How's this for a twister!

robfosters · 3 Apr 2012 at 22:54

Surprised Cumulus hasn't piped in with this.

Ripped through Texas a few hours ago.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...xtremely-dangerous-Tornado-targets-Texas.html

Tom0 · 3 Apr 2012 at 22:55

Certainly is a whirlwind of events.

[TW]Sponge · 3 Apr 2012 at 22:58

Insane.

Nitefly · 3 Apr 2012 at 22:59

That video is labelled wrong - it's platinum87 on the rampage.

Lukewhitworth · 3 Apr 2012 at 22:59

I think that tornado may have caused a stir...

robfosters · 3 Apr 2012 at 23:00

That little boy's lost his dog. Don't think he'll be seeing him again

RomanNose · 3 Apr 2012 at 23:00

Hopefully it won't take long to get back on their feet, it won't a breeze to sort out this mess and I feel sorry for any injured.

ianh · 3 Apr 2012 at 23:06

I don't know if this area is prone to Tornadoes but I'm always surprised by the photos of destroyed homes that look like they are made of nothing more than wood :confused:

but I suppose that the risk you'd have to take for cheap housing when the chances of a Tornado actually hitting your house are fairly slim.

robfosters · 3 Apr 2012 at 23:20

ianh said:
I don't know if this area is prone to Tornadoes but I'm always surprised by the photos of destroyed homes that look like they are made of nothing more than wood but I suppose that the risk you'd have to take for cheap housing when the chances of a Tornado actually hitting your house are fairly slim.

My thoughts exactly. the world's largest concentration of mobile homes appears to be in the most active tornado area in the world :confused:

RomanNose · 3 Apr 2012 at 23:24

Don't build your house on sand applies here.

Overslop · 3 Apr 2012 at 23:27

robfosters said:
That little boy's lost his dog. Don't think he'll be seeing him again

In my squall of thought, that would now make this a tornadog.

Nitefly · 3 Apr 2012 at 23:29

Overslop said:
In my squall of thought, that would now make this a tornadog.

It's amusing how the English language works, I bet I'm not the only one who initially read that as torn-a-dog as opposed to tor-nay-dog

RomanNose · 3 Apr 2012 at 23:34

Some of the pictures were taken with a helicopter, what kind of idiot thinks " ooh look, 130 mph winds, lets get into the flying machine"

KnightStalker · 3 Apr 2012 at 23:52

Their houses are made of wood, due to the heat etc i think, plus they are very quickly rebuilt and repaired in such events.

drunkenmaster · 4 Apr 2012 at 00:33

KnightStalker said:
Their houses are made of wood, due to the heat etc i think, plus they are very quickly rebuilt and repaired in such events.

This is the main thing, cheap and quick to rebuild, in general america uses a ****load of wood for building houses, far more than we do so its a much bigger tradeskill over there. From what I recall there are plenty of places in the states you can't get decent insurance, Florida + hurricane insurance, tornado alley I assume insurance is as big of a problem.

Humanity, "we were born here so we're from here and we don't want to leave here".

People just shouldn't live in hugely dangerous area's, its daft and we don't have to.

Scuzi · 4 Apr 2012 at 00:43

drunkenmaster said:
This is the main thing, cheap and quick to rebuild, in general america uses a ****load of wood for building houses, far more than we do so its a much bigger tradeskill over there. From what I recall there are plenty of places in the states you can't get decent insurance, Florida + hurricane insurance, tornado alley I assume insurance is as big of a problem.

Homeowners, wind, flood and hail insurance on our last house in New Orleans came to $13k a year.

drunkenmaster said:
People just shouldn't live in hugely dangerous area's, its daft and we don't have to.

Ignorance is a horrible affliction. If a city has jobs and industry people will live there. If everybody decided to up sticks and move to temperate regions the world would be a very strange place. People live in Slough and Stoke and Luton ffs. I'd rather have the Gulf Coast.

VoG · 4 Apr 2012 at 01:18

Scuzi said:
Homeowners, wind, flood and hail insurance on our last house in New Orleans came to $13k a year.

$13K a year insurance costs?, bloody hell thats insane!. :eek:

Scuzi · 4 Apr 2012 at 01:20

VoG said:
$13K a year insurance costs?, bloody hell thats insane!.

Tell me about it. To be fair, the area did get 15ft of water after Katrina. One of the many reasons we sold it.

kilohawk · 4 Apr 2012 at 01:41

Is this really appropriate behaviour during a tornado cleanup?

V4NT0M · 4 Apr 2012 at 08:30