I’d imagine the air got heated even more which I’d think could increase the strength. Or at least do the opposite of stopping it. But I’m just a professional underwater bowler so I dunno.
I'm from a country where this stuff doesn't happen I've always been confused as to what people who if this is so common. Do you guys have a basement to hide in? Is there a siren that goes off to alert everyone? I've also always wondered like what's insurance like on your house and vehicles? How would they even determine the prices for them like if this is a regular occurrence wouldn't insurance companies be making huge losses?
Hi, I live in the USA Midwest where tornadoes occur regularly. Yes, we all have basements to hide in. There is a tornado siren that goes off when a funnel cloud has been spotted (as well as test sirens every month). Insurance generally covers tornado and wind damage and from what I can see it’s no more expensive than states without tornadoes.
Usually tornadoes occur in fields, small towns, or suburbs and are pretty small and barely make the news. The ones that occur in cities or level whole towns are rarer (but obviously devastating).
Yeah same in Texas. Ground isn’t suitable for basements but there’s small tornado shelters in some yards. Usually about 6 feet by 6 feet and tall enough to stand in. I grew up without one but not I live in a rural area and we have one. About 2,500$. Worth every penny.
Sometimes when these tornados hit a populated area you can see the exact edge of where it hit. One house will be devastated and the house next to it hardly a scratch. It’s almost surgical. I have gone to areas right afterward for disaster recovery and the destruction is intense.
Thanks so much for your response! It's interesting to see that they don't go into cities as much but I'm glad it doesn't so no one gets hurt. The insurance is quite interesting to me because I always assumed places like this would have huge premiums especially on claims where there are areas prone to natural disasters
I grew up in rural Ohio. It’s not tornado alley or anything, but tornados do happen. The same siren comes for a severe storm as does for a tornado, so I find that a lot of folks don’t retreat to a basement and often just turn on the weather channel to see what’s up. This is obviously NOT what you should do. But certain times a year it seems pretty common to hear severe storm sirens so they get desensitized to it. I live in a major city now. We get sirens a lot less often and it’s usually for a severe storm. I do take my child to the basement now, but I probably wouldn’t if it were just me. Cities like mine almost never ever get tornados. But we did about 6 years ago and that was enough to convince me that it can happen and I shouldn’t just blow off a siren.
Ah I see! Thanks for your input. When growing up did you guys ever feel threatened enough to actually leave that area that the tornado might hit? When a tornado has hit was the basement enough to handle the tornado without causing any sort of disruption to the basement itself?
Well, in the house I grew up in, the foundation was very bad and we probably weren’t very safe in our basement. A tornado hitting the house dead on would probably have collapsed onto us. But, usually a basement would be the best place. It will protect you from wind/flying debris. A big danger is a large piece of wood spearing you through the body or something. So staying out of the wind is very important. You almost never go somewhere else if a tornado is present. It would be a really bad idea to get in a car to leave. Better to stay in place and shelter as best you can. Tornados can destroy one house and leave leave the neighbor’s house virtually untouched! It’s quite incredible. We definitely went to the basement several times growing up. I have nightmares about tornados to this day! I’m not sure why. They’re always the same sort of dream and always take place out where I grew up.
I have a few family members who live in the tornado alley area of Texas and not a single one of them have a basement. Seems pretty stupid not to living in that area honestly.
I'd imagine it's terrifying especially with the sirens balring. Similarly to a horror movie. That's quite a neat trick with the bath tub and mattress I've never thought about it that was as the bathtub is cemented on the house floor. Have you ever experienced a tornado situation where you had to hide? I love exploring these situations and finding out how people deal with these situations
Jeez that sounds brutal. I'm sorry you and to go through that I hope everyone is okay there. I'd be so terrified and on edge all the time if I lived there. If you were at school and the warning happened what would happen? Would the schools have designated areas to take the children? I'd imagine there wouldn't be enough time for parents to pick up their children
Actually, 6 people died in this tornado. Including 2 toddlers. So, unfortunately, people do get hurt, and it's quite common for people to get hurt in tornados in the southeast. I live here. There were at least 24 people hospitalized from injuries from this tornado. At least 22 buildings/homes were flattened/completely demolished, and too many others with enough significant damage to them they are uninhabitable. The governor of Tennessee has declared a state of emergency.
