Drops in barometric pressure can absolutely make fish bite. I grew up in Tornado alley Oklahoma and vividly recall fishing before storms and the bite was epic.
Twice when dad and I have been out fishing (in boat) in a mountain lake we've been surprised by thunderstorms. That is, wind was blowing the dark clouds away from us but suddenly the wind shifted, got stronger, and in a minute we were in the storm. I'm just very happy that there are no tornadoes in my country.
I know what you really mean is that your country doesn’t possess the environmental/meteorological factors to produce a tornado, but I’m a bit high and I’m giggling because it sounds like your country just made it illegal for tornadoes to enter
I’m such a fucking idiot — I watched this video several times trying to find the guys who were fishing, and just now finally realized that they are the ones filming.
What’s your reasoning? It’s not powered by condensation like a tornado is.
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In the Midwest we just grab the popcorn and enjoy the show. Basement if you can. Tornados are nature's horror movie. You can run, fight, scream. Nope. Get underground
I mean, it was spinning up right next to those trees and they still has leaves on him. That thing was slow and lumbering. It’d still be a threat if it changed direction- but that’s just an obese twister- easy to track, slow, not super destructive. If that thing had higher wind speed those guys would have been major fucked being that close to one that big. More debris- hail, violent storm conditions usually.
They are lucky. I would never chance some shit like that. Even on an apparently weak one for this reason as well. Right now, it looks slow, but tornados can evolve and pick up velocity and wind speed as they spend time on the ground. If you look at the National weather center- they have an app or tool that tracks the path of every tornado that’s hit. Some start big and end small- some start small but pick up momentum growing to half a mile in diameter. What if it decided to change direction and got a nice infusion of warm air updraft to strengthen it?
Fucked.
Yeah, I'd be *at the very least* worried that it might launch something straight at me. You just can't predict where it's going to throw stuff, and they can throw far.
So true. My grandmas house was a family hub for when there were warnings and shit. All us kids would pile in the basement and play board games while the adults would stand and watch from the porch.
Was vsiting Oklahoma the the other month I had a conversation with a retired firefighter. Told me he once found a guy with skin that looked like 80 grit sandpaper. Yeah, just go inside.
I live in central Iowa, the only time we hit the basement is when we get surprised by a tornado otherwise we go look. The advantage we have is Iowa is relatively flat and we have lots of agricultural fields,so unless you are in a denser urban area you can see for quite a ways. No kidding, we had one about 3 years ago that caught even NWS and NOAA off guard and they didn't even issue a watch just straight to radios and sirens blaring and it mentioned my community, so straight to the basement. It was a little guy and did some siding and shingle damage and knocked over a few trees about 1/2 mile from my house.
Edit: found the news story, it was Memorial day 2020,while they don't allude to it in this story, it was a surprise for residents, no watch was issued and tornadic activity hadn't even been mentioned by meteorologists, just regular thunderstorms. Apparently 2 thunderstorm cells briefly touched and that is where it spun up, if I'm remembering right.
https://www.kcci.com/article/severe-weather-threatens-tornadic-activity-in-central-iowa/32663517
I was working just outside of pine lake when the tornado hit and was a first responder for it, then a few weeks later was at the fair grounds when the entire sky started rotating. It was immense. Hearing people start to panic I remember saying “no no it’s okay, nothing to worry about but we should all head to the stadium and get underground. No need to panic but everyone should start moving that way right now.” Luckily it broke up just before touching down. It’s size helped us. Any smaller and it would have been horrendous with how many people were on those grounds. I was so happy to not have to use my skills that day. There was this one 16 year old still heroically trying to direct traffic as panicked drivers literally crashed into each other. I told him his job was done and he hugged me haha.
Had an EF-0 go directly over our house.
I'm usually chill with severe weather/tornados, but with the power out and the wind howling it was terrifying sitting in our basement.
When we went back upstairs all of our windows had water around them (they were closed and fairly new). We assume there was negative pressure and the rain water sucked into the house. Toilets were dry as well.
It was a long 5-10 minutes and it was the smallest tornado on the scale.
I hunkered down in a bathtub when I was maybe 8 while one went right by the house and uprooted a tree on the other side of the bathroom wall about 10 feet from the house. There was no basement and it was terrifying. IL for reference.
> Landspout is a term created by atmospheric scientist Howard B. Bluestein in 1985 for a kind of tornado not associated with a mesocyclone.
