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10 Aug 2011, 11:17 am

I really want to see one. I haven't seen one before, even though ocassionally I hear on the news of Tornadoes near where I live. I guess they are not as powerful and don't last as long as some places in the US. Also less frequent too. You wouldn't get over 100 at a time.



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10 Aug 2011, 11:25 am

No, but my mom almost got sucked up by one when she was a kid.



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10 Aug 2011, 11:31 am

No. Tons of relatives have, though.
In fact, a huge tornado happened in the city my mom was born in on the day she was born.

What can I say?
Iowa.



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10 Aug 2011, 1:02 pm

I've "kind of" been in a hurricane before (its more of the remnant of one). I remember I went shopping with my mom when it got to the "eye" of the hurricane. Then it started to rain again.



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10 Aug 2011, 1:23 pm

Who said yes??



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10 Aug 2011, 1:27 pm

I did. :)

It was fascinating.


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10 Aug 2011, 1:31 pm

No. A coworker of mine says that when he was in college, you would always know who had grown up in the Midwest and who hadn't, because everyone who had been born in the Midwest would to to the basement. Everyone who hadn't would run out to see the tornado.


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10 Aug 2011, 2:29 pm

as long as its not heading directly at you. It might get windy in the periphery though...



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10 Aug 2011, 2:33 pm

I wish I could. I may have seen 'mini ones', though. As in, not giant destroyer tornadoes that take everything, but just a tall line of something or other running through a field.



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10 Aug 2011, 2:38 pm

I was at the beach when it got stormed by three waterspouts. It was pretty awesome.



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10 Aug 2011, 2:39 pm

Oh, I've seen many a waterspout before.



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10 Aug 2011, 2:45 pm

Considering my geographic location surprisingly I have seen a few tornadoes. A small (we'll say F 0.003 lol) tornado briefly touched down near my relative's house when I was visiting and flipped a car and did other miscellaneous damage. Years later I saw another small tornado that I don't think touched down so it would be referred to as a funnel cloud. Last summer I witnessed two very large funnel clouds that never made it to the ground. Very cool, so long as it's not risking anyone's lives I suppose


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10 Aug 2011, 3:25 pm

Nope, not a watersprout either.



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10 Aug 2011, 4:12 pm

i have seen many a willy-willy and a few waterspouts.


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10 Aug 2011, 10:56 pm

No but I was in a hurricane when I was small. I even have a picture of me and my brother in front of the wreckage afterwards.


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10 Aug 2011, 10:58 pm

That'd be quite the experience.