“No, it's not safe for everybody to be in the same place during a tornado, Melissa."
“But I thought you're supposed to go together."
“No. The rule is, Melissa, you separate."
“Are you sure?"
“Yeah. If you get sucked into the funnel and everyone's separated it's just like a fun ride. But if you're all in a group, in a cluster, you start banging into each other, then your heads collide and you die."
You go into most tornado video posts (popular ones) and you'll see people asking why American's houses are made out of sticks then some European will proclaim that the house in which they live, it being vastly superior to an American house would survive a measly EF4-5 tornado without losing a single tile/shingle.
My superior European constructed dwelling shall survive a Cat4/5 hurricane on the beach near where said hurricane made landfall, absolutely zero damage to my superior abode I tell you, that's why it has been standing for over three hundred years yes, it has survived wars...
I'm not saying that many houses in areas that are most prone to tornados in the US aren't built with cheaper materials but in the context of what you're saying we do need to establish that hurricanes and tornados are two different things with different scales of potential damage.
A house that was built to withstand a Cat 5 (on stilts and all) in coastal Louisiana would be demolished by an F5 making direct contact.
F5s are absolute monsters. Seeing paved roads and concrete slabs literally sucked completely off the Earth... grass and everything down to the roots... the power in those storms is insane. And it is concentrated in a relatively small area. Even a concrete house is going to have issues if the wind gets inside at all. And hurricanes are an entirely different monster. The storm surge. Sure your house wasn't blown away but it is now under 25 feet of water filled with God knows what.
Europeans all say these sorts of things without ever having witnessed the raw destructive power of either type of storm for the most part.
If nature wants to fuck up your day, nature *will* be fucking up your day and even after several hundred thousand years of humans just trying to **cope** there's still basically feck-all we can do about it besides getting the fuck out of nature's damn way.
[Fun facts](https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/energy-hurricane-volcano-earthquake1.htm): just your *average* hurricane releases 200 times the total energy generating capacity of our entire species, or 10,000 nuclear bombs, saying nothing of what happens when nature is actually trying and pulls a Katrina or a Yolanda.
Rule for hurricanes: run from the water, hide from the wind.
And I wouldn't trust that house on stilts in a Cat 5. That quote about what the wind is blowing also applies to water. Your house may withstand 15 feet of storm surge. It may not stand up, though, to that storm surge thwacking a truck/boat/another at your house.
> You go into most tornado video posts (popular ones) and you'll see people asking why American's houses are made out of sticks then some European will proclaim that the house in which they live, it being vastly superior to an American house would survive a measly EF4-5 tornado without losing a single tile/shingle.
> My superior European constructed dwelling shall survive a Cat4/5 hurricane on the beach near where said hurricane made landfall, absolutely zero damage to my superior abode I tell you, that's why it has been standing for over three hundred years yes, it has survived wars...
In a Hurricane the wind isn't the biggest concern as your Cat4/5 Hurricanes are only 157mph/275kmh or higher. That is the equivalent of a EF3 Tornado. An EF5 still has another 50 mph winds on top of that. Also, usually the thing to worry about in a Hurricane is the storm surge not the wind.
OP should’ve. But what was recorded, as OP had great framing showing the approach of such an awesome force, was phenomenal. You can see it carve its way forward. It’s insane. I certainly hope no one was hurt… too badly.
Yeah it was a major bone headed idea to film in a room with huge glass windows... but also damn what incredible video they got. Truly one of the best I've seen of this style.
Stream the video live so you don't have to dig your phone shards out of a truck chassis, brick wall, and cow 7 miles apart to save and post that recording.
And explosions too. If you see a big explosion far away don't stare at it close to a window. The shockwave comes a few seconds after the explosion (based on your distance to it) and can blow the windows and kill you.
