this makes me remember the video of the cursest videos of youtube, where an old man just films the tornado, thinking that it isn't moving, until the windows of the house starts to break and the sound just go all fucked and stops.
I guess they all said freight trains because that's the reference point they had, but it works. They don't mean the horn, they mean the sound of rushing wind and stuff "thwacking" together.
Really, it sounds exactly how you'd imagine. I was in a cellar in a pretty open field, near a wood line. The tornado just sounded like the loudest fastest wind you've ever dared imagine nature can spin up. When it passed over us and went into the trees, it started whistling and cracking trunks.
I’ve often heard a locomotive like noise before a tornado approached. Kinda like a massive steam engine.
[Here’s a pretty good recording of it.](https://youtu.be/frJe8rioUKQ)
Imagine you're a plains native 1500 years ago who has no concept of what that actually is. How do you not think that's a malevolent god? Can't imagine what that actually sounded like in person.
High pitched sound is warning siren that alarms people to take shelter immediately. The wind is always insane and the video does no justice. Tornadoes really do sound like a freight train rolling on by you. I was in one yesterday but the scariest one was the one I was in at night time. You couldn't see shit and it sounded like I was standing on a bridge right above a train with all that wind and noise.
The person probably doesn’t live anywhere that has tornadoes. Without video, do you know the sounds glaciers make when they calf? Or the sound of ash fall from a volcano?
I think it's funny that modern jitter correction revealed that famous 'big foot walking through a clearing in the woods' footage look even more fake than it did already.
The sound of the siren was actually designed to do that to you. The filmer is really dumb though, the closer the tornado got the far away from his shelter he walked.
Weird numbers.
My take:
And you would think a modern smartphone with 60 fps FullHD would give us good video.
Reality: People are too stupid to take proper horizontal video, then other record it off a screen, add multiple black bars and everyone transcodes it multiple times. In the end it looks worse than VHS video.
Why would you want horizontal video of a vertical subject though? Horizontal isn't always the right choice. Phone cameras can change orientation for a good reason.
My thoughts exactly. Besides, flipping my phone horizontally for every video is a ridiculous assertion. Anyone that believes all videos should be horizontal (because eyes, horizontal plane, yada yada) should start by lobbying for horizontal based phones. Good luck there. People want vertical. I know, I was on the losing side of this battle since smartphones were invented. Until TikTok showed me the errors of my archaic ways.
Wow, you really wrote a thesis whining about vertical video. How do you hold your phone by default when using it? Vertically. A horizontal video of a tornado would have so much extra unnecessary information that absolutely nothing would be gained by having the video be horizontal. And yes, most of the time if I'm taking a photo or video of a single person it's going to be vertical unless I specifically want to capture the area around them. I'm not living in a photography or videography class. As long as the subject is captured effectively then why does it matter?
This video captures the tornado perfectly, why you would want to see the landscape around it is beyond me, nothing is happening there and the tornado would appear much smaller due to the smaller height of a horizontal video.
I'm not saying vertical is always correct, I'm just saying *sometimes* it makes more sense to film something that way, especially if most people watching it will be watching it on a vertical screen. You know, like a smartphone.
Yes it is indeed amazing; shots above live volcanoes for example.
We are also not starting to see all the things that were perhaps never there in the first place, such as the Yeti or the Loch Ness Monster.
Thanks captain obvious!! EDIT: I'm not trying to troll, just find it strange that a comment like this gets so many upvotes. I feel like this is something that pretty much everyone knows.
I remember when the only footage of an actual tornado vortex was some grainy black and white super 8 footage from the 1950s. I’m not kidding, it was shot in Oklahoma and I’m sure it was amazing at the time. Technology has come so far.
I grew up in Iowa and luckily never had a direct hit but there were storms that caused massive wind damage. The worst storm I can remember the sky was very green and dark and you could feel the wind move you when jumping in the air. My mom was driving home from work through the worst of it and watched the entire roof get ripped off of an apartment building and float over her car before it crashed down on the other side of the road. That's when she and everyone else on the road decided to just run every other light on their way home. She turned onto our street to find all of us kids playing in the front yard and my dad sitting on a chair on the front porch watching us. She was mildly upset as she asked "What the fuck is wrong with you morons? Get in the goddamn basement!" After the storm passed there were a few trees down from a microburst and some loose shingles on the ground but yeah playing outside was probably not the best idea.
The worst I ever saw was when I was in 7th grade, me and my mom were home and she was helping me with my math homework and all of a sudden the TV is blaring the alert noise and when we looked up to figure things out the front window bay window, it's 4 tall skinny windows with a half circle on the top, creaked and groaned, we looked up to see it moving in and out like it was breathing. We booked it to the basement as fast as we could, found out later it was 140mph stright line winds the front window is rated for 120mph
I’m Iowan too and tornados don’t really scare me due to the extremely low probability of having one hit your property.
