Holy cow a tornado

Damn, I just got home and clicked on Fox News so I could bask in the greatness of our president only to find one of those weather warnings beebing in tv. About five minutes later boom a tornado blast through. Three big healthy trees snapped like twigs and one is partly resting on my car. Hope it’s not too bad I’m scared to look. Before we lost power I heard someone is stuck in a car 3 people with a tree on them. Wish me luck on my car. Some how I feel this is [MENTIONENTION]s fault when he prays for white genocide every night

May is the worst month for tornadoes. Where do you live again?

He lives in New England. I didn't think tornadoes went up there in the woods

Ya I’m in Connecticut @TitoFan very very rare to get a tornado. It was so violent entire house shaking, no power, trees on my car. I guess that’s farm league to you though

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Ya I’m in Connecticut @TitoFan very very rare to get a tornado. It was so violent entire house shaking, no power, trees on my car. I guess that’s farm league to you though

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Believe it or not, tornadoes are scarier. They come up out of nowhere, and it's only now with technology that people have a little time to prepare and/or get the hell out of the way. Hurricanes are huge and in many ways more devastating... but they give you plenty of advance notice. We're still trying to get Trump to forget about Mexico and put the wall between the Caribbean and NW Africa.

@TitoFan yeah but after what you guys went through with six straight months without any power that nonsense up there in New England it's like a little kitty party

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@TitoFan yeah but after what you guys went through with six straight months without any power that nonsense up there in New England it's like a little kitty party

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It was a perfect storm (pardon the pun) scenario, bro. Cat 5 hurricane.... less than perfect infrastructure.... worst path possible right through the island (no town was spared).
I had suffered through Hugo (1989) and Georges (1998 ), but they all bow to Maria.

Unbelievable. No place in America ever had such Devastation but Americans like to whine and complain about little things like a little bit of flooding

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Unbelievable. No place in America ever had such Devastation but Americans like to whine and complain about little things like a little bit of flooding

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Adding to the misery was that communications were completely knocked out. Family members and friends living Stateside were horrified watching the TV coverage, and then not being able to reach anyone down here. The loss of communications wreaked havoc on gasoline and goods deliveries, which amplified the problems for millions of us here. I'm telling you bro, there was a lot of anguish during those first days/ weeks.

Still.... I'm thankful we don't have any tornadoes down here. ;D

Tornadoes are the assholes of major weather events. A flood hits everyone, a hurricane hits everyone, tsunami, earthquake, everyone.....a tornado is like fuck Dave's house, fuck George's house, you're ok Tyler, you're ok Jane.....fuck you Todd!



I'm glad that you are ok. We get tornadoes here all the time. They are not as dramatic looking as they are out west. The hills keep them from doing as much damage too.

Well I finally heard it was a tornado with a nine mile swath top winds estimated at 129 and over. My area looks like a FEMA project. Still no power and I think it’ll be a week at least already been 3 days. Also cell service sucks. Must have lost a toweR. I’m quite lucky. Cut my car out of the tree that fell on it, dent on the trunk and a few scratches, much better than the people down the street who when u drive by the house you can see into the living room. Mother Nature is tough, I give her a lot of credit

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Well I finally heard it was a tornado with a nine mile swath top winds estimated at 129 and over. My area looks like a FEMA project. Still no power and I think it’ll be a week at least already been 3 days. Also cell service sucks. Must have lost a toweR. I’m quite lucky. Cut my car out of the tree that fell on it, dent on the trunk and a few scratches, much better than the people down the street who when u drive by the house you can see into the living room. Mother Nature is tough, I give her a lot of credit

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Glad you didn't end up with your boots sticking out from underneath a wooden house anyways. We are lucky in the UK to never get extreme weather. Extremely monotonous at times but nothing like you guys on the other side of the pond get.

We actually get a surprisingly high number of tornados in the U.K. every year, but they don't last as long as in other wide open places and certainly cause less devastation.

We had a few small ones last couple of years. I've only been in the middle of a touchdown when I was a wee brat kid living in Tulsa. House had the whole storm shelter etc and I was clipped in the head by a metal pale. Explains a bit.

I suppose any tornado is alarming and dangerous. But an F5 must be an awesome and terrifying thing to see and experience.

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We actually get a surprisingly high number of tornados in the U.K. every year, but they don't last as long as in other wide open places and certainly cause less devastation.

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Having said that, most U.K. Tornados tend to be in the Midlands.

A gigantic apocalyptic tornado could howl straight through the centre of Dudley, devastating everything in its path ...... and there would still only be £15 worth of damage

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I have to explain a few things about walrus for those of you who are not from the northeast of the United States of America. walrus tends to say things that he doesn't really mean to say for example he says it F5 he's probably just talkin about the way he rates his coworkers. For example one of those coworkers didn't know how to use a forklift on a Bobcat so he had to show him how to do it and he only rated him about an F3

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I have to explain a few things about walrus for those of you who are not from the northeast of the United States of America. walrus tends to say things that he doesn't really mean to say for example he says it F5 he's probably just talkin about the way he rates his coworkers. For example one of those coworkers didn't know how to use a forklift on a Bobcat so he had to show him how to do it and he only rated him about an F3

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If u are talking about tornado ratings I think they said this was an F1 or 2 but I’m not sure how the scale works. If F1 is the lowest than damn F5 must be a mess. They also reported it was followed by a micro or macro burst which I guess can be worse than a tornado as they cover a larger area. I’m behind on the news what with the no power. Last year Bridgeport got hit with one that way up on the scale and took out all of state street. Training people on the bobcat is scary cause it has two levers for steering and if you carry o load and turn wrong the one we have would tip over l, block the exit and I’d probably need to smash a window to get them out. Bobcats are a lot of fun.?

That's if you are in a harness can you change a 9000 pound engine block

Ok so if a F1 has 120 mph wind and the macro burst 130 to 140 here WTF do the larger catersgories have.i ive been through hurricanes that topped 160mph and did less damage, I guess it’s all about where u are

There's a scale incrementally but Gail half scale full gale cyclone tornado typhoon

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EpI3nwGc8Q0

This is a vid my friend posted don’t know if u can see it. It’s actually not as bad as my area or other parts that crews can’t get to yet ..... sad

Damn power came on this morn I’m very impressed with the power crews. We didn’t just lose power lines we lost poles all over as well. Four days without power was bad but they estimated a week so I’m pleased. It has been nice, despite my broken finger I’ve been making the rounds with my chainsaw helping friends and neighbors and a buddy helped me cut my car out and clear my driveway. Honestly the heart of that storm lasted about five minutes it’s impressive the amount of damage done.

Our power company put this link up on twatter this is a small portion of my area
https://mobile.twitter.com/Eversourc...552002/video/1

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Originally Posted by X

We actually get a surprisingly high number of tornados in the U.K. every year, but they don't last as long as in other wide open places and certainly cause less devastation.

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Having said that, most U.K. Tornados tend to be in the Midlands.

A gigantic apocalyptic tornado could howl straight through the centre of Dudley, devastating everything in its path ...... and there would still only be £15 worth of damage

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That was very scary and it caused about £17.50 worth of damage I have you know. :mad: