The Most Shocking and Destructive Natural Disasters | Code Red Compilation

[@jonphillips7723]

I lost family to the tornado that hit Ky in early 2012. They're nothing to scoff at, beautiful and terrifying at the same time. You ever get a warning and told to seek shelter don't try to be the one that thinks they can get closer or get a better look.

[@tabaxikhajit4541]

So true. There isn't anything worth seeing usually, anyway. Often the rain and dark skies mean you see little until it's probabably too late. Best to be in the most protected space you can get to and don't come out until it's passed. I grew up in tornado alley. I spent enough nights in the central room of our basement that we kept blankets, flashlights, books and board games in the spot.

[@scootermom1791]

​​@@tabaxikhajit4541Yeah, the rain-wrapped tornados are terrifyin..... it's almost devious in the way a tornado sneaks up on people like that (at least back in the day before radar, Doppler, etc).

[@MaryJaneRayne-ti2px]

Because it's like a whirlpool that's sucks you in but in the sky and touching down across the land rather than being a watery undertow even though there might be water involved...

[@katiewilliams2653]

I am so sorry you lost your family 😢xx

[@StephenRada-q6g]

That's very sad ! My condolences to you & yours

[@imanamouna7401]

In the 1980s, a devastating tornado came dangerously close to my grandmother's house in Missouri. I've never encountered a sound as deafening in my entire life; it was undeniably terrifying. Mother Nature is the only force that truly instills fear in me

[@biancacarter3465]

I agree 100% I'm glad you're okay

[@beccarankin98]

Which part of MO?

[@marcgottlieb9579]

@@biancacarter3465 What the Big They forgot to tell the masses is that our binary solar system is here...In 24, the Sun will Rise in the West for 5 days and the Earth will stop rotating for 3.5 days...This will be an Atlantean Event..

[@WatchYOBackBrah]

How brave you are. Only mother nature can scare you. Big, big man you are aren't ya? Massive balls. The biggest if the big. Just the biggest 😮 So big. Crazily big. So big we can't make out what we're looking at until we're miles away. Only then we see how big you are. The biggest man 👨 The biggest alive

[@RichardM-nu5tw]

What would anyone do​@@WatchYOBackBrah

[@shkaraherring2379]

My dad was a police officer in Lacy Lakeview Tx when the Jarrell Tx tornado hit in '97. When the Jarrell Tx tornado hit, he volunteered for a rescue/relief effort. He said the unfortunate thing about the Jarrell Tornado, is it was a little town off of I-35, and most of the parents to children were out of town at work, so there was no way for them to be saved. He said while a lot of people obviously lived, it felt like it wasn't a rescue effort, but rather a "piece people together" type of situation. He said the most haunting thing of it was just seeing body parts scattered everywhere, and he's still haunted by it to this day.

[@Brock_Landers]

Your dad is absolutely right. Jarrell is a very small town that's been hit by tornados many times, but the 1997 tornado was known as the "Walking Dead Man" because it was a multi-vortice tornado (meaning it was a tornado wrapped by smaller tornados that rotated around the core) and it's true, most of the victims were either parents who were shielding their families, or children who never had time or a place to make shelter. The F5 tornado (the F in the tornado indexing system was invented by Ted Fujita to index a tornado by it's destruction power, but nowadays we have the Enhanced Fujita system, so it would've been an EF-5 which is the most devastating tornado) that struck Jarrell was truly devastating.

[@MaryJaneRayne-ti2px]

😱😨😭 Wow...that's morbid and so horribly sad...I can only imagine the horror and heartbreak of everyone especially their parents and the children when that happened to them...😭😭😭 I lived in Houston area for like a year and I had never heard of that while there. I know what PTSD is like though. I've had complex PTSD for years. I can understand to some degree the pain he must be feeling...I still get flashbacks of things and ruminate all these years later...

[@MaryJaneRayne-ti2px]

I'm really glad my trauma doesn't involve the body parts of children scattered everywhere...I'm not a fan of Gore/slasher/horror movies...I don't ever want to experience that in reality either...that's just...that's haunting...even hearing about it OMG...but it's better to talk about trauma than it is to hold it inside being eaten alive inside by it all alone...being alone makes people suffer more...

[@robertcampbell4397]

I was in a EF 4 tornado in May of 1982,Marion Il. It was at 315 pm. on a Saturday,it leveled 2 schools,a bank an apartment complex etc... Stayed on the ground for some 13 miles,never forget it!

[@Brock_Landers]

That's crazy. I wasn't even born yet (I was born on 1983, so I'm 40) but thank you for sharing your experience with us!

[@MaryJaneRayne-ti2px]

I walked 13 miles in a day once...man was I sore...it took me like all day but tornados move much faster than people do especially when at walking speed even a brisk walking speed

[@jillgales67]

Imagine being on a plane on the tarmac. I'd have shat my pants.

[@CensoredComment-os8py]

Imagine being constipated when that happens. "UGGGGGGGGGGGGGH!!!" Your Butt would EXPLODE with both your cheeks flapping in 250mph winds.

[@jillgales67]

@@CensoredComment-os8py 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love poop humor! I know, I know, it's the most basic type of humor but it's still funny AF. I'll still think farts are funny when I'm 90, cuz dammit, they are!

[@Jesoterica_Medium]

I moved from CA to Tornado Alley, fairly recently, and having never experienced a tornado before, or ever really even given tornado activity a second thought, I can tell you, I certainly learned quickly, and that naive outlook got permanently erased! I'll never forget my first, and profoundly defining experience! I remember speaking to my dad, at about 8am, one morning, and I said, "something's wrong, Dad...It's still dark out." Nonetheless, I continued on, nonchalantly, with my day, remaining in my state of blissful ignorance, only to find myself, both, shocked, and terrified, about an hour later, as an EF3 tornado crossed the highway, directly in front of my car. I have, since, educated myself, extensively, so I have the necessary awareness to keep myself safe, at all times, and luckily, I also have a large, underground storm shelter, on my property, that is, now, always prepped for emergencies! I am grateful for that eye-opening, and humbling experience, though, and I feel fortunate that I escaped, what could have been, a terrible fate!

