Topic: YouTube Find ;)

[Dragonfire]

I have been waiting for this to appear on YouTube

This is why Lewis Black is the funniest commentator on The Daily Show...

 

[Achim]

kotaku.com:
While a lot of people - most of them casual observers of football at best - insist on complaining endlessly about the vuvuzelas at the World Cup, they're not that bad. At least those ones can't make you explode.

These ones can! But it's OK; they're built to emit a frequency that only kills the bad guys from Doom, not that annoying guy from work who is watching his first games of football since 2006.

[KinkyCyborg]

Couple of Youtube vids of the tornado that ripped through my neighborhood this past Wednesday. It was confirmed to be an F2. I got off lucky with just some lost shingles on the roof and someones aluminum shed landed in my backyard... still don't know who it belonged to. This was right on the heels of a 5.5 magnitude earthquake that shook the province earlier in the day...     We had no power for almost 2 whole days which is why I haven't been around.   

[Dragonfire]

I hate tornadoes...they really scare me.

[KinkyCyborg]

I was at work when it happened and didn't realize we'd been hit until it was over. Went for a drive through town afterwards and was awestruck at all the damage. Apparently it lasted all of about 45 seconds.

[Kathy]

Wow - I'm sure glad you're all right. I felt the earthquake and heard about the tornadoes that touched down. I didn't realize that there was so much damage. Was anyone hurt?

[Dragonfire]

About 10 years ago, a few tornadoes went through this area...thankfully none right here.  I was out with a friend...we were at the mall...part of it lost power.  It was really dark outside.  On the way home, we saw a lot of damage.  She was content to drive all around and I just wanted to get home.  I didn't feel safe out like that.

[KinkyCyborg]

Wow - I'm sure glad you're all right. I felt the earthquake and heard about the tornadoes that touched down. I didn't realize that there was so much damage. Was anyone hurt?

Plenty of minor injuries, a few serious injuries but no deaths... thankfully.

[Achim]

I have never seen a tornado, in real life I mean, I can't really say that I want to. I have been in a really big hurricane (near Boston at the time, 1991, forgot the name) and of course we have typhoons here in Taiwan all the time (in summer). Typhoons are not all that different to hurricanes.


Glad to hear that you weren't affected all too much, KC.

[RossRoy]

Typhoons are not all that different to hurricanes.

I was always under the impression that typhoons and hurricanes were exactly the same phenomenon, but given different names depending on where they occur (pacific vs atlantic oceans).

[Kathy]

I've had several tornadoes hit within a few miles of my house. I'm always amazed at the power of these storms. The most recent one lifted a semi and threw it across the road.

My house has stood since 1832 so I wonder if being so close to Lake Erie and Niagara Falls somehow protects me.

[RossRoy]

The worst I've seen is in person is a Waterspout

And it was this one:



It's actually a bit scary when you live in a region where this isn't supposed to happen...

[Antares]

I was living in Orlando, Florida back in the early 90's and one night back in March of 1993 there was this intense line of thunderstorms moving from the gold coast over to the Atlantic side. I worked with a girl who lived in a town 50 miles north of Orlando. She told me that her daughter was home with a babysitter, and she was wondering if she should leave early. The town that she lived in was in a place dubbed tornado alley in central Florida. I looked at the weather channel for her, and after looking at the radar, I told her to go. I got home and heard this loud rumbling, like a freight train, but luckily it never touched ground.

The next day I asked her how everything went in her town, and she told me, she just got home and withing 10 minutes a tornado touched down and wiped out houses just 200 yards from hers. She was lucky.

The line of storms that passed through that night turned out to be the beginning stages of that super blizzard that hit New England and the North Atlantic that was the basis for the story The Perfect Storm.

I remember calling my parents from poolside 2 days later. They had gotten close to 2 feet of snow and I was lazing by the pool with 85 degree temps.

[Achim]

I was always under the impression that typhoons and hurricanes were exactly the same phenomenon, but given different names depending on where they occur (pacific vs atlantic oceans).

I thought I was saying that...? Sort of anyway...

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When I am not sure about stuff like that I usually take a rather careful position rather than claiming to know the facts

[Achim]

Patrick Boivin again: