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I'm craving community after the older autism spaces became unsafe or fractured. I'm 27F and I like BTS, tornadoes and collecting information into lists. I've been feeling very lonely since the other spaces became unhealthy and harmful. I'm very burned out these days and it's difficult to find things to be happy about.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

The UK actually has the greatest number of tornadoes per square mile than anywhere on Earth but we don't hear about them because most are under EF3. Sometimes we get supercells similar to the American ones.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Oh wow I never realised I was missing tornado facts from my life but I am genuinely loving learning about this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I had no idea! I wonder why that is. Thanks so much for that cool tornado fact. Also, your comment led me to learn about the Enhanced Fujima Scale and the Torro scale which is neat!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I had no idea! I'm from the UK and I have definitely felt the winds that kinda felt like tornados, didn't think they might be actual tornadoes!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Some roofs got ripped off a few months ago, t'was in the news. Forget where, want to say Manchester, but I could be wrong.