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Well, He Got the Shot He Was Looking For

Tuesday, 5 April 2016, 18:30 BFH Uncategorized 20

Man hangs in there to video tornado.

He ended up in the hospital and his wife was killed. Good going.

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20 Comments on Well, He Got the Shot He Was Looking For

  4. One passed directly over my house in 2001. Miraculously it lifted just as it passed over my neighborhood and only caused minor damage. A friend called just before it arrived and told us the TV news just showed that our house was in the path of a tornado that was minutes away. We went into the basement. It sounded like a freight train ran directly over the house, and it probably wasn’t as big as the one in this video. I could hear the air being sucked out through the outside door seals. Two people died a few miles away when their car was picked up and lifted over a five story building.
    A tree across the street was twisted off about six feet above the ground, and dropped about 20 feet away. It’s trunk was over a foot in diameter.

  5. Xenia, OH.
    On April 3, 1974 an F-5 tornado tore through the heart of Xenia, killing 33 people and injuring more than 1,300 others. It bulldozed a path more than a half-mile wide, destroying or damaging more than 1,400 buildings, including 1,200 homes, dozens of businesses, 10 churches, and several schools. By the time it lifted into the sky, it left behind more than $100 million of damage in Greene County. We lost several friends and their children.

    The Xenia tornado was part of a super outbreak, when 148 twisters swept across several states, killing 335 people in a 16-hour period on April 3-4, 1974. It still ranks as one of the largest natural disasters in American history, with Xenia the hardest hit community.

    My parents lost their home, the only piece of the house remaining was the closet my brother was hiding in and part of the brick wall from the front of the house. They were shaken, but unhurt.

    Twenty-six years later another tornado (an F-4) struck at an unusual time – early autumn and after dark – on September 20, 2000. The tornado would follow an eerily familiar path of destruction through Xenia, killing one man and destroying or damaging more than 300 homes and 30 businesses.

    Xenia, Ohio, City of Hospitality

  6. I rarely have nightmares, but when I do, for some reason, half of them involve tornadoes. Scary. I’ll never live in an area known as “tornado alley.” No thanks.

  14. I’ll take an earthquake over a tornado any day. You don’t know when it’s coming and it will rarely be in your neck of the woods. A good friend moved to Iowa because she was scared to death of earthquakes (haven’t had one yet). Two years ago a tornado hit her town in Mapelton, IA and leveled part of the town. She should have stayed in California, sunny weather, no ice storms or snow, and no earthquakes yet where we live.

  15. People watching things through a viewfinder sometimes get a false sense of immunity to danger–as if they’re watching a movie. I saw some tornadoes when I was in Nebraska and I could never do something like this guy did. and for what? some stupid fucking “thumbs up” on Facebook or something?

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