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05-29-2007, 07:09 AM | #1 |
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May 29, 2007: Singapore waterspout
It started out like a finger out of the sky - this waterspout that occurred just off the coast of Singapore the other day. It's like a mini-tornado where a storm just reaches right down and sucks moisture out of the sea. Just a minor phenomenon, I guess, but everybody took notice; Which meant that, in this new era, the best place to go for images of it was flickr. |
05-29-2007, 07:31 AM | #2 |
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Great photos. Interesting how the water nearby looks relatively undisturbed in that last close-up. Glad I'm not in one of those boats, though!
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05-29-2007, 07:40 AM | #3 |
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What's cool is that when one of these water spouts sucks up fish and stuff out of the water, it will be raining fish somewhere else a little later on, and everyone will be like WTF? Fish?!
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05-29-2007, 09:58 AM | #4 | |
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He said that one time a tornado hit a candy store, and later it rained candy (and he was there for the candy-rain). He also said that him and his brother drove their go-carts (which they didn't have) off the roof of K-Mart and landed on their wheels and kept going.
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05-29-2007, 10:13 AM | #5 |
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C'mon! Who hasn't done that?
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05-29-2007, 03:24 PM | #6 |
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I heard you won't be able to call them waterspouts much longer, because Oreck bought the naming rights.
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05-30-2007, 05:34 AM | #7 |
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That sucks...
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05-30-2007, 05:42 AM | #8 |
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I wonder if the water that comes out of those clouds after will be salty.
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05-31-2007, 06:06 AM | #9 |
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05-31-2007, 09:38 AM | #10 |
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Nice pics, another beauty in tragedy type picture but more natural.
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