• Rare tornado strikes Northern Italy
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[img]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/audio/video/2013/5/5/1367751283786/Italy-tornado-005.jpg[/img] [quote]Dramatic footage has emerged of a tornado that ripped through northern Italy, damaging hundreds of buildings and injuring at least 12 people.Amateur video showed the twister as it struck towns and villages close to Emilia Romagna's regional capital Bologna. Footage on YouReporter, a web portal for citizen journalists, showed the tornado directly over the small village of Bentivoglio...[/quote] [URL]http://uk.news.yahoo.com/tornado-smashes-northern-italy-102322425.html#EEIpfDa[/URL] [media][URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFtj7PT60Bw[/URL][/media]
They look beautiful but yet dangerous and scary if up close. Never seen them real but i would like to if it ever comes.
Oh, wow. My old man returned from around that region not a week ago.
i've seen a tornado in Sweden one time! that's probably even more rare!
I've seen dozens in Denmark. Though they can barely be called tornados. Weak fuckers have a hard time even lifting tents.
I have seen a tornado before, they are scary and ominous from a distance.
Rare? Like a shiny? Northern Italy I'll trade you my shiny Pikachu for your shiny Tornado.
[QUOTE=GreenLeaf;40540016]i've seen a tornado in Sweden one time! that's probably even more rare![/QUOTE] Not really, according to Wikipedia there are several tornadoes reported each year, and there's likely to be a large number of unreported ones. They don't have the capacity to become anywhere near as powerful as, say, American ones. I saw one myself at the sea by the coast off Gothenburg.
I've always wondered why Tornados, at least devastating ones, seem to be unique to the States.
Fart winds from all of our mcdonalds thats why
Geographically unique locations that seem to gather wind and storms like no one's business.
[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;40543096]I've always wondered why Tornados, at least devastating ones, seem to be unique to the States.[/QUOTE] There's probably not many other places on earth where there are just giant flatlands the size of a country sandwiched between two oceans and two mountain ranges. "Tornado alley" is where most of the tornado activity happens in the US and the world. See: [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Tornado_Alley_Diagram.svg[/t] AKA when you have a giant expanse with nothing to block the flow of wind/pressure from all sides things can often pick up enough energy to make tornados. Basically breeding grounds for more extreme weather
Wow, first time I hear of a tornado hitting Italy. Oh, man I had the best calzone ever in Bologna, I hope this tornado didn't destroy that restaurant.
Oh man, I was in an Italian restaurant just a month ago, that could've been me!
[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;40543096]I've always wondered why Tornados, at least devastating ones, seem to be unique to the States.[/QUOTE] Because America's geography and weather patterns are perfect for them.
Holy cow a tornado in Italy that is rare! I remember here in grande prairie Alberta we had our first recorded tornado in July 2004.
Here's another view of it: [IMG]http://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/190420_382756195175563_1087184053_n.png[/IMG] (Stole this from people on Facebook.)
I like in kentucky, we get them every year.
I wish America didn't have so many tornadoes, an F3 hit a town not even 30 miles away from mine, and was on its way toward mine before it changed direction. They aren't fun at all. Beautiful from a distance, but if there was an F5 coming toward me I'd probably shit my pants and curl up in a ball sobbing :v:
In the states, down where I live we get all the ones that sort of span off. They tear through my state pretty often. Last year I was picking up debris from some store like.. down the mountain where I live.
If tornadoes were sentient they'd be huge assholes!
[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;40544206]I wish America didn't have so many tornadoes, an F3 hit a town not even 30 miles away from mine, and was on its way toward mine before it changed direction. They aren't fun at all. Beautiful from a distance, but if there was an F5 coming toward me I'd probably shit my pants and curl up in a ball sobbing :v:[/QUOTE] Which is what you should do... below ground level or in the center of your house near load-bearing walls.
Living in the south, I've seen some pretty nasty tornadoes come through here... They are terrifying to see coming right at you.
[QUOTE=OvB;40544744]Which is what you should do... below ground level or in the center of your house near load-bearing walls.[/QUOTE] And if you don't have a basement get a storm cellar outside or built inside your house.
missouri here, few things are capable of mustering such pants-shitting fear as looking outside and seeing an active funnel cloud forming over your cul-de-sac i've got a few good tornado stories, but there hasn't been any big ones around here for a couple years
[QUOTE=AfroNick;40544068]Here's another view of it: [IMG]http://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/190420_382756195175563_1087184053_n.png[/IMG] (Stole this from people on Facebook.)[/QUOTE] That is incredible.
[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;40544206]I wish America didn't have so many tornadoes, an F3 hit a town not even 30 miles away from mine, and was on its way toward mine before it changed direction. They aren't fun at all. Beautiful from a distance, but if there was an F5 coming toward me I'd probably shit my pants and curl up in a ball sobbing :v:[/QUOTE] It's really creepy too because tornado sirens [I]never[/I] sound completely creepy/scary rite guys [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hLTl9BBBT0[/media] (skip to 0:20) [editline]6th May 2013[/editline] LOL wow just as I posted this tornado sirens start going off where I live :v: Then I remember a test is done at noon every first monday of the month.
[QUOTE=KorJax;40547869]It's really creepy too because tornado sirens [I]never[/I] sound completely creepy/scary rite guys [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hLTl9BBBT0[/media] (skip to 0:20) [editline]6th May 2013[/editline] LOL wow just as I posted this tornado sirens start going off where I live :v: Then I remember a test is done at noon every first monday of the month.[/QUOTE]That sounds like how i'd imagine the steam train to hell would sound.
[QUOTE=GreenLeaf;40540016]i've seen a tornado in Sweden one time! that's probably even more rare![/QUOTE] There was only a once a "proper" tornado in Finland too. I think it was in the 80's when summers were still summers and not this "more rain, less snow" bullshit. A truck drived straight into it, was lifted into the air, thrown into a ravine and then rolled into the river. Driver survived but I can imagine him being quite pissed for having such a shit day, one in a seven billion chance and driving into the only tornado in the entire country.
gotta love how they always pick slightly stormy days around me to test the tornado sirens, im always shitting myself when those things go off, cas when i was like 6 or 8, a massive tornado tore through the town just a mile away from me
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