I have always been fascinated with tornadoes but this was not fun at all. I could have made it home easy but I had to drive closer to get a better look, well that was stupid. When I turned back around to go home their was traffic going over a bridge, that's when I got very nervous, to the point that I was about to abandon my car. As it got closer the wind really started to pick up, then I noticed it was moving away from me. I no longer want to see another one.
tornadoes are nuts. Having lived in kansas and texas im pretty use to them by now. To me its right up there with earthquakes as they just come out of nowhere, you could be swimming at a pool at 1 pm in a sunny day and be under a tornado warning by 2pm. When i was young, our house got hit by a tornado in texas and it took down our chimney
They're very scary things up close, and folks don't realize just how fast they can move. I was working in our back pasture during the summer after high school when a storm blew in and a tornado came tearing through the field. I made it into the house just barely ahead of it, and I was moving a full sprint. By the time I made it from the back door to the front, to check outside to see if my dad was out there, it had already blown past. It was really too fast to be afraid while it was going on, but my arms were shaking once I realized it had dissipated.
This was just a small twister and it picked up the roof of one of our outlying work buildings and tossed it all over the pasture. Terrifying to think of what one of the big ones is capable of. I don't want to ever be closer to another in my life. I'm glad you didn't have to see yours any more up close either.
This was just a small twister and it picked up the roof of one of our outlying work buildings and tossed it all over the pasture. Terrifying to think of what one of the big ones is capable of. I don't want to ever be closer to another in my life. I'm glad you didn't have to see yours any more up close either.
Bill: A light year is a measure of distance, not time !
I think that Bridgeport one was a " microburst" technically.
I've never seen a live tornado, don't really care to, either.
I'd prefer a Florida Hurricane ( with days of warning) over an instant tornado in the Midwest, anyday.
CT isn't too prone to stuff like hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, wildfires, tsunamis, etc. I still want to leave ( again), though !
Has a lot to do with geography and the type of predominant weather and cloud types. Just so happens that the U.S. fits the bill for being much more conducive to the conditions from which tornadoes are most likely to spawn. Of those U.S. tornadoes, the vast majority appear in about five states.
Here's a little info about why "Tornado Alley" gets all the twisters:
http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Atmosphere/tornado/formation.html
