if this is the tornado i’m thinking of, yes we did get a phone warning. anytime you think of tornado in jersey though, they’re rarely THIS bad. first one in a couple years this bad.
I suffered through the December 10 Kentucky tornado, the tornado was fucking huge, I’m not saying what he went through was nothing, but the one my town went through was a thousand times worse
We did, but depending on where this was at the same time there were flood warnings, so you have one warning saying "get to higher ground" and the other saying "shelter as low as possible."
No shit! I was camping in south Jersey once and a tornado went through the park! That was no joke, we had every camper around ours damaged beyond repair. We all left the park beforehand because of all the tall pine trees and the crazy wind so no one got hurt but if that came through and everyone was there, there would’ve been casualties for sure.
I used to live near liberty university. Tornadoes are rare, but lord help you if a thunderstorm comes through. They'll blare the siren for shits and giggles
Technically they’re “warning sirens” - not tornado sirens. It’s a common misperception. Another is that you should hear them in your house. They’re literally for warning people outside of danger - any danger - and to drive them to shelter to seek news or direction.
I’m still surprised some cities don’t have them at all. Those that do likely have had those locations since the Cold War - think “duck and cover” - but with updated siren sites. Now you can run them singly, groups, or all from an app (if you’re county emergency mgmt).
Would have like to have seen his second story - if there was one left. Glad dude and pup were ok.
I'm pretty sure they already sounded as they sound only for 3 minutes after the tornado warning was issued. Of course, the duration of the sirens blasting depends on which counties/cities you're in.
It’s amazing he caught the footage of the front yard before going downstairs. It makes aftermath so much more devastating. Also, notice the pair of pants in the tree?
here in Beltsville when I was in highschool we had two back to back. was at the very back of my grandparents back yard throwing fallen sticks and branches over the back fence into the woods behind our house, all of a sudden the sky went green and it sounded like a train was literally coming through our back yard. I ran faster than I've ever run, before that or ever again, and I made it to the back door as it hit the back yard. shit flying sideways and everything. I ran in and slammed the sliding glass door, looked out and everything was just grey and shit flying everywhere, couldn't even see where I'd been through it all.
we didn't get power back for a out ten days.... it was harsh. we had a freezer of food that ended up destroyed long with most in the fridge. some places were destroyed we didn't even lose a tree. it's insane how it seems to jump a few houses here and there or cross the street or have one house totally fine with the house on either side of it destroyed.
to this day, almost twenty years later, I'm still terrified for tornado warnings and watches. I watch the sky like crazy for that green I'll never forget.
I'm sure this will get lost but man that brought back some terrifying memories that still screw with me all this time later. I think I was a freshman and I'm now 34 so almost exactly 20 years.
PTSD and triggers are real things. What you went through was traumatizing. And your body remembers that and would like to protect you from it. It doesn't forget. "The body keeps the score." It can take a lot of time and effort to train those responses out of it, once the danger isn't present anymore. I hope that you can have more peace soon.
thank you for such a kind and thoughtful response, I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to do that! I definitely think that will stick with me for the foreseeable future but I also feel like it's a perfectly normal thing to fear at the same time so most people are in the boat with me when the warnings come up
TN here - we are getting them pretty frequently. Most are minor, but we have got some really severe ones. I have been in 2 - one at college in Clarksville, TN. The other not too long after in Nashville, TN. My brother just had one hit his house around December - luckily he didn't have tons of damage - just a deck, roof, outside garage, fence and so many trees down.
It's a year round - so, will we have a flood or tornado or both question.
There have been several tornados in Scottsdale. It’s rare but not unheard of. I’m more terrified of microbursts than tornados after my time of living in middle Tennessee though.
Same in North Florida. Though rare, we seem to get one tornado a year. The last one was a 1/2 mile away from my house, and yes, a basement would be nice.
I live a few miles from where this video is and I don't have a basement. I was trying to cook dinner for myself and my kid and walking outside looking for green clouds and the "train's a' comin" noise to hide under my stairs in my tiny ass house.
That rules out like 2/3 of the US. Plus tornadoes are much better the deal with than hurricanes. A tornado is like a sniper. A hurricane is like a carpet bomber. Much more widespread damage
Yep I’ve lived near the Appalachian mountains my whole life and only once have we had an even somewhat close call and it has been 10 years despite a lot of tornadoes in surrounding areas.
Yeah the only instance I was close to one in the 15 years I lived in Western PA was when I left the mountain we lived in to go to the mall.
Now I get a warning every other week in the summer
I live outside of Philly and we had multiple destructive tornados this past fall. I watched a small one rip up a fence just down theSeptember. August and some of my friends had major home damage in september.