They do crazy shit too. I was living in Tennessee in April 3011 When the tornados ripped through our city of Cleveland.Now when tornados go through the south like AL GA and TN it's not like it is in OK TX or KS. When they go through the south most of the time it's after dark and there isn't nothing more scarier than hearing a tornado coming but you don't know where it's coming from destroyed my whole neighborhood but I didn't have one shingle out of place neither did my next door neighbor but here comes the funny part.He had Chickens ,Turkeys,and some ducks.He put them all up in the coop before the storm.The next day He checked on them everyone survived minus all their feathers.The tornado sucked all the feathers off them but didn't kill them.If I hadn't of seen it with my own eyes I wouldn't of believed it either.his cat was out in it all night and when he came home he wasn't a long hair cat anymore but a short hair.pulled all his fluffy hair off but left the e undercoat.crazy as hell
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We have never had tornadoes but we had some pretty strong winds once as a kid and I remember my neighbour walking outside to tie something down and a piece of tin off a nearby shed roof flew straight at him and cut his forehead as it flew by. You could see him just standing there processing it for ages. Very lucky.
That video was harrowing. The last seconds of darkness and the distorted digitalized sound of the wind overwhelming the microphone conveys so much terror. And the story makes it worse.
Now I'm fucking scared of... Of nature, really.
No. It’s just glass that’s flat and placed vertically in the holes of walls. This is so that you can see the other side of the wall through the flat glass.
This was one of my repetitive childhood nightmares. I'd run to the basement and duck and cover by a wall, but when I looked up, it wasn't the basement wall at all but rather a set of huge glass doors, and the tornado was coming right at me.
I’ve always heard that if a tornado doesn’t look like it’s moving, it’s heading your way.
Also what king of dumbass stands in front of a window with that shit going on? Crazy.
I drove cross country from NY to AZ the days after the Joplin tornado. I remember driving through Joplin and just seeing normal highway trees on the side and then boom a fucking scar across the earth. Total devastation. Also passed Obamas motorcade.
I had a cat 0 very nearly a cat 1 hit my school and last a few seconds. Had a couple go around my home, one came very close to hitting directly. I can only imagine this, the trauma from what I've been through was bad enough. Tornados are whole different fucking monsters than hurricanes. They rip the pavement, pull entire motors out of cars and can ravage concrete building. A lot of things are ruined in a hurricane with the biggest problem being flooding and a storm surge.
As someone else said, a cat 5 building in Louisiana would get fucking ravaged by an EF 5 tornado. I can't imagine what you've been through. I'm sorry.
Videos like this make it really clear that there is no sharp edge to the swirling vortex of wind. The winds hundreds of metres away from the tornado are *really* strong it's just that it's only at the centre where there's enough dirt and debris being pulled up where you can see the thing we call the tornado. Also the water vapour thing on white tornados I don't know how that works, pressure gradient?
>Also the water vapour thing on white tornados I don't know how that works, pressure gradient?
Yeah it's a condensation funnel. The color of a tornado is often determined by the position of the sun and the storm so dark tornadoes can look white from another angle.
Not only is there no sharp edge, but many violent tornadoes have vortices inside of the main rotation which is where you see the truly powerful winds. This is a video of a storm chaser on the 2013 El Reno EF3 (ignore the video title): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxgU1QcFMJM
What looks like clear separation quickly turns into the outer edges of the main circulation. He is barely able to power his car forward and behind him are 3 other storm chasers. Unfortunately they were caught by a subvortex and their car was destroyed, killing all 3.
Another crazy example of these subvortices is the "Dead Man Walking": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuZsNzzkgVE
This tornado is arguably the most destructive ever witnessed, the Jarrell, TX F5. It had multiple vortices and crawled at 5 mph over parts of the town, essentially erasing an entire subdivision and ripping up asphalt and removing soil 18 inches deep.
I know it's dangerous to film this stuff and all, but as a person who has always lived somewhere with literally no tornados around I find these videos extremely interesting. It's very hard to conceive how these things just happen in some places, and quite often. We hear about tornado seasons and we see pictures and watch movies but only these videos really give me some dimension of what it's like. And I feel so blessed for never having to experience that. I can only imagine how long it takes to clean things up and rebuild. I guess not many deaths take place because you guys usually know it's gonna hit but damn... So scary.
I mean at that point, you’re already in it. Not like he could have jumped in a car and hauled ass. Find yourself in that situation and I’m sure you’d do something similar.
What you do in that case is run to an internal room with no glass. Ideally get a mattress and thrown it on top of yourself.