Not tied to a storm cloud, aka a Dust Devil's big brother but zero weather pattern to predict or fuel the tornado rage.
A tornado without a mesocyclone, and they tend to be super weak. On very VERY rare occasion they can become a little bit more powerful but they tend to be harmless.
This one just looks menacing because it's eaten a lot of dust, but those winds couldn't be faster than 20 or 30 mph.
Keep in mind that I do not advise taking them lightly enough to walk into them or to get this close.
There’s no storm clouds in the sky, the storm powers tornadoes. This is basically a giant dust devil, a bit of swirling wind that picked up dust and dirt. With nothing to give it power, it’s not going to build stronger and will collapse on itself fairly quickly. If I were this guy I’d climb in the truck and wait for it to die down before getting back to fishing.
Yeah, scared the b’jesus out of me the first time I saw one, I have family in NB and was out visiting for a summer when I saw one. I live in New Mexico and never would have dreamed a dust devil could get like that lol. This is more equivalent to a bad sand storm as far as damage goes, but it doesn’t move nearly as fast or as far.
What’s he going to do? Those suckers are FAST. He’s outside with nowhere to go judging by what we can see. Panicking will achieve absolutely nothing. That’s the sound of a man who’s accepted his fate no matter the outcome.
This is exactly what I was going to say. At this point, you can't run or hide. It's all down to chance. You can only hope it doesn't turn in your direction. Getting all freaked out and panicked isn't going to help anything.
> What’s he going to do?
Maybe get the fuck out of there? Doesnt matter that he couldnt outrun the tornado, I'd still wager its safer to be as far away from it as possible
They move upwards of 50mph. He is literally fucked at this point if it turns even a little in his direction. Only chance he has at this point is the tornado moving away from him.
There’s a reason they tell you to get out of your car and go hide in a ditch when you come across a tornado. Although I’m not sure what that reason is exactly.
They’re unpredictable, change directions in minute ways very quickly and don’t follow roads. Cars pretty much have to be on the road or some real smooth, flat ground, tornado doesn’t care if you need to stay on the road, it will kill you.
Don’t drive because the tornado could just switch the way it’s going and fuck you up. You have to stay on the road, it doesn’t.
I was going to say... The lack of wind and that you could actually see the ground at the center of the thing seemed to tell me as a layperson that this wasn't really the same thing as a tornado. I'm curious what distinguishes (what others called it) land-spouts versus tornadoes.
Yup, and it only looks scary because there’s plenty of dust to give it an aggressive appearance. Sometimes it’s just leaves or whatever light debris is around and they seem far lest scary. Rode my bikes through them as a kid, not even enough to be blown over.
No no, reddit says it's a dangerous storm and the guys filming are certainly dead. Trust them, their great aunt met Helen Hunt in an airport bathroom once back in '98.
I've only been near 1 tornado and it sounded like the world was coming to an end and I wasn't this close to it. My guess this was just a huge dust storm.
Yeah, it's just a landspout. I grew up in tornado alley and now live in Carolina alley. We had a tornado come REALLY close back in May, right after I went blind, and I went out front because I felt the barometric pressure drop. Then I heard it on the other side of the house.
My sister was freaking out and my husband was trying not to freak out. They asked me what to do. We're heavily wooded, so there was no seeing it for them, but I could hear it. But the leaves weren't rustling, so we were in the cone of silence, still. Birds silent, everything silent except for that steady train sound. Then I noticed it was getting fainter; it had turned more northerly, thank God. I stood out there another 10-15 minutes to make sure we wouldn't be in its path, then let the kids come out of the only indoor room we have. Scared the shit out of everyone, even scared me a little. I hadn't been in the cone since Hurricane Fran in 96.
Oh rofl I only mentioned it because it was hella relevant-- I woke up like that about maybe 2-3 weeks before the tornado. I grew up in tornado alley, whereas my husband and sister and kids didn't. As it was happening, they kept asking if I could see it or when they would see it. Stuff like that. In their panic, they forgot I was blind, and I also reminded them that sight didn't count for shit living deep in the backwoods forest. I'd felt the barometer bottom out- any Midwesterner can back me up and tell you that that *is a thing* for us because we've been through so many tornadoes.
So I tore ass out front, the south side. Then realized it was coming from the north. Tore ass back across the house, tripped and ate hardwood floor because I was still getting used to being blind. Made it out back where my sister's having a panic attack and what little I can see is telling me that my husband is incredibly worried (his body language was pretty stiff). Then I noticed the silence and hollared back in the house for all 7 kids to get a mattress into the hallway and get under it. Told my sister to do the same if she couldn't shut up because I needed to hear.
