Awesome Video Day

[maychorian]

This is less awesome in the contemporary sense and more awesome in the original sense, as in full of awe or awe-inspiring.

Roanoke F4 Tornado Footage

I'm currently working hard on my Sweet Charity fic for sparkyjoe. She wanted a story about Dean and Sam facing a tornado from someone who has grown up in the Midwest and understands exactly what it's like

Comments

[chibifrieza]

I've always had a kind of horrified fascination with natural disasters, especially volcanoes and tornadoes. I live in Alberta, so while we get the odd tornado, I've never personally witnessed one. I started to watch that video, and I don't think I'd be able to make it through the whole thing. It's terrifying.

I'm looking forward to reading that fic. As a point of interest, it's long been thought that demons can take advantage of chaotic weather to wreak havoc - tornadoes being pretty much the definition of chaotic weather, since as far as I know, science still hasn't figured out the why, right? Anyway, I heard a story from a priest recently about a convent - they'd blessed the bells with an old Byzantine blessing that includes an adjuration against evil spirits in the air, or something. A tornado was headed right for the convent, apparently, and they started ringing the bells... the tornado lifted up, missed the convent, and touched down again on the other side. Could have been chance. Could have been the bells. Anyway, I thought it was interesting.

[maychorian]

That's a really, really cool story, thanks.

And yeah, I don't blame you for not being able to get through that video. It's pretty intense. It would probably be harder for me if I didn't know that no one was seriously hurt by that storm.