Registered: 08/11/02
Posts: 2646
Loc: Southern Lake Superior
What a terrible shame.
Having grown up in the Chicago area, where we'd had a few really bad ones, I've tried to imagine what a mile-wide tornado would look like. It's hard for me to envision such a thing.
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#595282 - 05/21/1302:36 PMRe: Tornado season
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Registered: 08/28/03
Posts: 9722
Loc: SE Kansas
On one of the sites I read, a man said it looked like a war zone. I've heard this before, wondering if he has actually seen a war zone. I wonder if soldiers overlooking a war zone comment that it looks like a tornado had gone through.
I recall seeng pictures of the aftermath of the tornado that devastated Joplin Missouri a while back. It showed part of the city, where houses and buildings stood were now completely flattened. Everything gone. Not a single thing over four inches high for blocks.
Dave.
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The March 18, 1925 "Tri State Tornado" killed 695... but that was before they had warning systems.
We live in NE Texas and few if any have basements or shelters. We were stunned when we were house shopping. Could get one installed in the yard , but I suspect it'd cost $6-10K !!
When I lived in Bonham, on the outskirts of Dallas, I stumbled across the set of "Cellar-Doors" out in the middle of the back yard of the place I was staying in and wondered "WTHeck is this, and why is it in the middle of the yard?!?"
When I was told, it became one of the many reasons for returning to "The Greater New York Area".