Well, He Got the Shot He Was Looking For

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

1. Here’s Your Sign!

2. Damn fool

3. Ultimate blow job.

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.

7. Cato, I remember that April 4 tornado tore through Louisville, Kentucky too.
   It is still the standard bearer for the area when a tornado warning is issued.

8. April 3rd.

   Edit button? Please!!!

9. This is the one thing keeping me away from the great state of Kansas as a retirement option.

10. Holy Shit!… Clem indeed.

11. Couldn’t save his wife but thank God he salvaged the camera.

12. I don’t like the spin on this story.
    BTW, anyone surprised that this guy’s name is “Clem” ?

13. Boy, that was a close one!

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?

16. I don’t get it. Are you blaming him for his wife’s death?

17. It was Obama’s fault.

18. Buy a tripod Clem!

19. This is pretty intense but if you want truly frightening, find the only surviving audio of the Xenia tornado. It’s online somewhere.

20. And wear really good headphones if you have them.