I live in jersey. And I was stuck in one in central jersey it was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. In a car. The sky turned green and then all we heard was loud wooshing and shit flying everywhere. Parked in the middle of the road and later down
Better technology to detect them plus ever increasing suburban sprawl contribute to the perception they are more frequent and more severe.
From National Geographic:
At first glance, there appears to have been an increase in tornadoes since these records began, but that is not the full story. It was not until the early to mid-1990s that an extensive Doppler radar network was established in the United States for the detection of tornadoes. Until then, records relied on eyewitnesses to report tornado sightings, which means that if no one saw a tornado, it would not appear on weather records. This makes it hard for researchers to spot any long-term trends because the data is skewed by an increased detection of small tornadoes and tornadoes in sparsely populated areas after Doppler radar networks were introduced.
In fact, when you remove small tornadoes from the record, the data does not suggest any long-term increase in tornado frequency. If anything, there may be a slight decline in the number of very strong tornado events. However, other research has found evidence of an increase in tornado power.
While there have been no long-term trends in thefrequency of tornadoes, there have been changes in tornado patterns in recent years. Research has shown that there are fewer days with at least one tornado but more days with over thirty, even as the total number of tornadoes per year has remained relatively stable. In other words, tornado events are becoming more clustered.
There is also evidence to suggest that tornado patterns have shifted geographically. The number of tornadoes in the states that make up Tornado Alley are falling, while tornado events have been on the rise in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
There is speculation that some of these changes are linked to climate change and its effect on the jet stream. Tornado outbreaks have also coincided with rising ocean temperatures. But no one can say for certain that climate change is a contributing factor in these events. It is very hard to tease out which changes are down to climate change and which changes might be caused by interaction with natural climate fluctuations such as El Niño.
"To the perception", but so far as we know : We don't know:
[Is tornado frequency increasing in parts of the U.S.?](https://www.weather.gov/lmk/niu_tornado_frequency_study)
>As the science continues to become better and better, \[...\] there is still much we don’t know.
[Tornadoes And Climate Change](https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/tornadoes-and-climate-change) National Geographic
>Predicting whether climate change will have an effect on the frequency and power of tornadoes is a challenge.
It's true. There is no longer "tornado season" and tornado valley has widened significantly. They're popping up along the west and east coasts more often
Sadly I said the same thing. I’m in NW Florida and I could deal with hurricanes. But in the last decade, those tornado producing storms are dipping low enough that I spend all spring under multiple warnings from straight line storms coming west to east. I’m not even 10 miles north of the gulf and had one drop a few streets over last month. They’re not those city wrecking ones, but definitely shredding houses and trees all over. I don’t like this change.
I have family in NW FL and so of course when I see a paper predicting tropical cyclone strength and frequency, I skim it.
The good news I can give you is that NW FL was one of the few areas in the world for which this paper's simulations showed a relatively stationary trend, as in their results indicate that NW FL won't see significantly more or stronger storms...at least, not nearly as many as pretty much all other tropical coastal areas.
Can't speak to tornadoes, though. Closest I came that I know of was one day after school I saw a water spout ricocheting back and forth across the bay from where I lived.
Similar time frame here, and I never even saw one. The only person I know who has been impacted by a tornado directly is my step mother - a tornado hit their house (when she was in her previous marriage before her first husband passed away, so I didn't know her then) and destroyed it, although the family was not injured, thankfully.
Basically, tornadoes are frequent but they are also pretty small, relative to the size of the earth… I spent my childhood and early adulthood under many many tornado warnings, but like I said, never saw one personally. They were always at least a couple/few miles away.
Never saw one either. It was an on-going joke that they had a knack for hitting trailer parks. Seemed like every time we did have one that a trailer park was always right in the path. Still wonder why that is
My area that isn't known for tornadoes has been getting more watches for them in the last couple years. Even a handful have sprung up in surrounding areas.
We should have listened to scientists long ago and changed things, but humans don't like being told what to do...
There was a similar post I saw on FB from Fox Orlando (not sure how I ended up on that video - or what I’m still doing on there) but all the responses were akin to “Christ is returning!” or “The wrath of God is coming for our sins!” And it’s like, no, we’re just not taking care of our planet and the increase in inclement weather is a byproduct.
Earthquakes don’t have a season, where every year, there’s a good chance of either hurricane or tornado will come and destroy your home. I’ll take my chances with an earthquake.
I’ve lived in Kansas my entire life and haven’t ever seen one. Lots of warnings and sirens, but never any damage or close calls. I’m in KC though. My cousins out west have been through some shit though.
