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To: Alas Babylon!

I guess that’s one on the ground, the freight train sound. The outside of my house was plastered with oak leaves afterwards, small branches too, to the point that it was morning before I even realized the noise was from the oak coming down. The buzzing could have been the funnel hitting the leaves maybe? Always wondered about that, can’t say I’ve heard anyone else describe that sort of sound. Had a sort of pitiful thing that I found during cleanup, must’ve been a flock of starlings in that oak, there were several dead ones stuck in the backyard chain link fence. Don’t know if they could have flown into it in a panic and die, or if the force of the wind did it.


20 posted on 04/20/2014 10:43:33 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
" Don’t know if they could have flown into it in a panic and die, or if the force of the wind did it. "

They most likely got caught in the tornado blender.

I would doubt it very much that their little wing muscles could over power the wind force of a tornado.
About a mile away from our house after it came over our house I went and saw some apartment buildings and townhouses and saw 2x4s stuck into plywood sheathing like a bow and arrow would in a sack of potatoes... it took a lot of force to do that... can you imagine what it would do to humans if in the line of fire ?
26 posted on 04/20/2014 11:17:57 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: RegulatorCountry; Alas Babylon!

I heard the train once. When kids our dad was a conductor and we lived near a train station so would go sit and count the cars so I am quite familiar with the sound.

Was fifteen, camping in a tent with my younger brothers and sisters. No radio. I hardly ever get sick but woke up sick. My mom had the tent light on and a storm was coming through. As the wind picked up I just started praying. I heard the train. We were in a Wildwood NJ campground, so it was probably mostly pines. After the sound dissipated and the storm just settled to wind and rain, we all fell asleep. Next morning on the way to the beach outside the camp parallel to the road was the path of the twister. It lifted at the camp ground. No injuries. Lived in MO for 13 years and really don’t miss the twisters but do miss the thunderheads.


28 posted on 04/20/2014 11:22:02 AM PDT by huldah1776
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