From eerie serpentine ropes to colossal rain wrapped wedges to the infamous Dead Man Walking, no other weather phenomenon instills the same sense of primal fear as tornadoes.
Tornadoes are fickle creatures. The same funnel that will devastate a town will put a drinking straw through a fence post, or it will carry a man off and deposit him in a creek or pond. The same pressure that can destroy one house will skip over the next three.
The same funnel that will create a water spout will follow a dry creek bed away from another house.
It's been known to pick up cattle and set them down three counties over.
Texans know to give them a wide berth. But it's the trackers that are insane. They'll chase tornadoes, circle around them, drop off weather instruments in their path, and run like hell.
Now, as a plainsman, I'm more worried about hurricanes. I'd rather face the tornado than all that water and wind that comes from the ocean.
When I was little and my family used to live up in the mountains, I remember there was a solid few months where Twister was on in the front room every single night as my Mom was falling asleep. Why? Because she insisted the movie was best to watch at night with all the lights out, and she decided at one point she wanted to watch it. Problem was she'd end up watching it so late that she fell asleep during, and since the tapes would automatically rewind with our VCR, that meant she never finished the movie, so she insisted on trying again the next night. I damn near memorized that movie because of how often she tried watching it lol
I remember a tornado happened in a state near us or in our state, a yeat or two ago. and a baby went missing I think and was found safe in the bathtub that it was in, in the yard, something like that. I can't remember the details exactly, but a baby was found safe when it probably ly shouldn't have been.
The sound of a tornado or its siren is one of the scariest things I’ve ever heard even though I’ve never experienced either in real life (as a coasty/mountain dweller). This was such an interesting piece!
Tornadoes are fickle creatures. The same funnel that will devastate a town will put a drinking straw through a fence post, or it will carry a man off and deposit him in a creek or pond. The same pressure that can destroy one house will skip over the next three.
The same funnel that will create a water spout will follow a dry creek bed away from another house.
It's been known to pick up cattle and set them down three counties over.
Texans know to give them a wide berth. But it's the trackers that are insane. They'll chase tornadoes, circle around them, drop off weather instruments in their path, and run like hell.
Now, as a plainsman, I'm more worried about hurricanes. I'd rather face the tornado than all that water and wind that comes from the ocean.
I wore the hell out of a VHS copy of Twister growing up 😅
When I was little and my family used to live up in the mountains, I remember there was a solid few months where Twister was on in the front room every single night as my Mom was falling asleep. Why? Because she insisted the movie was best to watch at night with all the lights out, and she decided at one point she wanted to watch it. Problem was she'd end up watching it so late that she fell asleep during, and since the tapes would automatically rewind with our VCR, that meant she never finished the movie, so she insisted on trying again the next night. I damn near memorized that movie because of how often she tried watching it lol
I remember a tornado happened in a state near us or in our state, a yeat or two ago. and a baby went missing I think and was found safe in the bathtub that it was in, in the yard, something like that. I can't remember the details exactly, but a baby was found safe when it probably ly shouldn't have been.
The sound of a tornado or its siren is one of the scariest things I’ve ever heard even though I’ve never experienced either in real life (as a coasty/mountain dweller). This was such an interesting piece!