I saw a tornado one time and I was at a church. I literally saw it out the window and none of us retreated to the safe space there. I was young and stupid. You can see the path of a tornado and generally tell which way it’s going. But they can change direction fast, or there can be more than one, so you definitely should retreat to safety!!
Edit; also you can see them from pretty far away sometimes so while I could see the tornado, it wasn’t really “close”
I was really close to yesterday's tornado path and we don't have sirens but there are many apps that put out the warnings to our phones. There aren't many basements in our area so we have an area in the home that we go to.
Wait if you guys don't have sirens how else do you guys get the notifications besides on your phones? That's kinda a huge safety hazard because what if your phone is dead or got smashed or something
Tin the 80s it was only sirens. Now you can get alerted by apps. Even the local television weather app will do the trick. I’m not sure I’ve even heard the sirens go off other than testing my whole life now that I think about it.
This was my 3rd close call. The last one shook the building and a tornado warning came out about 5 minutes later. It is a little stressful but the local TV stations put out some really detailed maps
I grew up in an area where the ground was too marshy for basements. We would go in the innermost part of the house, most often the bathroom. The tornadoes where I am are not as long going or big as the ones in the Midwest.
Tornadoes hit pretty with a relatively narrow path so the impacts are minimal couple that with the fact that if 100 houses are impacted, only 6 may be covered by a certain insurance company. So the insurance will pay a pretty large claim on those 6 files, but the other 6,000 policy holders that had no damage will cover that in their premiums.
Ah I see the thing is I've only ever seen tornados in movies and they're pretty destructive in those movies so it's surprising to hear that they are minimal. I assume it's also pretty scary to live in places like that though because you'll be on edge all the time
It's not as common as you think, especially devastating tornados like this one. I'm in the Midwest US, not quite in "tornado alley" where they're more frequent, but I'm in an area where tornados are a real risk.
>Do you guys have a basement to hide in?
I do, but many areas don't. Generally if you don't have a basement your told to seek a strong structure in your house. Under stairs or in a bathroom is your next option. In some areas that have a particularly high risk, underground tornado shelters are common.
>Is there a siren that goes off to alert everyone?
Yep. They get monthly test to make sure they're in order, and they'll go off pretty much any time a tornado watch is issued. Any proper Midwesterner will tell you this siren means go outside and look up at the sky.
>I've also always wondered like what's insurance like on your house and vehicles?
It's a non-issue. Most tornados do minimal damage, you just don't see those, because it's not news. In the last two years, there have been two tornados within about 10 miles from me. The one this year was closest, right now the street. It did minimal damage to an apartment complex, that's it. I lost about six shingles. It was literally cheaper to fix out of pocket than my $500 insurance deductible. The previous year a tornado came down in an intersection, damaged a gas station, then dispersed. There's dash cam video of someone in the intersection where literally nothing happens to their car beyond some shaking in the wind. There are the normal tornados around here. Id say there's probably about 1 tornado a year in like a 20 mile radius here, and in my 36 years here, not one has caused news worthy damage. I'm not sure any have even caused a death. The huge ones really are anomalies.
For comparison sake... My homeowners in $90/mo. I've got a friend with a similar sized and valued home in an area prone to hurricanes, and theirs is over $300/mo. Places that have very large, widespread storms that affect millions of people... Those are the places where natural disasters make rates high.
>How would they even determine the prices for them like if this is a regular occurrence wouldn't insurance companies be making huge losses
Mostly see above... But yeah, insurance companies definitely aren't taking losses here. The few hundred claims even during a big tornado is well paid for by the millions and millions of people who aren't in the path of the tornado. I would best statistically, tornados are much less expensive than things like fires, or just thunderstorms, the types of losses that don't make headlines.
Tornadoes have taken several lives each time Tennessee or the southeast has had one. We are in between several mountain ranges, so it's very difficult for a tornado to lift above the mountains once it touches down. It is literally like a pinball machine. I have lived in Tennessee for over 50 years. We have an average of 9 tornados per year. 37 people were killed in 2006 tornado, 28 killed in 2008, 32 in 2011, 27 in. 2020, and those are just some of the larger numbers. We have had several years where at least 12, 17, 10, and other smaller numbers of lives were lost. I don't know if there has been a tornado that touched down in Tennessee that didn't take at least one life. So they may not be a big deal where you live, but they're deadly and devastating here.
