>there hasn't been an F5 tornado confirmed anywhere in the world in 10 years
How long is this going to keep up?
>there hasn't been an F5 tornado confirmed anywhere in the world in 10 years
>there hasn't been an F5 tornado confirmed anywhere in the world in 10 years
How long is this going to keep up?
woooooo
IME, alt + F4 is infinitely far more destructive than alt + F5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_Kentucky_tornado
EF rating and incompetent "scientists" wont rate anything a 5 at this point
Was this the same outbreak where a bunch of Amazon workers died in a warehouse because they weren't allowed to go home?
yes
any footage from in the eye of a tornado? the thought of being caught in one or being inside is terrifying, all that noise
Videos of Reed Trimmer and the crew from Storm Chasers and Tornado Chasers from the late 2000s and early 2010s getting nearly inside.
Theres some decent CCTV footage on Youtube from supermarkets and places like that
link some
I remember seeing a sea-nado when I was a kid at the beach, it spooked the shit out of me. I literally saw it come down from the heavens into the sea and I thought it was the end of the world ( I was like 8)
>there hasn't been an F5 tornado confirmed anywhere in the world in 10 years
When was the last time an F5 hit anywhere OTHER than America?
According to wikipedia
Palluel France in 1967
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Justo_tornado
Only confirmed F5 in the southern hemisphere
>goes through the middle of a town
>only does $60k damage
Lol it would do that much from one house in the US
neat
Cyclone storm weather thread. Yes.
I live in a rather safe from most natural weather disaster risks. Suppose flooding and freezing hail is the worst but nothing that'd fuck a whole house up.
Tornado are spooky, but at the same time even in tornado alley you've got to think about the numbers. Of how much space there is and how big even a big one is. You've got more bees around you at any given time, and when was the last time you got stung?
Why does nature even exist?
Think of it as all the energy in the atmosphere condensing in one spot like a laser bean of wind.
to erase abominations like you so universal love can thrive without disruption u dumb
ungrateful troglodyte moron
the universe hates life
it doesn't want universal love
it doesn't want any emotion
all of entropy tends towards ending all life processes.
if god is real and created this world, he created earth in his image, but life was a mistake, and he's working to exterminate it gracefully. god is actually a giant stone marble with a magma core and some cool chemical substances adhering to and floating around him. he considers lifeforms parasites and cyanobacteria was what first made him start working to wipe it out so it would never arise again.
entropy tends towards the dissipation of all matter until nothing exists, which leads to the idea circumstances for another big bang. id bet my rib that its all cyclical.
just because it tends towards nothing doesnt mean the nothing is final.
The universe created life and we get to enjoy it in the safety of our atmosphere bubble planet
>safety
Our lives are built upon death, we are surrounded by the death of life and it is only that eternity of death the allows us to be for a insignificant fraction of time. we have but a tiny envelope of existence that doesn’t even compare to a miniscule fraction of the infinitely tiny sliver of habitability that gave rise to the tragedy of nature. We either wait to die realising the mistakes we made or have our life taken, or take it ourself, before we get a chance to decide, no, this isn’t the universe where perception is valued above darkness, we are but a lost traveller that has been unfortunate to find themselves under a sliver of a beacon in a sea of shining perterberence.
i'm a cityslicker, nature barely does shit shit to people like me unless i drive over an ice patch
it only wipes out ruralfags closer to nature than i am
9years ago
>measured winds well into the EF5 range (upwards of 296mph)
>officially be rated EF3 based on inflicted damage only
How is this allowed?
Because windspeed is only half of the equation when rating it.
The Enhanced Fujita scale assigns the tornado a value based on wind speed, and the damage it leaves behind.
Worst moment of my life to be honest. Never thought being kicked out would lead to I and my family experiencing the 2016 F4 Abilene tornado when they were visiting.
>Got kicked out at 18 for being a neckbeard in 2008.
