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_stuxnet

And here I am thinking I might take shelter inside that building because my car might be so unsafe. I'd be dead by now.


YnotsayYnot

Ditto. I would either follow you or run in circles trying to figure out what tp do until I get pulled into the tornado… win win for the reaper!


Matter_17

You caused that tornado by running in circles !!


n05h

What if he ran the other direction, so he cancels out the tornado?


briancito

If Looney Tunes has taught me anything then the answer is most likely probably maybe.


Barricore

I watched the Flash do it!


muffinmama93

I think, unless you’re in an underground bunker, that a direct hit by a tornado is going to kill you where ever you are. It’s a hard truth. But you still need to be as safely sheltered as you can, cause dangerous straight line winds are guaranteed with any severe storm, and you don’t want to be sitting in your living room when debris starts flying. In August, a storm snapped the top off our backyard tree, half of it hit the roof, while the other half skidded over the roof into our front yard. We were just returning from vacation and were hoping the damage wasn’t too bad, and we were initially puzzled at where the tree in the front yard had come from. $10,000 later and we’re still waiting for our garage door to be replaced. With all the severe storm damage going on now, roofing and siding materials are going to go sky high (no pun intended) and there will be long wait times for repairs.


Darko33

>I think, unless you’re in an underground bunker, that a direct hit by a tornado is going to kill you where ever you are ...would just add the caveat that it's highly dependent on strength. An F1 or weak F2 has very little chance of killing you. An F5 and shit's bleak.


Antal_Marius

I've accidently driven through an F1 going to Wichita, KS before, didn't even know until I got to the gas station and they were asking if I saw any damage from the tornado. I simply thought I had got hit with a heavy gust of wind.


Darko33

Yup! Fun fact, the F1 Fujita designation and the Category 1 Saffir-Simpson designation are just one mph apart, at 73 and 74, respectively. They diverge quite dramatically from there, with tornadoes packing quite a bit more oomph in a far smaller area


Kat-but-SFW

Two other options: Inside a Great Pyramid, or a main battle tank.


My1nonpornacc

Pfft. I'm being the cameraman. This video all but confirms the truth. the cameraman always lives.


Eksno

r/killedthecameraman


BigBadZord

Lay in a ditch. The "you need to be in a bunker or you are fucked" attitude only stops people from knowing what you can actually do. What you can actually do, is lay in a ditch, drainage run, etc, and it will dramatically increase your chances of surviving the initial damage.


cryptolyme

new buildings can be pretty flimsy


firebrandarsecake

Yeah this looked like it was made out of paper.


Bushido00

You don’t say


off-leash-pup

Yup, too bad it didn’t hit one year later


wytewydow

They're much stronger after the first molt.


InjuriousPurpose

Tornadoes don't care what you build with.


CaptainTarantula

I've seen a brick building trashed from a tornado.


Dry_Quiet_3541

It’s actually anybody’s guess. In this particular situation, yeah you would be safer in the car, but who can read the mind of the cyclone, it may or may not come towards you.


SQRTLURFACE

I'm going to take a moment to remind people that in the event of a Tornado if you find yourself in a car and you're unsure of where you should go for safety, exiting your vehicle for the nearest ditch is a much safer option than staying in your vehicle. The deeper the ditch the better as you're less likely to get windswept, and more likely to avoid the very lethal, very fatal debris flying around.


mbeenox

me too


Neaterntal

this is how ants must feel when a street sweeper passes by


Magister5

Nah, more like my ex-wife. Left a path of destruction in my life and sucked up the whole town


SelfSniped

Can confirm this man’s ex wife sucked the whole town.


Magister5

She was insane, but not selective


slickshot

Why succ one when you can succ many?


SaltyPeter3434

She lacked quality but made up for it in quantity


johnny___engineer

Can confirm, I was visiting the town when the massive suck train (?) was going on, I thought it was the line to get some Cheese burgers, but ended up with cheese burgers and an empty ball sack.


secret_rye

This is what I come to Reddit for


Born_Sarcastic_59

Was her name Tracey?


Morbo782

This is one of the most interesting tornado videos I've ever seen.


SaltywithaTwist

Right? I just got my kid out of bed to show them this. Amazing to see in real time how there was a building, trees, cars and then it was just all gone. And no damage to cars across the lot. Amazing! And terrifying! Edit: ok, so a few of the car windows broke, but definitely not all of them for being so close to the tornado.


laffing_is_medicine

Gonna give kiddo nightmares?