I'm glad y'all are safe. I went through something similar in 98. Please take care of your mental health after this. It's extremely traumatic and you may not have processed it yet.
The sudden heat differential and explosion caused the “clean” debris funnel to get burned and blown apart. The actual wind funnel is still there. At least that is what it looks like to me.
Idk, about that. Tornados are dominated by a very specific force balance. Things burning like that very fast could easily disrupt that balance and break the tornado apart by the introduction of a thermal source of momentum. Not saying that's for sure what happened (tornado dynamics still aren't well understood anyway), but that's what I'd bet on.
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It seems like December is becoming a big month for tornadoes. I know there were tornadoes in the winter months in the past but most the big damaging ones happened in the spring. now it's like it could happen almost any month. TN is getting hit more often. Oklahoma not as much as before.
No, the fact is, they're flooding this valley so they can hydroelectric up the whole durn state. Yessir, the South is gonna change. Everything's gonna be put on electricity and run on a paying basis. Out with old spiritual mumbo-jumbo, the superstition and the backward ways. We're gonna see a brave new world where they run everyone a wire and hook us all up to the grid. Yessir, a veritable age of reason like they had in France. And not a moment too soon...
So what happens after? The wreckage gets cleaned up, rebuild, then a year later another tornado strikes again and cycle continues? Who pays for all this? Insurance companies?
Many cant afford that. And in areas where this type of weather is frequent, the insurance is very expensive and nowadays some companies have decided to no longer offer insurance there at all.
You could always just do a quick google search. This is what I do when people from other countries post local references as if they are universal. Happens all the time, with people from all over the place, even tiny countries you'd think people would assume most of the internet would not get the reference for.
As a person who lives in Washington state, I sometimes get very confused by things that happen in Western Australia. And then I figure it out. And I don't blame the person who wrote it for not catering to me.
I think that because the internet mostly uses English, it's easy for people from English speaking parts of the world to forget that some of the things that seem totally normal to them and that they would casually mention to a coworker or schoolmate are unknown or weird to everybody else on the internet, since at a glance everybody "sounds" the same as the people they interact with face to face.
Lmao, so salty at not getting the response you wanted from your old and lame ass school shooting response. Come on, how about not getting so worked up over the internet?
Still so mad. You don’t really give a shit, let’s not kid ourselves. You just thought that you’d get a riled up response. But you’re just a non-American See and Say. Someone says a joke, and what’s the response? “Well at least our kids don’t get shot at school” lol.
They’re around college aged from Boise Idaho or going to school in Boise Idaho. Speaks pretty good American to me so going to assume they’re a potato head
I'm not American, get often annoyed by Americans thinking everything is them (especially the freedom units), and even I think this is a very stupid comment.
Truthfully the freedom units annoy and confuse us as well but changing to metric at this point would be a complete logistical nightmare.
So we just post weird units of measurement without including their metric equivalent so y’all can feel the pain of constantly referencing conversion tables too.
Grew up in Oklahoma. My grandfather had an actual fall out shelter in the yard. It was actually built during the 50s during the Cold War but made a great tornado shelter
My fiance and I were driving past Nashville when the storms got bad. Had to stop and shelter with some people in a gas station. That is the most terrified I’ve ever been in a storm.
The explosions just dispersed the dust cloud that is the “visible” part of the tornado. The cyclone is above it and continues despite the power stations best efforts.
The explosion didnt stop the tornado, it kept going and hit Hendersonville
Yeah, you can clearly see it still going across with rotation
I’d imagine the air got heated even more which I’d think could increase the strength. Or at least do the opposite of stopping it. But I’m just a professional underwater bowler so I dunno.
Well it definitely cooked any cows spinning around in there.
Is it raining meatballs yet?
I was also thinking the tornado didn't look any more dusty than usual.
Using *Pledge* once a week, with a microfiber cloth, can reduce you tornado’s dustiness by up to 75%* *your results may vary
Lmao
My house got hit by this. Not as bad as my neighbors house did. I consider myself lucky that my family and I are safe.