[@katj3443]

That’s just crazy, glad your safe.

[@KaileyB616]

You should probably use a few more commas lol

[@mariusmatei2946]

Well, moving from California to "the tornado alley" wasn't a very thoughtful move, to begin with!

[@le_th_]

Thank goodness it was only an EF 3.

[@lelia660]

My goodness! How scary! I'm sorry you went through that. You know, I live in Tornado Alley, and I've never been in a tornado since I moved here (also, coincidentally, from CA). I've seen one a few miles away once, but that's about it. We've had tornado drills when I used to teach, at my schools, but thank goodness, one never hit. We don't even have tornado sirens, as far as I know. I hope we'll continue to be this lucky.

[@oneraddaddoneraddadd5149]

I was right in the middle and survived the Joplin MO tornado while helping do search and rescue through it all. We had no warning, no alarms, no weather updates, and it was just a beautiful ordinary day then all hell broke loose. I lost so many friends, and several individuals I knew that cant be imagined. I cant express how important being prepared while also being diligent is so important with storms being unpredictable. I still reside in Joplin MO and do not plan on moving.

[@myboloneyhasafirstname6764]

So sorry for your loss. What a difficult experience. My great great grandparents lived in Joplin before moving west into Kansas in the 1890’s. What few traces of their lives that were left were erased by the tornado you survived.

[@kimberlyshirley6495]

i understand.

[@taylorpresley4604]

Boy, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night during tornado season. I think Joplin's was the worst in recent history, tragic. Glad you made it through.

[@JosephFarrier-c8q]

Sexy yum

[@kathymorris4553]

My sister lived at 25th and Pearl, across from school. My mom lives on Wisconsin and 24th

[@deanb4799]

I'm currently laying in bed wondering how much wind it takes to pluck a chicken.

[@Positivemotivation662]

😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@susanhowe163]

😂😂😂😂😊WHO WANTS TO KNOW? I HATE CHICKEN 🐔 😒 😑 😤 😂😂😂😂😅😅😅

[@davidsouthwood5106]

Your wind

[@shaunusher3818]

This is a very serious topic, but it's good to have some comic relief

[@PamalaNEW]

I usually buy pre-plucked Chickens sooo......If you're using an Instant pot, the chicken will come out delicious. Chicken and a Weather Documentary, great night!

[@Dedsec_frost]

Funny because in Missouri we don’t have 30 minute warning of a tornado with sirens nor alarms. Sure we have like 3 or 4 hour alert on the phone, but anything can change between those hours

[@braedonrogers5534]

Heyyy i recognize some of pecos hank’s footage in there! Right on!

[@l2savvy552]

love that dude!

[@model-man7802]

I've lived in SW Missouri and SC Kansas. I can tell you if you do not have a storm shelter it's only a matter of time.Cant afford it? Dig It yourself work on it when you can afford it just do it!!!

[@carrollcameron7472]

The statement made by one of the contributors about the chances of experiencing a tornado mixed with the expanse of land are slim(my word) reminded me of an interview of a man who just had his home damaged, IIRC, in 2022 in OK. It surprised me when he stated he has lived in OK all of his life (so far) 60+ yrs and that was the first time he'd ever saw a tornado. As I mentioned it surprised me to hear that as, I guess I was so used to hearing tornado followed by OK in the same sentence, that, I wondered how could he not have saw a tornado, living in OK.

[@barbiek3987]

I live in central Canada, not your typical Tornado haunt. Yet in my lifetime, I've seen 2 Funnel clouds (thankfully didn't touch down), a small Tornado close to where I lived and some years later, a 3rd funnel went over our home in another area. Plus we live about 100km from where canada's only F5 Tornado hit. Thankfully no one was killed in that tornado. And this is all in central canada, not your Tornado Alley. I don't even want to imagine being in Tornado prone areas.

[@Nightshade0013]

An EF-4 hit right outside of my town in Colorado a few years back. I lived up at 10000 feet and that sucker didn’t care. Craziest part was that there was a forest fire where it hit. Made things far far worse. Ended up propagating the fire an extra couple hundred acres. I don’t think there was any loss of life, but there were crews out there working to contain the original 40000 acre fire. Talk about apocalyptic.

[@scootermom1791]

No kidding! It's so weird to me that Colorado gets tornados. I'm a neighbor in Utah. We get tornados, but it's rare. Apparently you guys in CO get them a lot more frequently...and a lot bigger than most of the ones we get! I watched footage of a few you had this year. I think one was an F3! An f4 combined with a forest fire though? That's unfathomable! Like you said: apocalyptic! BTW, I was in the path of the f2 that happened in SLC in 1999.

[@Nightshade0013]

@@scootermom1791 it was a day to remember, to be sure. Colorado, at least up where I was, was INCREDIBLY windy all the time. It was common to have sustained winds of 60+ mph. I think Utah may be just a bit more arid than Colorado. A little less humid. That might be why you don’t get as many or those that are more powerful. Haven’t heard of the ‘99 event, but I’ll check it out on here. I bet it was terrifying to be in its path. That’s something I have never and hopefully will never experience

[@dazzlingextremes389]

Another commented above about this y'all should get in touch with one another. Share stories. Might be cathartic

[@kogniscent]

these are all chatGPT bots to farm engagement. thats why you see so many similar stories written in a robotic tone using too many adjectives and incorrect puncutation@@dazzlingextremes389

[@SUNDOGG97]

I was in a farm house 5 miles from bobcayon here in ontario when it got hit. The rain was going sideways window blew in. I got a go bag together and the dogs close, slept near the basement door. Scary shite.