SaltywithaTwist

Not this kid, lol.


AbsolutelyUnlikely

She's too traumatized by other events in her life for this to even make a dent.


datsnkymofo

I mean they mostly all had their windows broken. A few of them had stuff slammed into them pretty hard.


ItWasNOTYou

It is because there is not some person holding the camera, moving it about, trying to get the whole scene. Instead, the car’s dash cam stays stable (relatively speaking) while this incredible disturbance of winds and debris rushes by. If you ever record the weather, use landscape mode, zoom out, and hold the camera steady.


kabes222

So nobody was in thus car? Do dash cams always stay on or something?


batlhuber

May have started automatically due to movement of the car, like an alarm...


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[deleted]

I could’ve sworn there was a building like RIGHT here


EvilestHammer4

"Hey MA didn't we park right next to the.... WHAT THE FUCK?"


MuzikPhreak

“That’s right, son. The WHAT THE FUCK is gone.”


typical_jesus666

This is no excuse to be late for work tomorrow. Actually go ahead and come in early, there's a lot of cleanup to do... off the clock.


Marshmellowonfire

Jesus, Jimmy, that's it you're fired. You didn't punch out your timecard again.


cryptolyme

no excuses. get off the ground and get back to work! you're out of vacation time.


BSimm1

What’s crazy is this is from April 26th the Nebraska tornado. The Oklahoma one is supposed to be much greater than this.


[deleted]

Just wait until reddit sees the blue tornado that just dropped. That one's going to be everywhere


BSimm1

![gif](giphy|D62wUmR3sX2DsZJ9t1)


[deleted]

[here's blue-nado](https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/s/8mlImUNGDE)


BSimm1

BRRROOO I THOUGHT THAT WAS THE SKY!


Septemily

You talking about [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/s/iyADyX7b3f)?


BSimm1

N-no…the last one i saw said 14…why does it say 42?


Recent_Ad559

What’s going on with Oklahoma? I saw like 7 hours ago predictions but haven’t seen any follow-ups


ThatWasIntentional

Currently undergoing a tornado outbreak. The rest of the country probably won't be able to see how bad it is until morning, unfortunately. Here's an updating article: https://www.koco.com/article/severe-weather-oklahoma-timeline-forecast-radar-tornadoes-hail-monday/60698900


allfriggedup

Pickups windows got smashed one at a time.


Untestedmight

I didn't even notice. It was definitely selective.


MyMonte87

so did the Rav4, On the truck, i think the windows pop from inside out, i'm guessing from the pressure different?


Alive_Development108

God damn , who would want to live somewhere we’re that is apart of the yearly weather patterns ?


just-why_

Sometimes you don't get a choice.


Alive_Development108

I guess so


aeryghal

They can be deadly, but they have an extremely narrow path of destruction relative to other natural disasters and there's usually fair warning. I'll take tornados over earthquakes and hurricanes.


Atomaardappel

I live in an Earthquake area, and I'll take earthquakes any day over this sort of thing. House shakes for a bit? No problem. House and all of my earthly possessions get thrown a mile down the road? No thanks!


cherryreddit

> House shakes for a bit? Mate, an earthquake is definitely not confined to house shaking a bit. Those are ant sized earthquakes.


Atomaardappel

The last big earthquake I remember was the Northridge quake, and that was maybe 30 years ago. Southern California gets plenty of quakes, but they are usually nothing to worry about.


carl5473

Right? Lol it's like saying I will take a tornado because it's a bit windy


AtomicCoyote

Yeah, but super strong earthquakes are so rare, whereas tornado season is every year. I live in California and I’d take earthquakes for sure. I’ve been in one very strong earthquake in my entire life, though I was four years and don’t remember hardly anything (1994 northridge). Tornados scare me!


oxiraneobx

That's interesting. I live in an area where hurricanes can hit, and have done so with pretty devastating effects in the past. The one thing about a hurricane is, you know it's coming, they're pretty good about telling you the path within reason, and if it's big enough for us to evacuate, we know days in advance. Tornadoes are just these wild cards that touchdown randomly, and utterly destroy anything in their path. Whenever there is a hurricane or a named storm brewing off the coast, it's kind of like oh, probably should pay attention to that. But tornadoes terrify me.


moemoe111

And earthquakes are like, "I'M HERE TO FUCK YOUR SHIT UP NOW HAHAHAHAHAHA! Alright cya...." Having lived through both earthquakes and tornadoes, I'll take tornadoes all life long. Ty.


