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Tornados From A Bird's Eye View
#1
I have spent over thirty years in Florida, and hurricanes were something you just accepted as expected. So storms and bad weather comes with the territory, but nothing mesmerizes me like tornadoes. So I found this video interesting and decided to share.

I have watched a tornado travel down the middle of the road between us and the house across the road, while we prayed it away.

Keep in mind, this was in the country, and the house across the road was a good ten acres away. So we could see the tornado and feel the wind and the rain, and we could have gotten wiped out by flying debris, but we were kids, and invincible, watching something we thought was cool. In other words we were dumb assess.




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#2
It’s always sad to see the destruction they leave behind but tornadoes have always fascinated me. Every time the local channel breaks in with coverage I always park myself in front of the tv and don’t move until it’s over. Even when the threat isn’t anywhere close to me.
#3
(05-01-2022, 03:47 AM)VioletDove Wrote: It’s always sad to see the destruction they leave behind but tornadoes have always fascinated me. Every time the local channel breaks in with coverage I always park myself in front of the tv and don’t move until it’s over. Even when the threat isn’t anywhere close to me.

After watching the one when I was a child, and seeing the devastation, and what was spared, I immediately understood when the old folk called it, "the finger of God".

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(05-01-2022, 03:30 AM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: I have spent over thirty years in Florida, and hurricanes were something you just accepted as expected. So storms and bad weather comes with the territory, but nothing mesmerizes me like tornadoes. So I found this video interesting and decided to share.

I have watched a tornado travel down the middle of the road between us and the house across the road, while we prayed it away.

Keep in mind, this was in the country, and the house across the road was a good ten acres away. So we could see the tornado and feel the wind and the rain, and we could have gotten wiped out by flying debris, but we were kids, and invincible, watching something we thought was cool. In other words we were dumb assess.
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I was hit by one in 2000 (almost July 4th)...and have, since, watched clouds and storms as if they were looking for me.

Lightning is even more terrifying (to me).


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Experience...? Well, that comes from poor judgment."
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#5
Stay out of Florida.

Lightning capital of the world.

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Amazing.


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#7
Explanation: Storms and tornados etc fascinate me!

I am reminded, of two vids, by @NightskyeB4Dawn 's comment about praying the storm away!





Quote:
Quote: 0:08sec ???? get away from the window! [female voice. concerned mother?]

0:10sec Ok everybody back up! [male voice. authoritative. store owner?]

0:21sec Hey, where do you want me to put everybody? [young male voice. concerned. videographer?]

0:25sec Over here. In the back we got a cooler. [male voice. relaxed yet decisive. store owner?]

0:35 ahhhh uhm.. At least 10 or 12. [male voice. unsure stressed. unknown survivor?]

0:40sec [mature female voice counting 4 5 6 etc. relaxed yet focused on important details. natural goto person?]

0:45sec There's probably 18 or 19. [same mature female voice as above. now concerned about the full nature of what is before her.]

0:50sec This [mild expletive deleted] is getting real. [young male voice. also now concerned upon learning the facts. [i.e. lots of kids] videographer?]

Thunder!!!

0:55sec Ok they said there was one on the ground at ??? [young male voice. responsive to ??? question. direct and forthcoming. videographer?]

1min:00sec (mumbling as if counting) ...20 of them! [male voice. same as unknown survivor? determined and forthcoming.]

1min:05sec Ahhh no they're not as yet... the sirens are not going! [male voice. replying to ??? question. new male voice?]

1min:08sec Uhmm yes they did! [female? adolescent? forthcoming and dispelling wrong notions!]

1min:10sec Dude?! ... [new young male voice. freindly concern. videographers freind?]

1min:11sec This is getting crazy... this is for real! [young male voice. shocked reply. videographer?]

1min:27sec Is that the tornado? [unknown female voice? awe struck.]

1min:35sec Everybody get down... all on the ground. [male voice. concerned authorative. store owner?]

private conversations between kids and parents not transcribed.

2min:05sec This is weird! [young male voice. anxious. videographer?]

2min:13sec Flying debries IMPACT!!! [screams. lots of screams as stuff shatters]

Things get bad.

2min:35sec Hey guys! [young female voice. concerned alert. reassuring mother???]

Things get worse.

