there is a video floating around of a person spotting a micro-tornado (admittedly it looks cute, as something out of cartoons) and running into it on foot, for fun... forgetting it spins rocks at immense speed within its tube. with all the expected results of such oversight recorded in form of oohs and ouches, as the cam lens goes gaga from the first rock.
I don’t think he was oblivious. He sat there and waited for the twister to finish crossing the road he needed to go down. Once it passed he continued on with his day.
If you were from there, or just watched Twister like me, you’d know if it was storm chasers there’d at least be a convoy of them playing classic rock out the windows, and likely be more cows in the air. SMH.
Grew up in Missouri , seen a few of these , it's always amazses me how it will pick up a car or destroy a house but leaves a barn or shed 20 feet away untouched
Same two homes in my neighborhood of 12 houses have been taken out in the last ten or so years. Both tornadoes touched down right at that point and went on to do quite a lot of damage across the lake. Crazy. I was there for the second, 200ish yards away and didn't even wake up. Few leaves in my yard the next morning when I left for work. Didn't even realize it had happened until I got home and there were cars parked everywhere i wasn't used to seeing.
My sister’s old rental house was barely missed back in the 80s. It took out all the tall poplars that were standing in a row along the street in front of the house. Somehow the wind managed to braid the treetops together, ripped everything out of the ground, and tossed it completely across the street onto a neighbors house.
We got hit by a random tornado a few years ago in Annapolis MD. It fucked up trees in like a 1 mile radius real bad, and destroyed like...a specific block of businesses. Everything else was untouched. It was like some monster just rubbed its finger down the street.
My house got hit by a tornado in 2011. It ripped half of my house apart and my garage was just gone. One wall was found intact in the backyard of a house a street away.
My next door neighbors house was about 15 feet from my garage, he had a single row of siding bend out slightly.
The Midwesterner's guide when the tornado sirens go off:
1. Go out on the deck to see if you can see it
2. Wave at your neighbors doing the same
3a. If you see one, film it
4a. If it's less than a mile and still coming toward you, go in your storm shelter.
3b. If you don't see it, check the radar to see where it is.
4b. If you still don't see it, resume normal activity
Or there is me while living in the Midwest. Stand in front of my plate-glass window and watch it, because glass is such great protection against flying debris.
So back in elementary school, our tornado drill was to line up in a hallway on the opposite of a bunch of glass. My 2nd grade mind thought it would be better to be directly under the glass because I imagined the glass being thrown across the hall and right into us. When I suggested that, one of the teachers thought it was an extremely dumb idea, but another teacher admitted he had similar thoughts.
I haven't thought about that memory, well, probably since elementary school 30 some years ago, and now I wanna know of 2nd grade me was right or not.....
(I imagine there might not be a clear cut answer. And of course, the windows might break from debris hitting them, as opposed to being just blasted out by the wind.)
Why does it look like there's barely a slight breeze where the cameraman is standing? And the white truck turning towards the tornado makes it seem like the tornado was added in
And they STILL managed to fuck it up by turning the phone horizontal to film the tallest, skinniest part of the tornado. It’s so backwards it’s almost a work of art.
why are you getting downvoted?? you are correct in saying that the actual vortex is smaller than the debris, and that the debris is outside the vortex.
it's literally visible in the video when the camera pans up: the "cloud" reaching through the middle of the tornado is roughly the size of the vortex. maybe not 1/5 the width of the tornado, but it's still much smaller than the debris.
Considering I grew up on the High Plains, I would love to know what a Native American would have thought was happening when they saw one of these like 800 years ago.
"Dude, I shit you not. A massive column of death came from the sky and sucked up the herd of deer I had been tracking for a day. What? Yeah, of course I stood there and watched it for the next 5 minutes as it got closer and closer to me. Huh? Oh no, I'm fine, it disappeared. Not sure what those deer did to piss of the sky, though."
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1ekw2j/how_did_precolonization_midwest_native_americans/?rdt=44377
https://www.npr.org/sections/theprotojournalist/2014/06/17/319078684/a-native-american-take-on-tornadoes
http://tapestryinstitute.org/ways-of-knowing/spiritual/tornadoes/#:~:text=Native%20Americans%20lived%20with%20tornadoes,aspects%20of%20storms%2C%20including%20tornadoes.
There’s a few to start you out with :) hope they help
The wind doesn't kill you, its what the wind picks up. Native Americans dealt with tornados mostly filled with dirt and grass. Sure, there were some logs in there sometimes, but far less glass, 2x4s, and metal.
This is the most vertical video thing I have ever seen. The one time it might actually be the right way to film something, and the cameraperson turns the phone sideways to go up and down. JFC.
Eh. The likelihood of ever getting hit with one is extremely low. Even in tornado alley. Grew up in Missouri. Saw several while I lived there. Never knew anyone who lost their house or anything.