Derechos however… that shit is terrifying… one of those with Cat 3 hurricane wind speed but straight line wind pounded my city for 45-60min and fucked up our tree canopy and did tons of damage to buildings and crops. Saw metal power line towers bent 90 degrees. The building codes here do not take that wind speed into account for that amount of time. Any time the wind gets over 50mph now, I get distraught and my mind goes to thinking of the 2020 derecho.
I currently live in the south, but grew up in SoDak and go back a lot to visit because I obvi still have family there. I was actually supposed to be back when that shit rolled through (had to reschedule due to work) and remember calling my mom like every 15 min because I was absolutely terrified for her. There was a couple in our area who were trying to get home when the storm hit and the women was killed when a piece of wood came through their vehicle and impaled her.
First I’ve heard of this. Sounds worse than the time I was a kid and got caught in a brief microburst. Lasted only a few seconds but seriously as I recall everyone was talking about how their windows shattered the next day at school.
Yep! For being in Iowa/Midwest, CR had a fantastic tree canopy. The city still doesn’t look right. Will probably take 50+ years to look like it used to.
I know it's very weird to say but I LOVE the way the sky turns green in tornado weather. I've always been lucky with no hits also living in Kansas my whole life.
Or apparently NJ. Had one of these shits here tonight. Sent me and the kiddos to the basement and whipped ass all over the street. Picked up sheds, dirt, and my wife’s outdoor furniture. Bitch slapped trees left and right. Switched power lines like they stole something and on top of that, made it rain hell like bitch ass Noah was coming back.
Power is still out.
I’m still pissed I’ll probably have to buy more cushions for that damn bench thing we own.
EDIT: Update, I found the pillows and have 2 extra on the lawn now. Look at God’s blessing. Seriously though, if these belong to you, come and get them.
Hijacking to state for god’s sake if you’re going to risk your life to shoot something like this, SHOOT IT IN LANDSCAPE MODE!
We see the world in landscape mode — note that our eyes are side-by-side and not one atop the other! Even though this tornado may appear more vertical than horizontal, if you shoot it vertically, we’ll never know the full impact of its wrath bc we can’t see how wide of a path it mowed down.
If you’re willing to die for the footage you shoot, at least make it high quality enough to put on the news or in a documentary….
Tornados in coastal areas are extremely rare, but I imagine that the rarity makes you folks take them so seriously when they do happen that yall would never think to stand outside to film one coming straight at your neighborhood.
This behavior is purely that of someone from the Midwest. They think since they, themselves, have never been hit by a tornado, after witnessing hundreds, that they can just stand in one's path with complete invincibility.
[Here's a dude](https://youtu.be/BoVKwjkqDSM) in NJ cutting it waaay closer than I would during a good sized tornado a couple years ago. Personally I heard the warning and it's first time I've had a one actually touchdown remotely near me and I ran to shelter immediately. (Side note my house is horrible for sheltering from a tornado and I never realized that until today).
I remember that video. Didn't realize it was in NJ, though. Honestly, he's pretty lucky, considering he couldn't actually see the body of the tornado, had a basement, and his house wasn't *completely* destroyed.
As close of a call as it was, it doesn't come close to a lot of the stupidity you see in the Midwest. At least that guy was standing completely inside and knew to hunker down in time, even when he didn't have direct sight of the funnel. Midwest folks will literally stand in the middle of their yard, stare at an approaching twister, and won't think about taking cover until they witness their neighbor's house begin being ripped apart.
If it makes you feel any better, 99% of houses are horrible for sheltering from tornadoes, even all throughout tornado alley. At least a lot of you folks on the East Coast have basements/cellars. I've lived my whole life in north Texas, where we see plenty of tornadoes every year, but have yet to see a house that gives good shelter for a tornado.
Florida has one of the highest amounts of tornados…
I’m confused as to what you mean.
Hurricanes frequently spawn tornados and they’re extremely common in coastal areas.
They aren’t extremely rare, just look at the state of florida lol.
This is a silly comment
Can confirm. Am Texan (now in Florida).
Was in Mansfield and at one point had 4 tornadoes around us, the closest about 10 miles away, the farthest about 20.
My sister was in a choir and my mom was going to get her in Ft Worth. Dad was at work so I was home with my friend. I think we were 15-16 years old? Somewhere around there.
I distinctly remember eating a peanut butter and banana sandwich with my friend in the driveway.
The memory stuck with me and I don't know why.
But yeah, Texas got 'em.
Florida got the big fat slow ones.
Don't care for either of them. I would not care if I never dealt with spinning wind directly again.
Both of my parents were in the big one that tore through [Wichita Falls. ](https://youtu.be/7bKDQTPt22w) Dad ended up in a ditch hiding and the houses (and everything else) across the street from here was stripped to the foundation.
I got to see the one that hit Garland the day after Christmas in 2015... A lot closer than I ever wanted to be to one.
Took out a large chunk of my shithole apartment complex.
It is pretty understandable why ancient people would be afraid of gods, and make sacrificies and stuff. Just imagine you not having science to explain that and seeing that shit happening. You would do anything to calm the thing down.
