Joplin got pegged with a big tornado...I lived!

My plan, foiled! I'll get you one of these days, Pitzman!
 
What's funny, I was outside recording video of the hail and rain for Tav at the time.
 
Had two within our county and the neighboring county, not very large of course(Illinois)
 
Don't be so modest. You probably uppercut the tornado so hard it f*cked off to the other side of town.
 
Wait so you were outside while a Tornado went through your town and you didn't realise.... 'Twister' lied to me
 
What's it like when a tornado passes over/by? I've always wanted to know.
 
It happened about 3 miles away, on the other side of town. We were getting SEVERE wind, rain and hail. I was getting marble to golf ball sized hail where I was. As soon as Cable internet returns with decent upload, I'll upload the shitty videos I took
 
Believe it or not, I ****ing thought of you man, when I saw they had those emergency reports on TV. Glad you're okay.
 
When I was younger I used to wonder what was so dangerous about tornadoes. I figured the wind would pick me up, I'd be superman for a while, and land in style.
 
DEATHMASTER said:
When I was younger I used to wonder what was so dangerous about tornadoes. I figured the wind would pick me up, I'd be superman for a while, and land in style.
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If by "in style" you mean getting impaled onto a splintered tree trunk, then you were quite a perceptive young child.
 
Thank god you're alright dude. Just watchting some of the footage and it looks devastating.
 
Well damn.

Pitz is more valuable to us than a hospital will ever be. <3
 
Count keeps rising with another storm here. This will be interesting!
 
I hope that FEMA or whatever gov't group gives you guys the right amount of money to rebuilt. I'm glad you're ok
 
Sometimes I'm happy I live in WV... where the worst that can happen is a little slow or a little flood... and luckily we've built a giant floodwall so the latter is sort of irrelevant. Plus I figure it would be a good defensive structure for zombie invasions.
 
StarBob said:
Sometimes I'm happy I live in WV... where the worst that can happen is a little slow or a little flood... and luckily we've built a giant floodwall so the latter is sort of irrelevant. Plus I figure it would be a good defensive structure for zombie invasions.
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Here in Buffalo, the only thing that really can kill you is snow, which only stupid bad drivers get killed by or old people who shovel too much and end up with heart attacks. we get some tornadoes or high winds but that's about it. Worst case scenario is that we live about 2 miles from a massive fault line :/

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Tornado Grew with Rare Speed on Way to Joplin
The deadly tornado that ripped through Joplin, Mo., Sunday evening, killing at least 89 people, intensified with unprecedented speed, according to storm trackers.

The supercell thunderstorm that produced the devastating twister formed over Kansas. The National Weather Service received its first report of the tornado at 5:34 p.m. local time, from west of the Missouri-Kansas border.

Seven minutes later, there were reports of a tornado within Joplin's city limits, about 7 miles (11 kilometers) east of the first sighting.

"Every storm is a little different, but this storm went from what was just a funnel cloud to a very strong, very large and very wide and obviously very damaging tornado in a very short time," in under 10 minutes, said Andy Boxell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Springfield, Mo.

"It's something that I've not seen personally, and certainly it's a rare thing to see," Boxell told OurAmazingPlanet.

The first tornado warning that included the city of Joplin had been issued at 5:17 p.m. local time. [Related: Why Tornado Forecasting is Tough]

"It sounds over the weather radio instantly and goes out to the world at that point," Boxell said. "As far as sirens go, that's a local decision."

Boxell said the tornado easily rated EF-3 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, meaning it had winds anywhere from 136 to 165 mph (218 to 266 kph).

"It may be higher than that; teams are on their way out right now to assess the damage and figure out how fast those wind speeds were," Boxell said.

He added that such monstrous tornadoes typically spend more time on the ground than this one did.

"It was only on the ground a short time, and it caused staggering injuries and fatalities," Boxell said. "It's heartbreaking and even more mind-boggling to realize it happened over a very short distance."

Officials will measure the swath of damage from edge to edge to determine the diameter of the tornado, since it's impossible to measure such things using radar and other meteorological tools.

The deadly storm adds to an already record-breaking year for severe weather in the United States.

April set a new record for total number of tornadoes in that month. Several state records were broken during the wild weather of April, which included a deadly outbreak of violent tornados across the South.

The deadliest single tornado so far this year was the April 27 twister that devastated Tuscaloosa, Ala. That one storm is thought to have killed more than 200 people, as part of an outbreak that killed more than 300 that day.

April 27 was also the day of the first giant twister classified as an EF-5 in three years. The half-mile-wide storm tore up entire neighborhoods in Smithville, Miss.

While the South has born the brunt of tornadoes so far in 2011, that doesn't mean the Midwest and the Great Plains are out of harm's way.

"We tend to actually see things ramp up a bit across the Great Plains as we get into May and June," Boxell said, "so the final numbers have not been written yet."
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http://www.livescience.com/14278-tornado-joplin-missouri.html

Surprise storms are the worst kind. you can prepare and run from a Hurricane
 
Damn, dude. Glad you're OK. The news about this is insane, over 100 deaths wtf.

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Wow that video is unsettling...but it also sorta sounds like a Roller Coaster
 
Do we have anyone else in Joplin? That thing was nasty.
 
Unfocused said:
I just watched a video on liveleak regarding this (click the link on top). It's too dark to see anything, so it's basically audio, but it's still pretty chilling to listen to.
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They played that on the news too, pants-shittingly scary.


unozero said:
I wonder did they have some advance warning??
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Yes, but its hard to avoid a lot of casualties when it lands smack dab in a well populated area.
 
Unfocused said:
Good to hear you're OK, Pitz.

I just watched a video on liveleak regarding this (click the link on top). It's too dark to see anything, so it's basically audio, but it's still pretty chilling to listen to.
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Well that was pretty horrifying... however I learned something about myself. I'm so annoyed/jaded/frustrated with religious people I Was actually getting pissed off at the woman saying "Jesus Jesus Jesus Christ". I mean it harkens back to that old war adage "There are no athiests in foxholes," but I think when you live in a red state and hear people like this around you constantly, just hearing stuff like this drives you crazy. Though I'm sure if there was any time to be casting your spell of Summon Jesus, that would be the time.

Regardless, not a situation in which I'd enjoy taking part. Sounded like the manifestation of dark death was pounding away at them.
 
Glad you are ok Pitz.

I live in Dallas so we get tornados every once in a while, but nothing like this.

I sometimes wonder if its worth living in certain places like the hills in southern California that have landslides and grass fires that destroy huge swaths of neighborhoods. Yet people rebuild? Take a hint! Tornado's are slightly different. If you live anywhere in the great plains you are at risk, so staying away isn't really a viable option. I really think people living in Tornado Alley should look into building partially or fully underground houses. They are energy efficient and well protected from disasters like this. No need to run to the basement when your whole house is the basement.
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Edit: Joplin is not technically in Tornado Alley, but that apparently didn't make much of a difference.

Edit: fixed spelling.
 
Tornado down in Texas... about to hit here in 40 minutes if it doesn't peter out or change course.

EDIT: Sirens going off. Jesus is coming to take me away!
 
Good luck Raz, if you see Jesus coming for you tell him to **** off and leave you alone.
 
First thing I though of was that we knew some members from Joplin. Glad to hear you are okay Pitz.

And hope everything is alright for those of you in Texas right now...
 
I actually thought about CyberPitz too when I heard the news. Glad your OK. I was under the impression that almost the entire town was obliterated.
 
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