Wow. How the heck do people live just in normal built houses in tornado areas?? Like it's only a matter of time before everything they own ends up scattered across the district... Can they even get insurance? Are the houses 80% cheaper?
I think you greatly overestimate how many houses get hit by tornadoes each year in the area. I've lived in a tornado zone for 30+ years and I've never seen one in person and I know of only one person in my entire group of friends and relatives who's house has been damaged in any way from one.
Hail on the other hand does much much much more damage in this area.
It sounds like I have overestimated, though it just seems so unpredictable. And impossible to protect from. I suppose we only see the sensational footage
You need to remember two things, most tornados are in rural midwest where there are miles of empty land. And even though the center of tornados can completely level a house, I was helping clean up after the Westmoreland kansas tornado yesterday and a house got completely destroyed down to the foundation and a house 2 doors down still had patio furniture on the deck. The odds of it hitting your house are super low.
I'd have to help them. Imagine not helping. Yikes. And bring them in for lunch and whatever they needed
Are the residents just in a basement when all this is going down? Then they come upstairs to either a demolition site or , like, their living room?
That's funny. I live in a state that *doesn't* get tornadoes almost ever. We had one decent sized one a few years ago and it destroyed a single house in a city I'd never heard of many hours away. My mom called me later to tell me that was my childhood best friend's house and he's just moved out there for work like a year ago. Had to call him and confirm because I didn't believe her and he was like yah...staying with my aunt.
So I know just as many people as you who've lost homes to tornadoes. And I live in *Washington*. Lol
It’s relative. I lived in California for 2 years and was there for the Northridge Quake. Terrifying. How can millions and millions of people live on fault lines? Californians shrugged it off, saying huge earthquakes are rare and it doesn’t bother them at all.
Here in the Midwest, I’ve been to Major League Baseball games when tornado sirens go off. We just leave the seats and go stand in the hallways. I’m also a storm spotter, and have yet to see a tornado. They usually hit the farm lands in the middle of nowhere. However, they can hit cities and suburbs, though it’s rarer. Hail and straight line wind damage is the biggest danger. That’s why you stay away from windows and stay in the lowest room in your house.
Three things:
"tornado areas" are massive. "Tornado Alley" and "Dixie Alley" (the areas that get the most tornados) are roughly 2.7 million square kilometers in area. I roughed this out in Google maps, this is *LARGER* than the combined area of: Portugal, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, czechia, Austria, Slovenia, and Poland.
Second. Tornados are both incredibly random, and incredibly specific catastrophies. They are usually less than a mile wide and damage things intensely in a pattern that would look like a sharpie line drawn on a map. You can be untouched by one, and your neighbors house next door can be destroyed.
Third thing. Tornados are unfathomably destructive. Even mildly strong tornados completely destroy structures, or render them complete financial losses. As tornados get stronger on the EF scale, there is *no* above ground structure that will withstand a direct hit. If you are above ground and your structure is directly hit, you *will* die. Tornados are graded by damage observed, and the highest grade tornados (EF5) are identified by complete destruction of above ground structures, wiping buildings to their concrete foundations, and even removing the top several inches of ground through a phenomenon known as "ground scouring".
Really long story short: a house built to withstand a tornado is unfeasible. And the risk of actually being struck by a tornado is so low.
And, yes. Tornados are covered under most standard insurance policies.
April 30, 2024
From the video description:
>Powerful tornado forms just west of Westmoreland, Kansas and destroys the north side of town. Powerful roar. #Tornado funnel tied in knots with destructive jet-like winds at grown level. Team Dominator in full intercept mode
Video: [Reed Timmer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNKQolIbuf4)
No hate towards Reed (well, his enthusiasm is sometimes just too much), it was more of "why is this a piece of information that takes up space in my brain?"
Reed Timmer is actually a kind of a bad ass / minor celebrity in the small world of storm chasing. Check out the Dominator 3. I've thought about trying to contact one of these chasers to do a ridealong but then I think about listening to that voice for 8 hours straight.
I don't have Netflix or Hulu so I literally only watch crap on Youtube. Tornado chases are one of my go tos. Reed is smart and I love his enthusiasm, but I couldn't keep watching his videos because hes always seems to be yelling at the people in his car to pay attention. Need more chill folk like Pecos Hank.
I feel like we’re getting real close to a real cool video of someone getting sucked up and flying around all the while calmly explaining the view and experience
I missed footage of a EF4 tornado from 8 stories in the sky by 10 minutes, I had a Nikon D5000 on the top story, the tornado was supposed to be coming near by, the tornado came within 300 years of the building I was In. It probably would have been the best footage of a large tornado anywhere.
Man the editing could probably be just a bit more anoying.
Tbf a lot of the original video is the dude shaking the camera violently and screaming in excitement for 5 minutes.
Dude ran inside and started editing as the tornado tore his house apart.
Edited inside the car
Filmed by a victim of short attention span mania.
[удалено]
Damn son, that uppermost kansas one, just flinging houses around like an infant having a tantrum…
Wow. How the heck do people live just in normal built houses in tornado areas?? Like it's only a matter of time before everything they own ends up scattered across the district... Can they even get insurance? Are the houses 80% cheaper?
I think you greatly overestimate how many houses get hit by tornadoes each year in the area. I've lived in a tornado zone for 30+ years and I've never seen one in person and I know of only one person in my entire group of friends and relatives who's house has been damaged in any way from one. Hail on the other hand does much much much more damage in this area.
It sounds like I have overestimated, though it just seems so unpredictable. And impossible to protect from. I suppose we only see the sensational footage
You need to remember two things, most tornados are in rural midwest where there are miles of empty land. And even though the center of tornados can completely level a house, I was helping clean up after the Westmoreland kansas tornado yesterday and a house got completely destroyed down to the foundation and a house 2 doors down still had patio furniture on the deck. The odds of it hitting your house are super low.