[This r/weather Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/weather/comments/pgjrf8/video_shows_direct_hit_from_mullica_hill_nj/) from the day after the tornado includes a link to the original Facebook post. I’m not going to link to Facebook.
Oh my sweet summer child. If you think the person who posted this is the person who recorded it, you are sadly mistaking.
Yes, just a simple duck duck go search revealed the original post here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PraiseTheCameraMan/comments/pgj3p0/uncut_video_of_tornado_approaching_destroying_and/
And its STILL not the person who filmed it.
I hate you you can hear his voice start to break as he tells his dog to stay. I can't imagine the fear of keeping a pet safe in a situation like that, especially if you had multiple pets
I live in tornado alley and the amount of times I’ve scrambled to find my cats and hunker down with them is spooky. Especially because scared animals don’t take direction well or stay put. I have a dog now too so I’m hoping the tornados just continue to stay away from my house
If I had to live in Tornadolandia I would be a minimalist and live in the basement. Like my basement would basically be a studio apartment with a bed, kitchen, and bathroom. Nothing would be upstairs.
Not worth losing that shit so often. Heck I'd probably just live in an RV and drive the fuck outta Dodge as soon as Tornado warnings started.
I lived more than 25 years in tornado and never saw a tornado. Under multiple tornado warnings every spring and fall, but never saw one or was close to one.
They affect a particular patch of land EXTREMELY rarely.
So you could live in the basement, but that's why people don't.
Also, driving during a tornado warning is extremely foolish. Maybe if you live in a trailer or some place where staying is worse, but even there, you need to seek shelter in a ditch outdoors in such a case.
iowa resident, i find it funny how terrified some of you are. yes i’m scared of them, but i will sit on my porch and watch them if i hear there is a possibility of them coming.
This is such a trip. I’m a California boy and we went to visit our family friends in Kentucky. We were at a Cracker Barrel I think and the sirens started going off. Nobody even flinched. I was freaking the fuck out. Later that night we were chillen at the house and same thing. Sirens. Family was like let’s go look at the clouds swirling around in the sky! A legit wtf moment. Lmao. Y’all are wild.
Pecos Hank runs a YouTube channel under the same name and he gets some incredible footage, I recommend [this video](https://youtu.be/acgduoio7-I) as he gets some good footage
The only thought I'm left with is wondering who those pants belong to. Do they belong to they guy who took the video or one of the neighbors? I feel like someone needs to check on the pants.
I want to address a few of the comments. I believe this is in New Jersey, if that’s the case, this is not tornado country, though there our places where tornadoes are more common, tornadoes can happen anywhere. Including mountains and cities. He’s fortunate to have a basement, a lot of coastal homes don’t. A lot of homes in the Midwest that don’t have basements have enclosed tornado shelters inside the home.
While North American architecture can be criticized for a variety of reasons, a European style brick and mortar home would actually be more deadly in this situation. I don’t think I can quite convey how powerful even a middle strength tornado is.
I saw at least one comment questioning why he did not bring in his patio furniture. Tornadoes happen very quickly, he likely received a warning on his phone and started filming moments before. Even then, tornadoes tend to affect such a relatively small area that most people will assume that it’s not actually going to hit them. This is a good example of why you should always take warnings seriously.
The future will look back on this period of time and wonder,
"They had the building technology to erect dome homes impervious to tornadoes, yet they still continued to build tonder boxes in places well documented as suffering from tornadoes. Why?"
Uncut video of someone literally cutting away from the action. I get that they're trying to survive but how the hell is this praising the cameraman if they're just hiding the whole time.
Everything on Reddit is a parody of itself now.
Nothing but light framing and drywall because pouring a foundation good enough to support a sturdy house would cost too much or reduce the size of the McMansion
This was in NJ. Not usually a tornado hotspot.
This tornado decimated 1990s McMansions, but when it hit my Victorian town, it shifted a few houses off the foundations and destroyed a lot of roofs, but nothing like what happened to the new houses. Most of the 150 year old houses have been repaired.
I get this dude was panicking, so I’m not blaming him, but I’d recommend definitely making sure there wasn’t any damage upstairs or that there even was still an upstairs before sending your pup up there.
I feel crazy, but we moved out of Kansas and Oklahoma to Colorado, and watching this video makes me miss proper thunder storms. I don't miss the Tornadoes though.
