If you don't like snow.... you could be here.

[John 'n' W.Va]

If it is not hurricanes, its tornadoes. Florida ranks third in the US. for the number of tornadoes. Ten days ago a tornado cleared the woods and made it open land. Pictures can't really show you the devastation.

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This used to be where I picked up my prescriptions. A state cop was parked in his car and was lifted higher then the roof of this building. He came down and wasn't hurt.

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These people were lucky. They only lost part of their roof and a few trees.

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This was a boarding house near the ferry, built in the mid 1800's. When I saw it, my sick mind thought," I wonder if the owners would let me MD this place later.

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[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I grew up in Tornado Alley. Seen a bunch and worked in several disaster areas. Nothing quite like the brute force of a roaring tornado. When you see straws driven through steel I beams without being broken you can respect the incredible force these things generate.

Somewhere in my old stuff I have a pic of my buddy leaning on an six to seven foot diameter oak tree with a two x four driven all the way through the trunk and the end that went through the tree doesn't have a splinter missing. The wonder of velocity never ceases to amaze me.

Bill

 

[field digger]

Would love to see that Bill.
Guess were lucky over here in England...but, saying that, our weather has been increasing in velocity every year, I doubt it wont be long until we have your type of weather.......

 

[BigCatDaddy]

Mercy sakes!! That is some real devastaion. Pictures never do tell the whole tale, but those tell enough. Glad the 'nados spared you.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah with the world's weather changing at a rapid pace it's hard telling what might get unloaded on you guys. Hope you never have tornados. They are Mother Nature's most powerful force. When one can drive a straw through a steel I beam - and without breaking the straw, that is some incredible force.

Bill