[@raysplace6548]

" Wild Tornadoes"... Aren't they all wild? Never heard of a domesticated tornado..

[@kevinbodman1011]

Thqts funny

[@aizen_.]

.... technically you can make a tornado so... technically you can domesticate one

[@lizmarch7165]

Yeah, some people are really into exotic pets. Lions, kangaroos, monkeys and apparently now tornados 🌪 People need to chill out with their domestication attempts before someone gets hurt

[@raysplace6548]

Interesting.. How does one acquire himself a Danger Noodle? And, Can I get a harness & matching leash??

[@aizen_.]

@@raysplace6548 KZbin tutorials are a great solution! sadly, they don't take too kindly to leashes and such. I've tried.

[@3peckeredgoat735]

Back in the 80's a nasty tornado passed by my grandmother's house in Missouri, I've never heard anything else that loud in my life, it was absolutely terrifying. Mother nature is the only thing that scares me.

[@drewmurph2018]

Elderly in cars doesnt scare you?

[@3peckeredgoat735]

@@drewmurph2018 no.

[@ist0000]

Sounds idiotic your mother nature. Shat about naturd of your father. One fool man invents something and the other fool repeat after. There is NO mother nature. THERE IS power of your creator who is ready to destroying you too if you continue blasphemy HIM !

[@Moonchild-bb5dr]

I've heard a tornado too. Not only it's loud but the pulse in the air is so unforgettable

[@ist0000]

@@Moonchild-bb5dr That mean you heard GODs angry voice in tornado. Did you return to HIM or not !? HE calling you with other lovely word too. Listen to this and let HE save your life your soul from hell eternal unquenchable fire ! your servants.

[@moorek1967]

As someone who once worked as a radio announcer, when we sent out warnings of tornados, we found out that nobody listened to us or any radio station. With the sirens there should be a feed to the NWS with the guy saying the tornado is in your area. Leaving it up to radio and tv stations to keep the public informed, no one should depend on them solely because people do not watch or listen. Also, people who live in small towns or rural areas, they will not always have "local news" coverage, like they say to watch on tv...the truth is that the tv stations tend to put more emphasis on their own urban areas. Small towns do not get warnings like the cities do.

[@TheSnoeedog]

so...if people are not watching or listening to their televisions/radio stations, how exactly do you explain the obesity crisis? The problem is that people would rather sit and watch, than listen.

[@nemo9540]

If people are more focused on social media then why not use those platforms to issue warnings, it would reach more people and word could spread much quicker. Perhaps these platforms could work together to issue a localised emergency broadcast system. Just a thought.

[@moorek1967]

@@nemo9540 This was before MySpace. So you know how long ago that was.

[@FoxxyBrown783]

That's weird. Our weather alerts go straight to my phone like an amber alert or instead of seeing the temperature on my weather icon it will say 'severe thunderstorm' 'flash flooding' etc

[@scottyfox6376]

Probably doesn't apply to small towns but if you have a tornado warnings with 1/2 + hour lead time then perhaps order DoorDash & see if you get your KFC or a dude passing 20ft in the air pass your address.😂

[@Debra-68]

A few years ago, an EF-4 tornado struck just outside my Colorado town. Even at 10,000 feet elevation, it showed no mercy. The astonishing part was it hitting amidst a forest fire, making the situation far more dire. It added hundreds of acres to the fire's reach. While I believe no lives were lost, firefighting crews were already battling a 40,000-acre fire. Truly an apocalyptic scenario

[@taylorpresley4604]

Wow, 10k feet elevation, thank god no one was killed. I can't imagine, the inactive volcano on Maui is 10,300 ft and I can't imagine a tornado being up there. It can get pretty cold up there.

[@julie36613]

Lol That’s not correct. There has not been an EF-4 in high country, EF1 maybe at most.

[@t.l.1610]

@@julie36613Did you Google before writing this reply? The Teton-Yellowstone tornado …

[@raineedmunds514]

What breaks my heart is all the helpless animals that die in these tragedies. Major fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, flash flooding, earthquakes humans can leave and know what those sirens mean but what about the animals

[@ist0000]

Human is become less then animal. No animal stay in front of GOD WHITE JUDGE THRONE but you and me should. ...So REPENT fron sins !!! your servants.

[@EmilyKresl]

Well as someone who goes outside in the woods alot I can tell you animals can sense and smell the danger and will be long gone in safe hiding places before the tornado can hurt them. What is sad is all the cattle and pets who had nowhere safe to go who were mooing and barking their heads off trying to warn people

[@jamiekebarrett9418]

Animals can sense natural disasters and they always know before humans you can research it.

[@Tzalmavet]

@@ist0000 What strain?

[@ist0000]

@@Tzalmavet You know englis is spoken all around the World. Not my lenguige neither. But if i write or telling something to you on .y Hungarian lenguige you will never understand only looking at me as a BIG ❓ Vagy azt àllitod hogy te tudod hogy èn mit ìrtam ?

[@jampasurprenant1794]

It is very interesting to learn about the tornado and the other types of deadly weather and thank you for sharing the educational program with Me.

[@scootermom1791]

33:08 When "Mini" tornados spin around a big tornado, I think of ballet dancers dancing around a Christmas tree in "The Nutcracker". The pointed end of the twister that touches the earth is like the pointed end of ballet slippers. Tornados are both beautiful and terrible at the same time!