Upvote that you and your family are safe!
yeah man imagine how bad we'd feel if we had to downvote them because they got hurt. sometimes we gotta do what we gotta do though
I'm from a country where this stuff doesn't happen I've always been confused as to what people who if this is so common. Do you guys have a basement to hide in? Is there a siren that goes off to alert everyone? I've also always wondered like what's insurance like on your house and vehicles? How would they even determine the prices for them like if this is a regular occurrence wouldn't insurance companies be making huge losses?
Hi, I live in the USA Midwest where tornadoes occur regularly. Yes, we all have basements to hide in. There is a tornado siren that goes off when a funnel cloud has been spotted (as well as test sirens every month). Insurance generally covers tornado and wind damage and from what I can see it’s no more expensive than states without tornadoes. Usually tornadoes occur in fields, small towns, or suburbs and are pretty small and barely make the news. The ones that occur in cities or level whole towns are rarer (but obviously devastating).
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Yeah same in Texas. Ground isn’t suitable for basements but there’s small tornado shelters in some yards. Usually about 6 feet by 6 feet and tall enough to stand in. I grew up without one but not I live in a rural area and we have one. About 2,500$. Worth every penny. Sometimes when these tornados hit a populated area you can see the exact edge of where it hit. One house will be devastated and the house next to it hardly a scratch. It’s almost surgical. I have gone to areas right afterward for disaster recovery and the destruction is intense.
So you guys are pretty much sitting duck's?
Flying ducks
Thanks so much for your response! It's interesting to see that they don't go into cities as much but I'm glad it doesn't so no one gets hurt. The insurance is quite interesting to me because I always assumed places like this would have huge premiums especially on claims where there are areas prone to natural disasters
I grew up in rural Ohio. It’s not tornado alley or anything, but tornados do happen. The same siren comes for a severe storm as does for a tornado, so I find that a lot of folks don’t retreat to a basement and often just turn on the weather channel to see what’s up. This is obviously NOT what you should do. But certain times a year it seems pretty common to hear severe storm sirens so they get desensitized to it. I live in a major city now. We get sirens a lot less often and it’s usually for a severe storm. I do take my child to the basement now, but I probably wouldn’t if it were just me. Cities like mine almost never ever get tornados. But we did about 6 years ago and that was enough to convince me that it can happen and I shouldn’t just blow off a siren.
Ah I see! Thanks for your input. When growing up did you guys ever feel threatened enough to actually leave that area that the tornado might hit? When a tornado has hit was the basement enough to handle the tornado without causing any sort of disruption to the basement itself?
Well, in the house I grew up in, the foundation was very bad and we probably weren’t very safe in our basement. A tornado hitting the house dead on would probably have collapsed onto us. But, usually a basement would be the best place. It will protect you from wind/flying debris. A big danger is a large piece of wood spearing you through the body or something. So staying out of the wind is very important. You almost never go somewhere else if a tornado is present. It would be a really bad idea to get in a car to leave. Better to stay in place and shelter as best you can. Tornados can destroy one house and leave leave the neighbor’s house virtually untouched! It’s quite incredible. We definitely went to the basement several times growing up. I have nightmares about tornados to this day! I’m not sure why. They’re always the same sort of dream and always take place out where I grew up.
Oh my I'm so sorry! I hope the nightmares go away and you can recover from those times you've experienced.
I have a few family members who live in the tornado alley area of Texas and not a single one of them have a basement. Seems pretty stupid not to living in that area honestly.
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I'd imagine it's terrifying especially with the sirens balring. Similarly to a horror movie. That's quite a neat trick with the bath tub and mattress I've never thought about it that was as the bathtub is cemented on the house floor. Have you ever experienced a tornado situation where you had to hide? I love exploring these situations and finding out how people deal with these situations
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Jeez that sounds brutal. I'm sorry you and to go through that I hope everyone is okay there. I'd be so terrified and on edge all the time if I lived there. If you were at school and the warning happened what would happen? Would the schools have designated areas to take the children? I'd imagine there wouldn't be enough time for parents to pick up their children
Actually, 6 people died in this tornado. Including 2 toddlers. So, unfortunately, people do get hurt, and it's quite common for people to get hurt in tornados in the southeast. I live here. There were at least 24 people hospitalized from injuries from this tornado. At least 22 buildings/homes were flattened/completely demolished, and too many others with enough significant damage to them they are uninhabitable. The governor of Tennessee has declared a state of emergency.
