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am I right when I have heard that even brick homes are no match for an F4 and higher? I am just curious if most homes along the path were toppled regardless of structure. Being a Floridian, pretty much most new homes here are built with cement/cylinder blocks.
This is what a 2 mile wide tornado looks like.
This is what a 2 mile wide tornado looks like.
Check out the farm on the lower left side. That is massive
This is what a 2 mile wide tornado looks like.
Check out the farm on the lower left side. That is massive
am I right when I have heard that even brick homes are no match for an F4 and higher? I am just curious if most homes along the path were toppled regardless of structure. Being a Floridian, pretty much most new homes here are built with cement/cylinder blocks.
I've lived in tornado country most of my life. I can't say I've ever known schools closing because of thunderstorm/tornado weather.
Me too. They "train" for it. This was one bad a$$ monster.
Our farm was hit twice by them. Once at night, took a shed, killed a couple head of cattle. I was only 4, so I really don't remember it. The second was when I was 8, hit during the day, took a barn and some random damage. Us kids were at school. Had they called off school and we were home that day ????
When they rebuild...and we all know they will...they better rebuild with some kind of fallout shelter IN THE SCHOOLS. The hospital had a basement...why didn't the schools? They had to hide in the halls while the place was squashed. Unreal.
The Fujita scale (F-Scale), or FujitaPearson scale, is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation. The official Fujita scale category is determined by meteorologists and engineers after a ground or aerial damage survey, or both; and depending on the circumstances, ground-swirl patterns (cycloidal marks), radar tracking, eyewitness testimonies, media reports and damage imagery, as well as photogrammetry or videogrammetry if motion picture recording is available.
The scale was introduced in 1971 by Tetsuya Fujita of the University of Chicago, in collaboration with Allen Pearson, head of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center (currently the Storm Prediction Center). The scale was updated in 1973, taking into account path length and width. In the United States, starting in 1973, tornadoes were rated soon after occurrence. The Fujita scale was applied retroactively to tornadoes reported between 1950 and 1972 in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Tornado Database. Fujita rated tornadoes from 19161992[clarification needed] and Tom Grazulis of The Tornado Project retroactively rated all known significant tornadoes (F2F5 or causing a fatality) in the U.S. back to 1880.
In 2007, the Fujita scale was updated, and the Enhanced Fujita Scale was introduced in the United States. The new scale more accurately matches wind speeds to the severity of damage caused by the tornado.
Though each damage level is associated with a wind speed, the Fujita scale is effectively a damage scale, and the wind speeds associated with the damage listed aren't rigorously verified. The Enhanced Fujita Scale was formulated due to research which suggested that the wind speeds required to inflict damage by intense tornadoes on the Fujita scale are greatly overestimated. A process of expert elicitation with top engineers and meteorologists resulted in the EF scale wind speeds, however, these are biased to United States construction practices. The EF scale also improved damage parameter descriptions.
When they rebuild...and we all know they will...they better rebuild with some kind of fallout shelter IN THE SCHOOLS. The hospital had a basement...why didn't the schools? They had to hide in the halls while the place was squashed. Unreal.
when i was a kid
we had to practice tornado drills
we went to the halls and covered ourselves with a jacket if you had one
even though the school had a basement
but that was when we did not have so much advance notice
of a tornado
This is what a 2 mile wide tornado looks like.
Check out the farm on the lower left side. That is massive
I saw that. I never saw a real live tornado that size on TV before, not even on the Discovery Channel.
Tornadoes are like the fingers of God, they can either give rise to creation or put an end to it.
This is what a 2 mile wide tornado looks like.
Check out the farm on the lower left side. That is massive
that is one heck of a tornado
this is the one my brother in law
and niece lived through in 2010
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8EYYEI0Jbo]Tornado Hombre' 2010 - YouTube[/ame]