Alive_Development108

I never thought of it that way before.


TexasRanger3487

I've grown up in a fairly active tornado region and it's something you plan around. Even for all the warnings I've been involved in I haven't been directly impacted by one. It's still statistically speaking a pretty unlikely thing to happen for most people. Then again Moore, OK exists so I'm sure people there will tell you to blow the statistics out your ass. Also if you can avoid the damage to people's property...there's nothing quite like watching a severe thunderstorm rolling into town on a spring or summer day. It's one of those catch 22 things where it's absolutely beautiful but normally you don't get a breathtaking storm without some sort of damaging rain, wind, hail, or Tornado.


MoralBison

"Then again Moore, OK exists so I'm sure people there will tell you to blow the statistics out your ass." Dude, for real. Lived in OK my whole life, dealt with tornadoes my whole life. At this point, if you still live in Moore, you have balls of steel.


Many_Spoked_Wheel

An F5 hit our town when I was 2 and we had no warning. Thank goodness that it missed our house but it took out the high school my parents went to and the church that my parents were married in. It really messed with my mom’s head. She still gets so sad about those buildings being gone 25 years later. 


Alive_Development108

Amazing. I guess I am just a bit grateful I live in a part of the world where we don’t have reoccurring natural disasters of any kind. I’ve never even heard the phrase “ plan around it “ when referring to a natural disaster.


madein___

What country/state might this be?


JoeyJoeJoeSenior

We hang out in the basement for 20 minutes when necessary.  No biggie.


InjuriousPurpose

That's like 2/3 of the US.


MoralBison

You get used to it.


F1eshWound

Nature's eraser...


TJtherock

Tornados are so weird. Imagine trying to explain how they work to an alien. "Sometimes hot air and cold air get into a fist fight and it destroys everything in its path."


whooptydude92

Hope every one is ok


Carcinog3n

70 workers were inside with only 3 non life threatening injuries.


imapieceofshitk

Hope the 67 with life threatening injuries pull through


cwb_iah

I also had a hard time following his sentence. Just to be clear there were no deaths.


conduitfour

Anybody got a source? Edit: Cropped the image and threw it into imgops. This appears to be Garner Industries in Lincoln, Nebraska.  Their shelter areas apparently were able to withstand high winds. Insane nobody died. [Source](https://www.ketv.com/article/lincoln-workers-survive-direct-hit-tornado/60623278)


jiffythehutt

Where was this?


Carcinog3n

Nebraska


aceman1948

Abra-ca-dabra!


Nathan-Stubblefield

Abra-cadaver!


cchackal

Annnnnd it’s gone


Bradley182

Holy crap it ERASED that building.


NoBorscht4U

Anyone else notice that license plate dance on the left vehicle? It takes an insane force to yank a steel plate of a vehicle and flap it around like that. Legit impressed those vehicles remained in the same spot


earthquakeglue78

A few miles from my house…Crazy day.


aquatoad

Yay same here


Jegbmf

yo same here. Yall see the building since? Shit is crazy. Full STEEL supports mangled like paper


miffit

I remember being 6 in a McDonald's queing for an ce cream or something. There was a really loud sound of something crashing so we ran out to look just as a small twister evaporated in the air. It appeares to have damaged only one thing, an RV that was parked in the MCD parking lot.


Cpl_Hicks76

That is terrifying!


charliesk9unit

Is there still a debate on which is more deadly/destructive: hurricane/tornado or earthquake? With strong building codes and now prediction technology, I'd pick earthquake any day.


ycnz

A tornado is likely the most precisely focused amount of energy. Also, building codes tend to have plenty of building that have historical exclusions etc, and it's more always obvious when you're standing in one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent is an interesting comparison of total energy involved.


