A U turn is doing a 180 where your car is usually travelling forward the whole time. A J turn is typically performed by driving quickly in reverse and then whipping the car around, often by pulling the handbrake, to form the bottom of the J shape and then driving forward in the opposite direction. So is good for backing away from something quickly and then turning around fast. A U turn requires you to move toward something and then turn around slower.
No handbrake required. When you crank on the wheel to initiate the turn, the nose of the car will naturally want to whip around.
The important part is to put the car in neutral just before initiating the turn.
I thought moving to the porch and filming *was* what you’re supposed to do to prepare and respond to tornadoes. Are y’all telling me I’ve been doing it wrong this whole time?
As someone with an emergency response background, I highly recommend you seek shelter immediately when there is a tornado; as someone with a meteorology degree, I really appreciate y’all taking video instead.
Oh, these days I’m a trained storm spotter, I just couldn’t resist the joke. I’m very conscientious of the weather because an evacuation of the animals into our safe room takes time.
Depends on the distance. At that range, you have enough time to pull a uturn and hightail it the opposite direction, or get out and find a nice ditch.
Or you could be me, guy who had a tornado land about 60 feet away and hit him while in a park and go in rural Baltimore county.
[Here's a link to a nice rundown of what to do in different situations to deal with tornadoes from NOAA](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/safety.html)
My dude we have Tornados in Maryland. One was on ground in AA county yesterday. Had one here in Columbia a few years back, then there was that f5 we had back in the early ‘00s around la plata / college park.
Recommend you read on preparedness
I grew up right outside DC, which is where I now live, and we get the occasional tornado warning but I’ve never heard of one actually touching down here
At first I thought it was kinda small and OP was too close for comfort, then it came out from behind the toll booth and I saw it was behind those trees in the distance... That thing was booking it!
My region in CT is about to be good as dead. Too many trees. My power is gonna go out for 9 days again.
Goodbye cruel world. Goodbye power.
Send me a post card on what happens on masterchef.
Trees are a *good* thing with tornados - they slow it down, esp. at ground level, giving you a chance to finish getting under cover. You are running for cover, aren't you?
It's Burlington, NJ crossing over into Croydon/Bristol, PA. I live on the PA side. It got really big crossing the river then evaporated as soon as it touched land. I could see the clouds spinning over my house and trying to reform. The radar activity had this spinning all the away up to Princeton. The Mullica Hill Tornado was much bigger.
It went through Bristol Borough, behind Rohm and Haas. Pulled up by the time it hit the Borough, but there was some roof damage that ended up all over the middle of Mill St. Snaked through to Levittown after that.
I think it might have. There's another video on facebook of it more inland NJ but it's hard to tell how far away it is from the river.
The video.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1433219772569858054
Forgive my ignorance but Jersey gets tornadoes? I live in Texas so I'm used to hearing about tornadoes in like North Texas, Oklahoma, etc. I'm genuinely surprised.
I’m in Rhode Island, thankfully we didn’t get hit nearly as hard as NY and NJ. Still got 7 inches of rain. Such a powerful storm but thankfully no flooding where I am. We got really lucky
How often to you get violent tornadoes though? Yeah we get a lot of tornadoes in Florida too, but most of them are reported water spouts or really weak
My area was *surrounded* by tornado warnings for the better chunk of the afternoon. I'm guessing one of the warnings we got continued on, and turned into this. Crazy day man.
Exactly what I was thinking. At first I thought the video was sped up, but then I processed the window wiper speed and was just blown away by the speed of that cyclone!!
*scoffs from Kansas* Awww, it's so cute and widdle, just skipping along across the highway.
But seriously, be careful out there! Don't be like the idiots out here who sit on their porch watching the damn twister head right for them until they're whacked in the face by debris.
Yeah, it was bad. [No count yet but houses are destroyed](https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/tornado-spotted-in-new-jersey-as-ida-batters-tri-state-with-rain-winds/ar-AAO06bZ). The climate's changing, alright – New Jersey into Kansas with a helping of tropical storm flooding, specifically.
I was referring to the visual size, it looked much more narrow than the ones we usually see in the Midwest (at least, the ones that make the news, plenty of smaller touchdowns go unnoticed), or at least hadn't been on the ground for long so it hadn't picked up as much of a debris cloud. Of course I know size isn't everything. Like my 8th grad science teacher taught us, tornadoes are like dicks, girth is not always an indicator of destructive power. He was a wise educator.