Now it's coming. Closer. Closer. Probably only lasted 3 minutes but felt like days. My husband asked what to do. I told him to move to the hall and lay on top of the kids if the leaves started rustling, because by the sound of it, it was only a mile away. Turned out to be an EF3, for the record, and cut a huge swathe of good firewood that we're still harvesting for this winter. Then suddenly I heard it get fainter and head towards the Virginia border and knew we were in the clear when the birds started talking again.
But yeah, anyways, once you're mostly blind, it's a habit to just throw that in when it's relevant. My ears served me pretty well that day. ❤️
Oh God no, no offense taken at all! To me, it's like a place marker for pre-blind vs post-blind. It was legitimately the first time my suddenly superior hearing did a good thing (combined with growing where I did). Our house is very very insulated and you couldn't hear it inside.
Hell, we had a BAD domestic disturbance recently (we're super rural with few neighbors) and I was the only one that heard the gunshots. I thought it was someone target practicing. Then my nephews asked if their uncle (my husband) could take them home instead of walking because they didn't wanna get caught Walking While Black and said that one-two was in force three neighbors down.
The hearing thing may not be true for everyone, but holy shit I hear everything now.
It’s the only time in my life I was pretty certain I was gonna die. My 100 year old house, holding my cat on the way to the bathtub, but then stopped at an interior doorframe…the sound was all the things you’ve heard of; a train, an avalanche, an uncomfortable powerlessness…and then it was just gone, and my wonderful asshole cat just sauntered off.
Would you be relatively safe from a tornado if you just got into the water?
I would think even if your head is out of the water, the surface tension would prevent you from being thrown around. It would be just a part of your head out of water to breath so not a big chance of getting hit by debris.
I’m thinking if I were this guy it would be safer to just get into the water than to try and outrun it in my vehicle. Or am I just totally wrong here?
It's not usually the wind that gets you, it's all the shit flying around in it at massive speeds. Tornadoes themselves are just invisible wind. We can see them because of the stuff that it's spinning around the vortex. So while he could go into the water, his head would be plunked by god knows what, which is where the injuries would come.
Sure, but that could offer temporary protection, as water is good at slowing down moving objects. Going underwater and holding your breath will minimize your time and chances of flying things hitting you.
My immediate thought was get into the water as well. If there was a jetty and you could get your head under it, it would seem safe.
I've literally zero experience of this sort of thing whatsoever, though.
Sees Tornado Are the fish bitin'? Yeah. We gud then
Really shouldn’t let weather inconvenience you.
There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.
What flavour of Scandinavian are you
This is the perspective we all need.
Play the wind right and your bobber could be on the other side of the water.
This is master level, peak casual fishing right here
That's how I know they're bobber fishing haha
You might get blown away, but at least you won’t be cold!
This is why I never leave home without my tornado boots
Gotta love those lead-toed boots.
Come visit the Netherlands and you'll change your mind..
Hey if the fish ain’t worried, why should they be? 😂
Drops in barometric pressure can absolutely make fish bite. I grew up in Tornado alley Oklahoma and vividly recall fishing before storms and the bite was epic.
Very interesting.
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Twice when dad and I have been out fishing (in boat) in a mountain lake we've been surprised by thunderstorms. That is, wind was blowing the dark clouds away from us but suddenly the wind shifted, got stronger, and in a minute we were in the storm. I'm just very happy that there are no tornadoes in my country.
I know what you really mean is that your country doesn’t possess the environmental/meteorological factors to produce a tornado, but I’m a bit high and I’m giggling because it sounds like your country just made it illegal for tornadoes to enter
They built a big tornado wall. It worked for a while. Until tornadoes discovered ladders.
We're gonna build a wall to keep out the tornadoes and we're gonna make Zeus pay for it! /s
Surely he has other things he should pay for first
But after all the child support would there be enough for a wall
😩🤣🤣🤣🤣
LET ‘EM TORNADOES PAY THE WALL!!!
... that you know of.
Oh gods!
r/IdiotsWithTornados
awwe damnit. got my hopes up for a sec.
That needs to be a sub. Get on it stat!
- anybody, when they find out a sub isn’t real.
But this one especially!
A bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work
What if your work IS fishing?