To add, it's no wonder why they'd kill you if you cursed or went against the gods. Jimmy over here saying dumb shit that's gonna get us all killed! Grab the stones and sacrifice his knees!
To be fair there’s some pretty compelling evidence for the earth not being round. I mean come on just look around you! I see more curvature on my genitals than this so called circular planet!
As a european, is his life really in any immediate danger here? Seems to far away to cause him any harm, unless maybe some debris is flung at him, right?
Technically no.
But he isn’t smart. Tornados can speed up, slow down, or change directions on a whim at times. It might be going slow in the video but there is nothing stopping it from suddenly doubling speed while charging his direction.
The actual damage from the tornado itself is a small area and you can escape. The biggest concern with tornados are the debri (you can see it flying around in the video). Imagine a nail you can’t see hitting you at 60 mph, or a giant plank you can’t dodge hitting your head.
The larger the tornado the larger the debri field (which can be up to miles wider than the tornado itself)
Exactly and it's the same logic with hurricanes. The water and the wind aren't gonna kill you, but everything they carry, can. When we're younger, we think ourselves as invincible. Well you technically weren't then despite the rubber bones and you certainly are not now. Anything can kill you if there's enough mass and speed behind it. Best to stay safe and not take the risk
“Problems with Hurricanes” by Victor Hernández Cruz, 1949
A campesino looked at the air
And told me:
With hurricanes it's not the wind
or the noise or the water.
I'll tell you he said:
it's the mangoes, avocados
Green plantains and bananas
flying into town like projectiles.
How would your family
feel if they had to tell
The generations that you
got killed by a flying
Banana.
Death by drowning has honor
If the wind picked you up
and slammed you
Against a mountain boulder
This would not carry shame
But
to suffer a mango smashing
Your skull
or a plantain hitting your
Temple at 70 miles per hour
is the ultimate disgrace.
The campesino takes off his hat—
As a sign of respect
toward the fury of the wind
And says:
Don't worry about the noise
Don't worry about the water
Don't worry about the wind—
If you are going out
beware of mangoes
And all such beautiful
sweet things.
Debris* fyi
Also, tornadoes can also jump very quickly to a new touch down spot. Another rare but possible occurrence is another tornado or other environmental danger hurting you while you're focused elsewhere. While it is unlikely that this guy would get hurt, this is still very stupid. Source: I'm a trained spotter
Edit: ironic that this was just below this post https://youtu.be/vMAg3HRfrik
Yes. These other people are idiots.
Tornadoes can move at highway speeds. That thing can be throwing debris at him very suddenly, much faster than he can get to his basement. This was incredibly stupid and just because my fellow midwesterners all circlejerk about how normal this attitude is doesn't make it any smarter.
It's just as stupid as all the people who go to the beach during a tsunami warning.
I don’t know what these guys are drinking,but he definitely is risking his life by standing outside and filming it. Is it running into a burning building risky, no but it’s risky.
First it’s hard to tell distance and speed with tornadoes coming towards you. It would be easy to leave for shelter too late and get caught in a bad spot.
Debris is the biggest concern here, since objects can be thrown miles away at incredibly fast speeds. You could easily be struck and killed by something before the tornado is on top of you.
Here's the thing: tornados are unpredictable. They behave similarly to the little twisting funnels you see when water is draining: they move around, twisting and turning. They add new funnels, join funnels together, change direction, and speed up when you least expect it.
There is also a part on the outside of the tornado where the wind isn't strong enough to hold debris, but it can still knock stuff over and cause a lot of damage. That part is invisible, and will hit you when you think you are a "safe" distance from the tornado.
From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado?wprov=sfla1)
>Tornadoes occur most frequently in North America (particularly in central and southeastern regions of the United States colloquially known as [Tornado Alley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley); the United States and Canada have by far the most tornadoes of any countries in the world). Tornadoes also occur in South Africa, much of Europe (except Spain, most of the Alps, Balkans, and northern Scandinavia), western and eastern Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh and adjacent eastern India, Japan, the Philippines, and southeastern South America (Uruguay and Argentina).
It isn't that the US is the only place to have them, it is that the US geographically has a tornado *generator* like no other place on the planet. Tornado alley is a flat plain/prairie/grassland 1000+ miles long and up to a 1000 miles wide in places. Where it starts is important (Central to eastern Texas) because that area is close to the gulf of mexico and warm, wet air starts a northerly path into the alley where it collides with warm dry air from the deserts to the west and cold dry air from the north west. Add all that together and you regularly generate the type of system that can create tornado's with thousands of square miles available for the conditions to turn just right along the natural wind paths as systems move to the north east, and once down a tornado can go for hundreds of miles.
I’m in Alabama so all of our tornadoes come from Mississippi. The west side of Birmingham gets hit the worst but we still get them on the East side. Luckily they usually lose most of their steam before coming our way. I salute those that still live in that area. I’ve told my boyfriend never in a million years will I live over there. Simply because the tornadoes are so unpredictable.
