Tornadoes featured:
2007 Greensburg EF5
2015 Pampa EF3
2021 Mayfield EF4
2023 Rolling Fork EF4
2011 Smithville EF5
1997 Jarrell F5
2021 Crowell Texas Tornado
2020 Nashville EF3
2020 Bassfield EF4
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My first job was working for Kodak-Eastman, servicing those little 24 hour kiosks all over western Georgia and east Alabama. Some of the contracts we had were from police departments and insurance companies for their evidence photos.
Some of the insurance pictures showed some of the weird tornado damages you hear about - the chickens running around with no feathers, pencils driven into brick walls, 2x4s in telephone poles, one house standing undamaged in a neighborhood that was destroyed, shit like that, but the one I remember the most is an apartment building with the entire exterior wall torn away exposing a table set for dinner complete with tablecloth and dishes that was left untouched.
A woman from Ohio told me a tornado pulled refridgerator out of her family garage. They found it down the street leaning against a telephone pole. Nothing was broken inside, not even a dozen eggs.
ReplyDeleteWe had a tornado cut across the field, pick up and go over a row of mature apple trees without touching them, come back down and hit a partially filled above-ground swimming pool. The sheet-metal walls and plastic liner were twisted together in a wad. The frame (top rail and legs) was on the other side of a row of pine trees, standing up in a long 'S' shape with the top rail intact and all the legs driven about 6" into the ground. We always considered that peculiar.
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I was in Wichita Falls Texas in 83 for the T5 that hit. I had a buddy that lived in a trailer. He sheltered on the Air Force base with his wife. His trailer was 200 yards from it's tie downs, it had been flipped/rolled multiple times, and it had a 2x4 sticking through the refrigerator. The eggs in the eggs tray were in perfect condition. Everything stayed inside the trailer but the trailer was a total loss.
ReplyDeleteLmao, gluten free.
ReplyDeleteMadMarlin
I remember going through Biloxi Mississippi not long after hurricane Camille went through there in the summer of '69.
ReplyDeleteRight along the beach front, north of the highway were a bunch of destroyed houses with one lone house in the middle of all that destruction that looked like it hadn't been touched.
I saw a documentary about a tornado that lifted an entire house with a teenage girl inside and plopped it right down on an elderly woman. The girl in the house then proceeded to steal the dead woman's shoes and went on to kill the woman's sister. She was never charged.
ReplyDeleteI think she was found incompetent to stand trail due to excessive use of hallucinogenics making it impossible for her to tell the difference between fantasy and reality.
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The story I heard is that the man behind the curtain vouched for the teenager and her supposed accomplices...
DeleteBack in the 70's in Minnesota a herd of milk cows was picked up by a twister and deposited unharmed in fields 15-20 miles away. The farmer got back all but one. She was later found floating in a lake.
ReplyDelete50+ years ago, a tornado ate a barn down the street from me. killed 4 cows, but didn't harm the hen sitting on 4 chicks only feet from the cows.
ReplyDeletegreat video post - keep em coming
ReplyDeleteTN Engineer
Those weird tornado effects you saw in those pictures are clues as to the use of directed energy weapons on 9/11, but most people pooh pooh that theory, when it's really the only one that fits all of the evidence.
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