2min:48sec Heavenly Father, Jesus. [mature female voice. pleading ... praying! Head counter?]

2min:55sec We're good! We're good! [young male voice. desperate reassuring. videography?]

3min:00sec OMG! [unknown voice. groaning terrified. overwhelmed]

3min:05sec Right! we're going to do this! [young male voice. settled and prepared. videographer?]

3min:08sec TORNADO DIRECTLY IMPACTS! [Screams increase and then are lost in the conflagaration]

3min:20sec Heavenly Father! Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! [mature female voice + few kids. desparate prayers heard above noise of tornado etc.]

Prayers lost to the noise of the winds.

3min:34sec I love everyone! I love everyone man! [young male voice. defiantly open and loving but sounding very sad! friend of videographer?]

3min:35sec Yeah I love all you guys! We are going to be ok! [young male voice. reassuringly open and in agreement. relaxed and accepting. videographer?]

3min:36sec I love ya's! [young male voice. shouted. friend of videographers]

3min:36sec Jesus! Jesus! [mature female voice. still praying hardcore]

Storm lessens considerably.

3min:45sec Heavenly Father! Thank you Jesus! [mature female voice. still praying hardcore]

3min:47sec Is everybody ok? [unknown male voice? questioning.]

3min:48sec Yes! [young male voice. affirmative in reply. videographer?]

Storm sounds and something fluttering in the wind hardcore.

3min:55sec Stay down... Stay down! [unknown male voice]

4min:00sec Transciption suspended. [note still 2mins of vid left to be transcribed]

And ...




Personal Disclosure: I am slightly disappointed as I had hoped for a top down view of a tornado spawning so that we could see down the funnel. But the video supplied did provide a better view of tornado's destructive power. I was awestruck.

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#8
(05-01-2022, 10:35 PM)OmegaLogos Wrote: Explanation: Storms and tornados etc fascinate me!

I am reminded, of two vids, by @NightskyeB4Dawn 's comment about praying the storm away!

Most of the first videos were from drones and from building cameras. Looking at that first storm, I don't think a plane or satellite would have been able to see through that giant black blob, that looked almost like a massive control center or a mother-ship. That was one of the weirdest tornadoes I have ever seen.

I love a good old fashion thunderstorm. But all storms humble me. I have been through more than my share of hurricanes, and only three tornadoes, thank God. I can tell you that if I ever go during a storm. It will be with speaking to God the whole way.

When I went through Wilma, it was just my Mother, myself, my Rhodesian Ridgeback, Caleb, my Yellow Lab Charlie, and my dog cat Lazarus. Night time hurricanes, are much scarier, and Wilma was a doozy. As I laid in that bed with my Mother praying, it sounded like the entire house was being ripped apart. We prayed through the whole thing. The front was bad, but the back side sounded like we had been dropped into hell.

I was more afraid of going outside when the sun came up, because I just knew that both porches were gone and God only knew what else. When I opened the door to the front of my house, I was stunned. My porch was still attached, in fact it looked like it had never been touched, and I would have bet a million dollars that I heard it ripped off during the storm. So I ran to the back door, and remembered I had no exit in the back because the french doors were shuttered closed.

When I walked out into the yard, it looked like a scene from the Twilight Zone. Almost all the trees were down, all around the house. It was almost supernatural. The trees went down all around the house in a complete circle. Not one touched the house. They looked like felled dominoes. Everyone that came to help out, said it looked like a giant hand had been placed over my house and protected it from all the damage that had gone on all around me.

On the south side of my house, you could see the path the tornado took, right between my house and the house of my neighbor. Both of our houses were spared. The tornado kept across the road, through the empty lot across the street, across the back porch of another neighbor, taking the porch but sparing his house, and hit the house across the road from him, completely wiping out that neighbor's house. That neighbor, that was the only one that evacuated the area. His house was completely gone.

Like I said, the whole thing seemed supernatural. I will never forget it. And a prayer is never far from my lips.

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(05-01-2022, 10:35 PM)OmegaLogos Wrote: Personal Disclosure: I am slightly disappointed as I had hoped for a top down view of a tornado spawning so that we could see down the funnel. But the video supplied did provide a better view of tornado's destructive power. I was awestruck.

Be safe ok minusculebeercheers

You may find this interesting. It is the view from a drone.


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