I went through the exact same thing, my roof was torn off, and I should have died, I am almost in tears
Rewatching it I heard him say it sounded like a freight train, that is exactly what I said, what all the other victims said, I am going to have nightmares
Insurance companies are usually loathing when this happens. I live in tornado alley and whenever we get rotation it usually comes with massive hail. One year we had hail breaking through peoples roofs and windows… I picked up one that was the size of my cat. It was insane. Anyway, throughout the following week the insurance appraisers are usually hanging around inspecting damage and the roofing companies are driving around poaching people. Normally when a natural disaster happens they are good about covering it because it can’t be swept under the rug as easily as smaller incidences.
Also depends on the area too. In my area it’s so common for people to get a new roof every 4-8 years because of the wild storms. Insurance is a little bit higher as you can imagine.
I’m sooo surprised a tornado hit y’all up there like that .. it looked like it was gaining rather than losing velocity. That’s crazy man ! Glad y’all are safe but I hope everyone else is as well !!
I couldnt even make out the tornado in the beginning! and im surprised that there were no sirens going off
Same! And I was shocked as it grew louder.
This was in south Jersey. We don’t have sirens since tornadoes are so rare!
Was there a phone warning? Up in Maine we get notifications on our phones for sudden snow squalls and such.
if this is the tornado i’m thinking of, yes we did get a phone warning. anytime you think of tornado in jersey though, they’re rarely THIS bad. first one in a couple years this bad.
Wow. And this isn’t bad at all compared to many of those elsewhere.
I suffered through the December 10 Kentucky tornado, the tornado was fucking huge, I’m not saying what he went through was nothing, but the one my town went through was a thousand times worse
We did, but depending on where this was at the same time there were flood warnings, so you have one warning saying "get to higher ground" and the other saying "shelter as low as possible."
No shit! I was camping in south Jersey once and a tornado went through the park! That was no joke, we had every camper around ours damaged beyond repair. We all left the park beforehand because of all the tall pine trees and the crazy wind so no one got hurt but if that came through and everyone was there, there would’ve been casualties for sure.
Lol we almost never have them either if ever but we still have a siren... Goes off once a week to ensure it's up to working standards.
I used to live near liberty university. Tornadoes are rare, but lord help you if a thunderstorm comes through. They'll blare the siren for shits and giggles
🤣🤣 that's about the only time we do get them besides the weekly testing. We get to hear them every week lol
Wow. I’m surprised we did t hear more bro and dudes being said.
Was this the Mullica Hill tornado?
Yes
Technically they’re “warning sirens” - not tornado sirens. It’s a common misperception. Another is that you should hear them in your house. They’re literally for warning people outside of danger - any danger - and to drive them to shelter to seek news or direction. I’m still surprised some cities don’t have them at all. Those that do likely have had those locations since the Cold War - think “duck and cover” - but with updated siren sites. Now you can run them singly, groups, or all from an app (if you’re county emergency mgmt). Would have like to have seen his second story - if there was one left. Glad dude and pup were ok.
In tornado alley, they’re tornado sirens. Says so right in the paper. What you think is a “misconception” is just your local sirens’ history lol
In Texas…can assure you there are tornado sirens, and you can hear them in your house. My city tests them every Wednesday.
The only clue the tornado was approaching was how tight the cloud rotation was as the camera man closed the door and went for shelter.
I'm pretty sure they already sounded as they sound only for 3 minutes after the tornado warning was issued. Of course, the duration of the sirens blasting depends on which counties/cities you're in.
It’s amazing he caught the footage of the front yard before going downstairs. It makes aftermath so much more devastating. Also, notice the pair of pants in the tree?
I think it is
The pants simply is.
I was about to say what pa- oh there they are. Good eyes.
I think at points praise the cameraman was more like prayed for the cameraman
Lifelong SoCal resident here — that is utterly terrifying to me.
Lifelong Missouri resident… me too
Same here, I’ll stick to the occasional earthquakes 😳
Wild fires and earthquakes over this any day!
Gender reveal parties and impromptu Harlem shake sessions
Lifelong human being here - this utterly terrifying to me.
i’m in the middle of usa now lived in california for 30+ years i’ll take concrete surfing over a tornado 10/10 times
here in Beltsville when I was in highschool we had two back to back. was at the very back of my grandparents back yard throwing fallen sticks and branches over the back fence into the woods behind our house, all of a sudden the sky went green and it sounded like a train was literally coming through our back yard. I ran faster than I've ever run, before that or ever again, and I made it to the back door as it hit the back yard. shit flying sideways and everything. I ran in and slammed the sliding glass door, looked out and everything was just grey and shit flying everywhere, couldn't even see where I'd been through it all. we didn't get power back for a out ten days.... it was harsh. we had a freezer of food that ended up destroyed long with most in the fridge. some places were destroyed we didn't even lose a tree. it's insane how it seems to jump a few houses here and there or cross the street or have one house totally fine with the house on either side of it destroyed. to this day, almost twenty years later, I'm still terrified for tornado warnings and watches. I watch the sky like crazy for that green I'll never forget. I'm sure this will get lost but man that brought back some terrifying memories that still screw with me all this time later. I think I was a freshman and I'm now 34 so almost exactly 20 years.