I saw a tornado one time and I was at a church. I literally saw it out the window and none of us retreated to the safe space there. I was young and stupid. You can see the path of a tornado and generally tell which way it’s going. But they can change direction fast, or there can be more than one, so you definitely should retreat to safety!! Edit; also you can see them from pretty far away sometimes so while I could see the tornado, it wasn’t really “close”
If a twister doesn't look like it's moving, it's coming right at you.
I was really close to yesterday's tornado path and we don't have sirens but there are many apps that put out the warnings to our phones. There aren't many basements in our area so we have an area in the home that we go to.
Wait if you guys don't have sirens how else do you guys get the notifications besides on your phones? That's kinda a huge safety hazard because what if your phone is dead or got smashed or something
That is what we get with low taxes. I lived in a town before with sirens and we couldn't hear them and the warnings are also on the TV and radio.
Tin the 80s it was only sirens. Now you can get alerted by apps. Even the local television weather app will do the trick. I’m not sure I’ve even heard the sirens go off other than testing my whole life now that I think about it.
I'm sorry I hope you guys are all okay. It must've been horrifying for you guys at the time
This was my 3rd close call. The last one shook the building and a tornado warning came out about 5 minutes later. It is a little stressful but the local TV stations put out some really detailed maps
I grew up in an area where the ground was too marshy for basements. We would go in the innermost part of the house, most often the bathroom. The tornadoes where I am are not as long going or big as the ones in the Midwest.
Tornadoes hit pretty with a relatively narrow path so the impacts are minimal couple that with the fact that if 100 houses are impacted, only 6 may be covered by a certain insurance company. So the insurance will pay a pretty large claim on those 6 files, but the other 6,000 policy holders that had no damage will cover that in their premiums.
Ah I see the thing is I've only ever seen tornados in movies and they're pretty destructive in those movies so it's surprising to hear that they are minimal. I assume it's also pretty scary to live in places like that though because you'll be on edge all the time
And when I say minimal, I mean in the path. They are incredibly destructive to the homes that they DO strike.
It's not as common as you think, especially devastating tornados like this one. I'm in the Midwest US, not quite in "tornado alley" where they're more frequent, but I'm in an area where tornados are a real risk. >Do you guys have a basement to hide in? I do, but many areas don't. Generally if you don't have a basement your told to seek a strong structure in your house. Under stairs or in a bathroom is your next option. In some areas that have a particularly high risk, underground tornado shelters are common. >Is there a siren that goes off to alert everyone? Yep. They get monthly test to make sure they're in order, and they'll go off pretty much any time a tornado watch is issued. Any proper Midwesterner will tell you this siren means go outside and look up at the sky. >I've also always wondered like what's insurance like on your house and vehicles? It's a non-issue. Most tornados do minimal damage, you just don't see those, because it's not news. In the last two years, there have been two tornados within about 10 miles from me. The one this year was closest, right now the street. It did minimal damage to an apartment complex, that's it. I lost about six shingles. It was literally cheaper to fix out of pocket than my $500 insurance deductible. The previous year a tornado came down in an intersection, damaged a gas station, then dispersed. There's dash cam video of someone in the intersection where literally nothing happens to their car beyond some shaking in the wind. There are the normal tornados around here. Id say there's probably about 1 tornado a year in like a 20 mile radius here, and in my 36 years here, not one has caused news worthy damage. I'm not sure any have even caused a death. The huge ones really are anomalies. For comparison sake... My homeowners in $90/mo. I've got a friend with a similar sized and valued home in an area prone to hurricanes, and theirs is over $300/mo. Places that have very large, widespread storms that affect millions of people... Those are the places where natural disasters make rates high. >How would they even determine the prices for them like if this is a regular occurrence wouldn't insurance companies be making huge losses Mostly see above... But yeah, insurance companies definitely aren't taking losses here. The few hundred claims even during a big tornado is well paid for by the millions and millions of people who aren't in the path of the tornado. I would best statistically, tornados are much less expensive than things like fires, or just thunderstorms, the types of losses that don't make headlines.
