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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

that man has humongous feet.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

The crocs really complete it

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

maybe if it's a baby tornado 🥺 please, i wanna pet one, they look so funny :3

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

spectral, you're such a nice person :) i always notice you :D

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

That's how they get you. You're occupied thinking about Bermuda Triangle and walk right into quicksand!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

How's life in a ditch

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

we would build decoy trailer parks with lots of telephone poles all over

hahah that deserves some price ;)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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...

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Please don't.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

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)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

There are other people past the car looking at it, so probably real.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I think it's probably bigger and further than you may be imagining and would appear much more frightening in real life.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Stupid reproduces way too fast...

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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:

https://stock.adobe.com/images/thunderstorm-in-the-mountains-panoramic-summer-landscape-with-enchanting-stormy-sky-storm-clouds-sunny-valley-and-small-rural-house-sunset-sunrise-landscape-with-beautiful-sky-stormy-weather/215244664

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Looks AI-ish to me. Does someone want to do the guesswork?

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Ok it makes a lot more sense that they're actually professional storm chasers who chase storms together.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Looks fake because there's no debris twisting around the base. Must be a hill blocking the view.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

And where's the fucking corn is this ai abomination?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

The shadows are not right and the sky is too bright

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

'Say yes or I drive straight into the storm, Brenda.'

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeh, she hasn't even got them in sport mode.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I just call everyone who wears them an idiot. Idiocracy used them as shoes of the future because of the look.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/idiocracy-crocs/

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Caught her flexin'

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Quads for days

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Ohio-man got tired of getting shat on and went full Florida-man.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

As someone who wanted to do storm chasing/meteorology, I approve.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

For real. This is fucking metal.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

It's what we do here.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

checkered shirt, brown working boots and trucker cap, is this the US american millenial uniform? Who doesn't look like this aged 30-50?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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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