Some of the damage from a F5 Tornado.

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AvesPKS sadly mother nature controls us. I like mother nature as long as it doesn't damage, hurt or kill anything. Lightning i think kills more people than tornados or hurricanes do though. I think the reason is because some people still stay outside when it starts to lightning. Plus you can get stuck by lightning even if the thunderstorm is not real close. Even on a sunny day i believe. I know my friend got hit by lightning a little. I seen lightning real close to me before. Thats why i always make sure i don't go out when there is lightning or i run back in. Mother nature is in charge and we are the ants.
 
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I remember that night....scary as hell.....that damn thing popped up over OKC and stayed on the ground for nearly 5 hours. Actually made it all the way to us here in Tulsa but died out just before it hit the highly populated part of the city. There were multiple tornadoes that night but that one was a monster. They still talk about it on the news here all the time when tornadoes are out and about. In fact they said it was the most powerful tornado ever recorded and could have been greater than an F5 if the Fujita scale went higher.
 
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Originally posted by: imtim83
AvesPKS sadly mother nature controls us. I like mother nature as long as it doesn't damage, hurt or kill anything. Lightning i think kills more people than tornados or hurricanes do though. I think the reason is because some people still stay outside when it starts to lightning. Plus you can get stuck by lightning even if the thunderstorm is not real close. Even on a sunny day i believe. I know my friend got hit by lightning a little. I seen lightning real close to me before. Thats why i always make sure i don't go out when there is lightning or i run back in. Mother nature is in charge and we are the ants.
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We actually got lucky. The tornado destroyed a catholic school, a grocery store, a KFC, a hardware store, a couple of gas stations...fortunately, it was a Sunday evening, and most people were at home. I think only six people (could even be less) died as a result.
 
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Originally posted by: isekii
I'm glad I live in NJ

nothing like that usually happens around this area.
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Heh...you never know. Maryland isn't exactly Tornado Alley either, and the one that hit last year was the first one in 70 years.
 
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Although not as quiet as Maryland as far as Tornado activity still rare to see Wall Clouds and Funnels here north of Atlanta. I got video of 2 of them today as one passed to the north and the other to the south. Atlantans, Channel 46 is putting the Video files I just sent together for the 11 pm News broadcast tonight. The hail was the size of golf balls too.
 
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Insane pictures. :Q

We're lucky to get a couple of funnel clouds a year here in Oregon. :p I don't think I've ever heard of one touching the ground.
 
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shinerburke i couldn't imagine how scary it was :( Espically with a tornado that powerful my god. Thats certainly one reason why a F5 is called the finger of god.

By the way did people with cellars have the door blow off ? I hope not. I know i was hearing about how people build reinforced cellars. Did any of their doors blow off? I can't imagine how bad this was. I mean something to do that to a railroad freight car is just scary. That thing weights a lot too. I bet that tornado picked up conerate easily.
 
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Originally posted by: imtim83
shinerburke i couldn't imagine how scary it was :( Espically with a tornado that powerful my god. Thats certainly one reason why a F5 is called the finger of god.

By the way did people with cellars have the door blow off ? I hope not. I know i was hearing about how people build reinforced cellars. Did any of their doors blow off? I can't imagine how bad this was. I mean something to do that to a railroad freight car is just scary. That thing weights a lot too. I bet that tornado picked up conerate easily.
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After it happened I read a few reports about doors being torn off of storm cellars. Not many, but some. I read one report where an older man was in his shelter and thought the storm had passed. He opened the door and quickly realized he was in the eye of the tornado. He slammed the door back shut but didn't have time to secure it properly and in his fight to hold it closed he had both of his shoulders dislocated.