[@faeray1016]

"We actually dont know the last processes that really make a storm form a tornado" Fascinating. So intriguing. It's like storm chasers are trying to track and quantify chaos

[@ladyadarathecrone7494]

It has always amazed me that a school district, in tornado alley, will pay thousands and thousands of dollars on gymnasiums and football fields but will not make sure there is adequate shelter in their schools from these tornados. When I was in school, many moons ago, in Texas, they taught us to go into the hallway and put a book over our head. Really? Like that is going to protect you? And that hallway becomes a massive vacuum. Yeah, lol, that book is really going to help you. I sport a scar on my forehead from 26 stitches after a tornado came through. I live in Oklahoma now, lol, not any safer from the naders. lol

[@tabaxikhajit4541]

Yes, that was our tornado drill also. The old brick and concrete schoolhouse I was in could probably take some abuse, but those books weren't going to save us from flying concrete blocks! I'm glad you made it out with only a scar, maybe some PTSD, and the ability to ironically laugh about it.

[@scootermom1791]

Going into the hallway is what killed several young children in Moore in 2013. I don't even live in tornado alley, but I'm still infuriated that school districts claim they "can't afford" to put tornado shelters in all their schools!! Bull! They can do it. They just won't. California has building codes for earthquakes because of the number of quakes they get each year. Tornado alley should have tornado codes because of the number of twisters they get each year! They should REQUIRE that underground shelters are included in new buildings going forward. And, they should require buildings to be retrofitted for shelters like CA or other states have done (for quakes) in the past.

[@trishplanck9776]

I wholeheartedly agree!! It is shameful that people will spend more on a sports venue than someplace that would save lives in a severe weather event. That is despicable.😡

[@PhúcLê-g1k]

wow, what an intense compilation! you really highlighted the power of nature in a unique way. but honestly, it got me thinking-are we truly prepared for such disasters? seems like we focus more on recovery than prevention sometimes. curious if anyone else feels that way.

[@o0o-jd-o0o95]

See to me when you base the tornado on how much damage it did that means you're kind of basing it also on how well a structure was built and maybe even how well it withstood the test of time which are two things I don't think should be in the mix of categorizing the tornado

[@tiffanya.mesiaspark9515]

37:23 i agree with the social aspect of tornado warnings. Lived in KS for a good decade, and the monthly siren tests did desensitized the populated areas. One touched down on KSU a couple of years ago, sure the lights went out first, our phones blared before the city sirens went on. People still went on with their businesses until the last minute. It was frustrating and sad to experience, yet I’m grateful for the lack of panic.

[@Izzymohammed1]

Terrific doco guys. Well done👏👏👏

[@shinyhoarder]

I have been very fortunate to experience four tornadoes in my life so far, and have come away from all of them unharmed. The first occurred when I was maybe 5 or 6 years old. I never saw anything, but my mother stuffed my sister and I into the closet under the stairs with a bunch of pillows. Then she stood outside, holding the door. She didn’t tell us what was happening, but the radio was broadcasting a warning and we could hear the wind. When it was over, we emerged and learned that the tornado had gone across two streets over from us. It had been a small one, but there was a lot of damage all over the neighborhood. The second occurred when I was in the third grade. Our school was tiny, in the middle of a corn field. We didn’t have a PA system, so the principal went from classroom to classroom instructing us to go into the hallway. The combined 3rd and 2nd grade room was facing the playground, and beyond that we could see the tornado barreling across the field. Our teacher shuttered the windows and then we sheltered in the halls in what my friend called the "kiss your butt goodbye" pose (crouching with our heads between our knees). That one veered away and disappeared shortly after that. The third time, I was about 12 or 13. We were in the process of moving from Texas to Louisiana, and Mom had to run to the old house for some things. I went with her while my sisters stayed with Grandma. As we turned a curve in the road, we saw a tornado touching down right over the pavement. The moment Mom saw it, she shouted, "Shit!" And she did a harsh U-turn, speeding away as fast as the van could go. We pulled up onto the curb of a doughnut shop back on the highway. Mom opened her door, opened the shop door, and pulled me through the tunnel they made. Then this stone-cold boss slings her purse over her shoulder, smooths down her hair, and walks over to the counter, exclaiming, "Oh, they have fresh cinnamon buns! Do you want a cinnamon bun, dear?" I was curled up shaking in the corner. I did not want a damn cinnamon bun. Lol The last time was just a few months after that, once we were in Louisiana. We lived in a trailer park for a time, and we were constantly evacuating to shelter in the concrete parking garages of the casinoes in Shreveport. One night, the alarms rang us out of bed, and Mom saw on the local weather station that it was already coming our way. We all fled to the main office, the only stable building in the area. People were rushing inside, most dressed in nightclothes and one guy in just a bath towel. There wasn’t much time before the power went out and Mom told us to duck. I tried, but with a little sister clinging to each leg, all I could do was cover my head with my arms. That last tornado clipped the street we were on. It never came over us, but it was so loud that I couldn’t even hear my sisters screaming anymore. My ears were popping. It was surreal. Then it stopped as suddenly as it began, and the silence it left behind was so eerie. We stayed in place for a bit, and then everyone went home. Watching these stories, I thank the powers that be that my experiences were not worse.

[@G.Orwell1984-q8i]

When the homes are being rebuilt, I hope they’re including below ground shelters. With a below ground shelter, the odds of surviving an EF5 tornado direct hit are nearly, if not 100%. Where I live, every home has a basement and we very rarely get tornadoes. We had an EF4 tornado and none of the people who’s homes were swept away were injured, because they took shelter in their basements. You don’t require a full basement to achieve the same result, just something below ground, large enough for your family to fit inside. I think that new building codes could be very effective in reducing the numbers of deaths and injuries.

