Tornado up close and scary personal |
The raw footage of this tornado is incredible, but it’s foolish taunting mother nature. These guys are damn lucky the tornado didn’t violently change paths and turn their truck and flesh into swiss cheese.
I remember the tornado warnings when I lived in Wisconsin. It was well understood that when the tornadoes came, you went to the basement. Never actually saw one, other than on TV of course, but there’s no way I’d want to be anywhere near something like this. Tornados have been known to throw wheat through telephone poles, I hope those guys in the video were wearing kevlar (didn’t look that way).
We’re not in Kansas, Toto.
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Wheat through telephones poles? Seems unlikely given newton’s 2nd law - F=m*a. They already showed on Mythbusters that even a penny shot from a rifle can only hurt you so much.
Comment by Christophe Tardif — May 8, 2007 @ 1:24 pm PST
Hi Christophe - another friend of mine mentioned mythbusters debunking wheat through telephone poles. I’ll ask you the same thing I asked him: do you have a link to that episode? I’d like to update with a link to it, if possible.
Comment by TDavid — May 8, 2007 @ 1:30 pm PST
Not exactly wheat per se, but a penny should have a faster terminal velocity than wheat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(season_1)#Penny_Drop
and you have an excerpt from the episode here, http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZQK-jny3WNM , if you can tolerate the kid speaking at the start of the video.
Comment by Christophe Tardif — May 8, 2007 @ 4:08 pm PST
Great, the filtering system caught wikipedia.
Comment by Christophe Tardif — May 8, 2007 @ 4:08 pm PST
Thanks Christophe, but not quite what I was hoping for. If you find something that specifically refutes the wheat through telephone poles let me know (maybe snopes?).
Also, Wikipedia wasn’t the problem, it was you inserting more than one link in your comment (anti-spam measure). I’ve edited out the link in #4 for redundancy. For future reference, remove the http part in the beginning and that will get around that.
Comment by TDavid — May 8, 2007 @ 8:22 pm PST
I bet an an F5 tornado could do the kind of damage described:
Florida has never had an F5 tornado, although they have had some F4 ones.
Comment by TDavid — May 8, 2007 @ 8:36 pm PST
Some really good footage of the 5/5/07 tornado in from Stafford County, KS (via tornadovideos.net)
Comment by Lestat — May 9, 2007 @ 10:05 am PST
Here is an Australian tornado just for your interest that was spawned October 26 2007:
http://www.australiasevereweather.com/tornadoes_australia.htm
Regards,
Jimmy Deguara
Comment by Jimmy Deguara — June 5, 2008 @ 1:29 am PST