| Wow WBL....great story and great writing with good descriptions...
We certainly get our share here and the only one I ever saw personally was in 1975 when I was in college in Tuscaloosa. We had three down in that county at one time that day. It was wild.
Most of our county (Jefferson) is pretty hilly, therefore they don't tend to touch down and stay down, but kind of skip from peak to peak, unless on the very rare occasion that it gets down in a valley. Then its really brutal.
One went over our club and about 2 minutes later - over my house 7 years ago.
We lost 215 trees on the course and had to rerout a hole because key trees in the crook of a dogleg were all knocked down.
It then proceeded to take the roof off the county water purification plant before passing over my house.
The winds are so much higher in a tornado than a hurricane. We've had some genuine F5's here with winds of 250 MPH/400 KPH.
That will obliterate anything.
I'd still take living here over living in the frozen tundra of the northland any day though...  |