[@MarvinBrown-j8j]

Storm Cellar outside of the house is best I think. You have less chance of getting buried by house desbre. My kin live in the worst part of tornado ally.

[@danielhall574]

I live in Etowah county AL, I was lucky. But we get very severe storms here, it was tragic, I live more than 80 miles from T-town and still had folks mail and pictures landing in my yard.

[@Katseye102]

What ever happened to homes built with basements and storage shelters under or beside the homes? They just don’t build them now? In Missouri when I was growing up almost every farm house or suburban home had a basement or storage shelter. Well worth the cost in saving lives I’d think.

[@MetallicAAlabamA]

The people who are on the lower end of the pay scale can afford less sustainable homes. Who gives a damn about the people with less wealth! Kinda shows the problem all the way around don't it?

[@paynevonier4790]

Not everyone can afford a home with a basement and areas like my small town it's almost impossible to afford a new build so it's usually a trailer most folks live in..truly your privilege is showing signed a hurricane Michael survivor

[@JustAnAverageWoman69]

​@@paynevonier4790There is no "privilege." Get out of here with that nonsense. You're another perpetual victim.

[@Twistypoo]

@@paynevonier4790it’s not privilege. I’ve never had money. Always lived in old, lower income homes WITH a basement.

[@kelcritcarroll]

I think it is a money thing and some places have too high a water table or rock….i cant imagine having to get in my bathtub and simply hope for the best…that is sad….but anyway I live in Michigan and there are so many homes with simply a crawl space for a foundation….my dad built our home and had poured basement walls and built the home with 2 by six boards…very sturdy house and this was back in 1972 …I live in the home now..and with the way the weather is getting even in Michigan…im thankful for that deep poured wall basement…im 62 and never needed to use that basement out of fear until the last six years….and ran into it three times now…..so yeah…its heating up and the weather is getting scary…just thunderstorms have been leaving EF 1 damage on a yearly basis for the last five yrs……in west Michigan…😕

[@garylagstrom3864]

I still say Bridge Creek Oklahoma tornado 🌪 May 3rd 1999 was F6!

[@fandoria09]

We had an EF-3 hit Dexter, Missouri, in July 2021. Hardly any footage of it at all when it hit. I was working for both the Dexter Burger King and the Dexter Arby's when it hit just behind Burger King.

[@johngoguen361]

😊😊I was driving across country and parked in a rest area to sleep for a couple of hours in Iowa when this guy started banging on the roof I said what he said his brother called him and said a tornado was heading this way so I followed him to a gas station and slept till daylight I drove by the rest area it was gone a ef3 took it out I wish I could find that guy to thank him

[@suejuede525]

My 79 yr. Old And frail aunt lived on Finley st. In Joplin, and her daughter (60 yr old cousin,) at time of that Joplin tornado in 2011 and my aunt and cousin, said, "NO" ...the sirens were delayed.. the siren's were delayed they did not sound the sirens soon enough 😮😊

[@mickjones3374]

I live in Milwaukee and the school my kid goes to would be flattened by a tornado. They do not happen here very often, but the alarms go off about once a year. Very few of the schools here have a basement. As bad as that is, I was talking to a teacher in Oklahoma and they have the same tornado drill my kid's school has...go in the hallway, put your head between your knees, and just hope for good luck. In California, I went to high school there, at least the buildings (I asked) were built with certain codes to avoid damage in the earthquakes. During the world series earthquake, none of the school buildings were bothered at my school. Either way, Mother Nature has a habit of taking our challenge of domination of the world very serious and I suspect her patience has run out.

[@unspeakableunbeatable9395]

I live in Milwaukee as well. This is precisely why I keep my kid home from school when we have a high risk of tornadic producing storms. Having a basement, I feel more at ease knowing if a tornado does hit, we will be underground. West Allis just got a ef0 last year and I was in the Cudahy/St.Francis ef0 about 23 yrs ago. Hardees in St. Francis had all its windows shattered as it went over the restaurant. Even an ef1 can cause a bunch of damage. I dont eff around with tornadoes.

[@Mr.Guild1971]

If they go off once a year that maybe the test.When i lived in the city it was 2 x's a year .We are lucky that our village has a siren .There is less than 30 people.We test it once yearly.

[@scootermom1791]

The practice of going into the hallway by the lockers during a tornado is what killed several young children in Moore in the 2013 F5 tornado. The children who lived through it had sheltered in the bathrooms. California does have good earthquake codes (I've heard, anyway) for their buildings. There should be tornado codes for schools in areas prone to tornados. It never ceases to amaze me how many kids and teachers are injured (or worse) simply because they didn't have adequate shelter from the storms and tornados that accompanied them!

[@scootermom1791]

​​@@Mr.Guild1971That reminds me of the Tsunami siren warning on the Oregon coast. I lived there for a very short time when one of those went off! I had no idea what was going on. It nearly scared the pants off me! Lol I found out after the fact that they test the siren twice a year as well.

[@scootermom1791]

​@@unspeakableunbeatable9395You are a SMART parent!!

[@PJ-sm4qf]

You all are crazy! Just watched your April 2024 video. You: Sprinting at lightning speed running TOWARDS a tornado (admittedly makes me chuckle watching you on foot seeing the bottom of your shoes in a blur). Me: oooohhh hell noooo! Running at lightning speed heading in the OPPOSITE direction of tornado. Glad I found your channel. You both seem like such nice guys. Subscribed!!

[@kathymorris4553]

In the Joplin tornado my sister stuck her head out the door, then they hit the floor. Most of their home was gone. They lived near hospital. My mom’s neighbor was hit hard, but she had little damage, while the house next her on both sides were going.

