Tornado just hit Dallas

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terry107

terry107

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Live from Dallas:

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waggy

waggy

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BurnItDwn said:
Wow, that's terrible
That's fvcking scary.
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I have been around a few tornado's while my house has not been hit we have had some close calls.

that one didn't look huge but hell it sure looked powerful.
 
BurnItDwn

BurnItDwn

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waggy said:
I have been around a few tornado's while my house has not been hit we have had some close calls.

that one didn't look huge but hell it sure looked powerful.
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Yea, I've been in the same city as the tornado, but never hit.
Closest I've come was when I was at my grandparents house as a kid, and a heavy storm hit and knocked down a 40-50 foot pine tree onto their deck.... May not have been a tornado though, might have just been a very strong gust of wind.

Same house, I wasn't there ... but 2 or 3 years earlier, my grandparents and aunt and uncle were there, and a tornado knocked down about 20 trees on their property, and broke a few windows of the house .... but that was just an f0 or f1.

picking up and throwing semi's like what Dallas is seeing is probably F3 or F4, or possibly even F5....
 
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Llwellyn

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OutHouse said:
wtf a damn tornado is in the area and morons are glued to their computer asking "hey where is the tornade!!!!"

get in the fucking basement you dorks.
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There are very, very few basements in Texas. The water table is too high. It's the same way in Florida and a lot of the rest of the South that's close to the shore.

Some houses and buildings do have dug-in shelters, but that's a rarity too usually. You just have to go kiss the bathtub and throw a mattress over yourself and hope for the best.

Even where I'm from in Indiana, the basement doesn't help much when the rest of the house falls on top of you. You still have to shelter in place and protect yourself from flying and falling objects.

Don't forget also that smartphones can access those websites and social media... if I'm in kissing the bathtub, I'm sure as hell taking my iPhone with me so I can find out what's going on around me while I'm sheltered.

EDIT: Also, stay safe TX folk... Arlington already declared a state of emergency, and scanner feeds are reporting hundreds homeless and lots of gas leaks.
 
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sixone

sixone

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May 3, 2004
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OutHouse said:
wtf a damn tornado is in the area and morons are glued to their computer asking "hey where is the tornade!!!!"

get in the fucking basement you dorks.
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That's what people do, because there have been so many warnings that ended in nothing.

NWS sent a bunch of social scientists into Joplin after the big tornado, to find out why so many died. Most people needed nine separate warnings before they took shelter. That was eight too many, for some of them. :(
 
EightySix Four

EightySix Four

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My family lives in Forney, said the roof is gone from Crosby elementary and it was hit during pick-up time. Lots of ambulances and fire trucks. Not good.
 
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JeffreyLebowski

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Watched all the weather come through town from 17 floors up. Didn't see the tornado in Addison though, which is just on the other side of 635 from us.
 
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JeffreyLebowski

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sixone said:
That's what people do, because there have been so many warnings that ended in nothing.

NWS sent a bunch of social scientists into Joplin after the big tornado, to find out why so many died. Most people needed nine separate warnings before they took shelter. That was eight too many, for some of them. :(
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It's partly because, like here, in our area, the siren across the street kept going off every 10 minutes, even though no tornado was within 10 miles of us. Then when there was one in Addison, the siren never went off.
 
WelshBloke

WelshBloke

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JeffreyLebowski said:
It's partly because, like here, in our area, the siren across the street kept going off every 10 minutes, even though no tornado was within 10 miles of us. Then when there was one in Addison, the siren never went off.
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< knows nothing about tornadoes.

How long does it take a tornado to travel 10 miles?
 
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JeffreyLebowski

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WelshBloke said:
< knows nothing about tornadoes.

How long does it take a tornado to travel 10 miles?
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Can take 10 minutes, can take an hour. The thing is, the system is so spotty. The sirens will sound in areas where there is no tornado, and never sound when there is a tornado on the same block.
I just look out the window and if the sky is green I worry. Other than that I go on like normal. In our building people were closing office doors and hiding in the stairwells. I just kept working.
 
AnonymouseUser

AnonymouseUser

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Pretty intense day, to say the least, but no injuries/damage for my family. The trucking terminal is (was?) ~12 miles southeast of our shop, so it was close.
 
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