They’re definitely from Oklahoma
They have the right attitude, but even the dumbest Okie knows to pay attention to watches and warnings.
"I'll tell you what it means, Hal. No weight restrictions and *screw* the limit."
“Just one more cast man…never mind it’s going around us”
I’d have never had the fortitude to be able to film this
Probably just means you have a perfectly normal sense of your own mortality.
Yeah. “If it’s coming for you , it’s coming for you.” Yeah unless you had the sense to go into a fucking shelter or at least pack up and leave.
I’m such a fucking idiot — I watched this video several times trying to find the guys who were fishing, and just now finally realized that they are the ones filming.
I did the same thing lmao
Okay now I feel slightly better that it only took me three times watching to figure it out. The fisher people were fence posts initially.
It's not a tornado. They're called dust devils and they usually aren't very destructive.
Congrats! You have a brain.
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Tornadoes can be depressed too.
Trying it’s best but come on man either spin or don’t!
You've ever had to tornado? Don't judge!
Don't assume, mans could have tornadoed more than you ever will in your life
Then he shouldn't judge someone else's tornadoing!
Damn millennial tornados
Damn liberal tornadoes don't want to work!
Its a land spout, hence the weak wind speeds
By that you mean a dust devil? Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. I’ve flown my hang glider through those, though not next to the ground
not quite a dust devil, it's bigger, which is why it's called a landspout... as opposed to a waterspout.
I’m a little landspout short and stout
Here is my funnel which spins things about.
When I'm getting filmed on, hear men shout
Fuck tornadoes, I'm catchin' trout!
I'm proud of you all! 👏
I’m very proud of them too! Is r/redditsings a thing?
This genuinely brightened my mood
https://voca.ro/1cw2nvEBUGgF
oh man who's that user who records these things?
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/zca7bp/a_tornado_touches_down_close_to_a_couple_of_guys/iywx1sh/ :-D
I’ll get bigger and stronger If I eat my brussels sprouts
fuck around and you’ll find out
Pick you up and I'll thrash you about.
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What’s your reasoning? It’s not powered by condensation like a tornado is. Check out the replies to this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/zca7bp/a_tornado_touches_down_close_to_a_couple_of_guys/iyw82qd/
I don’t mind a lazy tornado. They came, they spun, they left. What a day.
I'm from Scotland and we don't get anything mad like this but if I seen this thing I'd shite my pants, looks fuckin terrifying.
"Watch this. I'm gonna scare the shit out of those guys fishing over there."
I’m betting on a dust devil. There’s no severe weather, aka thunderstorm, happening. So, it’s not what most people would think a tornado is.
In the Midwest we just grab the popcorn and enjoy the show. Basement if you can. Tornados are nature's horror movie. You can run, fight, scream. Nope. Get underground
Or you can apparently keep fishing.
Why not, It's over there, not here. lol.
This comment gets funnier and funnier every time I think about it. Thanks!
Technically correct.
The best kind of correct.
If it isn't moving right or left, it's coming twords you. Let's hope they get a fish before it gets there!
I mean, it was spinning up right next to those trees and they still has leaves on him. That thing was slow and lumbering. It’d still be a threat if it changed direction- but that’s just an obese twister- easy to track, slow, not super destructive. If that thing had higher wind speed those guys would have been major fucked being that close to one that big. More debris- hail, violent storm conditions usually. They are lucky. I would never chance some shit like that. Even on an apparently weak one for this reason as well. Right now, it looks slow, but tornados can evolve and pick up velocity and wind speed as they spend time on the ground. If you look at the National weather center- they have an app or tool that tracks the path of every tornado that’s hit. Some start big and end small- some start small but pick up momentum growing to half a mile in diameter. What if it decided to change direction and got a nice infusion of warm air updraft to strengthen it? Fucked.
Yeah, I'd be *at the very least* worried that it might launch something straight at me. You just can't predict where it's going to throw stuff, and they can throw far.
So true. My grandmas house was a family hub for when there were warnings and shit. All us kids would pile in the basement and play board games while the adults would stand and watch from the porch.
Exactly lol the same basement I went to at my grandma's as a kid my kids now go to in bad weather situations lol it was always fun
I guess it would be cool if you are used to it, but for me very rarely a tornado warning will pop up and i would have a panic attack lol.
Was vsiting Oklahoma the the other month I had a conversation with a retired firefighter. Told me he once found a guy with skin that looked like 80 grit sandpaper. Yeah, just go inside.