My Dad had a storm shelter installed at my parent's house just after those storms went through in 1999. Of course in typical my Dad fashion the damn thing is built like Cheyenne Mountain. It's made out of steel which then had a fiberglass type of insulation poured around it, it's sitting on a concrete slab and secured to it using the biggest damn chain(looks like battleship anchor chain) I've ever seen in my life, then it was buried so that the top is 3 feet underground, there is a heavy steel door at the top which leads to stairs down, that door can be secured with a chain that is damn big and heavy, then when you get to the bottom of the stairs there is another door that once you go through it is locked by 2 inch rods that slide into the sides/top/bottom of the shelter itself. The actual shelter is 16x18 and has a bench on two walls, a bed against the rear wall, it's own battery powered electrical system, chemical toilet, small food pantry, and several gallons of water. On top of the ground over this bunker he built a stone patio with these massive stones from a rock quarry on some of our land. It's hilarious when he shows it to people. Just about everyone comments on how it looks like it could survive a direct nuclear attack. Hopefully it will never have to be used. Nice knowing it's there though and that I don't live too far from them should I need to get there in a hurry.

 
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I was near that thing. We're talking baseball-sized hail around, 60 mph winds... I myself got some marble sized ones...
 
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shinerburke wow so that older man actually saw the inside of a tornado! Wow! I wonder how many people have seen the inside of a tornado before. I guess its clam just like the center of a hurricane. I am glad the older guy lived though but sad that his shoulders got dislocated from trying to hold the cellar door shut. Thank god he got it closed in time though.

I am glad your dad has a good storm cellar and we all hope you all will never have to use it for sure. Though if you all ever do at least you have the peace of mind to know its there for you all ! It sounds like a really super strong and nice storm cellar. If that storm cellar doesn't hole for a F5 tornado then nothing will. I couldn't imagine it not holding though. That would be unreal if it didn't. Are you 99% sure it will hold even a very bad F5 tornado ?
 
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Jmmsbnd007 wow thats pretty scary. :( Did you get any of the tornado on video sense it was near you but didn't actually hit you! ? Also can you remember how wide that horrible F5 tornado was?
 
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Originally posted by: imtim83
shinerburke wow so that older man actually saw the inside of a tornado! Wow! I wonder how many people have seen the inside of a tornado before. I guess its clam just like the center of a hurricane. I am glad the older guy lived though but sad that his shoulders got dislocated from trying to hold the cellar door shut. Thank god he got it closed in time though.

I am glad your dad has a good storm cellar and we all hope you all will never have to use it for sure. Though if you all ever do at least you have the peace of mind to know its there for you all ! It sounds like a really super strong and nice storm cellar. If that storm cellar doesn't hole for a F5 tornado then nothing will. I couldn't imagine it not holding though. That would be unreal if it didn't. Are you 99% sure it will hold even a very bad F5 tornado ?
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I can't imagine anything ripping it out of the ground. It's steel, then chained to a concrete slab with massive anchor bolts poured into it. Then it's buried 3 ft underground and topped with huge flat rocks that form a patio. I just can't comprehend anything pulling that up.
 
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I saw something on the Discovery Channel once that said an F5 rppied an asphalt road off the ground--and it showed pictures. It was awesome/scary.

On that same show it said some Indian tribe had a saying, something like "If you see the dead man walking, you are about to die." Then it showed a picture of a DUAL funnel cloud that looked like a person's legs. It gave me chills seeing that.
 
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Originally posted by: isekii
I'm glad I live in NJ

nothing like that usually happens around this area.
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I live in NJ too, and a few years ago a very small twister touched down a few blocks from my house. It was at night so nobody saw it, but radar showed one and people heard one and when people went to look at the damage, you could see mangled trees cut in a path across a few people's yards. All the other trees just had leaves blown off and some branches broken, but where the tornado hit the trees were all ripped apart.

 
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Originally posted by: AvesPKS
Here are some links to pics of tornado damage from my hometown, La Plata, Maryland.

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Yea that was a pretty wicked storm when that Tornado hit....im up in Bowie and remember when that happened. Crazy stuff. You guys down there got hit pretty hard today as well with all the storms that rolled through earlier.

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