His direct YouTube link to his video - Amazing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkWuz-1sb58&feature=feedlik
Holy Moley!
That last 20 seconds are frightening. That tornado looked like the Martians in the War of the Worlds remake coming over the trees!
home viewing bkmk.
Our very own Freeper, kickstart, was stuck in traffic on I91 north as the tornado passed over his truck.
Cracked windshield, a few dents and scratches.
Amazing indeed!
watch at home reminder
I'd have been curdling the air with invective, interspersed with prayers for forgiveness in latin, english and hebrew, and later, changed my pants.
/johnny
I’ll bet Ryan was glad he decided against buying the Smart car.
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You need to have a good lateral view of any tornado; they sometimes have multiple votices rotating about a common center. Also the "wind wall" extends out much farther laterally than is indicted by the "dust pick-up cloud" in the center. While he was focused on the dust/debris pickup, the windwall came in from the left and whacked him...
To get a look at the lateral "reach" of that same tornado, look at this YouTube video of it as it crossed the Connecticut River (and hit two bridges). Notice how it pulls the surface water into itself (starting to form a waterspout) and how far up and down the river it reaches out and disturbs the water as it crosses diagonally. (The video appears to have been made from a "towercam" atop a building high up on the east bank...)
I haven't georeferenced this video to a map, but Donovan was probably somewhere on the far bank of the river somewhere near the bridge on the right in this video. I sure wouldn't have wanted to be on either of those two bridges!!
See what I mean about the danger of developing "tunnel vision" as a tornado is approaching...?
Thank God that he got through it okay. I sure was glad to that small car still there parked on the road, right side up.