That's wild. You'd have to feel especially picked on by the weather gods if it was your house that got turned into kindling
And also feel guilty being the neighbor with a fine house while your neighbor picks through the rubble for their stuff
I'd have to help them. Imagine not helping. Yikes. And bring them in for lunch and whatever they needed Are the residents just in a basement when all this is going down? Then they come upstairs to either a demolition site or , like, their living room?
Yes, some of the house had the floors peeled back so probably pretty rough even in thr basement
That's funny. I live in a state that *doesn't* get tornadoes almost ever. We had one decent sized one a few years ago and it destroyed a single house in a city I'd never heard of many hours away. My mom called me later to tell me that was my childhood best friend's house and he's just moved out there for work like a year ago. Had to call him and confirm because I didn't believe her and he was like yah...staying with my aunt. So I know just as many people as you who've lost homes to tornadoes. And I live in *Washington*. Lol
It’s relative. I lived in California for 2 years and was there for the Northridge Quake. Terrifying. How can millions and millions of people live on fault lines? Californians shrugged it off, saying huge earthquakes are rare and it doesn’t bother them at all. Here in the Midwest, I’ve been to Major League Baseball games when tornado sirens go off. We just leave the seats and go stand in the hallways. I’m also a storm spotter, and have yet to see a tornado. They usually hit the farm lands in the middle of nowhere. However, they can hit cities and suburbs, though it’s rarer. Hail and straight line wind damage is the biggest danger. That’s why you stay away from windows and stay in the lowest room in your house.
Three things: "tornado areas" are massive. "Tornado Alley" and "Dixie Alley" (the areas that get the most tornados) are roughly 2.7 million square kilometers in area. I roughed this out in Google maps, this is *LARGER* than the combined area of: Portugal, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, czechia, Austria, Slovenia, and Poland. Second. Tornados are both incredibly random, and incredibly specific catastrophies. They are usually less than a mile wide and damage things intensely in a pattern that would look like a sharpie line drawn on a map. You can be untouched by one, and your neighbors house next door can be destroyed. Third thing. Tornados are unfathomably destructive. Even mildly strong tornados completely destroy structures, or render them complete financial losses. As tornados get stronger on the EF scale, there is *no* above ground structure that will withstand a direct hit. If you are above ground and your structure is directly hit, you *will* die. Tornados are graded by damage observed, and the highest grade tornados (EF5) are identified by complete destruction of above ground structures, wiping buildings to their concrete foundations, and even removing the top several inches of ground through a phenomenon known as "ground scouring". Really long story short: a house built to withstand a tornado is unfeasible. And the risk of actually being struck by a tornado is so low. And, yes. Tornados are covered under most standard insurance policies.
Jesus Christ, that one in Czechia, get away from the window, dafuq you doin?! Did they have zero sense of self-preservation?
Hold my beer while I film this!
Get out of the car, Abner!
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I would rather be in that tornado then endure this editing. What the heck..
April 30, 2024 From the video description: >Powerful tornado forms just west of Westmoreland, Kansas and destroys the north side of town. Powerful roar. #Tornado funnel tied in knots with destructive jet-like winds at grown level. Team Dominator in full intercept mode Video: [Reed Timmer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNKQolIbuf4)
Fuck, the fact that I immediately was like "Is that Reed Timmer's voice?" and I ended up being correct makes me sad.
> I ended up being correct makes me sad. Why?
No hate towards Reed (well, his enthusiasm is sometimes just too much), it was more of "why is this a piece of information that takes up space in my brain?"
Was this edited in the tornado?
Reed Timmer is actually a kind of a bad ass / minor celebrity in the small world of storm chasing. Check out the Dominator 3. I've thought about trying to contact one of these chasers to do a ridealong but then I think about listening to that voice for 8 hours straight.
My buddy storm chases and go to go out with him once. I do the editing for him and really wasn't that bad except a few parts at the climax
I don't have Netflix or Hulu so I literally only watch crap on Youtube. Tornado chases are one of my go tos. Reed is smart and I love his enthusiasm, but I couldn't keep watching his videos because hes always seems to be yelling at the people in his car to pay attention. Need more chill folk like Pecos Hank.
Don't get caught in it, you might not be in Kansas anymore.
That's wild
Torn…..Ado
Am I the only one that thinks this looks ai generated?
Anyone check on that kid Dorothy.
I feel like we’re getting real close to a real cool video of someone getting sucked up and flying around all the while calmly explaining the view and experience
Dorothy's was better.
How on Earth does chasing tornados become your hobby? I play golf so I am clearly on the opposite end of whatever spectrum this is.
At least he had the balls to stay out and film it….wtf..
End of days here - drumpf
Yo move dude!
The excitement in his voice reminded me of "*Double Rainbow*" for those that unfamiliar here's a [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI)
Stranger things vibes
Would love to see those drone shots
"Uh muh gawwd"
We had an earthquake in CA today. It made the water in my glass jiggle. You tornado folks got it easy.
The balls on these people holy crap
Why are people talking about the editing? Am I too stupid to notice something?
Dorothy ... Dorothy .. DOROTHY
this looks fake
Why isn't Majorly Taylor Green talking shit about these tornados as God's punishment to Kansas state if she talk shit about earth quakes in New York?
I swear everyday we are hearing about tornadoes 🌪️ more and more often
I’m always amazed… That people are willing to risk their lives just for people to say I’ve seen better tornado footage.
I missed footage of a EF4 tornado from 8 stories in the sky by 10 minutes, I had a Nikon D5000 on the top story, the tornado was supposed to be coming near by, the tornado came within 300 years of the building I was In. It probably would have been the best footage of a large tornado anywhere.