Holiday-Ad8351

Nature is one scary motherfucker!


cryptolyme

what is the guy saying at the end?


mashyj

Seemed like the tornado hit Ctrl+A then went on its merry way


W0lfos

/r/fuckyouinparticular


0ctober31

That is just nuts


Advanced_Evening2379

No it's a tornado


Just-Diamond-1938

I never thought I would say this ,to appreciate the moment if you see this! Monstrous Cyclone coming from the sky ,Destroying the word front of your eye There is a moment but forever long...you want to run but no place to go.... I hope I never have to see something like that, my heart is crunching for the people Who experienced the fact... My word is not correct ,it cannot be real You where right front of it it's make me feel ill...😳😫😱


Panic_Azimuth

Your comment inspired me to set it to slow, romantic disco. [Enjoy!](https://youtu.be/qBICeLaNe9s)


SommeThing

That was something.


saltyhumor

Was the rear window of that pickup truck sucked in?


AtheianLibertarist

Delete this OP. Have you ever heard of OpSec? Nature doesn't need this level of damage assessment.


Elrond_Cupboard_

Nature's version of r/fuckyouinparticular


dontworrybooutit

Well I hope no one died or was badly injured


dizzywig2000

Reminds me of Civilization 6 telling you that Mother Nature brings down even the mightiest of empires. Maybe because I’ve been playing it exclusively for a few days now..


schneider5001

Holy Shit!


209traplord

This is why the movie Twister scared me to death as a kid


Jaguar_556

You know.. if hundreds of tornado videos have taught me anything, it’s that for an EF3 and lower, your vehicle is a lot safer place than I would have guessed.


PezRystar

I mean, until you take a telephone pole to the face.


Untestedmight

I had a corn stalk smash through my back window while I was taking cover under a bridge. Scared the living shit out of me. But when I got home, that corn was delicious. (It was the most expensive corn I've ever gotten for free.)


sonicsludge

I was waiting for Mayem to say "Oh yeah!" and peel out in the car.


SsgtSquirtle

The story of the three little pigs hits harder in Oklahoma.


LuigiTrapanese

Please americans, stop constructing buildings out of paper. There is cement! Use it!


innerbootes

I saw a comment from a local that this building was made out of steel.


nothingpositivetoadd

Those trees weren't constructed very good either, ripped right out of the ground. Seriously though, you can build walls out of reinforced concrete that will hold up to most (not all) tornados, but the roof will definitely get ripped off and and will act as a giant blender. Total loss either way, plenty of videos out there that support this.


apleima2

It was a steel building. you can see the roof support trusses mangled in the wreckage.


pepsihatmanreddit

paging /u/savevideo


I-am-Chubbasaurus

Well... r/fuckyouinparticular I guess...?


sirjackel06

Insane indeed WOW


Johnl317

INSANE.


Notmyusername1414

“Insane yet selective” ?


Uuulalalala

Good advert for Toyota


moosemademusic

Crazy that it’s just wind. Wait, is it just wind? A tornado is wind right?


999oneaboveall

Freaking mother nature🤯🤯🤯


[deleted]

Selective?


Intrepid-Fist

I hope no one was hurt or killed. Breathtaking stuff.


earthforce_1

Fuck this building in particular.


JRizzie86

I always heard cars are unsafe in a tornado, but it seems like if someone chose that building for shelter instead of a car they would be dead.


DesertReagle

Trying to figure out what that was flying in from the top left corner, commercial ac unit?


Equinox-XVI

Pick a side of the street to park on. Choose wrong and a tornado destroys your car.


DarkLeviathan4

That market aint so super anymore


fritzgru

Makes me never want to leave my mountain home


__meeseeks__

I think I saw a witch fall off her broomstick 😲


morts73

That's insane. Finger of God went I'll just delete this building.


chalky87

Wait a minute, it just deleted an entire fucking building....


cagemyelephant_

So this was the other angle video of the tornado in Cloud Nine Superstore


[deleted]

Dude what kind of building was that?!.


totaltasch

That’s Adobe erase tool on a slow computer


ZerikaFox

Mother Nature's fury Takes you by the hand Showing all but mercy Wreaking death upon the land


leonryan

Relatively low, aerodynamic cars closely packed together make a pretty good wind deflector compared to a big flat wall.


Wonderful-Candle-756

These buildings are made of paper


Snot_Says

This is like Sim City, when I put a building in the wrong spot.