>I was doing pretty nasty stuff, I don't blame them.
>Almost sold pictures of relatives panties online.
>Left porn open on my PC.
>Other weird shit I'm not proud of.
>Heard my sisters boyfriend discussing with my parents about marriage in the other room.
>Conversation shifted over to me. >Basically got called a waste of time and recourses.
>Discussion about kicking me out, and my sister and her boyfriend can have my room.
>Went into a rage and confronted them.
>Turned into a physical fight after my mom pretty much said she wish she never had me.
>Got thrown to the ground and got knocked out.
>Found myself at a homeless shelter.
>Attempted to call my parents to get back home.
>Numbers had been changed.
>Walked across town at dusk and finally got home.
>Knocked, and moments later the police arrived.
>Got dragged away as they looked through the windows.
>Got dropped off at a homeless shelter a town over.
>Got told to leave them alone else my ass is going to jail.
>Left San Diego months later because California's economy is shit.
>With the economic state California's in I legitimately could not find a job.
Cont.
>FF to May 2016 after being homeless for several years.
>Went through temp service, after temp service.
>Finally got an ok job, and Got my GED.
>Never got a High School Diploma because I got kicked out prior to graduation.
>Saved enough up to decide where I'd like to settle.
>Settled in Abilene, Kansas in June of 2011.
>Finally got a successful job.
>Do hobby farming on the side.
>Kept my old phone Incase they'd ever call me to check up on me.
>Phone began dying because it's age.
>Replaced part after part to keep it alive.
>Nearly threw it away because I began giving up.
>Got a call one day and answered.
>After 7 years my parents finally called.
>Had a two hour long discussion on speaker phone.
>Exchanged addresses
>Phone was hooked up because it would die almost instantly.
>Never had physical contact, until May, 2016.
>My family visited for a week.
>Sister came along while her husband took care of her daughter.
>4 days later on May 25th, 2016 an F4 ripped through nearby.
>My home was severely damaged.
>Almost lost everything, all there was window, siding, and severe roofing damage.
>Mom, dad and my sister tried saying this is the worst thing to happen to me, because my house was nearly destroyed.
>Kept going on for hours.
>Finally said "Yeah, but it won't be as bad as when you told me I was a waste of time."
>Utter silence.
>They looked down in shame.
>Still talk.
Still to this day that comment pisses me off.
to be fair selling family pics on the internet is pretty appalling my dude
…ouch
Twister 2
Why the fuck would you decide to patch things up with your parents instead of just completely starting over?
Even though they contacted me first, I personally just wanted to see how everyone was doing. At the time I didn't have a reliable vehicle to go back to California, or even their phone numbers to say hi. I was alone in the dark if I tried to find them, and already thought they'd have moved to avoid me, so I was gearing up to toss my phone out and just give up and start anew. They were able to contact me because my sister was cleaning out storage and found her old IPhone 2, which had my number. Another reason they contacted me was that dad had contracted some type of "life-threatening" cyst and thought it'd be best to let me know. I decided to mend our relationship because I thought I'd be an asshole just telling them that It sounds like their problem if he dies.
I had later found out that the cyst had developed because he didn't go to the doctor to get it checked. He was in the hospital for weeks getting pumped full of medicine because he had waited to the last second to go to the hospital. Because of this, he almost died.
>Got kicked out at 18 for being a neckbeard in 2008.
>my mom pretty much said she wish she never had me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Super_Outbreak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Super_Outbreak
Good read.
indeed fut I hate how the average american names things, specially the media
>super outbreak
>super packs
>super travelers
>super carrier
>super bowl
>super bug
Very petty thing to bitch about, but it gets annoying after noticing it
there is ZERO EVIDENCE that tornadoes are real, grow up
Don't live where tornadoes are. Simple as.
Antarctica is the only place on Earth that has never had a confirmed tornado. Something tells me you won't be too enthusiastic to live there.
