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musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited July 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
This may be a stupid question, but hey i live in the west and we never will have any tornados, so hey!

anyways, logically what would happen, however gruesome the thought is, if a person was standing around, as some humongous hurricane ripped through the fields. Would the tornado pick up the person and carry them to the top of the "vortex"?

Anyone know?
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  • Urban HikerUrban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    If you live in the western US, a tornado is still possible. Tornadoes have occurred in every state. http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/tornado/tor_climatology.html#


    I don't have an answer to your question, though.
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  • musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    again, its a rather morbid question, but havent you wondered it. I mean, what would happen if you got in the way of a huge tornado.
  • Urban HikerUrban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    radiohead33 wrote:
    again, its a rather morbid question, but havent you wondered it. I mean, what would happen if you got in the way of a huge tornado.


    I'm a disaster junkie. Anytime this shit is on the weather channel I watch it. The videos I've seen show debris falling out at all levels. I don't think everything makes it to the top. Hell, I don't know if anything makes it to the top.

    I think if I personally got in the way of a tornado, I'd probably have an 'accident' in my pants, at the very least. :o:p
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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    I'm a disaster junkie. Anytime this shit is on the weather channel I watch it. The videos I've seen show debris falling out at all levels. I don't think everything makes it to the top. Hell, I don't know if anything makes it to the top.

    I think if I personally got in the way of a tornado, I'd probably have an 'accident' in my pants, at the very least. :o:p
    "Hey, Urban Hiker, I hear you were in the middle of the tornado!"
    "That's right... there was shit flying everywhere."
    "Yeah, I saw it on TV. Debris, roof tiles -"
    "No, you don't understand..."
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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    "Hey, Urban Hiker, I hear you were in the middle of the tornado!"
    "That's right... there was shit flying everywhere."
    "Yeah, I saw it on TV. Debris, roof tiles -"
    "No, you don't understand..."

    LOL...

    Yeah I don't even want to think about it....we do get tornadoes in Jersey sometimes.
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  • Urban HikerUrban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    "Hey, Urban Hiker, I hear you were in the middle of the tornado!"
    "That's right... there was shit flying everywhere."
    "Yeah, I saw it on TV. Debris, roof tiles -"
    "No, you don't understand..."

    I've lived in tornado alley. Had one hit a mile from the house - it hit a trailer park, go figure. :rolleyes:

    I remember what it did to our trees and yard from a mile away. Still I would be one of those assholes who goes on a Tornado Chasing vacation. :o
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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    I've lived in tornado alley. Had one hit a mile from the house - it hit a trailer park, go figure. :rolleyes:

    I remember what it did to our trees and yard from a mile away. Still I would be one of those assholes who goes on a Tornado Chasing vacation. :o
    Yeah, I can understand that - a kind of morbid fascination with the sheer destructive power of nature.

    But I'm mostly just here to make occasional "witty" jibes. :D
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  • Urban HikerUrban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Yeah, I can understand that - a kind of morbid fascination with the sheer destructive power of nature.

    But I'm mostly just here to make occasional "witty" jibes. :D

    Wit on, my friend.

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  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    radiohead33 wrote:
    This may be a stupid question, but hey i live in the west and we never will have any tornados, so hey!

    anyways, logically what would happen, however gruesome the thought is, if a person was standing around, as some humongous hurricane ripped through the fields. Would the tornado pick up the person and carry them to the top of the "vortex"?

    Anyone know?

    I grew up in rural or small town Iowa.
    Storms are spectacular in the midwest.
    Lightning & thunder storms from hell.
    Snow up the ass and really, really cold.
    Summer & spring are tornado seasons.
    A tornado has a pre storm color to it, sound & silence.
    The silence comes after the brutality of high winds, rain, black darkened skies.
    Now after that thunder storm stuff, rain, hail, and high winds is silence and a funky yellowish greenish sky. That's when it's on and soon. I've been through a few tornados. One uprooted off a foundation a very large wooden structure called a barn and threw it into a corn field about 5 miles away. My brother, our mom and I were all in my car one time coming back from Iowa City hospital (my brother doing dyalisis) a tornado ripped thru the area @ the exact time we were leaving the hospital. 20 miles down the highway a black wall of clouded sky rolled across the distance with it's sights directly on our directional path. My car was lifting up off the ground not but only a few inches, it was rocking so hard I about shit myself and I had to protect my brother and our mother, after all I was the driver trying to deal with the highest winds you could ever imagine. Semi truck 18 wheelers flipped over on highways, thrown in ditches, launched into fields. At this point I am begging for an overpass to park under. A train on a bridge was torn in half @ the hitch thingy and left both ends dangling off the bridge. The Army core of engineers had to remove the train with cranes. Iowa storms/midwest storms rule...

    Oklahoma area has some lightning/thunder storms that are mystically insanely powerful. That's how this earth get its carbon that's raining down on us,,,, Lightning gives us carbon. weird deal,,i don't understand it..oh well

    anyhow tornados rock..
    go find one sometime. ;)
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