 pixiechick81
Female, 30-39, Canada
 837 Posts
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Thursday, April 05, 2012 9:10:22 PM
Its not THAT the wind is blowing... |
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 Gerry1of1
Male, 50-59, Western US
25558 Posts
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Thursday, April 05, 2012 6:16:47 AM
Oh come on people! You know . . .
"Yeah Denton! The home of hapiness."
I'll give you a hint.
Really? You guys didn't get that immediately?
What a bunch of dorks. |
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 thubanstar
Female, 40-49, Southern US
777 Posts
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Thursday, April 05, 2012 2:35:09 AM
Gerry needs Shock Treatment |
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 CrakrJak
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
14374 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 9:28:18 PM
I'm a weather junkie, check the local forecast 4-5 times a day, watch the computer models and make my own predictions.
I should've made it my career choice. |
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 DFWBrysco
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
219 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 8:59:48 PM
For the majority of us, there was nothing - had one touch down 1/2 mile from my house, but it was headed NE (I lived SE from it). Out of the 15 to 25 estimated tornadoes, only a few touched down for more than a few seconds and actually did anything...
Besides - other than lives, there's nothing worth saving in Lancaster anyway... 
@TheShgn2 - "I've always wondered what the hell you're supposed to do if you're stuck on the highway next to a tornado."
You get out of the car, and run for any sort of ditch, overpass, etc. you can find to get out of the way of the thing.
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Gerry1of1
Male, 50-59, Western US
25558 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 8:30:08 PM
"One touched down one mile from me here in denton. Fun stuff."
Yeah Denton! The home of happiness! |
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 jtrebowski
Male, 40-49, Southern US
3057 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 7:52:09 PM
OldOllie: "...they didn't take the warning sirens seriously."
Sounds like a lack of trust in the government. |
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 IrishJesus
Male, 18-29, Southern US
484 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 7:48:04 PM
One touched down one mile from me here in denton. Fun stuff. |
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 TheShgn2
Male, 13-17, Southern US
631 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 6:08:18 PM
I've always wondered what the hell you're supposed to do if you're stuck on the highway next to a tornado. And OldOllie, you're completely right, people where I'm from got so used to false alarms that when the biggest supercluster in US history hit, people didn't understand the severity of the problem, and that's why so many people got killed. Along with the tornados of course. |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23995 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 1:42:09 PM
wow... just wow |
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 RyanHake
Male, 18-29, Southern US
2698 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 1:40:07 PM
Was talking to my cousin while she was just a few miles from here, she was watching on the news and said "Screw this i'm getting in the basement" smart girl :) |
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 lawndartsftw
Male, 40-49, Canada
1815 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 1:37:46 PM
@Oldollie. Agreed, tornados are not to be f*cked with. If one hits, if you are aboveground you are in deep trouble.... |
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 OldOllie
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
8712 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 12:46:12 PM
No doubt, tornadoes will f u up. The problem we have here is that they blow off so many false alarms, people stop taking them seriously. I remember one case in particular: I was in the Joplin, Mo., public library, when the sirens went off. They forced everyone into a big meeting room (definitely NOT the safest place to be). Someone turned on the TV, and the radar showed the tornado was 30 miles north of us and moving away, but because it was in the same county, the warning included us.
Last year a monster tornado hit Joplin, and a lot of people got killed, many of them because they didn't take the warning sirens seriously. |
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 xCYBERDYNEx
Male, 18-29, Southern US
4798 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 11:13:23 AM
This sh*t was scary as hell, one of the tornado's passed over my kids school and several people I know had their houses destroyed. I still can't believe no one got killed. |
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 saan
Female, 30-39, Asia
17 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 9:56:24 AM
When I saw the twister movie I laughed at the tractors being tossed around, I had no idea they could actually do this stuff. Jeez!!! But I experienced Michigan Tornado last month. LINK |
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 CaptKangaroo
Male, 50-59, Southern US
1198 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 9:37:29 AM
The real drawback here is that the wreckage is so well documented, the business owner won't be able to submit the obligatory inflated insurance claim. |
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Gerry1of1
Male, 50-59, Western US
25558 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 9:26:45 AM
"Holy crap" is right.
@ WoJ - sorry it's not like in the movies. Maybe they'll re-release this clip in 3D for you. |
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 WorldOfJames
Male, 18-29, Europe
613 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 9:18:33 AM
skip to 5 mins to see anything of interest |
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CrakrJak
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
14374 Posts
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 1:32:07 AM
Link: Raw Footage: Dallas Tornado Tosses Semi-Trailers [Rate Link] - Holy crap. |
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