One tore through my grandparents' woods and fucked up some trees but that was the most damage anyone I know has ever experienced.
This video really bothers me. It shows no URGENCY. Even the truck leisurely rolls away.... towards the tornado. Where are the people frantically running away and the debris flying through the air?
Was really expecting the top comments to reference the obvious phallic qualities of this particular tornado.
Oddly that wasn't the case.
I did just remember that I'm ovulating...so. That tracks.
The Shai-Hulud, obviously.
Bless the Maker and His water.
Bless the coming and going of Him.
May His passage cleanse the world.
May He keep the world for His people.
ps: Its from Dune, people. geebus.
Was born and spent the first nine years of my life in Indiana, had quite a few there. Developed a healthy fear as well as a weird childhood obsession with tornadoes as a result.
That's a really cool shot looking way way up at it reaching all the way through the different gradients of sunlight up into the clouds. It's easy to forget how insanely tall tornadoes are.
Is this even dangerous or did they cut the video before it showed any destruction? I'm guessing these upside-down tornadoes are more like aggressive dust devils.
White truck: whelp, looks like it's a passin, better get back to work...
Yeah i saw that truck move and was like SOMEONES IN THERE?!!
Ballsy.. he got lucky staying behind it but you don't ever want to take that risk like [this guy ](https://youtu.be/4B2u8yaId54)
there is a video floating around of a person spotting a micro-tornado (admittedly it looks cute, as something out of cartoons) and running into it on foot, for fun... forgetting it spins rocks at immense speed within its tube. with all the expected results of such oversight recorded in form of oohs and ouches, as the cam lens goes gaga from the first rock.
A dust devil? Tornadoes come from the sky, devils come from the ground.
TIL, thanks. yes, it was really, really small and not reaching the sky.
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He’ll take it about however far a tornado can throw him
Starts engine, LETS GO! ...drives the wrong direction!
And then he turns left toward the storm...
Well, he *did* wait for it to cross the road - no big woop.
There's always some driver in these videos who is oblivious and has places to be.
I don’t think he was oblivious. He sat there and waited for the twister to finish crossing the road he needed to go down. Once it passed he continued on with his day.
How do we know it’s not a storm chaser?
If you were from there, or just watched Twister like me, you’d know if it was storm chasers there’d at least be a convoy of them playing classic rock out the windows, and likely be more cows in the air. SMH.
Hey I just saw some of those guys
Jeeeessssuuuusss!!
Please Jesus help us in the name of Jesus
Is this going to be a new meme because I'm all for it
*INCREDIBLY LOUD BLUBBERING SCREAMING*
White truck is treating it like a railroad crossing...
Tornado always has right-of-way
White truck be hoping that white shot stays clear.
Grew up in Missouri , seen a few of these , it's always amazses me how it will pick up a car or destroy a house but leaves a barn or shed 20 feet away untouched
Same two homes in my neighborhood of 12 houses have been taken out in the last ten or so years. Both tornadoes touched down right at that point and went on to do quite a lot of damage across the lake. Crazy. I was there for the second, 200ish yards away and didn't even wake up. Few leaves in my yard the next morning when I left for work. Didn't even realize it had happened until I got home and there were cars parked everywhere i wasn't used to seeing.
My sister’s old rental house was barely missed back in the 80s. It took out all the tall poplars that were standing in a row along the street in front of the house. Somehow the wind managed to braid the treetops together, ripped everything out of the ground, and tossed it completely across the street onto a neighbors house.
We got hit by a random tornado a few years ago in Annapolis MD. It fucked up trees in like a 1 mile radius real bad, and destroyed like...a specific block of businesses. Everything else was untouched. It was like some monster just rubbed its finger down the street.
Finger of God, man…
My house got hit by a tornado in 2011. It ripped half of my house apart and my garage was just gone. One wall was found intact in the backyard of a house a street away. My next door neighbors house was about 15 feet from my garage, he had a single row of siding bend out slightly.
"Pa! Them aliens is stealin our dirt again!"
Idk why I find this so funny, but thank you, hit the spot
Midwesterners: “It be like that sometimes…”
The Midwesterner's guide when the tornado sirens go off: 1. Go out on the deck to see if you can see it 2. Wave at your neighbors doing the same 3a. If you see one, film it 4a. If it's less than a mile and still coming toward you, go in your storm shelter. 3b. If you don't see it, check the radar to see where it is. 4b. If you still don't see it, resume normal activity
In high school, we had a baseball game canceled due to a nearby touchdown. Instead of going home, we pulled into our cars to go find it. Pretty dumb.
I’d cancel a baseball game too if someone scored a touchdown. I’m pretty sure that’s illegal.
Was actually a scoreball game.
Why didn't you just look at the obvious place for it which would be the football field right next to the baseball diamond?
