Posted on 05/01/2024 10:38:22 AM PDT by Paul R.
Theologically there’s moral, natural and supernatural evil.
These guys really got off on watching that thing. Tornadophilia.
No cow!?
“No cow!?”
An elderly woman told us this story one Fourth of July and I suppose it was a tornado. This must have happened in Arkansas in the 1890s. A farmer was sitting on his front porch when a horse set down gently in his front yard.
He put ads in the paper far and wide wanting to return it to its owner. No one ever came for it.
The story that horse could have told.
It’s an amazing video capture, but the ‘narrator’ is a flipping idiot, IMO.
Lived in WA when St Helens erupted. I am perfectly OK with never being close to an active volcano again ... and I was 80 miles away. We lived with that mess for years. There were a couple inches of ash at my place. Short term we had to wear masks (think COVID) as a minimum, and was not uncommon to see full face filtration masks. Years later, driving down the road would still kick up dust clouds of ash. Ripped up engines (ash is extremely abrasive to the innards of an engine).
Lived in Colorado just outside of Weld County (tornado capital of the earth). Watched plenty. One time flying out of Stapleton, there was a cloud to cloud tornado that formed about 2 miles to our right. A bit unsettling.
Also in Colorado for what was considered at the time the worst hailstorm in American history. Cars left outside looked like golf balls and cedar shake roofs were reduced to kindling. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/historic-denver-hailstorm-was-called-worst-in-american-history/
Also lived thru several big earthquakes in Seattle.
Earthquakes, over 7 would be the worst, simply because they occur more frequently than volcano’s, and the way the scale works, every single digit increase represents a 10x increase in intensity. You do the math. You honestly question if you will be alive in 30 seconds.
That said, I would expect 95% of the population of the Seattle area to perish if Mount Rainier ever blew, and it would not be a pretty nor fast death. Both are essentially unavoidable. With the Volcano, not only would you have the choking ash, but lahars (pyroclastic mud flows up to 100 ft high traveling at 60 mph) coming down every river bed. Tacoma, Puyallup, Sumner, Olympia ... would simply cease to exist. Rescue operations via air would not be possible. Nothing can fly in an ash cloud for more than a minute or two, but it would not matter because everything they would be looking for would be under 10 - 20 ft of boiling mud. Once it cools it is essentially concrete. In more positive news, at least the ash cloud would prevent you from seeing your approaching death.
Tornados are avoidable however. Nobody with 2 functioning synapses should ever get caught or killed in a Tornado. Usually the same goes for hail, but the 1990 storm was so freaking fast that people were caught on the Gondoloa ride at Elitch Gardens and it was sunny when they boarded.
Watched it yesterday...pretty amazing rope twist’ah
Wichita Falls. The mall still bears the scars in the brick walls.
How does a tornado start? does a low-Pressure in the sky suck up air from the ground? And start turning when they have to go around a fixed object on the ground plane? Is it like a big vacuum=-cleaner in the sky?
Don't know what that meant but I had them frequently......
Look at these photos of tornado damage.
A bicycle is embedded on the 2nd story in the side of a home
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/7808720/US-midwest-storms-tornadoes-hit-Ohio-and-Michigan-leaving-at-least-seven-people-dead.html
A truck wrapped around a telephone pole.
https://nesec.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/tornado_truck.jpeg
I live across the river from Omaha and looked out our window and saw my first tornado. From the time I saw it to videoing it was probably 10-15 seconds and in that time, it went from a thick based tornado to a thin based like in the video. Crazy stuff.
Sounds like you're lucky. The opposite can happen, too. There are a lot of vids on this tornado, one of them shows a cow who was striped down to the bone.
Bad stuff. I’ve seen it man. Seen it.
Saw a bovine half stripped and in a tree once.i think it was a cow.
That was Canton. Canton got nailed!
Cow in the tree story is true.
The Tri-State tornado of 1925 would have to get the title of worst in recorded history of the USA...
Tornadoes are not your friend.
Neither are skunks. Are they evil?
Skunks try to get away from you, Tornadoes do not.
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