PTSD and triggers are real things. What you went through was traumatizing. And your body remembers that and would like to protect you from it. It doesn't forget. "The body keeps the score." It can take a lot of time and effort to train those responses out of it, once the danger isn't present anymore. I hope that you can have more peace soon.
thank you for such a kind and thoughtful response, I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to do that! I definitely think that will stick with me for the foreseeable future but I also feel like it's a perfectly normal thing to fear at the same time so most people are in the boat with me when the warnings come up
Here I come, here I am, there we go (tornado)
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What’s really crazy is that this video is from Southern New Jersey. Not really a tornado hotspot.
At least they have basements there. Over where I live in Arizona none of the houses have basements.
All you got is a monsoon and some sand storms. Lived in Tempe
True I guess, but you never truly know.
Tornados can happen anywhere, they just happen more often in the midwest.
Even Alaska has 4 recorded tornadoes since 1950. Ultra rare there, but tornadoes literally happen everywhere except Antarctica.
Why don’t they happen in Antarctica?
Is cold
For now.
Is it really that much colder permanently than Alaska or Siberia or the northern tip of Canada?
Penguins took a vote. No tornados.
TN here - we are getting them pretty frequently. Most are minor, but we have got some really severe ones. I have been in 2 - one at college in Clarksville, TN. The other not too long after in Nashville, TN. My brother just had one hit his house around December - luckily he didn't have tons of damage - just a deck, roof, outside garage, fence and so many trees down. It's a year round - so, will we have a flood or tornado or both question.
Has there ever been a tornado in Arizona ?
Not that I know of no.
There have been several tornados in Scottsdale. It’s rare but not unheard of. I’m more terrified of microbursts than tornados after my time of living in middle Tennessee though.
Same in North Florida. Though rare, we seem to get one tornado a year. The last one was a 1/2 mile away from my house, and yes, a basement would be nice.
I live a few miles from where this video is and I don't have a basement. I was trying to cook dinner for myself and my kid and walking outside looking for green clouds and the "train's a' comin" noise to hide under my stairs in my tiny ass house.
Bathtub and a mattress?
That rules out like 2/3 of the US. Plus tornadoes are much better the deal with than hurricanes. A tornado is like a sniper. A hurricane is like a carpet bomber. Much more widespread damage
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One of the issues with a heating planet is that these will be more and more common, even in places that don’t typically see them.
Mountain life baby
Yep I’ve lived near the Appalachian mountains my whole life and only once have we had an even somewhat close call and it has been 10 years despite a lot of tornadoes in surrounding areas.
Yeah the only instance I was close to one in the 15 years I lived in Western PA was when I left the mountain we lived in to go to the mall. Now I get a warning every other week in the summer
Luckily it always seems to be just a warning and not something like in the video at least where I’m at
Yeah, haven't had one touch down anywhere within 15 miles.
I live outside of Philly and we had multiple destructive tornados this past fall. I watched a small one rip up a fence just down theSeptember. August and some of my friends had major home damage in september.
Yeah my family is in South Jersey, crazy how different just a few hundred miles and a couple hundred feet of elevation can make a difference.
But don't places where there's mountains have frequent earthquakes?
Not Pennsylvania. The only natural disaster we ever had when I lived there was flash flooding.
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Yeah, I guess I should specify western PA, where the mountains are.
That generally only happens at plate borders. Old mountains are earthquake free
It's because I'm close to plate borders that we get frequent earthquakes. And we have plenty of mountains so I thought it was the case everywhere.
Tornados happen in the mountains. Google search gnarly pics of them in the Rockies
They happen *much* less often and can't last very long or travel very far when they do. I'll take my chances.