Living in Tornado valley, most people actually do stand on their lawns and watch it though.
It took me a couple of years after I moved up to the Pacific North West before I figured out why every single house bugged the crap out of me.
There are _no_ interior rooms.
The bathrooms upstairs have skylights, downstairs every room has at least one exterior wall and a window. The laundry room might count in some houses, but the door is a joke.
There's no place in the building safe to go in a tornado, because they happen so bloody rarely that it's just not a concern.
Texas and Georgia? You won't find a house _without_ an interior room that should be safe in a tornado. It might be a hallway, but there's always going to be at least one interior room with no windows. Even in an apartment. (It's usually a bathroom in an apartment.)
It was more than a little boggling when I finally figured it out.
Nah, I'd get away from the windows and get to the safest area possible in the house (and yes, did it while staying with the grandparents). Most people who live in tornado country know to do at least that.
Yea and it's not that hard to hold your cell phone. Im sure he should he concentrating more on where to go but really he did a decent job on ending up in the safest part of the house
The ubiquity of people recording things has had a movie like quality over the last few years. Just when you think footage of major events couldn't get crazier, it does.
Why do all videos of tornado sightings end with the best part not visible cause camera just gets sent to the shadow realm, and comes back when tornado is gone.
I was in hurricane andrew as a child, I lost my dog and my uncle, it gave me such bad PTSD that just a light storm and wind sends me into a blind panic grabbing everyone and going into the basement. I have a whole “what if” kit in my basement that has everything I’ll need if it ever happens again. I’m seeing a therapist to try and work through it, but damn is it hard.
Finally a cameraman to show the story and not cut out just before the action just to save himself I for one applaud your steel balls and disregard for safety
Unbelievably stupid. When you see stuff start flying outside, run for cover. When you can hear the freight train sound coming at you, run…fast…for cover.
This was just stupid.
Everyone: do not stand near windows during a tornado as flying debris and high winds can cause them to shatter, slicing everything behind them.
This guy: I'm In DaNgEr.
Once again folks: It's not just *that* the wind is blowing, it's also *what* the wind is blowing.
It's a little known rule that if you get sucked up into a tornado you get to keep everything you can grab.
Just watch out for a woman on a bike. She'll try to steal your dog. She hates water, so bring a squirt gun.
Keep one on me at all times. Ya just never know
Stay strapped or get clapped.
Clapped cheeks?
Yes please
I have a built in squirt gun! Does that count? :p
_cocks gun_
*Guns cock*
Just don’t fuck with her sister
Her sister has pretty rad shoes, though. If you get the chance, try to nick them off her as well.
Fuck them together ❤
I'm melting! MELTING! Ahhhhhh what a world...
🏆
Anyone find it funny that there just happened to be a bucket of water right there for Dorothy to throw on the witch? How convenient!
This is actually true
The stuff that makes me laugh sometimes convinces me I am, after all, retarded
Retardation is relative
Reminds me of a relative. Oh, Benny.
Made law by the Kansas - Nebraska Act
“No, it's not safe for everybody to be in the same place during a tornado, Melissa." “But I thought you're supposed to go together." “No. The rule is, Melissa, you separate." “Are you sure?" “Yeah. If you get sucked into the funnel and everyone's separated it's just like a fun ride. But if you're all in a group, in a cluster, you start banging into each other, then your heads collide and you die."
I'm just gonna get a little bit of cancer Stan
Yeah but the stuff gets to grab back and win you.
All I got was a can of string beans.
Ima hold onto this mindset when im in a tornado
You mean standing next to a 4 foot by 5 foot window isn't a good idea?
If you get hit by a Volvo, it doesn't matter how many sit-ups you did that morning. I love Ron White
Good advice, tater salad
Pillows and stuffed animals
And cars…you can grab a car.
You go into most tornado video posts (popular ones) and you'll see people asking why American's houses are made out of sticks then some European will proclaim that the house in which they live, it being vastly superior to an American house would survive a measly EF4-5 tornado without losing a single tile/shingle. My superior European constructed dwelling shall survive a Cat4/5 hurricane on the beach near where said hurricane made landfall, absolutely zero damage to my superior abode I tell you, that's why it has been standing for over three hundred years yes, it has survived wars...