You know full damn well there are places with far greater frequencies than others, you knew what I meant
>Tornadoes are fine pussy your house is just made of cardbo-
yeah it's gonna be made out of cardboard if this happens one more time unless you have millions of dollars set aside for repairs that could be required more than twice a year.
at some point you're going to have to either live underground or make your house out of bamboo poles and paper so it's cheaper to replace when the inevitable happens
Even strong af concrete commieblock type buildings won't be that safe as soon as the windows blow out.
Conclusion: We shouldn't live in houses anymore. We should live in the dirt or in caves like our ancestors did.
No, we should live undergr-
ah nevermind.
>Americans expect to lose their house and any worldly possession every six months
nah, even if you live in one of the tornado alleys you're still highly unlikely to ever get a direct hit from a tornado, then you factor in that the majority of tornadoes(60-70%) are F0 or F1s which will not generally destroy a house, at worst you have some minor damage(blown out windows or roof damage) that insurance will take care of. You usually don't start seeing major structural damage until the higher end F2 tornadoes or even low end F3s
>live underground
why not?
big multistory basements everywhere
>why not?
Radon
Imagine a super tornado combined with the poisonous cloud they've created over Ohio. Could be kino of the highest grade. Too bad Ohio not prime tornado country.
Looks like we know what the next SyFy film is gonna be about.
Is is true that developers are the reason Tornado-Americans all live in generic wooden houses instead of something designed to survive a 'nado?
>inb4: Bruh, is so easy to rebuild them
how to you build a tornado resistant house? A f5 can rip a concrete building apart and bend the rebar and steal beams.
You can't, not cheaply anyways.
Few decades ago in my state they recommended really long ceiling bolts or something (can't remember exactly) during house construction and all it did was make sure the wall got more damage when the roof started to take off.
go hobbitmode and build it into the side of a hill
Build underground like some aussies do in order to escape the heat
Make the raised part of the house look like a hill
Anything that shows people learn from their mistakes
Building underground is horrendously expensive if you want your house to last at all. Basements and foundations are the most problematic parts of homes.
Yes, building a tornado-proof house is expensive, thanks for paying attention.
I think it was the Jerel Texas storm that dug 2 feet into the ground, the amount of energy that requires to overcome that kind of surface friction is insane. I don't think a house as we know it can survive a direct hit from a f5
In Hackleburg Alabama the tornado stripped the pavement off the road and even ripped an underground concrete bunker out of the ground.
I think the Smithville EF5 tornado was the most violent. It obliterated large well-built brick homes so violently that their slabs shattered and tiles were scoured and plumbing was shredded. It also obliterated a large well-built funeral home so violently that brick left power behind on the slab.
>inb4: Bruh, is so easy to rebuild them
I have an alternative plan which no one has ever heard off. Stop building large metropolitan areas in places where the fucking environment has a habit of annihilating them. Stop building on flood plains next to rivers. Stop building major cities on Earthquake fault lines and stop putting ships in areas with high erosion. It really isn't that difficult.
where should we put the cities then?
you have to realize everything in america is built as cheap as possible, as fast as possible. there's no pride taken in works here, developers just churn through lots. and people eat it up because they want a place to call their own. who cares if the concrete foundation starts cracking 3 years in, the developers will be long gone by then. also the average american moves like an average of 4 times in their lives. people are constantly moving
>this confuses the american cardboard house dweller
After frequently repairing damage like that, they ran out of money and had to start building cardboard homes. It's a sad state of affairs.
Czech
That's an absolutely piss weak tornado and still you can see debris floating around from fucked up houses.
This is an F1 at best, probably F0
F5 tornadoes can even rip concrete foundations out of the ground.
I think that storm surveys need to be standardized because it seems that some NWS offices are more willing to rate tornadoes that have done violent damage EF4 or EF5 while others seem to not be as willing like nitpicking a house clearly destroyed at EF5 intensity and swept clean as having been hit by debris that weakened it and other bullshit like that.