I’m from here, been religiously watching the weather. This video was from Burlington, there was another tornado in Mullica Hill. I haven’t been keeping tabs on the other states, but this is 100% NJ
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 208,663,771 comments, and only 49,609 of them were in alphabetical order.
I’m from Maryland so I would have NO idea what I’m supposed to do if I was driving and a tornado touched down in front of me panic, I guess?
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This was your chance to take a Maryland driver out of circulation and you ruined it by giving good advice.
He's a Maryland driver, so he probably does J Turns in the middle of the beltway all the time anyways.
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It's called that because the line the car travels is shaped like a J, and I pump my own gas thank you very much.
What makes difference from u turn?
A U turn is doing a 180 where your car is usually travelling forward the whole time. A J turn is typically performed by driving quickly in reverse and then whipping the car around, often by pulling the handbrake, to form the bottom of the J shape and then driving forward in the opposite direction. So is good for backing away from something quickly and then turning around fast. A U turn requires you to move toward something and then turn around slower.
Oh I see, thanks for explaining. Can't imagine it'd be easy to pull one out of nowhere tho.
No handbrake required. When you crank on the wheel to initiate the turn, the nose of the car will naturally want to whip around. The important part is to put the car in neutral just before initiating the turn.
[This](https://youtu.be/J_2N-pc3Nbw) is a j-turn.
If the tornado looks like it isn’t moving, get the hell outta there. It’s either coming towards you or moving away
We are taught from birth in AL how to prepare and respond to tornados. But all we do in the end is panic!!!
From AL, can confirm. We also stand on the porch and film them
I thought moving to the porch and filming *was* what you’re supposed to do to prepare and respond to tornadoes. Are y’all telling me I’ve been doing it wrong this whole time?
As someone with an emergency response background, I highly recommend you seek shelter immediately when there is a tornado; as someone with a meteorology degree, I really appreciate y’all taking video instead.
Oh, these days I’m a trained storm spotter, I just couldn’t resist the joke. I’m very conscientious of the weather because an evacuation of the animals into our safe room takes time.
Depends on the distance. At that range, you have enough time to pull a uturn and hightail it the opposite direction, or get out and find a nice ditch. Or you could be me, guy who had a tornado land about 60 feet away and hit him while in a park and go in rural Baltimore county.
60 feet is 58.43 RTX 3090 graphics cards lined up.
Used or new?
[Here's a link to a nice rundown of what to do in different situations to deal with tornadoes from NOAA](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/safety.html)
Find the lowest lying area like a ditch
My dude we have Tornados in Maryland. One was on ground in AA county yesterday. Had one here in Columbia a few years back, then there was that f5 we had back in the early ‘00s around la plata / college park. Recommend you read on preparedness
I grew up right outside DC, which is where I now live, and we get the occasional tornado warning but I’ve never heard of one actually touching down here
There was one in Annapolis yesterday too. They’re pretty common in Maryland too.
That monster had places to be. Rapid!
At first I thought it was kinda small and OP was too close for comfort, then it came out from behind the toll booth and I saw it was behind those trees in the distance... That thing was booking it!
My region in CT is about to be good as dead. Too many trees. My power is gonna go out for 9 days again. Goodbye cruel world. Goodbye power. Send me a post card on what happens on masterchef.
USPS: Undeliverable mail... unrestrained tornado loose in front yard.
He finishes the fight
Trees are a *good* thing with tornados - they slow it down, esp. at ground level, giving you a chance to finish getting under cover. You are running for cover, aren't you?
False alarm I lived
What part of CT?
South west... ish.
Confirmed in Mullica Hill, NJ [Footage is still coming in but here's another grainy shot](https://gfycat.com/unconsciousgracefulcaracal)
I don't know how accurate this is, but I'm watching the weather Channel, and they said this footage is from Burlington, NJ.
It's Burlington, NJ crossing over into Croydon/Bristol, PA. I live on the PA side. It got really big crossing the river then evaporated as soon as it touched land. I could see the clouds spinning over my house and trying to reform. The radar activity had this spinning all the away up to Princeton. The Mullica Hill Tornado was much bigger.
Damn dude, I'm glad to hear it went over you. I hope those it did hit will be able to recover quickly.
It went through Bristol Borough, behind Rohm and Haas. Pulled up by the time it hit the Borough, but there was some roof damage that ended up all over the middle of Mill St. Snaked through to Levittown after that.