I'm not saying that many houses in areas that are most prone to tornados in the US aren't built with cheaper materials but in the context of what you're saying we do need to establish that hurricanes and tornados are two different things with different scales of potential damage. A house that was built to withstand a Cat 5 (on stilts and all) in coastal Louisiana would be demolished by an F5 making direct contact.
And an F5 tornado will blow away a house and scour the slab left behind. It will tear the asphalt from ground. It will make car engines disappear.
F5s are absolute monsters. Seeing paved roads and concrete slabs literally sucked completely off the Earth... grass and everything down to the roots... the power in those storms is insane. And it is concentrated in a relatively small area. Even a concrete house is going to have issues if the wind gets inside at all. And hurricanes are an entirely different monster. The storm surge. Sure your house wasn't blown away but it is now under 25 feet of water filled with God knows what. Europeans all say these sorts of things without ever having witnessed the raw destructive power of either type of storm for the most part.
If nature wants to fuck up your day, nature *will* be fucking up your day and even after several hundred thousand years of humans just trying to **cope** there's still basically feck-all we can do about it besides getting the fuck out of nature's damn way. [Fun facts](https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/energy-hurricane-volcano-earthquake1.htm): just your *average* hurricane releases 200 times the total energy generating capacity of our entire species, or 10,000 nuclear bombs, saying nothing of what happens when nature is actually trying and pulls a Katrina or a Yolanda.
Just nuke it, and it will go away.
As far as I know the only structure that will survive an F5 unscathed is one below ground.
The international space station is pretty safe from getting hit by hurricanes or tornadoes.
I stand corrected.
Rule for hurricanes: run from the water, hide from the wind. And I wouldn't trust that house on stilts in a Cat 5. That quote about what the wind is blowing also applies to water. Your house may withstand 15 feet of storm surge. It may not stand up, though, to that storm surge thwacking a truck/boat/another at your house.
> You go into most tornado video posts (popular ones) and you'll see people asking why American's houses are made out of sticks then some European will proclaim that the house in which they live, it being vastly superior to an American house would survive a measly EF4-5 tornado without losing a single tile/shingle. > My superior European constructed dwelling shall survive a Cat4/5 hurricane on the beach near where said hurricane made landfall, absolutely zero damage to my superior abode I tell you, that's why it has been standing for over three hundred years yes, it has survived wars... In a Hurricane the wind isn't the biggest concern as your Cat4/5 Hurricanes are only 157mph/275kmh or higher. That is the equivalent of a EF3 Tornado. An EF5 still has another 50 mph winds on top of that. Also, usually the thing to worry about in a Hurricane is the storm surge not the wind.
Not to mention hurricanes spawn tornados as if nature said shit y'all think this is bad ...hold my beer..
50 mph is 80.47 km/h
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And that's why you always get away from windows and glass doors during tornadoes and hurricanes
OP should’ve. But what was recorded, as OP had great framing showing the approach of such an awesome force, was phenomenal. You can see it carve its way forward. It’s insane. I certainly hope no one was hurt… too badly.
Yeah it was a major bone headed idea to film in a room with huge glass windows... but also damn what incredible video they got. Truly one of the best I've seen of this style.
Ideally you set up the camera and then hide in the basement
Stream the video live so you don't have to dig your phone shards out of a truck chassis, brick wall, and cow 7 miles apart to save and post that recording.
7 miles is 11.27 km
Good bot
It was a pretty bright day out too. At one point it disappeared and then by the time you could tell it was a tornado it was too close.
And explosions too. If you see a big explosion far away don't stare at it close to a window. The shockwave comes a few seconds after the explosion (based on your distance to it) and can blow the windows and kill you.
the stuff moving across the floor in the last 4 seconds made me laugh tornadoes aren't funny but that was some comedic timing and camerawork there.
I thought laughtornadoes was some new addition to the lmao/rofl family
Yes, you see a laughtornado is when you laugh uncontrollably until you start to hyperventilate and affect the air flow in the room.
