has anyone here outside the US experienced a tornado?

[TurdBerglar]

it's tornado season here in the US. mostly they form in the central part of the country. sometimes they creep into other regions of the country. about two years ago one ripped through my city. a very rare event for New England. ever since then intense weather kinda freaks me out. the weather here has been getting more and more unpredictable and menacing.

you hear of earthquake, floods, hurricanes, and blizzards happening elsewhere in the world but there never seems to be mention of tornados that absolutely flatten a whole neighborhoods/towns happening anywhere else other than the US.

[TurdBerglar]

interesting tornado damage facts:

http://www.wxedge.com/articles/20120323the_top_10_most_destructive_tornadoes_in_u s_history

[Medellia]

Apparently here in the UK they have more per year (at least as far as square milage goes). None of my in-laws have seen one though, I think we're too far south for it. I haven't even seen lightening or heard thunder since moving here.

Weird thing is, I lived in Oklahoma for 16 years, never saw a tornado. Heard the sirens loads of times, but they just never hit our area.

My father in law just asked if any of my family were affected by "that hurricane in Arizona".:confused:

[Guy Incognito]

yeah i have never seen a tornado in uk but apparently they do happen. we dont get much extreme weather, probably just as well as we would whinge like fuck. We just get constantly crap weather.



its those buggers that chase the tornadoes and twisters that freak me out. I realise some of that is for scientific purposes but bloody hell , proper dangerous is that.

[MC Moot]

Tornadoes,lightening,snow lightening,ball lightening,earthquakes,grass fires,ping pong ball sized hail,flash floods and debris slides...I'm a magnet for natural disaster...my middle name could be danger or trauma,either or...

[Randetica]

snow lightening

those are sick

[Freebasser]

Saw a whirlwind about 10 feet tall near my house once and stood in it - was kinda fun. That's... that's it :(

[abbott]

Lived in tornado alley for 3 years. Seen two, been through many. Once was in a closet with my mom and sister and our roof got damaged and water started poring in on us. Never any real personal disaster. Wife's family had their town leveled in Friona TX somewhere around 1993. We were just about to start dating.

Once I was a cart boy at a local golf course and we saw a storm coming. All the carts poured in and I went from waiting for carts to having 50 to put up. Oh I see there is a tornado. My boss yells at me .. Get those carts in the cart barn. I worked as I watched the tornado about 3 miles away. Was a small tornado that took out one structure but never came in our direction.

[abbott]

Shit sorry I'm in the us

[na§tee]

Apparently here in the UK they have more per year (at least as far as square milage goes)
whatever is classed as a 'tornado' here in the UK is most definitely not on the scale that people in the states experience. that level of destruction and amount of casualties is unheard of.

i should have paid more attention in geography.

[Medellia]

whatever is classed as a 'tornado' here in the UK is most definitely not on the scale that people in the states experience. that level of destruction and amount of casualties is unheard of.

i should have paid more attention in geography.

There was one in Birmingham in 2005 that's considered one of the strongest in the UK, it was "only" an F2. Destructive, but not destroying whole neighborhoods. I'd assume most UK tornadoes are a 0 or 1 on the Fujita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujita_scale#Parameters) scale.

[Homsar]

I also live in the New England area and in particular a section where earthquakes, tornadoes,and even hurricanes generally never hit. I've never experienced a tornado, but some have supposedly touched ground in this state. However, we were hit pretty hard by Irene. I was in an area of high elevation, so I didn't experience much of the damaging effects of the storm.

Tornadoes are/were a constant thing in my nightmares. When I moved to Michigan for a year, there would be tornado warnings regularly. Strangely, I never experienced one there.

Where I am now in the New England area, we have to worry about snow storms and the occasional flooding. It's nice being surrounded by mountains.

[TurdBerglar]

Oklahoma can't catch and break. what the fuck is going on.