[@goodcitizen-ft9bg]

The tornado is Joplin is what I warn my wife and kids about, the sirens go off all the time here in Ohio every time there’s a warning! That’s the problem with them setting the sirens off for every storm, people don’t here the sirens and think I need shelter, then become desensitized to them … people didn’t heed the warning exactly like the storm chaser said, people need to be safer then sorry and seek shelter when they here the sirens. All it takes is the one time you say hell with that😢

[@scootermom1791]

Complacency gets people killed in tornados and hurricanes. It's so sad! Do you think they could do anything with the sirens, maybe, to make people pay more attention to them? Like add different sounds and switch them out (like having music shuffled randomly on an MP3 player). Do you think something like that would work? Just curious. 🤔

[@Rosco-P.Coldchain]

If I lived in tornado alley I would build an underground bunker and build my house with bricks 🧱

[@Akutenshi1990]

@@Rosco-P.Coldchain Hate to tell you, but at EF3's or higher your brick house won't do much. Tornadoes can launch wooden planks through brick walls if there is enough wind force being generated.

[@Peace-tk3gr]

Here on the South east coast of Africa we don't really have any natural disasters. Sometimes extreme rain causes havoc, like the one in 2022. I live on a hill/steep road, nowhere near a river. Living too close to the sea or near a river is something I would not do.

[@nicholasashley2172]

A good many years ago a tornado dropped out the sky and went across Birmingham (as in Birmingham England) and hurt a good few people and damaged a lot of property. I think it caught people off guard because we don’t know the signs like a big wall cloud

[@SortaProfessional89]

Jeff Petroskis footage of joplin might be the most heartbreaking footage of a tornado to date. Really shows the human toll a storm like that takes

[@pegs1659]

I think the 1974 tornados were the scariest I've ever been in. I was 16 and the destruction I was able to view the next day was crazy. People were walking around in shock looking at what was left of their homes. A mobile home park was totally destroyed. I saw a mobile home that was twisted around like a tin soda can. This was in N. Alabama.

[@BushMaster420circle]

also with how the tech was, n how long it took to rebuild things etc i can only imagine!!! plus during those times people always thought, hey it wont be that bad!!! & then it happens n its like WHOAAA lets make sure that doesnt happen again lol!!!! xD

[@victoriasloan524]

I was in highschool then. My teacher looked out the window and said someone is going to get it. Then Xenia Ohio got the tornado.

[@demianmaru3179]

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[@demianmaru3179]

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[@threecheeseburrito]

My city recently had a tornado. It was back in June, but there was no warning. All the weather channel said was severe thunderstorm warning seconds before it hit. There no warning about a tornado at all. It was about an EF0-EF1, and there were no casualties, but the fact that we got no warning whatsoever is what bothers me. My little sister was actually at a colorguard meet near the library (I was at the library, she was at the education building nearby) and it started in a neighborhood near us. Our neighborhood, about 3 miles away, lost power and had several uprooted trees. She drove home about a few minutes after I did, and she told me about where it started when we went on a little trip together a couple days after. That was terrifying. This is why I want to become a weather warning coordinator. Taking the Stormwarn training class was a good idea.

[@scootermom1791]

Metrologists depend on "eyes on the ground" a LOT to help them issue those warnings. In many documentaries, they have stated that there's no technology good enough to replace the "eyes on the ground" data they receive from storm chasers.

[@LysondraNichole]

Always starts as thunderstorm

[@LysondraNichole]

I lived in Ohio briefly...just outside tornado ally and anytime it had a thunderstorm sirens would go off...it was terrifying...not one tornado. It's just very hard to predict.

[@noeGarcia-f8s]

wow, this video is really eye-opening and well put together! i appreciate how you highlighted the impact of these disasters. however, i can't help but feel like sometimes the media sensationalizes these events, making it hard to distinguish between genuine concern and just aiming for views. what do you all think?

[@HellcatMad]

20 tornadoes in moore? No way i would live there

[@inkytabithaful]

It's literally a running joke to us Oklahomans. Any time storms approach we're like, "Well, goodbye Moore."

[@tracemartini7725]

I went thru moore right aftrr an f5 hit it and it was just rubble. Blocks and blocks of just rubble. Never thought that kind of devastation was possible. I then moved to port aransas and was hit dead center from hurricane harvey and same type of devastation. Tornados are terrible but think of 150 mph winds for3,4 hours. Not to mention the storm surge. Scary

[@nathansmiddy]

Even though I never witness a tornado with my own eyes, I'm still at times, looking for ways on how they are made and ways to try and stop them from becoming a danger to well stong hard buildings.

[@diontaedaughtry974]

32:40 WoW! That's the widest tornado I've ever seen.😯🌪

[@mirankordic9047]

Crazy right

[@GuiltyOne]

I'm shocked that the July 31st 1987 EF-5 tornado that hit Edmonton, AB, Canada didn't make the list here!! It wasn't as deadly but it was larger than most of these tornadoes shown!

[@acreARES]

If you live in Missouri, especially in the smaller counties, you hear the tornado sirens go off at least 4 times every tornado season. Problem was they were multi-county wide, so if you lived in Columbia, Missouri, you would hear the same sirens as Kirksville, Missouri even though they were hours apart. Which is a main reason why many of us are so desensitized to the sirens.

[@lonewolf031]

I remember that day, I lived near Joplin back then. It was a mess of a day. We had an EF4 come within three miles from my house.

[@kakumee]

How much wind dose it take to pluck a chicken? 😂

[@Mirily]

Did the dog they pulled out of the rubble on a board in Moore OK 2013 survive? 🥺😔

[@kennethreynolds4670]

Tell the whole story of the Joplin tornado. There was a siren for the one right before that changed directions but when it did the storm following brewed up another tornado.

