Stijn!!

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

We are way down in the number of tornadoes for 2018. No one complains about a tornado drought.

Where are you keeping the flying cows?

[Porsche-poor]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Where are you keeping the flying cows?

next to the BBQ for easy grilling.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

next to the BBQ for easy grilling.

Perfect, as long as they're tied down.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Where are you keeping the flying cows?

Flying cows are just in the movies, like wizard of Oz flying houses. Lots of livestock die in tornadoes, mostly from debris hits.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Flying cows are just in the movies, like wizard of Oz flying houses. Lots of livestock die in tornadoes, mostly from debris hits.

to someone like me who's never seen a tornado, the Wizard of Oz might as well be real

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Perfect, as long as they're tied down.

Hey, that’s MY cow!!!

[GH85Carrera]

My grandparents on both side of the family all lived over 70 years in Oklahoma. Only one of them ever saw a tornado, and it was off in the distance, while they were in Texas. None of them ever had tornado damage. My mom never saw one, and dad saw one in Florida.

I have seen just three, and two of them were at the same time. They were side by side, and just messing up a wheat field, and likely F1 or F0. One was close to my house, and I have a photo from a frame of video the guy across the street shot, of my house and the tornado looks like it is in my back yard, but it was actually 1.5 miles south. I watched it form from a cloud that looked like an upside down Bundt cake pan. The tornado dropped down just a couple of miles south west of us. I listened carefully and could not hear any sound from it at that distance. It went south of us, and tore up the roof of one house, and tossed some cars around in a parking lot of Frontier City amusement park.

I really wish I had taken the photo of my wife. She was sitting in the bathtub, with my autocross helmet on, with her purse and the two dogs in her lap. It was obvious to me it was not really a threat to us unless it took a sharp turn to the north, and it just went east.

There was one that hit two miles north once. It was wrapped in rain. Half the neighborhood was outside looking for it. The local TV helicopters were over us shooting it for TV. We usually have lots of warning for any real threat. It is possible for the little F0 tornadoes to pop up, (or down) and hit a house or two, and then fade away. The tear up siding and mess up the trees, but rarely do any significant damage except to mobile homes.

[Porsche-poor]

well that was fun. the power didn't blink but the internet and network just went off.

[HHI944]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

I hope it’s a good one, Joe. Even if it’s not, take a road trip is always fun.

It looks really clean from the dozen pictures I've seen. He's gonna send more pictures after the 27th.

It's an overall nice looking US market truck that's been converted from gas and automatic to diesel and manual, complete with roof rack and rear door.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

My grandparents on both side of the family all lived over 70 years in Oklahoma. Only one of them ever saw a tornado, and it was off in the distance, while they were in Texas. None of them ever had tornado damage. My mom never saw one, and dad saw one in Florida.

I have seen just three, and two of them were at the same time. They were side by side, and just messing up a wheat field, and likely F1 or F0. One was close to my house, and I have a photo from a frame of video the guy across the street shot, of my house and the tornado looks like it is in my back yard, but it was actually 1.5 miles south. I watched it form from a cloud that looked like an upside down Bundt cake pan. The tornado dropped down just a couple of miles south west of us. I listened carefully and could not hear any sound from it at that distance. It went south of us, and tore up the roof of one house, and tossed some cars around in a parking lot of Frontier City amusement park.

I really wish I had taken the photo of my wife. She was sitting in the bathtub, with my autocross helmet on, with her purse and the two dogs in her lap. It was obvious to me it was not really a threat to us unless it took a sharp turn to the north, and it just went east.

There was one that hit two miles north once. It was wrapped in rain. Half the neighborhood was outside looking for it. The local TV helicopters were over us shooting it for TV. We usually have lots of warning for any real threat. It is possible for the little F0 tornadoes to pop up, (or down) and hit a house or two, and then fade away. The tear up siding and mess up the trees, but rarely do any significant damage except to mobile homes.

You can keep your reality to yourself mister. I'm from California and have formed a idea that you've got tornados on every street corner and cows caught in the high tension power lines. I saw it on the news

In return, you can expect the ground to open up and swallow us Californians in the big one any minute now.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

You can keep your reality to yourself mister. I'm from California and have formed a idea that you've got tornados on every street corner and cows caught in the high tension power lines. I saw it on the news

In return, you can expect the ground to open up and swallow us Californians in the big one any minute now.

Deal.

YEA BUT.... what about the mud slides, fires storms, and traffic jams!