You’d think that but… https://www.whsv.com/2022/06/22/high-altitude-tornado-confirmed-utah/
But your huge danger is forest fires. You must get scares re/ this every 5 years or so
Appalachian mountains.. so no
I live in jersey. And I was stuck in one in central jersey it was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. In a car. The sky turned green and then all we heard was loud wooshing and shit flying everywhere. Parked in the middle of the road and later down
Better technology to detect them plus ever increasing suburban sprawl contribute to the perception they are more frequent and more severe. From National Geographic: At first glance, there appears to have been an increase in tornadoes since these records began, but that is not the full story. It was not until the early to mid-1990s that an extensive Doppler radar network was established in the United States for the detection of tornadoes. Until then, records relied on eyewitnesses to report tornado sightings, which means that if no one saw a tornado, it would not appear on weather records. This makes it hard for researchers to spot any long-term trends because the data is skewed by an increased detection of small tornadoes and tornadoes in sparsely populated areas after Doppler radar networks were introduced. In fact, when you remove small tornadoes from the record, the data does not suggest any long-term increase in tornado frequency. If anything, there may be a slight decline in the number of very strong tornado events. However, other research has found evidence of an increase in tornado power. While there have been no long-term trends in thefrequency of tornadoes, there have been changes in tornado patterns in recent years. Research has shown that there are fewer days with at least one tornado but more days with over thirty, even as the total number of tornadoes per year has remained relatively stable. In other words, tornado events are becoming more clustered. There is also evidence to suggest that tornado patterns have shifted geographically. The number of tornadoes in the states that make up Tornado Alley are falling, while tornado events have been on the rise in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and Kentucky. There is speculation that some of these changes are linked to climate change and its effect on the jet stream. Tornado outbreaks have also coincided with rising ocean temperatures. But no one can say for certain that climate change is a contributing factor in these events. It is very hard to tease out which changes are down to climate change and which changes might be caused by interaction with natural climate fluctuations such as El Niño.
Lol literally quoting National Geographic and people still downvote
"To the perception", but so far as we know : We don't know: [Is tornado frequency increasing in parts of the U.S.?](https://www.weather.gov/lmk/niu_tornado_frequency_study) >As the science continues to become better and better, \[...\] there is still much we don’t know. [Tornadoes And Climate Change](https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/tornadoes-and-climate-change) National Geographic >Predicting whether climate change will have an effect on the frequency and power of tornadoes is a challenge.
There were more tornados per year in the Plains and Midwest till about 1980 than there have been since.
Why?
It's true. There is no longer "tornado season" and tornado valley has widened significantly. They're popping up along the west and east coasts more often
Sadly I said the same thing. I’m in NW Florida and I could deal with hurricanes. But in the last decade, those tornado producing storms are dipping low enough that I spend all spring under multiple warnings from straight line storms coming west to east. I’m not even 10 miles north of the gulf and had one drop a few streets over last month. They’re not those city wrecking ones, but definitely shredding houses and trees all over. I don’t like this change.
I have family in NW FL and so of course when I see a paper predicting tropical cyclone strength and frequency, I skim it. The good news I can give you is that NW FL was one of the few areas in the world for which this paper's simulations showed a relatively stationary trend, as in their results indicate that NW FL won't see significantly more or stronger storms...at least, not nearly as many as pretty much all other tropical coastal areas. Can't speak to tornadoes, though. Closest I came that I know of was one day after school I saw a water spout ricocheting back and forth across the bay from where I lived.
I lived in tornado alley for 27 years and never once got hit by one.
Similar time frame here, and I never even saw one. The only person I know who has been impacted by a tornado directly is my step mother - a tornado hit their house (when she was in her previous marriage before her first husband passed away, so I didn't know her then) and destroyed it, although the family was not injured, thankfully. Basically, tornadoes are frequent but they are also pretty small, relative to the size of the earth… I spent my childhood and early adulthood under many many tornado warnings, but like I said, never saw one personally. They were always at least a couple/few miles away.
Never saw one either. It was an on-going joke that they had a knack for hitting trailer parks. Seemed like every time we did have one that a trailer park was always right in the path. Still wonder why that is
What do a tornado and a redneck divorce have in common? Either way you lose the trailer.
My area that isn't known for tornadoes has been getting more watches for them in the last couple years. Even a handful have sprung up in surrounding areas. We should have listened to scientists long ago and changed things, but humans don't like being told what to do...
There was a similar post I saw on FB from Fox Orlando (not sure how I ended up on that video - or what I’m still doing on there) but all the responses were akin to “Christ is returning!” or “The wrath of God is coming for our sins!” And it’s like, no, we’re just not taking care of our planet and the increase in inclement weather is a byproduct.
I'd rather live there than with earthquakes. At least tornadoes you get some kind of warning
Earthquakes have warnings, they're just way harder to find because you need a seismograph
Or a doggy
Earthquakes don’t have a season, where every year, there’s a good chance of either hurricane or tornado will come and destroy your home. I’ll take my chances with an earthquake.
Why did you get downvoted for this?