I really want to see a tornado live, where do I go on vacation and at what time of the year to see one more or less reliably? Is it anywhere reliable?
How difficult would it generally be to get in touch with something like stormchasers to tag along so I can take photos?
Idk but if you visit the great plains in the summer you'll see some kick ass storms
Nah. Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia are the new Tornado Alley because more and more tornadoes touch down there while Oklahoma and Kansas are seeing fewer tornadoes. Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio would also be in this new Tornado Alley,
Oklahoma, in April and May.
God I miss living in Tulsa and hearing sirens every week or so. Oklahoma is storm-buff heaven.
Indoor noises are fucking creepy of those shits.
The ear deafening HOWLING of the wind through the shelter/basement doors is like the damn thing calling for those people to get sucked in voluntarily
>come on, resistance is futile anyways! just let go already....
>there hasn't been an F5 tornado confirmed anywhere in the world in 10 years
You're welcome by the way
climate change took this from us, do you still think throwing car batteries in the sea doesn't harm anyone? think again.
>thanks for my adrenaline shot for the day bro! hope all those houses were tasty.
Tornado chasing seems like hunting demons in 40k
You read the signs and probably rules for behavior and formation as a skyscraper sized demon forms out of the energy. Maybe it shows up or maybe it doesn’t and maybe it follows the rules or maybe it wrecks your shit
i hate wiggers
Maybe we just build better.
I think everybody should get a steel-reinforced and anchored bunker too.
Sometimes even that isn’t enough.
lol most houses are being built cheaper then ever
What kind of world are we leaving to our children where they won't be able to observe these gentle giants first hand?
I used to think a scary tornado looked like OP pic
Now I know that scary tornadoes look like picrel
Wtf do you even do if you see that ?
if you live in a place where those happen you have a storm cellar
This of course:
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>Motorists enraptured by spinning dust
>Ja, das ist eine gut place to park
Tornadoes are far from the worst Wauf way to die, like you probably just get flung somewhere and die instantly, right? Yet they're so primally terrifying to me.
You could get some object hit you at high speed or you could hit an object at high speed. Imagine a large piece of wood as thicker than your thigh penetrate you through your balls like if there were a pussy there all the way to your side. The wood block the arteries so you won't die from blood loss leaving you there immobilized by the wounds, pain and weight of the piece of wood. Probably still better than being eaten alive by a bear... or maybe not, with the bear you expect to die sooner or later but with the wood you could stay like that for a long time.
Just go in the basement and you're fine. Tornados are pussy storms, floods are the real shit.
Tornados are extremely destructive to the places they directly hit, I wouldn't call them pussy storms
>go to basement
Already there, anon.
You could get impaled by wood in 100 different places or have your skin sandblasted off.
Or just get ground down into nothing like victims of the 1997 Jarrell tornado. An F5 that moved at a walking pace, acting like a giant blender, people had to be identified via fingers and dental records.
God damn
>people had to be identified via fingers and dental records.
FUCK
hot
My school actually got a bunch of kids from Jarrell after that happened. They said there was just nothing left of the place and as I got older I assumed that was just an exaggeration.. But no that entire town was wiped off the map. As in "buildings had their foundations ripped out". There were spots that had their relative height to sea level re-measured because the tornado had ripped the fucking dirt up down to the limestone.
Jarrell wasn't a really big town. There were like 30 people living there at most.
This threads all fucked up.
You're thinking of the subdivision (Double Creek) that got hit. A specific subdivision in a specific corner of the town got completely leveled, that's where the 27 people died and only 2 families lived by using ones underground shelter.
The actual full town itself had a population of around 410 in 1997. They also started trying to rebuild right away, and are at 2000 something now.
