Has anyone ever been through a tornado? Tell us about it.?
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been thru two in kansas.pretty scary and tears stuff up.\nenough info?
1027096
I have had 2 that I can think of.. probably more if I put my mind to it.. :)\nI was swimming under a floating raft in a lake and got my foot tangled in the chain underneath that was attached to the anchor that kept it from floating away.. I was pulled out from under it 2 minutes later and woke up to my sister pushing on my chest and some guy I don't know giving me the liplock of life.. I heaved up a whole lot of water.. but here I am :) .. the other one was when I reached into a mailbox in a thunderstorm.. lightning hit the wooden mailbox post and shattered it while my hand was inside. I got a small zap from it and sat or fell onto the sidewalk.. my mother came out screaming saying my hair was steaming :) go figure? I lived.. no worries.. life is full of them.. people are like cats.. just not as lucky.. if only we had 9 lives.. then I could have 6 more near death experiences.. what a thrill that would be :) naw.. I am joking.. it is scary to imagine what not having the luck to walk away from it would mean.
985762
You can make a tornado tube, and this website tells you exactly how to do it:\nhttp://ns.isp.nsc.ru/l24/mamont/climate/tornado.htm
466179
True Story: \n\nI was in the basement f'ing around with a television I got out of a dumpster when I literally electrocuted myself. I fell to the ground and could not move. \n\nI prayed to God that my wife upstairs would come find me. \n\nI heard footsteps upstairs... She was headed to the basement door! I could see her shadow approaching it.\n\nI started to thank God for answering my prayer when my wife said: "No wonder it's so cold up here! Shut the God Damn Door!" and she slammed it shut.\n\nAnd I continued to lay there.
109227
A tornado is basically like a giant vacuum cleaner.  They are frightening and amazing all at the same time!\n\nEverything you ever wanted to know about them can be found in this excellent resource from NOAA.
506547
You can thank the upper-air weather pattern for all the rain. I'm a storm chaser from Texas and these blocked patterns (upper ridge over the Rockies and upper trough over the Atlantic states) spell disaster for us looking for tornadoes across Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. We constantly stay dry, and you guys constantly stay wet. Until the pattern changes to a more traditional West to East flow and can kick these blocked troughs / ridges out of here, we're in for more of the same.
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On May 9, 2003, just a few years after the tornado hit Moore and Oklahoma City, another hit Moore in almost the same path.  The next night, a tornado hit my hometown (Bethany, OK) and ran right by my house.  I was working for a college newspaper and decided to cover the damage that night.  When I left the house and got into my car, I turned towards the tornado and saw it rip through NW OKC.  Something I hope to never see again.
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Increase.  I have seen a tornado up close, like right over head.  It brought in two different winds and they ran around in a circle.  The faster they blew, the stronger the storm.  A hurricane is like a great big whirlwind.  A large amount of the damage attributed to a hurricane is often done by the tornadoes it creates by the unstable air on its edges.  Best advice...Stay out of their way.
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Tornado incarnate intimates that she wrecked havoc where ever she went.  She disrupted things... Out of control.  Tempestous....
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YES, there are, but your biggest concern would still be tornados!  Back in the late summer/early fall of 2000 there was one in Amarillo.  That was the first time I had ever "felt" one.  My brother and I were sitting on the couch and it felt like someone started shaking it!  It was very brief, but everyone in our apt building opened their doors and were asking "did you feel that??  was that a.... NO WAY!"  Since then, there have been smaller ones here and there that are getting a bit of media coverage, like the one in Dumas, but not that entense or frequent.  Now I'm no geologist, but Amarillo DOES sit on top of an underground mountain range, so that might contribute.  The Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, which every school kid is like REQUIRED to go to on at least 3 field trips in their lives, has an exhibit on it.  Pretty interesting.
517589
Yes, we have floods, but I can't think of any tornadoes of any significance, ever. We also have earthquakes.
370262
I heard there was one in the covington/ Abita springs area. Scary weather last night hu ?