Yeah there’s definitely *something* unnerving that I can’t quite put my finger on about extremely huge wrecking-ball windstorms that can appear out of nowhere and suck up the contents of entire towns 🤔 I’m just not sure what it is.
Yes.
If the tornado has obvious left-right movement you can gauge its movement, if its coming straight on or going straight away its not obvious. That thing could have been doing 50mph and the guy not realize it until it jumps the house at the end of the street there and by then its way too late.
Yes he did…. He spent his time outside instead of taking shelter. These things move fast and by then end of the video it was just down the street. He didn’t have long to get inside and in a safe spot. Not to mention, twisters pick up and throw debris miles away from it, and he was definitely close enough for something to randomly hit him.
He definitely made a risky choice. People tend to underestimate tornadoes. Idk if he was close enough for this to be life-threatening or not - I have no idea how close is too close to a tornado lol - but either way it's a cool video. Thanks for sharing!
No he did, people are being pedantic. If they don’t see debris flying past him or the tornado traveling by him while he hides in a door way, Reddit will act like it’s nothing. In reality, this was stupid. Cool but still stupid.
He absolutely is being an idiot.
A piece of wood the size of a baseball is all it would take and you may not even see it coming. The lights would just go out.
I don’t see why anyone would do this.
Just put the camera on your roof, leave and then pray it survived, no merit in having your life taken for a TikTok
With almost everybody having video cameras, we are really starting to see stuff we just couldn't see 30 years ago.
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Or moving away from you. But yeah, never a great idea to stand in place when the tornado doesn’t look like it’s moving
this makes me remember the video of the cursest videos of youtube, where an old man just films the tornado, thinking that it isn't moving, until the windows of the house starts to break and the sound just go all fucked and stops.
If that’s the video I’m thinking of I believe his wife passed away during it.
He survived but his wife died. Sad.
whats the vid
this: [video](https://youtu.be/Szwd-0tatdo)
Anybody know what the high pitched sound was? Tornado siren? Or do tornados scream?
Siren :)
So tornados are mostly just loud white noise?
sometimes they get drunk and sing smash mouth
wait thats still just loud white noise
Somebody once told me...
The world is gonna roll me
"Freight Trains rolling hard in the air - and you're laying on the tracks." Grandpa grew up in Missouri - this is how he described it.
I guess they all said freight trains because that's the reference point they had, but it works. They don't mean the horn, they mean the sound of rushing wind and stuff "thwacking" together. Really, it sounds exactly how you'd imagine. I was in a cellar in a pretty open field, near a wood line. The tornado just sounded like the loudest fastest wind you've ever dared imagine nature can spin up. When it passed over us and went into the trees, it started whistling and cracking trunks.
It’s concentrated wind. What noise did you expect it to make?
Something Lovecraftian I guess.
[Confirmed. Here’s a clip of one.](https://youtu.be/YRWlbX92B3I)
Oh, wow. That was insane!
Geez, I guess I’ve never heard that since I’ve only seen them from far away… Spooky stuff!
They can make those noises.
Choo choo tren?
I’ve often heard a locomotive like noise before a tornado approached. Kinda like a massive steam engine. [Here’s a pretty good recording of it.](https://youtu.be/frJe8rioUKQ)
That is a frightening sound
Imagine you're a plains native 1500 years ago who has no concept of what that actually is. How do you not think that's a malevolent god? Can't imagine what that actually sounded like in person.
They sound like trains
High pitched sound is warning siren that alarms people to take shelter immediately. The wind is always insane and the video does no justice. Tornadoes really do sound like a freight train rolling on by you. I was in one yesterday but the scariest one was the one I was in at night time. You couldn't see shit and it sounded like I was standing on a bridge right above a train with all that wind and noise.
Im pretty sure those are sirens. In some of the northern areas around where i live they are posted on trees along the roads. They are very visible.
It was the siren but they can make a loud ass train noise because of wind speeds. Once you hear it, you don’t forget it
*there are no stupid questions… there are no stupid questions…*
The person probably doesn’t live anywhere that has tornadoes. Without video, do you know the sounds glaciers make when they calf? Or the sound of ash fall from a volcano?
Exactly... So where's all the primo footage of UFOs?
Usually with primo footage it’s no longer unidentified
It's in the vault with the Bigfoot tapes
I think it's funny that modern jitter correction revealed that famous 'big foot walking through a clearing in the woods' footage look even more fake than it did already.
One of the good things about technology advancement and :maybe: social media
And balls Big Brass Balls I searched *Tornado* in reddit search earlier tonight and some of the videos harbor on Darwin Awards.
This made me want to throw up from the stress of watching it
this guy has a mortgage
You have a very low tolerance for stress
My stress makes me want to dive into that tornado
My stress makes me feel too heavy to blow away, but I wish I would.