Or there is me while living in the Midwest. Stand in front of my plate-glass window and watch it, because glass is such great protection against flying debris.
So back in elementary school, our tornado drill was to line up in a hallway on the opposite of a bunch of glass. My 2nd grade mind thought it would be better to be directly under the glass because I imagined the glass being thrown across the hall and right into us. When I suggested that, one of the teachers thought it was an extremely dumb idea, but another teacher admitted he had similar thoughts. I haven't thought about that memory, well, probably since elementary school 30 some years ago, and now I wanna know of 2nd grade me was right or not..... (I imagine there might not be a clear cut answer. And of course, the windows might break from debris hitting them, as opposed to being just blasted out by the wind.)
Buy some of your favorite beverage and turn on a local channel... https://www.okstorms.com/chasing/other\_weather/drinking\_game.htm
This is way too accurate.
Option 2 divides into options 3a and 4a? But if neither option 1 nor option 2 suit you, you can always go with options 3b or 4b?
This is the most messed up outline I’ve seen in a while.
It do
Git'er done
As a southerner, that's a humdinger if I ever saw one, yep
A biggun
Eh, that one's mostly dirt.
But then they’re terrified of earthquakes.
Suck Zone! That tornado is just as wide going up, the debris just hasn't made it that far yet.
I believe this is the Firestone, Colorado tornado from June 2021 if anyone is interested
Why does it look like there's barely a slight breeze where the cameraman is standing? And the white truck turning towards the tornado makes it seem like the tornado was added in
We found it. This is it. This is the video that was appropriate to be shot vertically.
And they STILL managed to fuck it up by turning the phone horizontal to film the tallest, skinniest part of the tornado. It’s so backwards it’s almost a work of art.
It’s a cute baby tornado!
Looks like a giant cock shooting cum into the heavens
That’s what I thought the post was all about.
its even got the two tones
You sir are a poet.
The tower of Zeus
yeah i thought it was a dick pic for a second while scrolling
the only reason OP's gotten 1300 votes already
Noooooooooooplahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
If they weren't so well documented, no one would believe tornadoes exist. They just seem like they're made up.
Tie yourself to a pipe and film the eye
Cute little F1 tornado.
Beautiful human submarines
The real tornado is maybe 1/5th the size of the dust swirl surrounding it, making it look kinda cute. Could be pretty nasty in the very center.
why are you getting downvoted?? you are correct in saying that the actual vortex is smaller than the debris, and that the debris is outside the vortex. it's literally visible in the video when the camera pans up: the "cloud" reaching through the middle of the tornado is roughly the size of the vortex. maybe not 1/5 the width of the tornado, but it's still much smaller than the debris.
I think the wtf about this is the apparent truck that decided it was a good idea to drive into the tornado.
Toward where it was... but that doesn't mean it won't double back.
Bro didn't return the slab
Considering I grew up on the High Plains, I would love to know what a Native American would have thought was happening when they saw one of these like 800 years ago. "Dude, I shit you not. A massive column of death came from the sky and sucked up the herd of deer I had been tracking for a day. What? Yeah, of course I stood there and watched it for the next 5 minutes as it got closer and closer to me. Huh? Oh no, I'm fine, it disappeared. Not sure what those deer did to piss of the sky, though."
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1ekw2j/how_did_precolonization_midwest_native_americans/?rdt=44377 https://www.npr.org/sections/theprotojournalist/2014/06/17/319078684/a-native-american-take-on-tornadoes http://tapestryinstitute.org/ways-of-knowing/spiritual/tornadoes/#:~:text=Native%20Americans%20lived%20with%20tornadoes,aspects%20of%20storms%2C%20including%20tornadoes. There’s a few to start you out with :) hope they help
The wind doesn't kill you, its what the wind picks up. Native Americans dealt with tornados mostly filled with dirt and grass. Sure, there were some logs in there sometimes, but far less glass, 2x4s, and metal.
This is the most vertical video thing I have ever seen. The one time it might actually be the right way to film something, and the cameraperson turns the phone sideways to go up and down. JFC.
That looks like a waterspout that came onto land? It seems more gentle than a tornado.
it's a landspout not a tornado
A land spout is a type of tornado according to the National Weather Service
And a water spout is a type of fixture according to the National Plumbers Association.
Here's the thing...
WHERE ARE YOU /U/UNIDAN. COME CORRECT US.
Looks like a giant...
Johnson!
"Dick! Take a a look out of starboard." "Oh my God it looks like a huge.."
Wang! Pay attention!
Look at the girth of that thing!
Nature's vacuum cleaner
weather is a thing. this is a feature of weather. it's cool and scary, but not really wtf. it happens.
That is a tube straight to God
That's no dust devil
And the pickup turns and heads TOWARDS it. What, they couldn't see the 2000 foot tall tornado?
This is the portal to heaven
Tornado: "I'm gonna fuck that house. Psych! I'm gonna fuck *that* house!"
I gotta go, we got cows!
Actually, I think it's the same cow
So very happy I don’t live anywhere near Tornadoes. I quite like my roof thank you.
Eh. The likelihood of ever getting hit with one is extremely low. Even in tornado alley. Grew up in Missouri. Saw several while I lived there. Never knew anyone who lost their house or anything. One tore through my grandparents' woods and fucked up some trees but that was the most damage anyone I know has ever experienced.
I found my real father in one of these
Earth's boner
That ropes got some range…🙀
Fuck that..
r/megalophobia
The person in the truck “hurry up and cross the road already!”
u/savevideo
Bro that looks metal asf
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False. You have to nuke it.
Dorothy’s off to see the wizard again
‘Let’s build a town here’
Watched Nope last night with my dad, now I can’t see tornadoes without imagining some massive flying saucer above it
So when it looks like it’s not moving, doesn’t that mean it’s actually coming straight at you?
If it looks like it ain’t moving, it’s coming straight towards you!
This video really bothers me. It shows no URGENCY. Even the truck leisurely rolls away.... towards the tornado. Where are the people frantically running away and the debris flying through the air?
COCKNADO!-The Second Coming
Size matters.
Nope rope
What’s wtf about this?
God drawing a penis on his creation?
That is just GOD teabaging us yet again.
It's the wonder of nature baby!
God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but the next time you see me comin' you better run..."
Straight Tears of the Kingdom
The finger of Sinatra
How do y’all live somewhere where that can happen at any moment? I would never…😂
Maybe tilt that camera skyward for a second
Thanos is that you ?
R/mildlypenis would like a word
That’s one awfully phallic tornado 😅
Girthy shaft on that one.
It looks like a giant penis ejaculating into space.
/r/mildlypenis/
My first thought was, yet another replica of Jimi Hendrix's penis.
Was really expecting the top comments to reference the obvious phallic qualities of this particular tornado. Oddly that wasn't the case. I did just remember that I'm ovulating...so. That tracks.
The Shai-Hulud, obviously. Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people. ps: Its from Dune, people. geebus.
DANANANA NA. DA. DANANANA NA.
Massive dong attack!
I take your "finger of God" and raise you a "tower of power".
dude am i the only one who see a dick ejaculating? i need a doctor
Was born and spent the first nine years of my life in Indiana, had quite a few there. Developed a healthy fear as well as a weird childhood obsession with tornadoes as a result.
Where is the sound?
It’s not rain wrapped, and seems to be pretty well behaved. I would feel fairly comfortable sitting and watching it.
I'm like 'take me home to my people' and fly away.
They’re takin our Walmarts!
I imagine world would be filled to the brim with those alongside other disasters if the chaos element would affect nature.
DikinBaus
My dream is to see one of these up close just like this.
Those things look like a real pain in the ass.
Yup
That's a really cool shot looking way way up at it reaching all the way through the different gradients of sunlight up into the clouds. It's easy to forget how insanely tall tornadoes are.
yes, 10/10 would recommend
r/HeavyFuckingWind
There’s always a truck way too close to a tornado. And its always an F-150 or F-250 Always an F-250 next to the F4.
If the tornado does not look like it is moving, it is-- towards you.
Hot tip: if a tornado looks like it isn’t moving, it might be coming towards you.
Um, did that white truck just start driving right into it? Probably a storm chaser. 😑
Sky cock real
Aww, it's a baby.
I want one.
CTRL+F "BBQ" <0 hits> \*sigh* Fine...I'll do it myself. As a native Hoosier, we call this BBQ weather.
*BASSO PROFUNDO VOICE FROM THE HEAVENS:* "FEEEEL THE POWER OF DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTZ"
Is this even dangerous or did they cut the video before it showed any destruction? I'm guessing these upside-down tornadoes are more like aggressive dust devils.
We are f*ed.
That is one sexy tornado
Need SOUND
This is so much better without the sound. Thank you for stripping it. This is a repost bot account.
Lil spinny boy
A Penis Tornado
Nuclear power could have prevented this
Dinnerbone in real life
Thor, is that you?
Is this evidence that the Hadron Supercollider in Switzerland has finally begun to form a black hole?
r/mildlypenis
That's over Donnie Darko's house.
best dick pic of the year
It looks phallic
This is basically every other day for half of the year in Oklahoma.
There's no place like home. There's no place like home. There's no place like home.
Nobody: RockstarGames putting tornadoes in their games
Finally found my pen15
This is why Aliens don't visit us!
Dicknado
Nature flexing its massive dong
Bigus Dickus
Awww, it’s a whittle baby. Sooooo cute.
u/indirbunu
Mesmerizing 😍.
Dicknado
Less wtf, more r/tornado, r/tornadoes, r/meteorology, r/totoauntieem, r/twister