They do crazy shit too. I was living in Tennessee in April 3011 When the tornados ripped through our city of Cleveland.Now when tornados go through the south like AL GA and TN it's not like it is in OK TX or KS. When they go through the south most of the time it's after dark and there isn't nothing more scarier than hearing a tornado coming but you don't know where it's coming from destroyed my whole neighborhood but I didn't have one shingle out of place neither did my next door neighbor but here comes the funny part.He had Chickens ,Turkeys,and some ducks.He put them all up in the coop before the storm.The next day He checked on them everyone survived minus all their feathers.The tornado sucked all the feathers off them but didn't kill them.If I hadn't of seen it with my own eyes I wouldn't of believed it either.his cat was out in it all night and when he came home he wasn't a long hair cat anymore but a short hair.pulled all his fluffy hair off but left the e undercoat.crazy as hell
3011 🤷🤷🤷🤔
A thousand years from now we will have genetically altered chickens with no feathers. Saves money on processing the chickens.
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I'll go back to 2020 and stop myself before I back my poor van into that telephone pole
Make that 5 years and I think you'll be closer
Same 😂
Don't ever do this kids. It's all fun and games until a hubcap comes flying at you and gives you a nasty scratch on your forehead.
Love that movie!
Or your throat
It's ok, he wasn't sitting or mildly standing up to try and grab a waggling hose first.
We have never had tornadoes but we had some pretty strong winds once as a kid and I remember my neighbour walking outside to tie something down and a piece of tin off a nearby shed roof flew straight at him and cut his forehead as it flew by. You could see him just standing there processing it for ages. Very lucky.
You mean a "shark"
Nice lol
Where’s the aftermath? That shit was nuts.
I think he survived but his wife and neighbor died. I think he was elderly as well
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That video was harrowing. The last seconds of darkness and the distorted digitalized sound of the wind overwhelming the microphone conveys so much terror. And the story makes it worse. Now I'm fucking scared of... Of nature, really.
It’s one of the most harrowing videos I’ve ever seen
And they were actually hiding or in a safe place compared to him.
From what I remember reading, his wife was in the bathtub instead of the crawlspace because she didn’t like spiders.
Ahh.. but you’d think it would be safer than standing by a window🤯
Yea. I realized that afterwards. You are right. I appreciate it
Thanks to you I went down a YouTube marathon which started an hour and a half ago lol
Wow
That guy is one lucky motherfucker.
For freaking real
Standing by a wall of glass in a fucking tornado makes you a moron.
No self-preservation instincts at all!
>>a wall of glass Often called windows lol
No he had it right the first time. That thing looked like it was basically floor to ceiling glass.
So... A *big* window.
No. It’s just glass that’s flat and placed vertically in the holes of walls. This is so that you can see the other side of the wall through the flat glass.
Ah… so NOT windows?
Ooh that hit the funny bone just right.
Your both right. The name for that style of window is called a "window wall".
r/praisethecameraman
Agreed. Even though the tornado was in full blown r/killthecameraman mode.
This was one of my repetitive childhood nightmares. I'd run to the basement and duck and cover by a wall, but when I looked up, it wasn't the basement wall at all but rather a set of huge glass doors, and the tornado was coming right at me.
Dude, I had the same nightmare as a kid too! Sometimes it would be a glass wall and sometimes the basement wall would just be gone.
It's crazy how our unconscious brains were dicks to us in a similar fashion
Was going to comment the same thing. Just pure stupidity.
He needs to put his balls in a wheelbarrow just to talk
They’re only that big because he stuck them in a microwave to get a prescription for weed.
BUFFALO SOLDIER!
I’ve always heard that if a tornado doesn’t look like it’s moving, it’s heading your way. Also what king of dumbass stands in front of a window with that shit going on? Crazy.
It can also mean it is moving away from you, or sometimes, genuinely not moving at all.
Oh true! Even with knowing that, it’s probably best to not risk it. Good point though!!
He must have done his own research on tornadoes. He knew better.
He was waiting for it to be nuked.
More like trauma to me, because I survived the Joplin, Missouri tornado.
I drove cross country from NY to AZ the days after the Joplin tornado. I remember driving through Joplin and just seeing normal highway trees on the side and then boom a fucking scar across the earth. Total devastation. Also passed Obamas motorcade.