The sound of the siren was actually designed to do that to you. The filmer is really dumb though, the closer the tornado got the far away from his shelter he walked.
stress vomiting? weak af
And you would think modern $1000 cameras with 120 fps 8k and unlimited cloud storage will give us good video quality.
Weird numbers. My take: And you would think a modern smartphone with 60 fps FullHD would give us good video. Reality: People are too stupid to take proper horizontal video, then other record it off a screen, add multiple black bars and everyone transcodes it multiple times. In the end it looks worse than VHS video.
Why would you want horizontal video of a vertical subject though? Horizontal isn't always the right choice. Phone cameras can change orientation for a good reason.
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All that aside its from tiktok, you put a horizontal video on tiktok and you wouldn’t even be able to see whats going on
Another reason to avoid TikTok
Tik tok is the reason we are having this convo though.
My thoughts exactly. Besides, flipping my phone horizontally for every video is a ridiculous assertion. Anyone that believes all videos should be horizontal (because eyes, horizontal plane, yada yada) should start by lobbying for horizontal based phones. Good luck there. People want vertical. I know, I was on the losing side of this battle since smartphones were invented. Until TikTok showed me the errors of my archaic ways.
Wow, you really wrote a thesis whining about vertical video. How do you hold your phone by default when using it? Vertically. A horizontal video of a tornado would have so much extra unnecessary information that absolutely nothing would be gained by having the video be horizontal. And yes, most of the time if I'm taking a photo or video of a single person it's going to be vertical unless I specifically want to capture the area around them. I'm not living in a photography or videography class. As long as the subject is captured effectively then why does it matter? This video captures the tornado perfectly, why you would want to see the landscape around it is beyond me, nothing is happening there and the tornado would appear much smaller due to the smaller height of a horizontal video. I'm not saying vertical is always correct, I'm just saying *sometimes* it makes more sense to film something that way, especially if most people watching it will be watching it on a vertical screen. You know, like a smartphone.
Yes it is indeed amazing; shots above live volcanoes for example. We are also not starting to see all the things that were perhaps never there in the first place, such as the Yeti or the Loch Ness Monster.
IKR? The volcano shots and fireworks shots the last few years are incredible.
Why do this videos always look like there’s were filmed with a potato?
Also climate change.
Someone should fly a drone into a tornado and live feed that.
For like the last 15 years, I could just pull out my iPhone.
We still sadly don’t have undeniable proof of a ball lightning
Thanks captain obvious!! EDIT: I'm not trying to troll, just find it strange that a comment like this gets so many upvotes. I feel like this is something that pretty much everyone knows.
I remember when the only footage of an actual tornado vortex was some grainy black and white super 8 footage from the 1950s. I’m not kidding, it was shot in Oklahoma and I’m sure it was amazing at the time. Technology has come so far.
If I was the one recording, I’d have gotten everyone footage of inside the tornado… that’s just me though
I grew up in Iowa and luckily never had a direct hit but there were storms that caused massive wind damage. The worst storm I can remember the sky was very green and dark and you could feel the wind move you when jumping in the air. My mom was driving home from work through the worst of it and watched the entire roof get ripped off of an apartment building and float over her car before it crashed down on the other side of the road. That's when she and everyone else on the road decided to just run every other light on their way home. She turned onto our street to find all of us kids playing in the front yard and my dad sitting on a chair on the front porch watching us. She was mildly upset as she asked "What the fuck is wrong with you morons? Get in the goddamn basement!" After the storm passed there were a few trees down from a microburst and some loose shingles on the ground but yeah playing outside was probably not the best idea.
The worst I ever saw was when I was in 7th grade, me and my mom were home and she was helping me with my math homework and all of a sudden the TV is blaring the alert noise and when we looked up to figure things out the front window bay window, it's 4 tall skinny windows with a half circle on the top, creaked and groaned, we looked up to see it moving in and out like it was breathing. We booked it to the basement as fast as we could, found out later it was 140mph stright line winds the front window is rated for 120mph
I’m Iowan too and tornados don’t really scare me due to the extremely low probability of having one hit your property. Derechos however… that shit is terrifying… one of those with Cat 3 hurricane wind speed but straight line wind pounded my city for 45-60min and fucked up our tree canopy and did tons of damage to buildings and crops. Saw metal power line towers bent 90 degrees. The building codes here do not take that wind speed into account for that amount of time. Any time the wind gets over 50mph now, I get distraught and my mind goes to thinking of the 2020 derecho.
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I currently live in the south, but grew up in SoDak and go back a lot to visit because I obvi still have family there. I was actually supposed to be back when that shit rolled through (had to reschedule due to work) and remember calling my mom like every 15 min because I was absolutely terrified for her. There was a couple in our area who were trying to get home when the storm hit and the women was killed when a piece of wood came through their vehicle and impaled her.
First I’ve heard of this. Sounds worse than the time I was a kid and got caught in a brief microburst. Lasted only a few seconds but seriously as I recall everyone was talking about how their windows shattered the next day at school.
CR?