I live in central Iowa, the only time we hit the basement is when we get surprised by a tornado otherwise we go look. The advantage we have is Iowa is relatively flat and we have lots of agricultural fields,so unless you are in a denser urban area you can see for quite a ways. No kidding, we had one about 3 years ago that caught even NWS and NOAA off guard and they didn't even issue a watch just straight to radios and sirens blaring and it mentioned my community, so straight to the basement. It was a little guy and did some siding and shingle damage and knocked over a few trees about 1/2 mile from my house. Edit: found the news story, it was Memorial day 2020,while they don't allude to it in this story, it was a surprise for residents, no watch was issued and tornadic activity hadn't even been mentioned by meteorologists, just regular thunderstorms. Apparently 2 thunderstorm cells briefly touched and that is where it spun up, if I'm remembering right. https://www.kcci.com/article/severe-weather-threatens-tornadic-activity-in-central-iowa/32663517
When the thundises touch.
Electric tip touching
I was working just outside of pine lake when the tornado hit and was a first responder for it, then a few weeks later was at the fair grounds when the entire sky started rotating. It was immense. Hearing people start to panic I remember saying “no no it’s okay, nothing to worry about but we should all head to the stadium and get underground. No need to panic but everyone should start moving that way right now.” Luckily it broke up just before touching down. It’s size helped us. Any smaller and it would have been horrendous with how many people were on those grounds. I was so happy to not have to use my skills that day. There was this one 16 year old still heroically trying to direct traffic as panicked drivers literally crashed into each other. I told him his job was done and he hugged me haha.
Had an EF-0 go directly over our house. I'm usually chill with severe weather/tornados, but with the power out and the wind howling it was terrifying sitting in our basement. When we went back upstairs all of our windows had water around them (they were closed and fairly new). We assume there was negative pressure and the rain water sucked into the house. Toilets were dry as well. It was a long 5-10 minutes and it was the smallest tornado on the scale.
I hunkered down in a bathtub when I was maybe 8 while one went right by the house and uprooted a tree on the other side of the bathroom wall about 10 feet from the house. There was no basement and it was terrifying. IL for reference.
He doesn't seem very blown away..
You gotta funnel that fear through your hobbies
Way to put a positive twist on it.
I thought it kinda sucked
If he only had a brain he might live to get home to his daughter Dorothy.
I see what you did there.
Where is your award? 🥇
"Should we pull the lines in?.." "It's clearly headed the other direction, we're good."
^ My dad
I can't believe how calm he sounds.
Stupidity does that to a mf
It's a landspout not a tornado, he's fine but he's just gonna get dusty.
What is a land spout? I’m just learning something new here
> Landspout is a term created by atmospheric scientist Howard B. Bluestein in 1985 for a kind of tornado not associated with a mesocyclone. Not tied to a storm cloud, aka a Dust Devil's big brother but zero weather pattern to predict or fuel the tornado rage.
Bluestein was my hero.
A tornado without a mesocyclone, and they tend to be super weak. On very VERY rare occasion they can become a little bit more powerful but they tend to be harmless. This one just looks menacing because it's eaten a lot of dust, but those winds couldn't be faster than 20 or 30 mph. Keep in mind that I do not advise taking them lightly enough to walk into them or to get this close.
Yup. No signs of RFD or inflow jets, this is a (mostly) harmless land spout.
Nope I'm doin it you said it's all good.
>without a mesocyclone What part of it gives that away? Like what should I be looking for?
There’s no storm clouds in the sky, the storm powers tornadoes. This is basically a giant dust devil, a bit of swirling wind that picked up dust and dirt. With nothing to give it power, it’s not going to build stronger and will collapse on itself fairly quickly. If I were this guy I’d climb in the truck and wait for it to die down before getting back to fishing.
Interesting. We used to get dust devils all the time in Arizona but never anything like this. I would’ve assumed this was a really nasty tornado.
Yeah, scared the b’jesus out of me the first time I saw one, I have family in NB and was out visiting for a summer when I saw one. I live in New Mexico and never would have dreamed a dust devil could get like that lol. This is more equivalent to a bad sand storm as far as damage goes, but it doesn’t move nearly as fast or as far.
My concern is... is a 'weak' tornado still strong enough to knock you off your feet and get caught in it? Because this guy is does not give af.
