd seen many a funnel cloud over the years). So when I went to Florida to work, it amazed me year after year that people actually bought and built houses there. AND that all the power lines were ABOVE ground.

When I left in 2005 for the Netherlands, the newly built gated communities were putting their power lines underground. I can still remember Wilma in 2005 when I was living in North Palm Beach. The condo where I rented a room wasn't on any essential power grid so we sat there, in the dark for 2 weeks. It was weird to see lights in the houses at the nearby gated communities since they never went out. ;-\ Then we got to watch people's lights come on around us that were on the grid for the fire department, police, hospital, etc...

It sucked. I tend to miss Florida a little bit this time a year since it's fucking 4 out and I'm freezing. But then I remember the bugs, the humidity, and the time after the hurricanes where the humidity triples and there's no air conditioning.

 

[Vanilla Bear]

AND that all the power lines were ABOVE ground.

Haha yeah that's another point. This is ridiculous for a high developed country like the U.S. This is so 19th century. The whole electricity system is rather poor over there anyway. So many power outages. Doesn't happen over here. Okay Germany and (Western) Europe have the best system in the world. Even when something happens there are still bypasses. So you can't compare the systems in Europe and the U.S. with eachother, but as you say why don't they at least put the lines underground? Still the system isn't great, but this would be a lot safer already.

 

[bobjustbob]

A buddy of mine owns a vacation house on the North Carolina coast with some other couples. This area is constantly being hit with hurricanes. The thinking down there is if the house gets wiped away, insurance will just build another new house for you. No big deal.

 

[squallumz]

i've been tossing around the idea to move to a lighter part of tornado alley in a pretty serious light. i wonder how spooky it really is.