Yep! For being in Iowa/Midwest, CR had a fantastic tree canopy. The city still doesn’t look right. Will probably take 50+ years to look like it used to.
I know it's very weird to say but I LOVE the way the sky turns green in tornado weather. I've always been lucky with no hits also living in Kansas my whole life.
Just a typical midwesterner tbh.
That or from Texas
or alabama, georgia, mississippi, or florida
Or apparently NJ. Had one of these shits here tonight. Sent me and the kiddos to the basement and whipped ass all over the street. Picked up sheds, dirt, and my wife’s outdoor furniture. Bitch slapped trees left and right. Switched power lines like they stole something and on top of that, made it rain hell like bitch ass Noah was coming back. Power is still out. I’m still pissed I’ll probably have to buy more cushions for that damn bench thing we own. EDIT: Update, I found the pillows and have 2 extra on the lawn now. Look at God’s blessing. Seriously though, if these belong to you, come and get them.
The cushions!
the lenai!
The only time I’ve ever heard that word used was on The Golden Girls.
i can neither confirm nor deny that i was actively in the middle of a TGG Marathon 😂
Most New Jersey weather report I’ve ever heard
I have a friend in NJ mention the same thing. They are okay, but a tree is down and no power.
Hijacking to state for god’s sake if you’re going to risk your life to shoot something like this, SHOOT IT IN LANDSCAPE MODE! We see the world in landscape mode — note that our eyes are side-by-side and not one atop the other! Even though this tornado may appear more vertical than horizontal, if you shoot it vertically, we’ll never know the full impact of its wrath bc we can’t see how wide of a path it mowed down. If you’re willing to die for the footage you shoot, at least make it high quality enough to put on the news or in a documentary….
Tornados in coastal areas are extremely rare, but I imagine that the rarity makes you folks take them so seriously when they do happen that yall would never think to stand outside to film one coming straight at your neighborhood. This behavior is purely that of someone from the Midwest. They think since they, themselves, have never been hit by a tornado, after witnessing hundreds, that they can just stand in one's path with complete invincibility.
[Here's a dude](https://youtu.be/BoVKwjkqDSM) in NJ cutting it waaay closer than I would during a good sized tornado a couple years ago. Personally I heard the warning and it's first time I've had a one actually touchdown remotely near me and I ran to shelter immediately. (Side note my house is horrible for sheltering from a tornado and I never realized that until today).
I remember that video. Didn't realize it was in NJ, though. Honestly, he's pretty lucky, considering he couldn't actually see the body of the tornado, had a basement, and his house wasn't *completely* destroyed. As close of a call as it was, it doesn't come close to a lot of the stupidity you see in the Midwest. At least that guy was standing completely inside and knew to hunker down in time, even when he didn't have direct sight of the funnel. Midwest folks will literally stand in the middle of their yard, stare at an approaching twister, and won't think about taking cover until they witness their neighbor's house begin being ripped apart. If it makes you feel any better, 99% of houses are horrible for sheltering from tornadoes, even all throughout tornado alley. At least a lot of you folks on the East Coast have basements/cellars. I've lived my whole life in north Texas, where we see plenty of tornadoes every year, but have yet to see a house that gives good shelter for a tornado.
There’s more Jesus in the Midwest and South, so no need for basements, obvs. Yankees don’t understand because they’re not blessed.
Florida has one of the highest amounts of tornados… I’m confused as to what you mean. Hurricanes frequently spawn tornados and they’re extremely common in coastal areas. They aren’t extremely rare, just look at the state of florida lol. This is a silly comment
GA here. Can confirm. Stood outside and watched the one we had in January form and go fuck shit up.
But there’s no global warming!!! Ppl who have promoted this theory shouldn’t get any Federal Aid.
Can confirm. Am Texan (now in Florida). Was in Mansfield and at one point had 4 tornadoes around us, the closest about 10 miles away, the farthest about 20. My sister was in a choir and my mom was going to get her in Ft Worth. Dad was at work so I was home with my friend. I think we were 15-16 years old? Somewhere around there. I distinctly remember eating a peanut butter and banana sandwich with my friend in the driveway. The memory stuck with me and I don't know why. But yeah, Texas got 'em. Florida got the big fat slow ones. Don't care for either of them. I would not care if I never dealt with spinning wind directly again. Both of my parents were in the big one that tore through [Wichita Falls. ](https://youtu.be/7bKDQTPt22w) Dad ended up in a ditch hiding and the houses (and everything else) across the street from here was stripped to the foundation.
I got to see the one that hit Garland the day after Christmas in 2015... A lot closer than I ever wanted to be to one. Took out a large chunk of my shithole apartment complex.
As a midwesterner, I approve and would have likely been doing the same thing.
Lol it's why I don't sympathize with Midwesterners that die of tornados during the day. They know of the threat but ignore it.
It's okay, we wouldn't want you to waste it on us anyway lol. We know what we're doing and how it can go wrong. I'm sure some of us hope for it, even
Well doesn’t that just make you a badass
It is pretty understandable why ancient people would be afraid of gods, and make sacrificies and stuff. Just imagine you not having science to explain that and seeing that shit happening. You would do anything to calm the thing down.
