tornado, tornado, and TORNDAO!!!!!!!

LOL i do get tornado dream too but not much now
 
i've seen many tornado.. but saddly. didn't see one or hear one happen in minnesota this year *wonders and its strange* there tend to be dozens of tornado touch down in minn between may to aug. havn't heard one yet...
 
sequoias said:
I haven't seen a tornado in real life either. I've heard of tornadoes on news in California, Oregon and Washington state. I've heard of some tornadoes that ripped thru downtown Salt Lake City in Utah and also Dallas, Texas, too. People say that tornadoes sound like freight train roaring by when you're standing close to a train.

Interesting history tidbits:

Tornado with 100 mph winds hits Seattle and Juanita on September 28, 1962.
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On September 28, 1962, at about 5:55 p.m. a 100 mph tornado hits the Sand Point area of Seattle. This is the first confirmed tornado in Western Washington. In 15 minutes the tornado damages eight houses in the View Ridge and Sand Point area of Seattle, forms a 100 foot high waterspout while crossing Lake Washington, smacks into homes, and topples 70 trees in Juanita.

A witness sighted two clouds merging to form a gray funnel cloud at roughly 70th Street NE and 25th Avenue NE. The funnel reached the ground at 5:55 p.m. with 100 mph winds at the northern edge of the View Ridge Playfield near where boys were playing football. At least one boy was lifted off the ground. It knocked down three fences before reaching the house at 7308 44th Avenue NE.
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Oh really!! I didn't know that. Sand Point is about 2 miles east of my place...
 
FelixKat930 said:
I have been one tornado when I was 17 years old at the time. IT was very scary! :hyper:
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I also love tornados..I'm fasinated with all of nature and it's workings. I've never seen one in person, and I would never want to because they are deadly. I've seen several "devil dusters" though which are similar in appearance to tornados when I lived in a desert area in southern Idaho. They aren't as powerful, and develop from the ground up-at least that's what it looks like. They were awesome to watch..but scary to be inside.
 
Bluerobin said:
I also love tornados..I'm fasinated with all of nature and it's workings. I've never seen one in person, and I would never want to because they are deadly. I've seen several "devil dusters" though which are similar in appearance to tornados when I lived in a desert area in southern Idaho. They aren't as powerful, and develop from the ground up-at least that's what it looks like. They were awesome to watch..but scary to be inside.
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devil dust- yeah i have seen that many times here in Arkansas.. i have seen leaves storm too.. leaves whirling around.. I thought wow! That was so awesome!

There are one called Dust Storm.. BIGGEST storm especially in middle east.. i never been in one.. but i was told it was nasty and u wouldnt want to be caught in one.. have to wear mask for that.. whew!

but thats why i love natural phenomena they r unquie and different from normal.. i think they r amazing.. Works of God..
 
you welcome lucia

oh really whoa wow
only i saw it was on the news that a waterspout hit miami i don't remmy when it did happen it was amazing that it went over the land
 
since when i was a kid, I have read weather stuff and tornadoes. I watch many youtube videos of tornadoes. I like Reed Timmer Storm chaser. he is good and use special vehicle.
Id love to be storm chaser, but who will hire deaf storm chasers. I guess it is a hobby for me.

I wonder if there is any deaf storm chasers. can be just your hobby or working for weather station.
 
I love love love tornadoes :) I live in upstate NY so our tornados if we get them are very week, I saw a tornado forming in Florida a few years ago and I was in a tornado when I was younger, I thought it was a train and started to go to the window to watch it (I loved trains as a kid) and my mom pulled me away from the window and we went into the hallway, I remember the window breaking, and when we went outside when It was all over, we found out that the tornado actually jumped over our house and landed in our neigbors yard! Crazy lol the only other "tornado" I was in, was just a funnel cloud that started to form but didnt finish, and it just kind of hovered down the street. Not a big deal. But I also wanted to be a storm chaser growing up, did many projects on tornados and actually made a tornado simulator in 5th grade, with dry ice, a fan, and a vaccuum!
 
yes we do get tornadoes in texas mostly often in northeast Texas. I have close calls from tornado but never experienced it since but there was tornado forming overhead over my apt at grand prairie, texas one time but it hit manfield, texas (just south of grand prairie) not far from where my apt was. Just recently we had bad tornado hit in east texas (Forney and some in east dallas but not where i am at-currently living at north dallas now).

Just for your information, I am sure some of u are aware of this but there is "tornado path" from northeast texas (from south of fortworth) all way up to Midwest of States such as okla, ark, kan, ND, SD, ohio all that area.
 
