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Old 04-14-2009, 12:23 AM   #1
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April 14, 2009: Hiawatha Tornado

This is an old picture from 2005, but I hadn't seen it so I suppose at least some of you haven't either.

It was taken in Hiawatha, Kansas, and shows the power, scary power, of a tornado.



A couple weeks ago I was startled by high wind, thunder, and nickel size hail that made a hell of a racket on the roof.
Having the shades drawn, I had no idea what it was and wondered if it was a tornado. Then I realized I've never heard a tornado,
only people describing it as sounding like a freight train, so I wouldn't be able to tell if it was... until it was too late.
Glad we don't get them here very often.

Actually it's one of a series of pictures taken that day which can be found here.
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Old 04-14-2009, 12:43 AM   #2
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Old 04-14-2009, 04:33 AM   #3
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I enhanced the picture, and look what I discovered flying amid the debris!
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Old 04-14-2009, 05:31 AM   #4
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LOL.





I don't see any tornado!

It was these:



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Old 04-14-2009, 09:06 AM   #5
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It's amazing what some folks will do for a good picture. Would you stand there with that flying lumberyard coming at you?
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Old 04-14-2009, 10:20 AM   #6
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Old 04-14-2009, 10:26 AM   #7
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That tornado picture thrills me, in a very sick and twisted way.
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Old 04-14-2009, 10:44 AM   #8
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Old 04-14-2009, 10:45 AM   #9
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Who, me? (Moo, he?)
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Old 04-14-2009, 10:54 AM   #10
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Old 04-14-2009, 10:59 AM   #11
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Thanks Shel. (It's a movie quote from Twister Shawnee.)

And I want to know why the white car in the link is driving towards the thing - doesn't look like a typical storm chaser.
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Thanks Shel. (It's a movie quote from Twister Shawnee.)

And I want to know why the white car in the link is driving towards the thing - doesn't look like a typical storm chaser.
Oh. A pop culture reference I didn't get! I saw the movie a long time ago.

As to the car, it's probably some crazy person, like me.
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...it's probably some crazy person, like me.
Don't sell yourself short. There ARE no crazy people like you. hehehe


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Old 04-14-2009, 11:26 AM   #14
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Mark it and count it, baybay.

There's no one like me, at all...crazy or any other of my fine qualities.
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Old 04-14-2009, 11:54 AM   #15
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meh, that tornado is nuttin.

now the Xenia tourney of '74, now that was a tornado.
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