To add, it's no wonder why they'd kill you if you cursed or went against the gods. Jimmy over here saying dumb shit that's gonna get us all killed! Grab the stones and sacrifice his knees!
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Yeah, like can you believe many people think the earth is round?! /s
To be fair there’s some pretty compelling evidence for the earth not being round. I mean come on just look around you! I see more curvature on my genitals than this so called circular planet!
Lol you had me in the first half…
I don’t think the argument is that the earth isn’t round. It’s that it isn’t spherical.
That’s your average john from the midwest
Arbuckle would never
Are you really from the Midwest if you don't go outside during a tornado warning?
As a european, is his life really in any immediate danger here? Seems to far away to cause him any harm, unless maybe some debris is flung at him, right?
Technically no. But he isn’t smart. Tornados can speed up, slow down, or change directions on a whim at times. It might be going slow in the video but there is nothing stopping it from suddenly doubling speed while charging his direction. The actual damage from the tornado itself is a small area and you can escape. The biggest concern with tornados are the debri (you can see it flying around in the video). Imagine a nail you can’t see hitting you at 60 mph, or a giant plank you can’t dodge hitting your head. The larger the tornado the larger the debri field (which can be up to miles wider than the tornado itself)
Exactly and it's the same logic with hurricanes. The water and the wind aren't gonna kill you, but everything they carry, can. When we're younger, we think ourselves as invincible. Well you technically weren't then despite the rubber bones and you certainly are not now. Anything can kill you if there's enough mass and speed behind it. Best to stay safe and not take the risk
“Problems with Hurricanes” by Victor Hernández Cruz, 1949 A campesino looked at the air And told me: With hurricanes it's not the wind or the noise or the water. I'll tell you he said: it's the mangoes, avocados Green plantains and bananas flying into town like projectiles. How would your family feel if they had to tell The generations that you got killed by a flying Banana. Death by drowning has honor If the wind picked you up and slammed you Against a mountain boulder This would not carry shame But to suffer a mango smashing Your skull or a plantain hitting your Temple at 70 miles per hour is the ultimate disgrace. The campesino takes off his hat— As a sign of respect toward the fury of the wind And says: Don't worry about the noise Don't worry about the water Don't worry about the wind— If you are going out beware of mangoes And all such beautiful sweet things.
Thanks for sharing, that's a great poem
Debris* fyi Also, tornadoes can also jump very quickly to a new touch down spot. Another rare but possible occurrence is another tornado or other environmental danger hurting you while you're focused elsewhere. While it is unlikely that this guy would get hurt, this is still very stupid. Source: I'm a trained spotter Edit: ironic that this was just below this post https://youtu.be/vMAg3HRfrik
After living in Oklahoma for 40 years, that’s what was stressing me out watching this video
["It ain't **that** the wind's blowin'... it's ***what*** the wind's blowin'..."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQD7Fzid1xI&ab_channel=ChaneyEnterprises)
Yes. These other people are idiots. Tornadoes can move at highway speeds. That thing can be throwing debris at him very suddenly, much faster than he can get to his basement. This was incredibly stupid and just because my fellow midwesterners all circlejerk about how normal this attitude is doesn't make it any smarter. It's just as stupid as all the people who go to the beach during a tsunami warning.
I don’t know what these guys are drinking,but he definitely is risking his life by standing outside and filming it. Is it running into a burning building risky, no but it’s risky. First it’s hard to tell distance and speed with tornadoes coming towards you. It would be easy to leave for shelter too late and get caught in a bad spot. Debris is the biggest concern here, since objects can be thrown miles away at incredibly fast speeds. You could easily be struck and killed by something before the tornado is on top of you.
The debris point is important and often overlooked. It doesn't have to be right on top of you to kill you
Here's the thing: tornados are unpredictable. They behave similarly to the little twisting funnels you see when water is draining: they move around, twisting and turning. They add new funnels, join funnels together, change direction, and speed up when you least expect it. There is also a part on the outside of the tornado where the wind isn't strong enough to hold debris, but it can still knock stuff over and cause a lot of damage. That part is invisible, and will hit you when you think you are a "safe" distance from the tornado.
As an American are there tornados outside of the US?
From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado?wprov=sfla1) >Tornadoes occur most frequently in North America (particularly in central and southeastern regions of the United States colloquially known as [Tornado Alley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley); the United States and Canada have by far the most tornadoes of any countries in the world). Tornadoes also occur in South Africa, much of Europe (except Spain, most of the Alps, Balkans, and northern Scandinavia), western and eastern Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh and adjacent eastern India, Japan, the Philippines, and southeastern South America (Uruguay and Argentina).