In 1995 I was go with a friend waiting for the casino bus then I saw a funnel cloud. We run to the service station into the pit room (under the vehicle lift) service man turned on to lower the vehicle lift to protect customers (probably it's 35th and central that where a service station to seek a shelter, so I found out the casino bus service had cancelled service due the weather. Later my friend and I take the city bus home, and saw a news tornado hits somewhere in NE of Minneapolis.
 
Does anyone know of a good tornado warning system for Deaf when we are sleeping? Something with a weather radio. I have been told tornados sound loud like a train going by, but if I can't hear I would certainly get sucked out of my home and tossed into the neighbour's tree!
 
OttawaDeaf said:
Does anyone know of a good tornado warning system for Deaf when we are sleeping? Something with a weather radio. I have been told tornados sound loud like a train going by, but if I can't hear I would certainly get sucked out of my home and tossed into the neighbour's tree!
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I only remember a tornado striked a small town in middle of night and killed people this yr. Even hearing ppl do not wake up in time b/c it's too late. The best solution is stay awake even all night if you have a tornado warning.
 
Celly, you are right.

celly37 said:
I love love love tornadoes :) I live in upstate NY so our tornados if we get them are very week, I saw a tornado forming in Florida a few years ago and I was in a tornado when I was younger, I thought it was a train and started to go to the window to watch it (I loved trains as a kid) and my mom pulled me away from the window and we went into the hallway, I remember the window breaking, and when we went outside when It was all over, we found out that the tornado actually jumped over our house and landed in our neigbors yard! Crazy lol the only other "tornado" I was in, was just a funnel cloud that started to form but didnt finish, and it just kind of hovered down the street. Not a big deal. But I also wanted to be a storm chaser growing up, did many projects on tornados and actually made a tornado simulator in 5th grade, with dry ice, a fan, and a vaccuum!
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Celly, you are correct that tornados here in upstate New York are weaker and less common. I will never forget the April 1972 or 74 tornado hit Chittanango-Canasota, NY area causing a roof torn off a plaza on Route 5, flipping a travel trailer or a pick up truck with camper on (do not remember now which one), damages at an RV manufacturer. I was living in Manlius at the time so it was quite a way although we went through that area to drop me off at a Deaf state school in Rome. We saw the damages. It happened the same day that it was the worst tornados in history killing hundreds or thousands of people cross Great Lakes area. No deaths in this one in the area at the time though.

Then in August 1993, I was bathing and I felt a viberation and sounded loud to me (hard of hearing), I got scared and got out and hurried up to find out what the heck was that. Train tracks are a little over a mile from where I lived in my 2nd floor apartment so I said to myself that can not be the trains! Later I told my then girlfriend and her legal guardian about the tornado and they believed me. I was expecting they do not believe me and they said to check on news. I did and gasped it was a green funnel tornado went through just a block and half from me. I lived in apartment facing the south and the tornado went by north side of the building I lived in. It was 1.5 blocks from me! The tornado ripped through the NYS Thruway in East Syracuse where I lived and it turned to a road and did one little damaged to a building because it stayed on the road! Funny with this one.

I do not recall what year but twice the tornados hit NYS Fairgrounds DURING the NY State Fair week with people enjoying the Fair. It did damaged a horse racing barn and that was where my wife who was not married to me at the time was at with her family enjoying the horses and they had to duck there since there was no tornado warnings at the Fair. They just spend time at this part of the barn that was torned out feet from where they were! (I married my wife in 2006)

Then another time it hit the Fair and caused flooding to entire State Fair and forced it to close a day early due to water damages to booths and displays.

Then in 1997 or 98, I was in Binghamton, NY visiting my then another girlfriend who lived there. We were in hot tub outside then I noticed clouds rolling in then suddenly her mother came in from someplace and told us about potential tornado coming and had to send me home and send my girlfriend with her aunt and uncle for a visit in Rochester. I drove home and I found the sky was weird in Syracuse. Colored clouds! Not traditional light or dark gray. Nope. It was red, blue, green, yellow, you name it. Each cloud was different color! It was part of that storm. The tornado did hit Binghamton by going along the line of this horseshoe shaped hill right where my girlfriend's home was. It was feet away from her home. Her mother later told me she and her husband was in basement in corner hding against where tornado was moving and felt real bad viberation. The tornado did kill one person and damaged her home. They said she was outside of her home. Right at the spot the tornado hit the house, the tornado disappeared right there. Strange!

That was the last time I have had connection or a tornado hit in area nearby. No place is safe really. Lake effect snow on another hand.. is another story.
 
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