[@kevinalford2165]

The Joplin tornado reminds me what the Moore 99 tornado looked like.

[@stephenanderle5422]

What about the Dimmitt TX tornado that tore up a mile of paved road all the way to subgrade.

[@nataliemadrigal899]

Yes I live in Amarillo. I remember well. And the Lubbock, TX tornado and Pampa,TX.

[@Brock_Landers]

After everything that I've watched on TV in the past with Josh Wurman, Reed Timmer, Sean Casey, Jeff Piotrowski (among my favorite storm chasers for his coverage of the Joplin, MO tornado of May 22nd, 2011), and Tim Samaras I really feel like I know these guys. Losing Tim Samaras, his son Paul Samaras, and Carl Young during the El Reno EF-5 tornado of May 31st, 2013 was like losing a friend to me. NWS Mike Bettes and his crew were almost taken from us as well, but thank God they survived after their Suburban was picked up and rolled multiple times. I have followed severe storms and their effects for many years and it has affected my life. I have survived hurricanes and tornadoes many times, but never anything exceptionally severe. I was in Springfield, MO when the Joplin tornado struck and we were under a tornado warning with green skies and hail. I left and headed back towards home in Pittsburgh and I remember being stopped by state police and ordered to seek shelter in Indianapolis, while a strong tornado had struck the area and had actually crossed the interstate that I was on. I could never imagine living in Tornado Alley.

[@nataliereedy850]

I lived in Orange, CA when the Northridge quake happened. It threw me out of the bed. My son was 8 at the time he slept right threw it.

[@mikekincaid7412]

Love a good heavy duty thunderstorm.. filmed one at my house that I thought was gonna take my roof off. Can’t wait for the next one.

[@bradhiebert6403]

Tornado alley comes all the way up to southern Manitoba Canada. We get all kinds of tornadoes up to F5 in Elli.

[@hevchip741]

very, very good docu

[@jenniferklayer5259]

I live in the greater Oklahoma City area and in the spring the tornadoes typically come up from the southwest of the state. Sometimes we can see em coming from Chickasha and those give us a 20 min warning. Other times storms produce quick spin ups and sometimes we only get 2 min warning.

[@garylagstrom3864]

So in Oklahoma City Oklahoma there is a city south of the city that has been hit by 5 F-5 Tornadoes 🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪 since 1999. It's as if a Tornado 🌪 had a mouth a nose and eyes and you asked it: Have you created enough trauma and destruction for these people? And the Tornado 🌪 says: NO I WANT MOORE!!! The name of the city hit by 5 F-5's since 1999.

[@dawnbonner6497]

In Joplin a lot of the houses are older without basements. If you have a EF5 coming for you and you don't get underground, it's a toss up if you will survive. Large stores don't also have suitable shelters and cannot stand up to these winds.

[@tabaxikhajit4541]

Yes, my family members had recently moved out of Joplin before the hit. Few basements there because of the ground water level, I believe? But maybe soil conditions... And these smaller midwestern towns can't afford shelters.

[@RazielXSR]

38:24 Joplin is a much farther distance from St Louis than that. Hell Kansas City and Tulsa are closer, and they are farther away than 50 miles.

[@noeGarcia-f8s]

i really enjoyed this video, the visuals were compelling and the information was eye-opening. but honestly, while it's important to raise awareness about these disasters, i think some parts feel a bit sensationalized, almost like it's more about shock value than education. what do others think?

[@KevinWilliams-c6p]

Salute to the families that go threw surviving tornadoes every day

[@garylagstrom3864]

MAY 3RD 1999 and MAY 20TH 2013 F5 TORNADOES 🌪 IN MOORE OKLAHOMA 1999 REGISTERED 318 MPH: THE HIGHEST WIND SPEED EVER RECORDED ON PLANET EARTH 🌎 2013 F5-210 MPH. MAY 31ST 2013 F5-NEAR 300MPH IN EL RENO OKLAHOMA. If I lived in Oklahoma in particular and definitely in the town of El Reno and Moore…I would absolutely have a shelter built into the ground about 15-20ft deep minimum!!! 🌪🌪🌪😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😬😬😬🤐🤐🤐😳😳😳😵😵😵

[@unity1016]

I have lived in Texas since 1978. I've seen tornadoes, but I saw more tornadoes in Nebraska where I grew up.

[@phillipmiller1008]

I have chased Storms since 1981 , Living in N.W. Oklahoma and North Central Oklahoma..But Have seen Major Tornados in Texas , Arkansas, and Kansas as well... I once had the Groceries sucked out of the Back of my Pickup Truck while crossing under a developing Tornado and Supercell just outside of Ringwood Oklahoma.. I have come to call these Supercells ET'S or Enormous Tornadoes because bI have seen some as big as Inland Hurricanes with as many as 5 to 7 Vortexes ...At the same time , I have seen some that are Single Massive Vortexes inside of another Massive Circulating Stormwall that resembled the embodiment of a Hurricane ... I was a mere 13 years of age when my fascination with Storms began....

[@tabaxikhajit4541]

No!! Not the Swiss Rolls and Doritos!! What a greedy tornado. I'm glad it didn't suck you out as well.

[@MetallicAAlabamA]

I am astonished that NOAA and anyone with the bravery to chase tornadic thunderstorms are not funded without question.

[@KaileyB616]

Anything that might potentially save the lives of citizens, the government has no interest in

[@flaca2787]

@@KaileyB616unfortunately you’re correct and it’s depressing sometimes.

[@jordaneggerman4734]

......did that guy just say, in no uncertain terms, the "suburban St. Louis" is "50 miles" from the track of the Joplin tornado? Yeah, no, it's closer to 500. I live about 70-ish miles from Joplin....in Springfield...which is nearly 300 miles down I-44 from STL...

