Tornado

[TennCAN 1]

What an feeling, Vianca woke me up the night of the tornados, strong winds outside, major chain lightening coming down and you could hear the Tornado warning siren in the distance. Never heard or seen anything like that before in my life. Has any fellow Canadian VJ members experienced this before. I have been told that due to climate change Clarksville is now considered to be within Tornado alley.

Dale

Edited February 7, 2008 by TennCAN

[Krikit 1,164]

Yep. Been in lots of near misses, so I know exactly what they sound like. My kids experienced a direct hit at their summer camp once. Never did find their belongings. I imagine some fishes or bears up in Georgian Bay are wearing their clothes, taking pictures with their cameras, and have their artwork pinned to their walls. That was a terrible summer. Lots of devastation in Ontario. There are quite a number of tornado allies in North America. Weather is fascinating, isn't it?

[Marilyn. 340]

I used to live in Manitoba... I never witnessed a tornado but I do remember a few times we hid out in the basement because of tornado warnings... the sky would be weird colours too... they usually hit somewhere else though... somewhere close but not too close...

[Lona.C. 16]

What an feeling, Vianca woke me up the night of the tornados, strong winds outside, major chain lightening coming down and you could hear the Tornado warning siren in the distance. Never heard or seen anything like that before in my life. Has any fellow Canadian VJ members experienced this before. I have been told that due to climate change Clarksville is now considered to be within Tornado alley.

Dale

I never been true something like that neather , but what we had here last night we thought it was goin to turn into a tornado , chainlightning for good 30 min rained like crazy with some hail we had a sevear stormwatch , but no tornado watch , must have been something to wake up too

( and today we got snowflurries and rain and even some sun , yup wacko weather )

[LadyNoles 0]

Yes I've been in that kind of situation while I was in visit in OHIO last summer.......it was raining like crazy and the wind..oh my!!! then my fiance called me from work ( I was at a old lady's house) saying that his dad would pick me up in 5 minutes...and I said" why is it a tornado coming?" lolll and he said " yes baby theres is one your way "

we turned on the tv...and there it was.. a forecast warning of a tornado. I was scared and fascinated same time..It's pretty amazing to watch a tornado being formed in the sky but all I wanted to do is to get out of there loll

Ohio isnt a state that we call at risk but the weather changes so quickly..you never know...

[SonoranSongbird 3]

I'm glad you guys are okay!

Last week the temperature dropped from 71 to 26 in two hours. We were under a tornado warning AND it was snowing at the same time!

I live in southern Illinois, so we have tornado watches and warnings all the time. I have a friend who lives in Oak Ridge, and according to him, Tennessee actually has the highest number of tornado fatalities in the US, although I assume he means Dyer County, which is directly across from a part of Missouri that seems to be under a tornado warning every time there is any remotely inclement weather anywhere in the vicinity at all.

[michellea 0]

i am moving to Nashville, so I understand your concern..

however honestly with the storm we had yesturday, I would take tornados over snow...

[TennCAN 1]

i am moving to Nashville, so I understand your concern..

however honestly with the storm we had yesturday, I would take tornados over snow...

Yes, no matter where you live you can't escape the weather. I would take tornados over snow too. We had only about 2 inches of snow so far, they closed schools that day....

Dale

Edited February 7, 2008 by TennCAN

[Flames9_RN 358]

I have never lived or been close to a tornado, but been through many a good snow storm, and I would take snow any day over a tornado!! One can shovel out from snow, but the pure shyytt ur pants from a tornado, ouch! And if ur hit, best case scanario your rebuilding a house/community, worst case you loose family members and friends. Usually with snow you have advanced warning to prepare,not so much with a tornado! Mother nature is the boss!!

[Carlawarla 1]

What an feeling, Vianca woke me up the night of the tornados, strong winds outside, major chain lightening coming down and you could hear the Tornado warning siren in the distance. Never heard or seen anything like that before in my life. Has any fellow Canadian VJ members experienced this before. I have been told that due to climate change Clarksville is now considered to be within Tornado alley.

Dale

That must have been scary. We live in south St. Louis, and it seems to be in the tornado alley as well. The sirens are blown on the first Monday of the month at 11 a.m. for testing, and even that's scary. I've only had one occassion when it was really windy, rainy and stormy out, and the sirens went on here. Gene was home, so we headed on down to the basement. My heart was pounding! We went upstairs about a half hour later, and there were many things blown over or away. Some of our patio furniture was on the street, some other people's was in our yard. Lots of broken branches as well. I'd rather have snow than this.

[Reba 2]

I've seen some fairly scary weather when I sitll lived in Ontario. I recall the Barrie tornado of 1985, we got the outside of the storm, the sky turned green, the trees in the yard were nearly bent over from the wind, huge hailstones, the works. The only part we didn't get where we were was the funnel. It was up in Barrie deconstructing pretty much the entire city with an F5. I think that same year an F5 hit somewhere around Edmonton. We had a bunch of tornadoes that summer.

A few years ago we had tornado warnings in Toronto and I and a bunch of work friends were outside for a smoke break and the clouds were rolling in and the winds were picking up, I looked up and saw a small funnel starting and ran back inside! I had two guys in my class (I was teaching for a software co. at the time) from Maryland IIRC, said to me "we thought we'd come up here and get away from severe weather!" pffft...stupid Weather Channel makes the Yanks think weather stops at the border

So far we haven't had much really bad weather here this side of the mountains. The storms they had in Tennessee the other day didn't get over this far. We had a bit of rain, and the winds kicked up but there was no damage and no severe warnings (which is odd considering they'll incite panic just for a 1/8 of an inch of snow around here ) Apparently though, this area it is not unheard of for tornadoes, its just not necessarily "normal", if you follow.

I can live without 'em.

[Ban Hammer 13,345]

don't brag if you live in a state that only has hurricanes as they have tornados in them......record was Hurricane Buelah (1967) spawned 141 according to one study

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[Krikit 1,164]

don't brag if you live in a state that only has hurricanes as they have tornados in them......record was Hurricane Buelah (1967) spawned 141 according to one study

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In the past year we've had so many tornadoes touch down in our area that we had to go out and buy a weather radio because the power goes out the minute a storm comes through. Haven't seen a hurricane, as yet, though. (I guess a gen set would be a good investment here too.)

Like Reba, we got a lot of tornadoes in Ontario. I remember that Barrie hurricane, also, Reba. We were trying to get to a wedding in Huntsville that day, so we went through Orangeville to try and get by some of the devastation. Bad move. They were hit just as bad. I'll never forget the devastation as we drove through Barrie. Sheets of metal wrapped around trees sheered of their branches. A huge swath of wreckage right up the Barrie hill so you could distinctly see the path of the tornado. A whole shopping mall down in Orangeville. Unbelievable.

[SpiritAlight 1]

Wow.

Incredible horror stories.

Glad to hear all turned out reasonably okay for all of you.

A friend was driving through some of the areas hit the other day.

Thank goodness he had a safety bubble around him and passed before the tornadoes did.

[MissStacey 1]

I experienced a tornado when I was a teen in Edmonton. I remember seeing the huge funnel cloud perfectly from our kitchen window. It hit a few km from where we lived.

http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-70-1713-11760...tornadoes/clip8