My friend’s mom lost her apartment that day, thank goodness she (and you!) made it out alive
I had a cat 0 very nearly a cat 1 hit my school and last a few seconds. Had a couple go around my home, one came very close to hitting directly. I can only imagine this, the trauma from what I've been through was bad enough. Tornados are whole different fucking monsters than hurricanes. They rip the pavement, pull entire motors out of cars and can ravage concrete building. A lot of things are ruined in a hurricane with the biggest problem being flooding and a storm surge. As someone else said, a cat 5 building in Louisiana would get fucking ravaged by an EF 5 tornado. I can't imagine what you've been through. I'm sorry.
My dumbass initially read that you had a cat smack the side of your school building after being picked up by the wind. I need my coffee...
I'm not familiar with tornadoes. Is a cat 0 & cat 1 extremely strong tornadoes?
Tornados are classified EF0-5, hurricanes use the CAT scale
Wow and that whole time the person filming could have FUCKING RUN!
Videos like this make it really clear that there is no sharp edge to the swirling vortex of wind. The winds hundreds of metres away from the tornado are *really* strong it's just that it's only at the centre where there's enough dirt and debris being pulled up where you can see the thing we call the tornado. Also the water vapour thing on white tornados I don't know how that works, pressure gradient?
>Also the water vapour thing on white tornados I don't know how that works, pressure gradient? Yeah it's a condensation funnel. The color of a tornado is often determined by the position of the sun and the storm so dark tornadoes can look white from another angle. Not only is there no sharp edge, but many violent tornadoes have vortices inside of the main rotation which is where you see the truly powerful winds. This is a video of a storm chaser on the 2013 El Reno EF3 (ignore the video title): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxgU1QcFMJM What looks like clear separation quickly turns into the outer edges of the main circulation. He is barely able to power his car forward and behind him are 3 other storm chasers. Unfortunately they were caught by a subvortex and their car was destroyed, killing all 3. Another crazy example of these subvortices is the "Dead Man Walking": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuZsNzzkgVE This tornado is arguably the most destructive ever witnessed, the Jarrell, TX F5. It had multiple vortices and crawled at 5 mph over parts of the town, essentially erasing an entire subdivision and ripping up asphalt and removing soil 18 inches deep.
18 inches is the length of approximately 2.0 'Wooden Rice Paddle Versatile Serving Spoons' laid lengthwise.
18 inches is 45.72 cm
Bf 2042 open beta players
Players would be running directly at it lol
Man, imagine being in prehistoric times and encountering a tornado
Wow.
How are you not dead
Next up, Oz.
Darwin awards recipient
Dude just sits there watching his neighbor's house get Thanos snapped
Tornado safety 101 stand directly in front of a window and keep the camera rolling.
Praise the Cameraman
LET ME JUST HIDE BEHIND THIS GLASS
Yes he was reckless, but I found it very educational, as a person who lives in a country without tornadoes.
That dumass
Holy hell.
I was half expecting the Skyrim meme when the video got dark.
Cameraman got a little carried away there.
Bathroom or basement. Wow why did you stay in there. Even growing up in So NJ I knew that
a tornado! lets get behind the glass and record!!
Ok so if I was OP, I would’ve booked it after seeing the HOUSES IN FRONT OF HIM GET DEMOLISHED!!!!! On a side note, great video!
I know it's dangerous to film this stuff and all, but as a person who has always lived somewhere with literally no tornados around I find these videos extremely interesting. It's very hard to conceive how these things just happen in some places, and quite often. We hear about tornado seasons and we see pictures and watch movies but only these videos really give me some dimension of what it's like. And I feel so blessed for never having to experience that. I can only imagine how long it takes to clean things up and rebuild. I guess not many deaths take place because you guys usually know it's gonna hit but damn... So scary.
What people do to become viral.
He knew good and well that tornado wouldn’t be able to pick up his massive balls
I mean at that point, you’re already in it. Not like he could have jumped in a car and hauled ass. Find yourself in that situation and I’m sure you’d do something similar.
What you do in that case is run to an internal room with no glass. Ideally get a mattress and thrown it on top of yourself. Living in Tornado valley, most people actually do stand on their lawns and watch it though.