[@leannmeddings4068]

I think he meant the path of the tornado went from Joplin to within 50 miles of St. Louis.

[@SoniaSanchez-b5r]

These pictures are exactly like my dreams have been for years We are (family) fleeing or just desperately looking for a safe place ! I always wake up 😢

[@katiewilliams2653]

Oh my 😢xx

[@brandoncreel5845]

As an inventor, watching this video three things, I can think of to help!?. For the measurements to Gauge wind in rural areas, can be both fence posts and light poles, to have pressure springs. A ratchet type spring, that move and stays in place to be measured later.?

[@AGirlHasNoName1.618]

I'll keep my Florida hurricanes, thank you. At least we know when they're coming. Tornado's are terrifying!

[@angelagreen3642]

So sad about the children and families killed both here in the USA and those in the other countries 😢

[@perpetualbiscuit239]

I'm just curious. One of the gentleman complained about people running for ditches 'where it might flood' during tornados. I hope he realizes that many schools teach children starting at a very young age that if they see a tornado and can't get to shelter to head for a ditch. So which is it? If people shouldn't get in a ditch they need to make sure schools know to stop teaching kids that.

[@richardedwards8296]

The biggest fears are not knowing when and where to get help 😢

[@sheryl1009]

I reeeaaally dislike tornados. Lived in Iowa all my life...we have had our share. Friggin green skies, eerie quiet, clouds looking like hell is descending, stuff sticking out of trees...horizontally, walking up to....air. LOL But at least walking even if there is nothing left. Shudders.

[@sethaost4212]

Devastating dangerous but beautiful.

[@kittie_sugar]

The way the narrator pronounces Tornado 🤣

[@billynomates920]

27:00 to see the dog just lie there and let himself be carried out like that. i don't know why and i feel really bad for it but that brought home the terror to me even more than the poor child in that man's arms a minute before.

[@HardKnockGospel512]

I survived the Joplin tornado. I was thrown 690 feet, broke my neck, arms, ankle, and left ear. I just learned to walk again.

[@ki5rllthreedronefour85]

Joplin is NOT merely 50 miles from St. Louis. Did no one think to consider that with the guy they are interviewing?

[@aljefferson4862]

Man so many people were killed that very sad day. May they all continue to RIP 🙏.

[@sherimatukonis6016]

I don't know why people would live in tornado alley and have to deal with this several times a year... At least in earthquake country it's ONCE every couple of DECADES or less.

[@tvsRN]

I appreciate people that live there so we can have food.

[@GuiltyOne]

Taipei 101 was hit by an earthquake on Sunday September 18 2022 and there's video of the damper swinging back and forth during the 6.8 magnitude earthquake!! Look it up its quite interesting to see how the mass damper works during the shaking!!

[@jameslemon51]

How did Oklahoma like the 5 eF5 tornadoes in2013, yet there after has Moore Oklahoma been hit with tornado. 😎

[@eliP8911]

@41:52 1st guy: "ppl panic, or go into a ditch, where it may flood"(Immediately after) 2nd guy:"you need to find a hole in the ground"

[@lesliesnowdon8490]

Might the reason for the more recent changes in the number of and strength of tornadoes be the increase of moisture due to the melting ice caps? Just a thought.

[@aldoarroyo-c2l]

great video, really eye-opening! but i can’t help but think that while these disasters are indeed shocking, the media tends to sensationalize them too much. it sometimes feels like we’re more focused on the drama than the real human stories behind these events. what do you all think?

[@KayJones-j2l]

Rainsville Alabama. Pulled a shelter from the ground and stripped a school bus from its frame. Left a 3’ deep ditch on part of its path

[@CherylLynn-w6r]

Am I the only person who thinks that if you decide to move to a place called "tornado alley" and choose to live in a mobile home you're just cruising for a bruising?

[@tylunsherod]

Here in Oklahoma we have 2 tornado seasons landing in spring and fall

[@tabethaeast6515]

We get tornado warning here in south central tx at least 1 to 2 times a week during tornado season

[@CensoredComment-os8py]

Tornadoes are the most TERRIFYING natural disaster to me. I would HATE to see one coming directly toward me.

[@deannekliene2673]

I remember as a kid i would get scared and my family would say Oh dont worry, its fine! But i realize after Joplin it can happen! After we had a small but scary tornado in my town one day, I remember across the tv i was shocked when emergency signals asked for any nurses, doctors, ems and search volunteers to come to joplin because the whole city had been "leveled" i was shocked by that word....it was a tragedy.....i dont live far from there but over 70 miles and never ever seen a message like that before or since....it told me that Joplin was truly leveled, squashed! I wrote a research paper in college about the Tri State tornado, the worst in US histoy...a mile wide it slammed 3 states creating complete devastation....imagine a tornado whipping three states before dissipating...! I couldnt imagine and it began right here close to where i live.....in tornado alley ....since that paper along with the Joplin experience im terrified of these.....i dont joke about it......these storms turned out of course to be an EF-5......the worst...

[@marjorieperry3745]

We do also have tornadoes 🌪 here in Florida

[@rhinovirus2225]

Not so long ago one of the strongest ever tornadoes came through here in Mississippi hitting Smithville especially badly. It ripped tornado shelters out of the ground, if the storm picked you it was just your time.

[@lizmarch7165]

Man, you would think pulling shelters out of the ground would have to be an EF6

[@Moonchild-bb5dr]

Its a darn miracle more people arent killed by these tornadoes

[@Jack-ul2nu]

It's beautiful to see a tornado but whe know it ruined many lives and homes,it is unbelievable strong power