At that point it’s not really the wind doing the damage, it’s more like being blasted by a huge pressure wave from a bomb with shrapnel, except instead of only being exposed to the initial blast of shrapnel, you get pelted again and again, shards of your own bones eventually puncturing and fracturing the skeleton they originated from into further tiny fragments of tiny skeletons that further fragment into tiny dust skeletons until there is nothing of you but a thousand tiny windsocks of skelebones
youve never been hit by a roofing tile slung at high speeds
or even something pine needles/cones
dont even think about shit like nails, gravel, screws, glass etc
They can also theoretically suffocate you through negative air pressure
And thats before you know, picking you up and slamming you into everything else in your vicinity in a whirl and death via blunt force trauma or throws you at the ground
When i was a kid, about five, I went out after a tornado and saw some guy nailed to my house by his leg via a wooden plank screaming in agony. He ended up dying.
And then everyone spanked
Yeah, no. But here's a (You) for the creativity of this fanfic you imagined in your head, though!
if your going to lie at least be realistic, there is no way someone could have been plastered onto your house but a. your house was fine and b. you were fine enough to casually walk out of the house to see him
You must be fun at parties
People say this all the time like it's a putdown but it just outs you as a NPC twitteroid
Euromoron cope
The czech tornado left tiles stuck in walls so I believe it.
almost as believable as those holocaust stories.
>things that totally happened
Only gays tell lies on a Burmese basketweaving forum
I saw one as well. You could tell whether a man or woman, white or black, fat or skinny, had been sucked up by the colour of the smoke.
Beyond getting impaled the far more likely scenario is you take shelter and then get stuck/buried in there and slowly die of shock or thirst or possibly drowning if there's damage to plumbing, waiting for rescue that doesn't know you're there. Or just crushed by the house you're in.
Then again that's a likely scenario in pretty much any natural disaster.
Imagine flying through the air being mangled by extremely forceful winds, while being shredded with flying metal and wood. Only before being thrown onto most likely concrete or more broken metal and wood and possibly surviving that to lay there and bleed out or experience organ failure.
This, you want to be a gay and die of wind? Be my gust.
🙂 fuck you
Ah you're all hot air. A real blowhard.
there was this one time an F4 tornado hit the dragon dildo factory turning them into fully semiautomatic high velocity missiles. millions died
just stand in the center of the hurricane's eye, bro
I can only imagine what Native Americans first did when they witnessed one.
>be native tribesmen
>recently settled into these great, flat plains with the rest of the tribe
>found lots of nice plants and other forage in these lands
>dads out hunting right now with the rest of his group
>children are running around camp
>pretty cloudy day at the moment, sun hasn’t been visible for a couple hours
>be at our teepee with mom trying to prepare it for the coming rain
>a strong wind blows away some of our resources, but i catch them before they can fly off
>it begins to lightly rain
>after we finish, mom starts chopping some vegetables to put in a stew
>i start sharpening the spear dad made for me so i can hunt with him tomorrow
>hear a bunch of yelling in the distance
>run over to the center of camp to see what’s going on
>everyone is looking up
>look up too
>massive fucking spiral of wind has appeared and is descending from the sky
>shaman starts running towards it with his staff
>some minutes later we all watch as the spiral now touched down to the ground
>shaman just fucking disappeared
>small silhouette resembling him is then seen flying through the air and hitting the ground
>holy shit
That story could have happened yesterday in Africa
You’re right, although there haven’t been any recorded tornadoes higher than an F1 that have occurred in Africa for around the past 100 years, if not far longer, and the majority of them have caused minor property damage with little fatalities,.
Theres a lot of reasons why they had a culture that lasted around worshiping nature and migration.
even better that hurricanes and tornadoes have been going on for millions of years. Imagine a t-rex vs a tornado or megalodons washing up in storm surge.
Damn, imagine a T. rex getting tossed around and skinned alive by an F5
wtf a thread that isn't about cats or dogs? holy cringe
Until they charge the third bar so they can unleash an F6 tornado.
I want my tax dollars to pull their weight damn it!