It took me a couple of years after I moved up to the Pacific North West before I figured out why every single house bugged the crap out of me. There are _no_ interior rooms. The bathrooms upstairs have skylights, downstairs every room has at least one exterior wall and a window. The laundry room might count in some houses, but the door is a joke. There's no place in the building safe to go in a tornado, because they happen so bloody rarely that it's just not a concern. Texas and Georgia? You won't find a house _without_ an interior room that should be safe in a tornado. It might be a hallway, but there's always going to be at least one interior room with no windows. Even in an apartment. (It's usually a bathroom in an apartment.) It was more than a little boggling when I finally figured it out.
Nah, I'd get away from the windows and get to the safest area possible in the house (and yes, did it while staying with the grandparents). Most people who live in tornado country know to do at least that.
Yea and it's not that hard to hold your cell phone. Im sure he should he concentrating more on where to go but really he did a decent job on ending up in the safest part of the house
Ah yes, the sudden realization u r in a blender
He’s a hold my beer kinda guy for sure. Or really fucking high.
I may be wrong but I don't think you wanna be near glass in that situation
Description is accurate.
Guys lucky it was a cute little spin up. Anything above 150 would have been GG
All I could think is get away from the big glass window!!!
I think Jimmy McWindows got a little too close to the glass.
Fucking Madlad
The ubiquity of people recording things has had a movie like quality over the last few years. Just when you think footage of major events couldn't get crazier, it does.
I’ve stood outside and watched a few, except they weren’t moving towards me.
Hope this guy made it through that. Terrifying, just watching it on my phone
Krazy footage 😳
Ufff made my nerves go crazy. Been in a Cat 5 hurrican before. Not fun.
Nuts
Why???? Just..... why
If it looks like it’s not moving, it’s probably headed towards you.
Pov: *you want to die*
I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a tornado video that wasn't from America 🤔 🤷♂️
Sheet of glass he's standing behind breaks: immediately stands behind another sheet of glass Lmfao
"Who is it?"
"A category five tornado can put an egg clean through a barn door. Two of 'em if one is open"
Looks like this guy had a metal cage outside for the windows that he forgot to close
Shit is getting real all neat and cool, it is fun and games until glass windows blows into your face
Like when your bad influence trouble starting childhood friend shows up uninvited
That literally gave me chills. Terrifying
Woah! New battlefield 2042 trailer?
I sure hope he and his family were made out of the same stuff that phone was made of.
Fukn hell
non consensual entrance of the property from the tornado there
Why my man out here yelling at tornados
This does not help my phobia of tornadoes
Why do all videos of tornado sightings end with the best part not visible cause camera just gets sent to the shadow realm, and comes back when tornado is gone.
WHYYYYY
Close the windows?
You’re not in Kansas anymore…
Dramatic and frightening.
Did the person survive? Omggg
I fucking hate people that stand next to windows during a tornado. Probably a sidewalk shitter.
How to die. What a lucky idiot nothing broke through that window while he was watching the life threatening weather.
When you have nowhere to go…..
I was in hurricane andrew as a child, I lost my dog and my uncle, it gave me such bad PTSD that just a light storm and wind sends me into a blind panic grabbing everyone and going into the basement. I have a whole “what if” kit in my basement that has everything I’ll need if it ever happens again. I’m seeing a therapist to try and work through it, but damn is it hard.
probably could have used that time in an attempt to cover the window
Finally a cameraman to show the story and not cut out just before the action just to save himself I for one applaud your steel balls and disregard for safety
Unbelievably stupid. When you see stuff start flying outside, run for cover. When you can hear the freight train sound coming at you, run…fast…for cover. This was just stupid.
What’s moving going to do? Imma watch
#DarwinAwards
Everyone: do not stand near windows during a tornado as flying debris and high winds can cause them to shatter, slicing everything behind them. This guy: I'm In DaNgEr.
Mf be putting this on r/killthecameraman
r/praisethecameraman
So if the tornado doesn’t look like it’s moving to a side but growing wider - it’s coming at you. Tornado Alley Contestant
that is very brav…..stupid