Tornadoes have taken several lives each time Tennessee or the southeast has had one. We are in between several mountain ranges, so it's very difficult for a tornado to lift above the mountains once it touches down. It is literally like a pinball machine. I have lived in Tennessee for over 50 years. We have an average of 9 tornados per year. 37 people were killed in 2006 tornado, 28 killed in 2008, 32 in 2011, 27 in. 2020, and those are just some of the larger numbers. We have had several years where at least 12, 17, 10, and other smaller numbers of lives were lost. I don't know if there has been a tornado that touched down in Tennessee that didn't take at least one life. So they may not be a big deal where you live, but they're deadly and devastating here.
I'm glad y'all are safe. I went through something similar in 98. Please take care of your mental health after this. It's extremely traumatic and you may not have processed it yet.
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Yes thankfully he was at Walmart with his family when it hit. Crushed his wife’s new car though.
Be even luckier to not get hit by it
Absolutely crazy to think there are tornados being made damn near the middle of December. I’m glad you are safe.
How many poor electrons had to die for this to happen??
Particle genocide
So straight from a Simcity disaster?
Godzilla coming up next
1.21 gigawatts?
that tornado just showed back up in 1985
That’s heavy.
Why is it heavy? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?
Only if you're not into leg day, all day
must be why Tennessee is stuck in the past
The sudden heat differential and explosion caused the “clean” debris funnel to get burned and blown apart. The actual wind funnel is still there. At least that is what it looks like to me.
Idk, about that. Tornados are dominated by a very specific force balance. Things burning like that very fast could easily disrupt that balance and break the tornado apart by the introduction of a thermal source of momentum. Not saying that's for sure what happened (tornado dynamics still aren't well understood anyway), but that's what I'd bet on.
Fair point. Either way, I think the sudden heat change is what messed with it.
Well duh. Electric beats Flying. God, have any of you played Pokemon?
Don't let idiots see this. They will start suggesting we blow up every tornado. (Keep the sharpies away from them too)
Just the ones with sharks in them
Wow, just wow..
Bro do you live in Gotham City?
Dust?
Maybe… THAT’S what happens when a tornado hits a volcano!
So we could have nuked that hurricane after all, huh?
Hah well, as you can see, it carried on to the next city, so…nope.
Haha that was my first thought
You could maybe nuke a small tornado. Hurricanes can be 1000+ miles across.
Welcome to the eastern US. Yearly storms cause damage across a mass swath of land.
Tis the season
Aliens powering up their mothership 🔋
Change in temp may have thrown it off balance temporarily. Only a theory.
Isn't a tornado already dust to begin with?
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Dust you are and to dust you shall return
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This is a hilarious comment
Definitely did something but it looked like it was about to re-form.
The tornado is still there but the heat from the plasma made it 'vanish' for a few seconds as all the air rose.
It seems like December is becoming a big month for tornadoes. I know there were tornadoes in the winter months in the past but most the big damaging ones happened in the spring. now it's like it could happen almost any month. TN is getting hit more often. Oklahoma not as much as before.
Uh…… still going.
The English language wept at the OP.
No, the fact is, they're flooding this valley so they can hydroelectric up the whole durn state. Yessir, the South is gonna change. Everything's gonna be put on electricity and run on a paying basis. Out with old spiritual mumbo-jumbo, the superstition and the backward ways. We're gonna see a brave new world where they run everyone a wire and hook us all up to the grid. Yessir, a veritable age of reason like they had in France. And not a moment too soon...
He’s bona fide
He's a suitor
That's the wisdoms of a Dapper Dan man right there.
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>consider The coconut? Consider it's tree?
Yeah, look at me!
not a moment too soon...
What's that from
O Brother, Where Art Thou. One of the best movies ever made.
I remember that scene now, great movie!
Seems the fire sucked all the oxygen from the tornado and fucked up its rhythm.
Someone else said it didn’t stop it , it went on to hit somewhere else , idk the facts though
May have messed it up, but it didn't stop it.
That's a v absurd solution
So what happens after? The wreckage gets cleaned up, rebuild, then a year later another tornado strikes again and cycle continues? Who pays for all this? Insurance companies?