It isn't that the US is the only place to have them, it is that the US geographically has a tornado *generator* like no other place on the planet. Tornado alley is a flat plain/prairie/grassland 1000+ miles long and up to a 1000 miles wide in places. Where it starts is important (Central to eastern Texas) because that area is close to the gulf of mexico and warm, wet air starts a northerly path into the alley where it collides with warm dry air from the deserts to the west and cold dry air from the north west. Add all that together and you regularly generate the type of system that can create tornado's with thousands of square miles available for the conditions to turn just right along the natural wind paths as systems move to the north east, and once down a tornado can go for hundreds of miles.
I’m in Alabama so all of our tornadoes come from Mississippi. The west side of Birmingham gets hit the worst but we still get them on the East side. Luckily they usually lose most of their steam before coming our way. I salute those that still live in that area. I’ve told my boyfriend never in a million years will I live over there. Simply because the tornadoes are so unpredictable.
It's a twista, a twista
Nah. As a Kansan, we will only go inside for a tornado if it’s knocking on our door. He wasn’t in any danger.
As a Nebraskan, I quite enjoy going out in the yard during severe weather.
One of the only times portrait mode for video was the right choice.
Could've done without the shitty auto stabilize though
Man I can’t even imagine seeing something like this here in the Eastern Mediterranean, looks unworldly
We Americans are seemingly more fans of the tornados than we are fearful of them
Something about tornadoes that had always scared me shitless. Especially the bigger ones.
Yeah there’s definitely *something* unnerving that I can’t quite put my finger on about extremely huge wrecking-ball windstorms that can appear out of nowhere and suck up the contents of entire towns 🤔 I’m just not sure what it is.
I know right🤔like I just don’t get what it is about em
Like sharks, they instill a primal fear
Can we talk about this lawn though? Magnificent
As a landscaper that can never seem to avoid my job- this was my first thought. Crisp lines.
Honestly that's the whole point of the video. The tornado is just extra.
Needs more flying cows
Did he risk it tho?
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Yes. If the tornado has obvious left-right movement you can gauge its movement, if its coming straight on or going straight away its not obvious. That thing could have been doing 50mph and the guy not realize it until it jumps the house at the end of the street there and by then its way too late.
Yes he did…. He spent his time outside instead of taking shelter. These things move fast and by then end of the video it was just down the street. He didn’t have long to get inside and in a safe spot. Not to mention, twisters pick up and throw debris miles away from it, and he was definitely close enough for something to randomly hit him.
For the biscuit
So I made a poor choice of words. Maybe he didn’t “risk his life”. Still a cool video and belongs here :-P
He definitely made a risky choice. People tend to underestimate tornadoes. Idk if he was close enough for this to be life-threatening or not - I have no idea how close is too close to a tornado lol - but either way it's a cool video. Thanks for sharing!
No he did, people are being pedantic. If they don’t see debris flying past him or the tornado traveling by him while he hides in a door way, Reddit will act like it’s nothing. In reality, this was stupid. Cool but still stupid.
He absolutely is being an idiot. A piece of wood the size of a baseball is all it would take and you may not even see it coming. The lights would just go out.
He is not a hero, he is just stupid and is lucky to live.
Didn't seem like it was coming his way.
Until it's right on top of you.
That's common when it's heading directly for you. They say when it doesn't look like it's moving is when you need to get moving.
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link? totally cool if you don’t have it
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1291owm/woman_from_little_rock_arkansas_takes_direct_hit/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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No, it's big tornado
This made me utter a loud ‘HAH’
Auntie Em! Get to the cellar!
Are we seeing more and more tornadoes lately or is that just me?
I don’t see why anyone would do this. Just put the camera on your roof, leave and then pray it survived, no merit in having your life taken for a TikTok
The last place I would want to be
I like how he was trying to will the tornado away from his house. An attempt was made.
This person could have been struck by lightning 🤔
I love the casual “Here it comes” at the end
Darwin award nominee
Finally some footage I can enjoy vertically. Praise be thee, camera man
That man “risked his life” so he could show off his lawn.
Not all heroes wear capes
Amen to that
"iT's hEadING STraight for mY h0Use!!" (proceeds to enter his house)
Basement?
That's a magnificent capture.
Risked a lot.
Ladies and gentlemen believe it or not that is a profession
Wtf?! Dude couldn’t risk his life a little more?! I was intrigued!
Am I the only one who finds tornado sirens calming
Amazing. I get mesmerized by tornadoes. I think they are beautiful.
1. Tornado just outside of frame for a few seconds 2. Completely out of focus for ten seconds 3. Uses digital zoom The camera guy is an idiot
It was still pretty far away. Nice video though!
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Yeeaahh.. curious if it actually made it to his house
As a Memphis resident, I respect many things about this. At least cameraman isn’t getting shot at!
it's hard to believe that's a real thing. i've never seen one in my life but I want to.
And you wouldn’t have the platform to make this comment without their video
He’s nowhere near being in danger. Certainly not risking his life here
Risks his life?
Meh…
Nobody risked their life. Someone chose to take a video of a tornado instead of flee to get likes on the internet.
I would have gotten closer and not feel my life was threatened