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.

Fly me to the moooon

I enhanced the picture, and look what I discovered flying amid the debris!

LOL.





I don't see any tornado!

It was these:

It's amazing what some folks will do for a good picture. Would you stand there with that flying lumberyard coming at you?

Dumpsters! We got dumpsters!
[/Twister]

That tornado picture thrills me, in a very sick and twisted way. :nuts:

cow.

:eek:

:eyebrow:

Who, me? (Moo, he?)

Queen of the Ryche;556200 wrote:

cow.

" 'Nother cow."

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.

Queen of the Ryche;556207 wrote:

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.

Shawnee123;556208 wrote:

...it's probably some crazy person, like me.

Don't sell yourself short. There ARE no crazy people like you. hehehe


:D

Mark it and count it, baybay.

There's no one like me, at all...crazy or any other of my fine qualities. ;)

meh, that tornado is nuttin.

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

Sheldonrs;556204 wrote:

" 'Nother cow."

I think that was the same cow..

Bullitt;556231 wrote:

I think that was the same cow..

"I can't talk right now! We got cows!!"

Shawnee123;556217 wrote:

Mark it and count it, baybay.

There's no one like me, at all...crazy or any other of my fine qualities. ;)

What was the other fine quality?

(ducks from flying vases!)

hehehehe

I remember the constant news reports about the Xenia tornado. It ate the town, right?

My mom still has the book that the Dayton paper put out about the Xenia tornado. It pretty much took the whole town.

It also spawned the song "Don't Cry For Me, I'm From Xenia." That may have come first, though.

thanks for the link, Nirvana. check out picture #2. and lots more than three people were killed....

Queen of the Ryche;556207 wrote:

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.

I believe that's a police car.

This was what one tornado did to Greensburg, KS. My inlaws had driven through this town mere hours before the hit, too.

Kablooey.