Tornadoes

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Horrible! A tornado touched down just a couple of miles from where I live in Illinois.

https://amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ ... %26csi%3D0

I’m sorry for everyone involved.Been in a few myself but not that bad.
We were under a tornado watch last night but fortunately nothing happened here.

This the closest I've ever been to a tornado. A friend of mine watched it churn up stuff just north of his house.

The news just said one of the tornados traveled across four states.It may be a record for the longest traveling one.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnew ... p/rcna8465

At least 70 dead in Kentucky during record-breaking tornado disaster

Watching news coverage of that as I’m typing this. 70 or so killed.

This makes me, again, think about climate change. Wildfires in Australia and in the western United States, a derecho(100+ MPH winds)that wrecked up my home state(and led to my flight diverting all the way to St. Louis last minute), record high temps in the Pacific Northwest this past summer and now a tornado that is so deadly. What’s next?

We’ve always had disasters like this, and we will continue to have disasters like this. Saying this, 100 deaths is a lot for this sort of thing. And December is an odd time for this to happen. These events usually happen in early spring.

I’d be pretty concerned if a tornado touched down a couple of miles from my house. But I would feel fortunate that it wasn’t “my time.”

Yes, I feel fortunate today. I was watching this system approach and was stressed out all yesterday.

I've been through Mayfield, Ky. A couple of times. It's a charming small town. There just aren't any words.

The temperatures were unseasonably warm here for December.When a cold front hits that warm air…boom.

Here's some of the damage in my community. Nothing like Kentucky, but still devastating.

The loss of life is the worst but also the historic buildings and large trees that also get destroyed.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodi ... 021-12-12/

It is sad to see the loss of life and the great damage that they cause. Tornadoes are a “shelter in place” situation for those that have not been in one before. Being from Kansas, we are taught this at an early age. That is why most buildings and houses there have basements. Weather can get the best of you even if you plan ahead.

Unfortunately we often have fatalities from people chasing the tornadoes. You should never try to outrun one. I have before when I had no real choice, as I was at a local fair that had no protection. I should have died in that one. Most do not understand how fast one can change course and double back. I have personally seen over thirty of them, most were F0 or F1s out in farm fields that did no damage. The most at one time was five or six on the ground in rural eastern Colorado. They combined to make a much larger one. I have been under one that lifted up over my hometown and dropped down right after it passed. That one was an F2. We were very lucky that day.

The worst one I have been in was estimated to be an F3. It flat out tore up my uncle’s farm and killed most of his livestock. We were within one block of it in the farm house basement. I will remember that loud train sound for the rest of my life. I think we will see larger ones coming in the near future as the climate changes around.

^A woman I was involved with years ago was from Kansas. She had a few tornado stories.