Tornado! Now with pics

[HAZZARDJOHN]

people know that the particular area gets hit hard, why do they still live there? I think its time to move on.

That might be the single most ignorant thing I have ever read on here.  My family is From that area going back over 100 Years and not once have they been hit with a tornado. The odds of getting hit this hard are minimal, but it does happen. Where do you live that you think you can escape mother nature's Wrath? It's not comparable to building a million dollar home in a Flood plane, or since the Katrina bubbles already been popped, building your city in a soup bowl surrounded by water.

~HJ

[Silver R/T]

where I live climate is very good, we don't get hit hard with anything at all.
In the past 10 years I lived here only had one minor earthquake that most people wouldn't even know about unless they talked about it on the news.

[Mean 318]

Well good for you!

[69bronzeT5]

building your city in a soup bowl surrounded by water.

Is it just me or why can I see Silver try to attempt that?

[Bandit72]

those grain bin pictures remind me of a few years ago where a tornado caught the corner of a town near me (no residential property was hurt) but those big bins are actually "sucked in" like that...due to major pressure changes really quick....pretty interesting i thought

[RECHRGD]

where I live climate is very good, we don't get hit hard with anything at all.
In the past 10 years I lived here only had one minor earthquake that most people wouldn't even know about unless they talked about it on the news.

Silver--You must have just missed the ICE STORM about 10 or 11 years ago.  I was without power for 17 days in the middle of winter and lost about 20% of the marketable timber on my property.  People in town had trees coming down on their houses.  You can't avoid Mother Nature.  BTW, I just learned last week that a guy I worked with grew up in that town and still has family back there.  They received substantial damage, but no injurys.  Bob

[Todd Wilson]

those grain bin pictures remind me of a few years ago where a tornado caught the corner of a town near me (no residential property was hurt) but those big bins are actually "sucked in" like that...due to major pressure changes really quick....pretty interesting i thought

You are right! Things implode not explode during a twister. In my buddys house you could hear the roar start and the air pressure change pickup. Like being in an airplane on take off but times 100. Gets to where your ears hurt and you think maybe something is gonna pop and the KABANG! The house lets go and all hell breaks loose inside the house. Everything implodes and then after that its noise and shake and stuff flying around hitting things inside and outside and then the roar leaves and its overwith all in about 20 seconds.


Todd

[Steve P.]

If there is anything good about this, at least most everything is where it started off.  A few years ago when we got pounded by hurricane after hurricane you could not tell where anything started, belonged or ended. It was total devastation for miles and miles.. Much of the worst hit area is still not rebuilt. Much like the Katrina hit areas.

You never want to piss off your mother or MOTHER NATURE... 

[Todd Wilson]

Its gonna be a long night. Its 2:40am. At 2:30am I was just awaken to the loud crash of thunder as a storm starts to roll through. After the loud thunder I lay in bed half asleep and suddenly I hear it. The sirens are going off! I am out of bed like a shot and after a few minutes the sirens go off. I guess they malfunctioned due to the lightning.Everyone is back to sleep and I am awake and ready for the next ass whoopin from mother nature! The small storm has about passed!



Todd

[hemi68charger]

Dang,, that's some serious damage !!!!!