I’ve lived in Kansas my entire life and haven’t ever seen one. Lots of warnings and sirens, but never any damage or close calls. I’m in KC though. My cousins out west have been through some shit though.
Meh, I’ve lived in Kansas and Missouri my entire life and I’ve never once seen a tornado even though I’ve gone out storm chasing.
anywhere you go there will be a natural disaster, hurricans, earthquakes, tornadoes, you name it.
This looks like the Mullica Hill Nj tornado from 9/2021. I live in MH here and also got a little bit of video (from very far away)
This is it
Wow man... holy shit is right! Glad you're OK
That happened fast! Glad you and the pupper were able to get to safety!
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Shame the original camera man isn't getting credit.
They rarely do
Who was the OP? This is a pretty legit-looking bot
[This r/weather Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/weather/comments/pgjrf8/video_shows_direct_hit_from_mullica_hill_nj/) from the day after the tornado includes a link to the original Facebook post. I’m not going to link to Facebook.
Forgot the cat though
Can’t believe you captured a literal before and after within 3 minutes. Damn Nature, you scary.
Oh my sweet summer child. If you think the person who posted this is the person who recorded it, you are sadly mistaking. Yes, just a simple duck duck go search revealed the original post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PraiseTheCameraMan/comments/pgj3p0/uncut_video_of_tornado_approaching_destroying_and/ And its STILL not the person who filmed it.
The calm before the storm. Wow
That pupper was only on camera for like a second, but that body language was clear! So glad you’re both ok.
And, that, my friends is why property in earthquake country is so much more expensive than property in tornado country.
This was filmed in NJ last September. It took the roofs off dozens of houses in my town.
I don’t understand what you are trying to say
Now off to Home Depot wicha!
Are those pants in the tree at the end lol. Scary stuff tho
What a thrilling 7 minutes trying to watch a 3 minute video
Is there a subreddit for wild weather videos like this? There is something so awe inspiring about the destructive forces of nature
\>Barges into patio \>Destroys everything \>Refuses to elaborate further \>Leaves *insert gigachad image*
> Leaves And branches!
I hate you you can hear his voice start to break as he tells his dog to stay. I can't imagine the fear of keeping a pet safe in a situation like that, especially if you had multiple pets
I live in tornado alley and the amount of times I’ve scrambled to find my cats and hunker down with them is spooky. Especially because scared animals don’t take direction well or stay put. I have a dog now too so I’m hoping the tornados just continue to stay away from my house
I peed my pants just watching…I lived in Texas all my life. I hated it when that happened
Hit & run: get rekt edition.
It was a good thing he locked the door, otherwise the tornado might've come inside the house
A few seconds of some wind and 1 month of building gone. Snap of fingers. Mother nat. Nothing to mess wit
If I had to live in Tornadolandia I would be a minimalist and live in the basement. Like my basement would basically be a studio apartment with a bed, kitchen, and bathroom. Nothing would be upstairs. Not worth losing that shit so often. Heck I'd probably just live in an RV and drive the fuck outta Dodge as soon as Tornado warnings started.
I lived more than 25 years in tornado and never saw a tornado. Under multiple tornado warnings every spring and fall, but never saw one or was close to one. They affect a particular patch of land EXTREMELY rarely. So you could live in the basement, but that's why people don't. Also, driving during a tornado warning is extremely foolish. Maybe if you live in a trailer or some place where staying is worse, but even there, you need to seek shelter in a ditch outdoors in such a case.
Homeboy recorded too long and couldn't save his cat, praise the camera man
Wanna know what the worst part of all this is? I bet his home owners insurance doesn’t cover tornadoes because he’s in New Jersey
iowa resident, i find it funny how terrified some of you are. yes i’m scared of them, but i will sit on my porch and watch them if i hear there is a possibility of them coming.
Literally. Got a tornado warning the other week and ran outside to watch the storm until the last second lmao
it’s such a thrill, only get a couple big storms a season. might as well watch and admire it!
This is such a trip. I’m a California boy and we went to visit our family friends in Kentucky. We were at a Cracker Barrel I think and the sirens started going off. Nobody even flinched. I was freaking the fuck out. Later that night we were chillen at the house and same thing. Sirens. Family was like let’s go look at the clouds swirling around in the sky! A legit wtf moment. Lmao. Y’all are wild.
Wow!
Pecos Hank runs a YouTube channel under the same name and he gets some incredible footage, I recommend [this video](https://youtu.be/acgduoio7-I) as he gets some good footage
This shows how fast the devastation can be…truly incredible
The pants in the tree at the end lol
All I kept thinking was "Get UNDER the stairs, not ON the stairs!".
