re: Accuweaather's coverage of Tornado that hit Arabi

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Tornadoes are crazy things.

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Just ask Mayfield, KY where 44 died.

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This photo really illustrates the random luck of a tornado’s path. Some houses are annihilated, while others one block over appear undamaged (at least from what I can see in this photo).

That’s a chief reason why tornadoes are so terrifying.

dumbass started his own thread about it. thread got whacked. hope he got banned.

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dumbass started his own thread about it. thread got whacked. hope he got banned.

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Wow, I missed that.

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When did it become a competition to see who could have the most hurricanes bragging rights?

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Its not, but apparently he was offended that people in New Orleans need assistance after the tornadoes and brought up Florida

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who was it? cause clearly they need(ed) to be clubbed to death with the Ban stick

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I dont recall. By the time I hit submit on my reply to him, his post had been deleted.

JFC!

Questions on placement remain but yeah, its the heart of severe season down here and we got another negatively tilting trough swinging around from out west middle of the week next week.

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Just ask Mayfield, KY where 44 died.

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I grew up 20 miles from there and went through there during my Christmas visit to relatives. These photos of Arabi are impressive but pale to compare to the mass of destruction that hit Mayfield and several other communities in KY.

In the Arabi photos you could see a distinct path where in one spot was destruction and nearby was nothing. In Mayfield as you drove through the town you could not see the edge or line of demarcation. It was reported at 3/4 mile wide.

I will say this though. Anybody in the Arabi storm that rode it out dont give a poop about no Mayfield!

Side note: I watched the videos in the OP link and how about the dude in the red Ford truck that flipped on its side, spun 360, rolled back over upright and just kept on driving! You da Man!

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Couldn't believe my eyes.

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The complete and devastating destruction of a high end EF4/EF5 is hard to fathom until you actually see it. There is no discerning what was there before the storm. Everything is gone and unrecognizable. There are no landmarks, no point of reference. People can't find their lots in a a neighborhood they've lived in for years. Windrowing of debris looks unnatural, like it was the work of machinery and took days. Trees are denuded and stripped of their bark. Then, there are the unbelievable examples of the power of Mother Nature. The stories that get retold every time the topic of tornadoes or storms comes up. The type of stories you wouldn't believe if you hadn't heard it from so many people and seen comparable instances of damage.

It is the scale of the damage, though, that always hits me. Whether seeing it in person or from pics and videos, the mind struggles to process what it is seeing. We are instantly uncomfortable with such chaos. We can't make order of it. Even knowing that destruction is possible, we still can't really come to terms with it.

That's how I feel, anyway, every time I see the aftermath of a violent tornado. Of course, violent or not, EFwhatever, outbreak or a single tornado......if it is your home that is hit, it may as well be an EF7.

They must have forgotten to anchor those walls down for it to just move off the subfloor fully intact like that.