Tuscaloosa Tornado Damage Aerials Video | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1361726 United States 04/29/2011 03:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I noticed a awful lot of forests in the latter part of the video that were destroyed. I was just curious how extensive the damage to the forests were as they might play an important part in the moderation of the weather. Quoting: PookieIt could be a hot summer, and the earth is parched as a result of there being less shade. Maybe more severe weather in the future as a result of this. Anyway, maybe it just looks that bad because they were flying over the affected areas. Yes, and it would be logical to assume focusing on the damage with the camera |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1361726 United States 04/29/2011 03:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wow - a cat5 cyclone pales in comparison. Condolences to those affected. Quoting: <ambiguous>I've seem tornadoes suck the paint off of a car, lift it up ad set it down 100 yards from where it was. I've seen them suck all the water out of a pond,and suck all the leaves off a tree and leave it's branches intact, I've seen them take a two by four and pin two cows together by impaling them with it. They are the most frightening thing I've ever experienced, a hurricane is a little wind compared to an f4 or f5.And the worst thing about them is their evil nature of finding the weakest structures to aim themselves at, we've all heard the deal about trailer parks, and it's true. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1362015 Croatia 04/29/2011 05:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | why you americans make houses out of wood???? I will never understand. IT IS STRUCTURALLY WEAK as hell. It is Because of price?? some of you will say, but what is the price when you must rebuild your house 3 times in your lifetime because of this type of damage. Solid concrete and there will be no tornado that will destroy your home and you only need to do it once. I am really sorry for the people that died there. Peace be with them. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1345930 United States 04/29/2011 06:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good lord.........and we thought Japan was a mess. This has got to be the worst outbreak and damage ever. I'd be surprised if the final death toll doesn't surpass that of the 74 outbreak. Quoting: 18328Our local Missouri weatrherman said it did surpass the 74 outbreak yesterday. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1362122 United States 04/29/2011 08:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | why you americans make houses out of wood???? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1362015I will never understand. IT IS STRUCTURALLY WEAK as hell. It is Because of price?? some of you will say, but what is the price when you must rebuild your house 3 times in your lifetime because of this type of damage. Solid concrete and there will be no tornado that will destroy your home and you only need to do it once. I am really sorry for the people that died there. Peace be with them. Concrete structures in the Southern USA = mold and mildew. We need air under the house to keep it from rotting out. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1362011 Puerto Rico 04/29/2011 08:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Remember all those Americans saying that Japan's tragedy was Pearl Harbor karma? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1361559Yeah, you get the point. Interesting , i have never seen such selective pressision using a weather weapon as that before .... They had good practice using them for crop circle formations , now they can suck a rat from a sewer pipe by the click of an ET technology computer "mouse" |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1362173 Australia 04/29/2011 08:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wow - a cat5 cyclone pales in comparison. Condolences to those affected. Quoting: <ambiguous>I guess you have never been in a cat 5? this is what any town would look like if we had more homes in the direct path of a cat 5 Love and light to every one who lost their homes and family |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1307021 United Kingdom 04/29/2011 09:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks for posting OP, my condolences to the families of those whose lives have been shattered. |
<ambiguous> User ID: 1361906 Australia 04/29/2011 09:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wow - a cat5 cyclone pales in comparison. Condolences to those affected. Quoting: <ambiguous>I guess you have never been in a cat 5? this is what any town would look like if we had more homes in the direct path of a cat 5 Love and light to every one who lost their homes and family Went through Althea in '71 and that bastard Yasi. I think we have an advantage because of the work done over the years by the CSIRO and the JCU in advising of our building codes - though older structures get flattened. Those twisters are leaving affected areas looking like a giant game of pickup sticks whereas our cyclones tend to leave larger masses of debris. |
Dee User ID: 1360611 United States 04/29/2011 09:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good lord.........and we thought Japan was a mess. This has got to be the worst outbreak and damage ever. I'd be surprised if the final death toll doesn't surpass that of the 74 outbreak. Quoting: 18328==================== Lord why ya do us like this..???? l understand ya starvin them nigras in Africa Washin them dirty yellers out to sea in Indonesia and Japland but Lord.... we Whitefolks !!! ...like you !!!! what we ever do ??? l mean WTF !!!!!! amen. Maybe it all starts and ends with our attitude. We are So living on borrowed time. WTF amen |
dankristy User ID: 1362186 India 04/29/2011 09:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Very bad. But, why do these happen very often. Dan PREPARE and SURVIVE in 2012 [link to 2012howto.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 506049 United States 04/29/2011 09:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My parents live in Tuscaloosa. They were not hit by the tornado fortunately. Power was restored to their home this morning. Unfortunately, all the sanitation trucks were destroyed or damaged beyond being operable. A curfew is currently in place. Expect the death count to reach near a thousand or more before its all said and done. My father said there were three pages of names (4 columns each) in the paper this morning of people missing. The University of Alabama has dismissed classes for the remainder of the semester. This is a very sad day for the Great State of Alabama. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1362212 Australia 04/29/2011 09:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | why you americans make houses out of wood???? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1362015I will never understand. IT IS STRUCTURALLY WEAK as hell. It is Because of price?? some of you will say, but what is the price when you must rebuild your house 3 times in your lifetime because of this type of damage. Solid concrete and there will be no tornado that will destroy your home and you only need to do it once. I am really sorry for the people that died there. Peace be with them. they get quakes too, so when the house comes crushing down in one of those your gonna say why you build out of stone or concrete or solid brick. It's six of one and a half a dozen of the other. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1362240 United States 04/29/2011 10:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm in East Texas and the Tornadoes must have been just getting wound up when they passed through here, BUT, at one time there were 8 twisters confirmed on the ground and about 15 showing on the radar in this county alone. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1361726A tornado went directly over my house and sucked some shingles off and fucked up the trees pretty bad too, and I heard that god awful noise everybody is always talking about. Scared the fuck out of me , and nothing much can do that any more. There was what could best be described as widespread minor damages in the area and a few big trees taken down, nothing major in that respect.the 'nadoes were all F-1's except for 1 f-3. It rained 7 inches in under 30 minutes, washed away a shitload of my grass...well, you get the picture. I've been living in tornado country all my life, but I never saw this many tornadoes at one time on the ground in one small area. I went through those storms as well.. Scared the shit otta me and grandbabe.. Thread: OMFG! Twisters falling all around my area in Texas/nerves SHOT! Sister in Johnson co. Texas made it ok with only a few trees down and some shingles gone,same for me(trees and such)but our sis in Alabama lost everything as the house/cars/barn/ all gone but sis and hubby made it out alive! southern Kaufman co. Texas... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1361577 United States 04/29/2011 10:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Damn.... I live NE of B'ham, and this is the first time I've seen this video. Truly devastating. My State is gonna take a while to recover from this. When you talk to people from the areas hit hardest, you can see the pain in their eyes. Nearly everyone knows someone who either lost someone or can't find a family member. I found pieces of houses (paint peeled off in small strips, vinyl siding, parts of window blinds, insulation, shingles) in my yard after it came through. We're a good 15 miles from where the storm passed through. Some say it looks like a war zone, only war zone that looked like this was Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 883734 Netherlands 04/29/2011 10:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OMG Amazing! Have you guys not paid attention to the three little pigs story? The straw hut got blown away, the wooden house got blown away and the stone house held strong against the wolve's hard blowing. Next time try building some stone houses in that area! |
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