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Flying cows are just in the movies, like wizard of Oz flying houses. Lots of livestock die in tornadoes, mostly from debris hits.

We had a tornado near her back in 1998 and there were flying cows. They were airborne 1/4 to 1/2 mile. Poor things.

In Barneveld they lost the whole town but the water tower was still standing. The wicked witch of the west must have been there because there were women's panty hose sticking out from underneath the water tower.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Deal.

YEA BUT.... what about the mud slides, fires storms, and traffic jams!

OK, you win. This place sux.


But ................
it's 70 degrees outside so it's a comfortable sux.

I know I know but it's all I got.

[sammyg2]

Watched a documentary a week or two back about one of the worst tornado days in history, IIRC it was back in the 70's.
Devastation from tejas to Ohio. Hundreds of the darn things.
It was unbelievable.

[sammyg2]

'The Lost Tapes: Super Tornado Outbreak' on Smithsonian Reminds Us of the Power of Weather

December 9, 2018 | By David Hinckley


Let’s face it, all of us can use a good extreme weather show once in a while.

And if you air it under the aegis of the Smithsonian Channel, it almost sounds, well, educational.

So put aside any reservations about watching a TV show for an adrenalin rush, and dial up The Lost Tapes: Super Tornado Outbreak at 9 p.m. ET Sunday.

As extreme weather shows go, this is industrial grade. The footage of the massive tornadoes that ripped through the heart of the country on April 3, 1974, is stunning and sobering. Even without the deafening winds that accompany tornadoes in real life, it’s clear how terrifying it could be to find yourself anywhere near one of these puppies.

With winds up to 300 miles an hour, moving forward at speeds of 50 or 60 miles an hour, they can be on you before you know it, shattering everything in their path.


One man interviewed in a hospital bed recalls how they heard the tornado warning and didn’t have time to get from their upstairs bedroom to the basement before it was shredding their house.

Like other shows in the Smithsonian Lost Tapes series, which wraps up its current season with this episode, Super Tornado Outbreak relies on vintage film and stills. In this case, that mostly means local TV coverage of the disaster, from stations in Alabama up through Indiana.

It’s a mild distraction to see the clothing and hairstyles of news anchors in 1974, just as the street scenes remind us what big old American cars used to look like.

This is a show driven by its villains, though, and those are the funnel clouds that materialize out of ominous dark masses in the sky.

The show explains that a perfect storm of atmospheric conditions caused tornadoes to explode from Alabama clear up to Michigan, riding a warm air mass from the south that crashed into a turbulent cold air front in the north.

Two or three tornadoes can be a deadly outbreak. In this case, 148 tornadoes broke out over 20 hours, some of them churning through areas that had already been devastated hours earlier. More than a dozen were category F5, the deadliest, packing winds of more than 250 mph.

They pass through an area in minutes, leaving long swaths looking like Hiroshima after the atomic bomb. Everything is leveled. Cars are thrown upside down against buildings. Railroad cars are toppled. Buildings are piles of brick, stone, and wood.

More than 300 people were killed, including two dozen in the tiny town of Brandenburg, Ky. The numbers and the extent of the decimation are close to numbing.

'The Lost Tapes: Super Tornado Outbreak' on Smithsonian Reminds Us of the Power of Weather

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

OK, you win. This place sux.


But ................
it's 70 degrees outside so it's a comfortable sux.

I know I know but it's all I got.

Yeah, it’s horrible here. Everyone...for your own good...stay away!

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Yeah, it’s horrible here. Everyone...for your own good...stay away!

I sure hope yer holding on tight.

[GH85Carrera]

Jim did you sail to Australia?

The biggest, (widest ever) tornado hit not all that far from me. 2.6 miles wide!

https://earthsky.org/earth/el-reno-tornado-on-may-31-now-widest-ever-recorded-in-u-s

At times it was moving across the ground at 120 MPH. It killed a few professional meteorologists and tornado hunters.

The highest recorded wind on the planet ever 301 mph winds in a tornado that struck near Moore, Okla. on May 3, 1999. To measure it, they had to calculate from radar speeds. Since no "recording" was done they usually don't count it as the fastest wind. But 301 is faster than anything else wind wise every.

So we are number one!

Both Moore and El Reno are suburbs of OKC, and the borders of the cities touch and it is hard to know when you go from one cit to the next.

[Porsche-poor]

you can keep those big ones.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

you can keep those big ones.

You're a giver

AFAIC they can keep em all.