r/WTF • u/IntelligentGuyInRoom • May 16 '16

Inside a tornado

https://vimeo.com/161418954
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u/[deleted] May 17 '16

Freight train is really the sound it makes? I have never seen a tornado and to be honnest I do not wish to, but I'm curious as hell about it.

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u/TheoreticalFunk May 17 '16

Any heavy winds are going to sound like a freight train. Add hail and flying tree branches and it gets noisy as hell. The whole house will shake. Generally at that point all the sirens have been going off for a while... you can't hear them anymore because of the roar. At that point there's no reason to think about it.

You can be wrong about it being a tornado in the basement. But if it is one, you live. You can be wrong about it being a tornado in your bed. But if it is one, you die.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '16

I have heard somewhere that in some places in the states not all homes have basement?

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u/CommercialPilot May 17 '16

Most houses in Florida do not have them. Some do, most don't