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To: chessplayer

You can tell an F5, even the grass gets sucked up. Learned that a the ‘97 Jerrell Tx tornado....


30 posted on 05/20/2013 6:41:27 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

One of the many things my grandfather said about the F5 Tri-State Tornado was that blades of grass and pieces of straw were driven deep into tree trunks like nails. I’ve got dozens of old photos of the devastation from the communities in Southern Illinois. If I told someone they were pictures of Hiroshima or Nagasaki they would believe me.


35 posted on 05/20/2013 6:50:47 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: central_va

“You can tell an F5, even the grass gets sucked up. Learned that a the ‘97 Jerrell Tx tornado....”

Grass gets scoured in F-3 F-4 tornadoes. F-5’s scour asphalt and concrete. The Jarrell tornado did that. People in basements without concrete roofs were killed in Jerrell


53 posted on 05/20/2013 7:18:55 PM PDT by Figment
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To: central_va

Yep.... only at math challenged MSNBC would an EF4 be > than an EF5. Pukes will do anything for ratings.


66 posted on 05/20/2013 7:57:34 PM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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