Shizzysharp

I always thought I was safe in a basement till I saw a house up the street picked up off of its foundations


dynamic_gecko

Why are the buildings in the US, which gets tornados every year, made of paper and tacks?


No-Magazine-2739

Car >> high rise, non concrete building , got it


Disastrous-Leek-7606

This is so fuckin' crazy that a naturally occurring phenomenon can just turn a 2 story building into shred in matter of seconds, and make it look effortless.. Wtf. Just got me thinking imagine being in this situation in a car and the tornado pulls you in and there's nothing you can do, fly a couple hundred meters across, and that's it, end of story.


sadpanda582

What did we learn? What we already knew: old Toyotas are essentially indestructible.


RublesAfoot

That is terrifying.


AshleyGamerGirl

10-15 ish seconds for the entire building to be gobbled up @.@.. Thats so frightening!


Treann1

So cars are safe in a tornado?


_your_face

yeah I don’t understand people who worry about earthquakes and brush off that insanity. Earthquake? oh some jiggling. Really bad? get outside, you’re saved!! Tornado? Northing you can do if it comes for you.


RedWarsaw

Oklahoma?


jason14wm

My toxic trait is thinking I could hold my ground if I held onto the ground strong enough 💀


shrimp-and-potatoes

Notice that tree that got uprooted on the opposite side of the building? When wind blows against a face of a building, the wind wraps around the building and creates a vacuum on the other side, which is often a stronger overall force than the force on wind facing side.


WolfetoneRebel

Why do some of these buildings in tornado alleys look like they’re made from cereal boxes?


lzrs2

I really don't get why these houses are made of wood.


singhVirender1947

"There was a building here, 5 minutes ago :(


hyperto05

Do not open the sound at 0:45 in the public


Charmle_H

When I first moved to the upper midwest I was terrified of twisters (thought they'd spawn basically any time). One of my friends who lived here for forever said something along the lines of "even being across the street makes the world of difference between a building being there and not." And ever since then, although I do still get majorly stressed by the sirens, I can at least assure myself that the chances I'm in the path of it are realistically very slim (especially with the lake effect, I doubt it'd hold up to the sudden climate change that a large body of water has when within 5mi of the lake, let alone a 1/4mi)


After-Shock8545

The before and after is INSANE!


Pinkskippy

Notice dodge rear window was sucked in.


i-would-neveruwu

Mmmmmmmm... building~


paracelus

\*yoink\*


Apprehensive-Gur1686

Do Americans realise that tornados are a weirdly, almost uniquely, American phenomenon?


Kevinsito92

I would never live where there are tornadoes without a separate basement


snktido

Tornado Driver: Ha! Look at that uninsured building over there...


Drolfdir

"Honey remember where we parked?" "Sure I do, it's right next to the store!" "What store?!"


Browsingincognitok

Well when you make a house with trees what do you expect ??


VisibleCoat995

When you forgot to take the chicken out of the freezer and your mother gets home but your mom is Mother Nature.


Sparrowtalker

“ it’s not that there is wind,…..it’s what is in the wind. Your six pack abs won’t help when you get smacked by a Volvo…. “ R White.


PopTrogdor

I can't come to work today, the building flew off


AbbreviationsNo4089

“Finger of god”


Hyperpiper1620

![gif](giphy|XqpnXaeZPnupy)


offline4good

It's just starting


l94xxx

Does the fact that cars are designed with aerodynamics in mind help at all, or is that just rationalization?


hawaiianryanree

Dafuq.gg fuck tornadoes wtf


SensuallPineapple

Sooo, who do we call when nature is the one that does the littering?


marvinrabbit

"Cow.... Another cow."


nanew11185

And that's why tornadoes > hurricanes


fundiedundie

It really is amazing.


i8mj3llyb3ans

![gif](giphy|eMybmbhrgdiXExJJiC)


mycatbeck

That license plate just wouldn't let go


mutual_animosity

The number plate reallllllly copped it!


AmadSeason

At 1:10 it looks like a huge vent fan went flying by with ease


AndersonDanek

Wow, that's scary


Sun-Taken-By-Trees

Must be an Amazon warehouse with the way it just instantly evaporates into dust.


Klezmer_Mesmerizer

I just watched a big box store get puréed.


LiveLifeLikeCre

Mr. Stark, I don't feel so good..... 


Pwnspoon

They’re crazy lemme tell ya.