Documentary of incredible tornadoes in 2024. Over 1600 tornadoes have been counted so far this year, the most the US has seen since 2011. Despite the excessive tornado activity, Only 53 fatalities were reported.
I am an Old Guy and I lived a lot of my life in Oklahoma and Texas, early life in SW Oklahoma when I went out on a Sunday afternoon with my dad when I was six years old to see a farm that had been hit by a tornado the day before and it killed one man who left the storm shelter to check on his stock one more time. In the ditch next to the road I remember seeing the spoons and forks from their kitchen and the rest of the home that was scattered for miles and miles. It scared me enough so that every time the storm siren went off I was ready to join the neighbors in the basement next door to our house. There I along with my younger sister I would listen to all the older neighbors tell about all the killer tornadoes in their past and I was imprinted with a life long fear of storms, especially the twisty kind.
I have lived now in Texas most of my life and hunted birds all over Texas and lots of the areas in this film are familiar , for the last 30 years I have hunted the Abilene area of Texas right below the SW part of Oklahoma where I grew up and that is tornado rich country. This is a great film about the chasers , they know how to work the roads and in Texas the roads go all over next to private land, however in SW Oklahoma the roads are set out in section line one mile squares with public access so in most cases a person can drive on public roads within a mile of a storm cell which could make things kind of fun or kind of stupid .
A this time I live in a county in the Texas Hill County that has only had one small tornado reported all of our history. Too far South and too far North of the Gulf but enough balance to seem to keep those terrible magnificent storms away from us. That's fine with me because when I lived in Oklahoma City years ago I used to watch those cells form out West of my house in NW OKC as those big cells built up and started for form twisters. I was the classmate in Hobart Oklahoma with a lovely woman who married Gary England the real weatherman in the movie Twister and I was able to know him. He helped us when we had a class reunion 20 years ago, next to a large lake in SW Oklahoma, and there was a storm less then a hundred miles north of us with our large party tent and Gary was with us, one the phone to the weather center as the storm became a toronado and except for some strong winds we were fine. I have seen the aftermath of these things and you don't screw around with them because they can really kill you dead and leave a mess to clean up.
I am an Old Guy and I lived a lot of my life in Oklahoma and Texas, early life in SW Oklahoma when I went out on a Sunday afternoon with my dad when I was six years old to see a farm that had been hit by a tornado the day before and it killed one man who left the storm shelter to check on his stock one more time. In the ditch next to the road I remember seeing the spoons and forks from their kitchen and the rest of the home that was scattered for miles and miles. It scared me enough so that every time the storm siren went off I was ready to join the neighbors in the basement next door to our house. There I along with my younger sister I would listen to all the older neighbors tell about all the killer tornadoes in their past and I was imprinted with a life long fear of storms, especially the twisty kind.
ReplyDeleteI have lived now in Texas most of my life and hunted birds all over Texas and lots of the areas in this film are familiar , for the last 30 years I have hunted the Abilene area of Texas right below the SW part of Oklahoma where I grew up and that is tornado rich country. This is a great film about the chasers , they know how to work the roads and in Texas the roads go all over next to private land, however in SW Oklahoma the roads are set out in section line one mile squares with public access so in most cases a person can drive on public roads within a mile of a storm cell which could make things kind of fun or kind of stupid .
A this time I live in a county in the Texas Hill County that has only had one small tornado reported all of our history. Too far South and too far North of the Gulf but enough balance to seem to keep those terrible magnificent storms away from us. That's fine with me because when I lived in Oklahoma City years ago I used to watch those cells form out West of my house in NW OKC as those big cells built up and started for form twisters. I was the classmate in Hobart Oklahoma with a lovely woman who married Gary England the real weatherman in the movie Twister and I was able to know him. He helped us when we had a class reunion 20 years ago, next to a large lake in SW Oklahoma, and there was a storm less then a hundred miles north of us with our large party tent and Gary was with us, one the phone to the weather center as the storm became a toronado and except for some strong winds we were fine. I have seen the aftermath of these things and you don't screw around with them because they can really kill you dead and leave a mess to clean up.
You and the missus have a great Christmas.
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I saw the aftermath of an EF3 that hit Salado, Texas. The enormity and scope of the devastation was mind boggling.
ReplyDeleteThat was an incredible storm chaser video and exceptionally entertaining as well. Thanks!
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