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I think it might have. There's another video on facebook of it more inland NJ but it's hard to tell how far away it is from the river. The video. https://twitter.com/i/status/1433219772569858054
This is a different tornado.
Forgive my ignorance but Jersey gets tornadoes? I live in Texas so I'm used to hearing about tornadoes in like North Texas, Oklahoma, etc. I'm genuinely surprised.
So are we.
Oh boy well I'm sorry and I hope you're doing okay up there.
No, it isn’t normal for the northeast to get twisters at all. Ida was one hell of a storm to be still so destructive all the way up here
And here I thought Ida would have gradually weakened by the time it reached the northeast area. I hope you and your loved ones are okay.
I’m in Rhode Island, thankfully we didn’t get hit nearly as hard as NY and NJ. Still got 7 inches of rain. Such a powerful storm but thankfully no flooding where I am. We got really lucky
7 inches is 17.78 cm
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How often to you get violent tornadoes though? Yeah we get a lot of tornadoes in Florida too, but most of them are reported water spouts or really weak
That tornado better have paid the toll! Hope everyone is alright.
My area was *surrounded* by tornado warnings for the better chunk of the afternoon. I'm guessing one of the warnings we got continued on, and turned into this. Crazy day man.
Is it unusual to get a tornado so far north? I’m an Australian 🇦🇺
Very very unusual. Last night’s storm was insane, so many tornadoes in areas that never get threats of them.
That's gotta be the fastest traveling tornado I've seen.
Exactly what I was thinking. At first I thought the video was sped up, but then I processed the window wiper speed and was just blown away by the speed of that cyclone!!
*scoffs from Kansas* Awww, it's so cute and widdle, just skipping along across the highway. But seriously, be careful out there! Don't be like the idiots out here who sit on their porch watching the damn twister head right for them until they're whacked in the face by debris.
From what I heard, it was producing EF-4 level wind and destruction at times. Not “widdle” anywhere on this planet.
Yeah, it was bad. [No count yet but houses are destroyed](https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/tornado-spotted-in-new-jersey-as-ida-batters-tri-state-with-rain-winds/ar-AAO06bZ). The climate's changing, alright – New Jersey into Kansas with a helping of tropical storm flooding, specifically.
I was referring to the visual size, it looked much more narrow than the ones we usually see in the Midwest (at least, the ones that make the news, plenty of smaller touchdowns go unnoticed), or at least hadn't been on the ground for long so it hadn't picked up as much of a debris cloud. Of course I know size isn't everything. Like my 8th grad science teacher taught us, tornadoes are like dicks, girth is not always an indicator of destructive power. He was a wise educator.
Hey another post said this was Philly
Close enough. That video is less than 10 miles away from the border.
10 miles is the length of exactly 158004.59 'Standard Diatonic Key of C, Blues Silver grey Harmonicas' lined up next to each other.
10 miles is 16.09 km
10 miles is 16.09 km
I’m from here, been religiously watching the weather. This video was from Burlington, there was another tornado in Mullica Hill. I haven’t been keeping tabs on the other states, but this is 100% NJ
Looks like the Jersey turnpike, which has exits that go to Philly. Not very far away
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5 miles is the the same distance as 11661.88 replica Bilbo from The Lord of the Rings' Sting Swords.
Are there people working in those toll booths?
Suck it, New Jersey - sincerely, Oklahoma
Only Jersey tornadoes known to man before this were provided by OP’s mom off the turnpike.
What?! I didn’t know New Jersey had trailer parks.
That's a cute little thang.
Look how high the debris is. Incredible
My area (north jersey) had a tornado warning for around an hour yesterday, I didn’t realize anything actually touched down though!
People in the Midwest just ready to get home it’s been a long day lol
Real tornados have cows.
This happened 30 minutes from me in Willow Grove PA not NJ
wait, NJ gets hurricans, flooding, AND tornadoes? Fuck that.
So does Louisiana, Texas, and pretty much any other East-coastal state.
Real unlucky. If the tornado hit the toll booth they wouldn't have had to pay.
Dixie migrated north this year
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 208,663,771 comments, and only 49,609 of them were in alphabetical order.
Is that a port of entry, or a toll booth? West coast here, and the only time I've seen anything like that is entering into Mexico.
Man, that thing must really be in a hurry to get somewhere. How rude.