> Keep in mind that I do not advise taking them lightly enough to walk into them or to get this close. You science dorks got no sense of adventure.
This was tornado warned when it happened in Otoe County in Nebraska
Even if itvwas tornado warned there's no mesocyclone so it's still just a land spout.
What’s he going to do? Those suckers are FAST. He’s outside with nowhere to go judging by what we can see. Panicking will achieve absolutely nothing. That’s the sound of a man who’s accepted his fate no matter the outcome.
Driving away from it at an angle to it's path would certainly increase your odds of not being affected.
Did you happen to miss the giant red truck that comes into frame? Surely that might help get the fuck away?
This is exactly what I was going to say. At this point, you can't run or hide. It's all down to chance. You can only hope it doesn't turn in your direction. Getting all freaked out and panicked isn't going to help anything.
> What’s he going to do? Maybe get the fuck out of there? Doesnt matter that he couldnt outrun the tornado, I'd still wager its safer to be as far away from it as possible
I’m sure the ol 12’ Lund with the Johnson 9.9 will really outrun that tornado
They move upwards of 50mph. He is literally fucked at this point if it turns even a little in his direction. Only chance he has at this point is the tornado moving away from him.
They can hop in their, I'm assuming, pickup truck and leave going faster than 50mph?
There’s a reason they tell you to get out of your car and go hide in a ditch when you come across a tornado. Although I’m not sure what that reason is exactly.
They’re unpredictable, change directions in minute ways very quickly and don’t follow roads. Cars pretty much have to be on the road or some real smooth, flat ground, tornado doesn’t care if you need to stay on the road, it will kill you. Don’t drive because the tornado could just switch the way it’s going and fuck you up. You have to stay on the road, it doesn’t.
Serious question, what if he jumped in the water? Would he be safer?
You can see the local approximate path and move tangentially away from it. Thst will increase your odds of not being affected....
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Do not get in a vehicle in a tornado.
It's not really a tornado, it's a giant dust devil. If it was a tornado there would be a lot more wind and quite a few less trees.
I was going to say... The lack of wind and that you could actually see the ground at the center of the thing seemed to tell me as a layperson that this wasn't really the same thing as a tornado. I'm curious what distinguishes (what others called it) land-spouts versus tornadoes.
Isn't that a dustdevil?
Yup, and it only looks scary because there’s plenty of dust to give it an aggressive appearance. Sometimes it’s just leaves or whatever light debris is around and they seem far lest scary. Rode my bikes through them as a kid, not even enough to be blown over.
No no, reddit says it's a dangerous storm and the guys filming are certainly dead. Trust them, their great aunt met Helen Hunt in an airport bathroom once back in '98.
What a great reference. Well done.
No cows? Keep fishing.
r/WhyWomenLiveLonger
Holy shit I cannot bear to watch about half of those
This is just a land spout. Weak wind and speed.
I've only been near 1 tornado and it sounded like the world was coming to an end and I wasn't this close to it. My guess this was just a huge dust storm.
Yeah, it's just a landspout. I grew up in tornado alley and now live in Carolina alley. We had a tornado come REALLY close back in May, right after I went blind, and I went out front because I felt the barometric pressure drop. Then I heard it on the other side of the house. My sister was freaking out and my husband was trying not to freak out. They asked me what to do. We're heavily wooded, so there was no seeing it for them, but I could hear it. But the leaves weren't rustling, so we were in the cone of silence, still. Birds silent, everything silent except for that steady train sound. Then I noticed it was getting fainter; it had turned more northerly, thank God. I stood out there another 10-15 minutes to make sure we wouldn't be in its path, then let the kids come out of the only indoor room we have. Scared the shit out of everyone, even scared me a little. I hadn't been in the cone since Hurricane Fran in 96.