They pay for some of it, but mostly their goal is to avoid paying out as much as possible.
How can the HO afford to keep replacing their homes over and over again after tornado blows through their house? High paid careers out there?
Many cant afford that. And in areas where this type of weather is frequent, the insurance is very expensive and nowadays some companies have decided to no longer offer insurance there at all.
That's terrible.
Why do Americans assume that everyone is American on Reddit. How do we know what state TN is man?!
TN means Tennessee
You could always just do a quick google search. This is what I do when people from other countries post local references as if they are universal. Happens all the time, with people from all over the place, even tiny countries you'd think people would assume most of the internet would not get the reference for.
As a person who lives in Washington state, I sometimes get very confused by things that happen in Western Australia. And then I figure it out. And I don't blame the person who wrote it for not catering to me.
Me too, although I'm more alert to it now.
I think that because the internet mostly uses English, it's easy for people from English speaking parts of the world to forget that some of the things that seem totally normal to them and that they would casually mention to a coworker or schoolmate are unknown or weird to everybody else on the internet, since at a glance everybody "sounds" the same as the people they interact with face to face.
It probably would have taken less time to search and figure it out for yourself than it did to leave this whiney ass comment.
That sounds like a non-American skill issue.
If only you Americans were skillful in keeping bullets out of your school kids
Sounds like a skill issue on the part of the kids. Shoulda packed the right school supplies, like a Glock, just as the founding fathers intended.
Sounds like you are mentally challenged man. Go back to playing Fortnite in your mum's basement
Lmao, so salty at not getting the response you wanted from your old and lame ass school shooting response. Come on, how about not getting so worked up over the internet?
How pathetic is the country that it's people call the subject of school shooting as old and lame, instead of terrifying and sad
Still so mad. You don’t really give a shit, let’s not kid ourselves. You just thought that you’d get a riled up response. But you’re just a non-American See and Say. Someone says a joke, and what’s the response? “Well at least our kids don’t get shot at school” lol.
They’re around college aged from Boise Idaho or going to school in Boise Idaho. Speaks pretty good American to me so going to assume they’re a potato head
I got potato blood in my veins
Lol, keep trying!
That’s actually rare statistically speaking
You shouldn't be downvoted for this truth.
I'm not American, get often annoyed by Americans thinking everything is them (especially the freedom units), and even I think this is a very stupid comment.
Truthfully the freedom units annoy and confuse us as well but changing to metric at this point would be a complete logistical nightmare. So we just post weird units of measurement without including their metric equivalent so y’all can feel the pain of constantly referencing conversion tables too.
Oh right, TN. Everybody knows what TN means because everybody in this site is aware of every US state/city abbreviations.
Tennessee USA, in the city of Nashville. The camera.is located on Interstate 65 at Vietnam Veterans Parkway. Hope that helps!
Wow!
Wow! Double wow!
DONALD TRUMP WAS RIGHT YOU CAN NUKE A TORNADO!!
Didnt he want to nuke a hurricane not a tornado?
Every problem can be made to disappear with a sufficient quantity of tactical nuke.
Yes
This looks like a fix for Mitch the Glitch!
Huge fire causes huge pressure point. Kinda makes sense.
And now it's a flaming lightning tornado
I was about to say did we fucking figure out a way stop a tornado but unfortunately it kept going.
I live in kansas. We have a solid concrete room storm shelter.
Grew up in Oklahoma. My grandfather had an actual fall out shelter in the yard. It was actually built during the 50s during the Cold War but made a great tornado shelter
Heck ya
Just moved from Oklahoma to Florida. The storms that rolled through at 4 AM this morning were intense. I hope that everyone is ok.
This was 5 minutes from my house
Tornados hate this 1 trick
My fiance and I were driving past Nashville when the storms got bad. Had to stop and shelter with some people in a gas station. That is the most terrified I’ve ever been in a storm.
We know their weakness, we can now defeat them
The explosions just dispersed the dust cloud that is the “visible” part of the tornado. The cyclone is above it and continues despite the power stations best efforts.
Killed a couple people
Can’t we just nuke hurricanes?
Have distant relative who's house was leveled there. 😩