Topic: Tornado

[ekim98]

Been helping with the clean up the last 2 days from the tornado that went thru KY Tuesday evening. I'm a Vol.fireman. Can't believe the damage, but only 3 people lost there lives. From the looks of things it could have a lot worse. I guess Tenn. got hit a lot worse, but there all bad. I can't comprehend the assume power those tornados generate.

[azuredesign]

I have to say that as much as New England winter drag on intermidably and make everyone slightly to mostly miserable, at least we don't have to worry about catastrophies such as the tornado that hit your area. It's great that there are folk such as yourself that help get things going again.

[Rocking-M]

Been helping with the clean up the last 2 days from the tornado that went thru KY Tuesday evening. I'm a Vol.fireman. Can't believe the damage, but only 3 people lost there lives. From the looks of things it could have a lot worse. I guess Tenn. got hit a lot worse, but there all bad. I can't comprehend the assume power those tornados generate.

Tornadoes one of the most powerful forces in God's natural world. I've been intrigued by them since a younger fellow in NC.
Use to go out and look at the aftermath in the swamps around home, all manner of trees twisted off. One once set down
on a 100,000+ squarefoot  tobacco warehouse in our small tobacco town. Picked the roof up the walls fell in, 0r were sucked in,
and set the roof back down on top. I'm thankful no one in our small town was injured. Our prayers are with your efforts
there and with the folks who lost loved ones. Take care.

[Bob Wessner]

Devastating for sure. I would like to see folks promote weather alert radios (with SAME technology) as much as they do smoke detectors. I could make a big difference in rural areas without sirens.

[BobbyR]

We had come through near here and man it ripped up some trees. This is very unusual here in NY. I was saddened to see 50 people lost their lives in these storms.

[ekim98]

It was really weird, there was an RV - about 28 footer that was picked up and laid on it's side on top of a car parked next to it in the driveway. About 4 feet from the front of the house. didn't touch the house and no other damage in the whole yard. It really makes you feel humble when you see what the wind can do.  I guess Tenn. got hit pretty bad too. I haven't heard to much about other states that got hit by tornado's too.

[tsflstb]

A pipeline facility near Nashville had an 18,000 HP compressor picked up and tossed around.  It was running at the time - compressing natural gas to about 900 psi.  The fire eventually burned out as safety systems shut the valves to the area.

That turbine/compressor package has to weigh upwards of 50,000 lbs, plus it was anchored in concrete and bolted to all sorts of piping.  I would have considered it an "immovable object".

[ekim98]

+1 

[eldar]

When it comes to a tornado, you never know what will happen. A piece of straw reportedly got NAILED into a piece of wood! STRAW into WOOD. You just never know what is going to happen. You could stand in front of the thing and be unscathed or hurt or killed. You never know.

This summer here in ND we had a town almost COMPLETELY destroyed by a tornado. It was literally erased aside from debris. SOmething like 70% or more of the town was flattened.

Give me a hurricane any day. At least there is fair warning. A tornado gives minutes and thats about it.