It's funny in a sick way
And informative too, as I never knew that you can get a tornado without seeing a funnel cloud.
More here: Do Not Touch The Funnel Cloud, which talks about the incredibly stupid behavior people in movies and TV can get away with around tornadoes.
But really, the actual area of destruction can cover a mile radius? Yipes. I always thought that solong as you didn't get too close to the funnel cloud proper, you were safe. My dad told me stories of once being out in the plains states (probably when he was going to 29 Palms as part of his service in the Marine Corps reserves) and lying along a road while a tornado slipped by about a mile away.
I also like the remarks they make in the Real Life about "not hiding under a bridge when the funnel cloud is coming at you" (YOU. WILL. DIE.) and about the Air Force wingnut who sat on the roof of his dorn to get some cell phone footage of a tornado ripping up the area hear his base. ("He never knew how many officers were on base before, or how many ways you could be called a damn fool and get punished for it...")
And something even crazier about a mid-70's Icelandic volcanic eruption that threatened to fill in a harbor, about how the locals and the US armed forces tried to turn the lava by cooling the front of it to make a barrier. They said that Icelanders fighting the lava did so while standing on top of the lava flow, sometimes with little more than a layer of ash between them and the lava. Talk about hardcore.
More here: Do Not Touch The Funnel Cloud, which talks about the incredibly stupid behavior people in movies and TV can get away with around tornadoes.
But really, the actual area of destruction can cover a mile radius? Yipes. I always thought that solong as you didn't get too close to the funnel cloud proper, you were safe. My dad told me stories of once being out in the plains states (probably when he was going to 29 Palms as part of his service in the Marine Corps reserves) and lying along a road while a tornado slipped by about a mile away.
I also like the remarks they make in the Real Life about "not hiding under a bridge when the funnel cloud is coming at you" (YOU. WILL. DIE.) and about the Air Force wingnut who sat on the roof of his dorn to get some cell phone footage of a tornado ripping up the area hear his base. ("He never knew how many officers were on base before, or how many ways you could be called a damn fool and get punished for it...")
And something even crazier about a mid-70's Icelandic volcanic eruption that threatened to fill in a harbor, about how the locals and the US armed forces tried to turn the lava by cooling the front of it to make a barrier. They said that Icelanders fighting the lava did so while standing on top of the lava flow, sometimes with little more than a layer of ash between them and the lava. Talk about hardcore.