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that man has humongous feet.
The crocs really complete it
are these things dangerous? the whirlwind i mean. they don't exist where i live, i have never seen one irl.
i would kinda just want to walk towards it to see how strong it is. it that a doable thing?
Ever been right near a freight train crossing as one blazes by at high speed?
Imagine ten or twenty at the same time.
Tornadoes are incredibly loud, and just... sound like destruction... the ground, the air....everything is shaking, rippling, like bombs going off continuously.
It is difficult to capture this with video or audio, because... they are so loud, and hit so many frequency ranges, that you'd basically have to be sitting inside of an arena concert subwoofer to... get the audio experience replicated.
That and... basically everything fairly close to them has a tendency to be obliterated.
They can rip a telephone pole (basically shaved down tree trunks in areas of America tornadoes often hit) out of the ground, and then throw it through a house, like, clean through, and then clean through the next house, and then embedded 5 to 10 feet into the ground, at an oblique angle.
Tornadoes move around fairly quickly, and ... basically everything that gets too close is... blenderized.
If you're within say 500 meters of one, you should either be hiding in a cellar or bunker, or you should be driving away from it as fast as possible.
Notice how this tree... is nowhere near where it got uprooted from.
This tree managed to get broken off, thrown just so that it landed upright, braced against a power line.
Nearly 2 metric ton vehicle thrown about a kilometer through the air, hit the town water tower, bounced off, kept going for another ~ half kilometer.
...
Please do not walk up to a tornado.
maybe if it's a baby tornado 🥺 please, i wanna pet one, they look so funny :3
Hah, well, there are basically much, much smaller scale 'tornadoes' that we call 'dust devils', or other terms... they're usually only the size of about a person, maybe as tall as two people, they're formed by other kinds of climate/weather conditions, and tend to dissapate in under a minute.
You could probably 'pet' one of those, though you may lose your hat, 'get your feathers ruffled', so to say.
spectral, you're such a nice person :) i always notice you :D
Right back at you, you are always pleasant and reasonable as well, and your username sticks out with the _ underscores, haha!
=D
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You want a "Dust Devil," they are kinda baby tornados that exist in the US south west. Maybe wait a few years to visit though. The tornados are currently one of the least dangerous things about visiting.
I was terrified of these when I was little, but fortunately they’re not that common in Yorkshire. I made the decision to focus my worry on the Bermuda Triangle instead.
That's how they get you. You're occupied thinking about Bermuda Triangle and walk right into quicksand!
How's life in a ditch
That is a fantastic description of the sound/feeling of a close tornado. It really is like a freight train turned up to 11 with added constant groaning explosions.
I've not personally encountered a tornado that close, but I've personally met and talked to some old timers from the Plains States... who've actually got personal experience of having to hide in the cellar while a tornado barely misses their house by 1000 feet.
The freight train / constant bombs going off descriptions come from them, and I find them pretty reasonably good analogies, with myself having a bit of experience with audio engineering for video game mods, looked into some of the physics of sound to tweak things around.
You could maybe replicate parts of the sound element with... basically a massive subwoofer that literally registers on the Richter scale... but another element that can't really be replicated is the massive and rapid changes in ambient air pressure very close to a tornado... that changes the properties of how sound propagates... and there is such a high magnitude/volume, low frequency nature of all of it that... its where 'hearing' and 'feeling' blend into the same thing.
Dixie Alley, been around quite a few. Had a big one pass over and then touch down a quarter mile from the house once. You could feel the roof lifting. It's so fucken loud.
If we really wanted to reduced damage from tornadoes, we would build decoy trailer parks with lots of telephone poles all over. House trailers are a tornado's natural prey.
we would build decoy trailer parks with lots of telephone poles all over
hahah that deserves some price ;)
Yeah... that sounds (hah) just completely terrifying.
I've been in a few very high high speed, sustained windstorms, over in the PNW, but nothing approaching an actual tornado.
I'md glad you find the metaphor apt!
As to decoy trailer parks... lol.
That would at least be a better usage of FEMA funds than concentration camps for farmer / field workers...
This doesn't look real to me. There is not any debris in the "nice sky". There usually isn't a "nice sky" as well. And it usually has a hue of green.
I'm no expert though. They can be dangerous. Far worse than many natural phenomena.
Please don't.
It can destroy whole cities. They are likely 2-3 miles away or more. It is way WAY bigger that you are imagining.
(If the image is real, it could be AI)
There are other people past the car looking at it, so probably real.
They can be. Pretty hard to tell how large that one is from this pic, but it would definitely be dangerous if you were next to it. Often they are pretty small or don't touch the ground, but even those ones will cause minor damage
I think it's probably bigger and further than you may be imagining and would appear much more frightening in real life.
Stupid reproduces way too fast...
Fixed
COW!
This is completely off topic. But as someone who grew up and lived on the prairies my entire life, I'm always kind of struck by the strange beauty of the colours that are at work during a storm.
There's something in how the dark clouds and bright sky behind it create a really great contrast in the ground colours Dark browns, deep greens, etc...
Sorry...I'm babbling. Just something really pretty about the lighting that comes from a good old fashioned prairie storm that you can't get anywhere else.
Sometimes you can get that golden ambient light effect during a hyper localised storm fronts around mountainous plateaus, like thunder storms during dusk in the Himalayas, where the terrain cuts holes in the cloud cover. Very epic ambience:
Looks AI-ish to me. Does someone want to do the guesswork?
Ok it makes a lot more sense that they're actually professional storm chasers who chase storms together.
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Huh. Thank you for providing proof, between his big feet, the car's side-headlights, and her left index finger being short, I really thought this was AI.
Looks fake because there's no debris twisting around the base. Must be a hill blocking the view.
And where's the fucking corn is this ai abomination?
The shadows are not right and the sky is too bright
'Say yes or I drive straight into the storm, Brenda.'
Honestly, I'm moreso disturbed by the choice of crocs for storm chasing. Don't you need to, like, potentially run to your car and whatnot?
Yeh, she hasn't even got them in sport mode.
I just call everyone who wears them an idiot. Idiocracy used them as shoes of the future because of the look.
Nice gams.
Caught her flexin'
Quads for days
Ohio-man got tired of getting shat on and went full Florida-man.
As someone who wanted to do storm chasing/meteorology, I approve.
For real. This is fucking metal.
It's what we do here.
checkered shirt, brown working boots and trucker cap, is this the US american millenial uniform? Who doesn't look like this aged 30-50?
bonus points if he drives a F150 but never uses the hatch besides 1 bag of groceries which he forgot to put on the back seat
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