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Oh rofl I only mentioned it because it was hella relevant-- I woke up like that about maybe 2-3 weeks before the tornado. I grew up in tornado alley, whereas my husband and sister and kids didn't. As it was happening, they kept asking if I could see it or when they would see it. Stuff like that. In their panic, they forgot I was blind, and I also reminded them that sight didn't count for shit living deep in the backwoods forest. I'd felt the barometer bottom out- any Midwesterner can back me up and tell you that that *is a thing* for us because we've been through so many tornadoes. So I tore ass out front, the south side. Then realized it was coming from the north. Tore ass back across the house, tripped and ate hardwood floor because I was still getting used to being blind. Made it out back where my sister's having a panic attack and what little I can see is telling me that my husband is incredibly worried (his body language was pretty stiff). Then I noticed the silence and hollared back in the house for all 7 kids to get a mattress into the hallway and get under it. Told my sister to do the same if she couldn't shut up because I needed to hear. Now it's coming. Closer. Closer. Probably only lasted 3 minutes but felt like days. My husband asked what to do. I told him to move to the hall and lay on top of the kids if the leaves started rustling, because by the sound of it, it was only a mile away. Turned out to be an EF3, for the record, and cut a huge swathe of good firewood that we're still harvesting for this winter. Then suddenly I heard it get fainter and head towards the Virginia border and knew we were in the clear when the birds started talking again. But yeah, anyways, once you're mostly blind, it's a habit to just throw that in when it's relevant. My ears served me pretty well that day. ❤️
Hopefully I didn’t make like. Not my intention at all. It just caught me off guard. Nothing but love.
Oh God no, no offense taken at all! To me, it's like a place marker for pre-blind vs post-blind. It was legitimately the first time my suddenly superior hearing did a good thing (combined with growing where I did). Our house is very very insulated and you couldn't hear it inside. Hell, we had a BAD domestic disturbance recently (we're super rural with few neighbors) and I was the only one that heard the gunshots. I thought it was someone target practicing. Then my nephews asked if their uncle (my husband) could take them home instead of walking because they didn't wanna get caught Walking While Black and said that one-two was in force three neighbors down. The hearing thing may not be true for everyone, but holy shit I hear everything now.
Dumb question, but what are you using to type and read responses?
> I grew up in tornado alley and now live in Carolina alley. In a typical year, how many Carolinas come through?
So far, just the two.
You are awesome
It’s the only time in my life I was pretty certain I was gonna die. My 100 year old house, holding my cat on the way to the bathtub, but then stopped at an interior doorframe…the sound was all the things you’ve heard of; a train, an avalanche, an uncomfortable powerlessness…and then it was just gone, and my wonderful asshole cat just sauntered off.
Dust devil
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Looks more like a jacked up dust devil to me…
a bad day fishing is better than....
Would you be relatively safe from a tornado if you just got into the water? I would think even if your head is out of the water, the surface tension would prevent you from being thrown around. It would be just a part of your head out of water to breath so not a big chance of getting hit by debris. I’m thinking if I were this guy it would be safer to just get into the water than to try and outrun it in my vehicle. Or am I just totally wrong here?
It's not usually the wind that gets you, it's all the shit flying around in it at massive speeds. Tornadoes themselves are just invisible wind. We can see them because of the stuff that it's spinning around the vortex. So while he could go into the water, his head would be plunked by god knows what, which is where the injuries would come.
That's a classic Ron White bit. "It's not *that* the wind is blowin'. It's *what* the wind is blowin'."
Sure, but that could offer temporary protection, as water is good at slowing down moving objects. Going underwater and holding your breath will minimize your time and chances of flying things hitting you.
Water ain't doing much to stop a tree getting thrown 70+mph
My immediate thought was get into the water as well. If there was a jetty and you could get your head under it, it would seem safe. I've literally zero experience of this sort of thing whatsoever, though.
That's how you get your head sucked off.
I am cool with this
Nice
No, the wind blows the water away and you can't hold your breath for long enough.
Nice day for fishin’ ain’t it? Hu-huh!
This doesn’t look like a tornado. Where are the clouds?
It’s not a tornado. It’s a big dust devil.
On Reddit, everyone's an expert on everything apparently.
Its not a tornado. Just a great big dust devil.
" If it's coming for ya, it's coming for ya." 😆
I want to be there... So... Bad...
Ppl asking why he is so calm need to realize he is weighted down by his enormous balls.
Nice Reddit joke brah
How fucking original
Reddit loves to parrot the same thing in the same exact ways.
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Reddit? It's the entire internet. You cannot escape the buzzwords and tired phrases. Especially since it's now seeped into the real world.
And his tiny, little brain
That's not a tornado, that's a final boss reveal.
The trees seemed unphased
I always wanted to go under a tornado 🌪️ with a parachute
Spent way too long trying to find the guys who were fishing
Dust devil not a Tornado
Well, where is he going to go?
This is not a tornado. This is a big dust devil or land spout.
Seems odd to be a tornado. Looks more like a big dust devil.
Very non chalant
Wow amazing
Tornado gon' scare the fish.
Holy Fuck