220416
I've lived through two blizzards and one hurricane, not, obviously, in the same location. The blizzards occurred while I was living in Buffalo, NY, where I was raised though not born (ironically, I was born in California; and yes, my parents were criminally insane!). The hurricane struck here in Annapolis, MD.\n\nThe first and most notorious was the infamous Blizzard of '77 which struck while I was in grade school. The good part was that my siblings and I were stranded safely at home with neither parent able to make it back for several days. Fun and anarchy defined! We also had one full week off school. Thank you, Jesus!\n\nThe bad part was that 29 people died amidst sub-freezing temperatures, 70 mph sustained winds (not gusts, kids) and snow drifts as high as 30 feet (not inches, kids). In short, it was an event. Alas, it also established Buffalo's (mostly) undeserved national reputation as a frozen wasteland and made it fodder for (lame-ass) weather jokes to the present day. My response? Buffalonians are survivors, folks! We're made of far sterner stuff than most of the rest of you and we never hesitate to help people in need. If I had a dollar for every time I shoveled someone's driveway, sidewalk, porch steps, et al, or for every time I pushed someone's car out of a snowbank, or every time someone assisted me or mine in doing same, I would be a very rich man indeed. God bless you Buffalo!\n\nThe second was the Blizzard of '85, from which I barely (to say nothing of bravely, boldly and rather stupidly) escaped being stranded in the city. It wasn't nearly as bad as its more famous predecessor ("only" 33 inches of snow and sustained winds of 60 mph) but I was fortunate to have left work at just the right time to safely deliver two co-workers, who were afraid to drive but even more afraid to be stranded downtown, to their respective homes. I pulled into my driveway just before the sheriff's order was issued banning all unnecessary vehicular traffic. Nice.\n\nThere was also a '93 "Superstorm" that fell just short of blizzard status because the winds were not sustained at over 30mph, though it was plenty bad. Anyone detecting a pattern here ('77, '85, '93)? Oddly enough, 2001 wasn't too bad, or so my friends tell me, as I'd departed for good in 1996.\n\nThe hurricane occurred here in Annapolis, MD, within a fortnight of my triumphant return from two years in Japan as an English language teacher. Hurricane Isabel did what no hurricane had done in nearly 50 years: it tracked its merry way right up the Chesapeake Bay and seemingly targeted poor, wee, historic Annapolis, which was decidedly NOT prepared for such an unwelcome visitor. In the process, Isabel, packing sustained winds of 100 mph, created the largest storm surge in Annapolis history (7.6 feet), flooding much of downtown Annapolis and surrounding neighbourhoods. Sadly, several businesses never recovered, including one owned by a family friend. I believe the final death toll was 43 but most of them were in Virginia, not Maryland.\n\nAs for myself, I was lucky enough to have left work early (again) and made it safely home before it got really nasty. We lost a lot of trees in my neighbourhood but emerged almost completely unscathed in terms of home damage. Even more amazingly, although 350,000 neighbours were without electricity for days after the storm, I literally lost power for a split second during its peak but otherwise remained intact for the duration. Surveying the landscape with a neighbour the following morning was, I confess, surreal. At one point I turned to him and said, tongue firmly planted in cheek, "Crikey, Bill, it looks as if a hurricane hit this place, doesn't it?" ;)\n\nP.S. I also endured at least two earthquakes while living in Japan, but neither was very serious. Mind you, that was the first time in my life I felt the bed moving independent of any assistance o
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San Antonio resident here!\n\nDon't sweat the tornadoes.  They're actually quite rare here; in fact, I can't remember a bad tornado that has hit the city since Hurricane Gilbert spawned one way back in 1988.  This city is usually hot and dry, and severe storms are not common.
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Earthquakes= not bad for me, because I don't live in a danger zone.\nFloods= don't scare me, I can swim strongly and pack up all my valuable possesions (pats DS Lite lovingly) in about two minutes.\nWildfires= again, not in the danger zone.\nSo that leaves tornados, because they strike so quickly and you never know how bad they will be. Where I live, from about last week till the end of September, everyday merrits a "tornado watch" (or is it warning? Which ever one is worse). They can take out whole sections of a town in seconds and you can't be prepared for them. Luckily, I have a deep basement so when they come, I just go down in the nasty, windowless hole and wait 'em out.
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The U.S. is definitely the tornado capital of the world.\n\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/weather/tg/wtorwhat/wtorwhat.htm
469651
Most recent was a ladder that fell off a guys truck. I was going 70, he was going about 85 or 90 and was carrying 5 ladders, it flew off, bounced off my cars hood, hit the windshield, and then i almost ran over it. I chased the guy 4 miles until he arrived at his place of employment. I called hubby (large, intimidating guy)and he came over and had a talk with the business owner, who agreed to pay for my cars damages. It was all cool. \nSo, long story to say, yeah, i was cursing that ladder somethin fierce Friday afternoon! I love your questions!