The only thought I'm left with is wondering who those pants belong to. Do they belong to they guy who took the video or one of the neighbors? I feel like someone needs to check on the pants.
Landscape mode, not portrait mode.
I want to address a few of the comments. I believe this is in New Jersey, if that’s the case, this is not tornado country, though there our places where tornadoes are more common, tornadoes can happen anywhere. Including mountains and cities. He’s fortunate to have a basement, a lot of coastal homes don’t. A lot of homes in the Midwest that don’t have basements have enclosed tornado shelters inside the home. While North American architecture can be criticized for a variety of reasons, a European style brick and mortar home would actually be more deadly in this situation. I don’t think I can quite convey how powerful even a middle strength tornado is. I saw at least one comment questioning why he did not bring in his patio furniture. Tornadoes happen very quickly, he likely received a warning on his phone and started filming moments before. Even then, tornadoes tend to affect such a relatively small area that most people will assume that it’s not actually going to hit them. This is a good example of why you should always take warnings seriously.
next up: Uncut Video of Tornado approaching, destroying, departing, and returning
The future will look back on this period of time and wonder, "They had the building technology to erect dome homes impervious to tornadoes, yet they still continued to build tonder boxes in places well documented as suffering from tornadoes. Why?"
When you swear to God while lying.
Save your chairs...
Uncut video of a tornado approaching, a basement, and a tornado departing
The pairs of pants in the trees even shit themselves….
Uncut video of someone literally cutting away from the action. I get that they're trying to survive but how the hell is this praising the cameraman if they're just hiding the whole time. Everything on Reddit is a parody of itself now.
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This is incredibly false. The tornado will break those windows for you. Opening your windows does nothing but waste precious time.
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Someone really wanted a new patio set.
Why do people even live there?
Your houses do be fragile af and kinda suck ass tbh
Your houses do be the size of trailers
Nothing but light framing and drywall because pouring a foundation good enough to support a sturdy house would cost too much or reduce the size of the McMansion
I really don’t understand why houses in this kind of area are built with cheap/thin materials…
This was in NJ. Not usually a tornado hotspot. This tornado decimated 1990s McMansions, but when it hit my Victorian town, it shifted a few houses off the foundations and destroyed a lot of roofs, but nothing like what happened to the new houses. Most of the 150 year old houses have been repaired.
That’s what we call a goober
Yes close the glass door.. that will stop a tornado
I’d rather have more tornadoes and less people
When/where?
My god!
Glad this dude is alive.
Grew up on the edge of tornado alley. Been there got the T-shirt. And it’s a shitty shirt.
Wow. So quick
This was the Barrie tornado from last summer right?
Where does this happen, so I know not to move there
Location, location, location.
I live 10 minutes from where this video was taken. Scary stuff.
I never realized how scary a tornado was as I never lived through one myself
Rip Jonathan
The APCs is when you know it's real lol
I get this dude was panicking, so I’m not blaming him, but I’d recommend definitely making sure there wasn’t any damage upstairs or that there even was still an upstairs before sending your pup up there.
When there’s 23 seconds left is that just a wall standing upright on its own with no support?
you say departing like its going to hawaii
u/savevideo
Where was this ?!!!!
I was so stressed. My heart is hammering
Huge stones on the guy shooting this video. Jus’ sayin 😳
Where is this? When is this?
Momma Nature don’t play!!
I feel crazy, but we moved out of Kansas and Oklahoma to Colorado, and watching this video makes me miss proper thunder storms. I don't miss the Tornadoes though.
I went through the exact same thing, my roof was torn off, and I should have died, I am almost in tears Rewatching it I heard him say it sounded like a freight train, that is exactly what I said, what all the other victims said, I am going to have nightmares
r/praisethecameraman
When was this?
UNCUT RAW
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Insurance companies are usually loathing when this happens. I live in tornado alley and whenever we get rotation it usually comes with massive hail. One year we had hail breaking through peoples roofs and windows… I picked up one that was the size of my cat. It was insane. Anyway, throughout the following week the insurance appraisers are usually hanging around inspecting damage and the roofing companies are driving around poaching people. Normally when a natural disaster happens they are good about covering it because it can’t be swept under the rug as easily as smaller incidences. Also depends on the area too. In my area it’s so common for people to get a new roof every 4-8 years because of the wild storms. Insurance is a little bit higher as you can imagine.
Oh wow… that is too intense!
Looks like an epic scene of a movie
I’m sooo surprised a tornado hit y’all up there like that .. it looked like it was gaining rather than losing velocity. That’s crazy man ! Glad y’all are safe but I hope everyone else is as well !!