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BillyJack Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 01:35 PM
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Damn Nature U Scary of the Day: The full force of an EF5 tornado, succinctly illustrated in Joplin,
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 01:39 PM
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1. I can't even guess how that happened.
But the kid who put on his bicycle helmet had the right idea. Why aren't they standard equipment for adults in those areas, too?
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 01:42 PM
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2. holy shit!
:wow:
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 01:44 PM
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3. They're still finding the dead and people are still missing
But I hear some of the missing have shown up alive. No matter how much I try I can't imagine what it must have been like to go through that tornado.
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Lucinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 01:57 PM
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4. Wow.
That is scary. :(
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 01:58 PM
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5. Tornadoes are weird.
Here in Texas there was one tornado that destroyed a home, killed
everyone in it, and left a bureau standing with a paper check on it.

Another one drove a toothpick through a telephone pole, and another
one put a telephone pole through the trunk of a car.
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buddysmellgood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 02:10 PM
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6. It seems like the physics must change dramatically. You'd think the wood would splinter.
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 02:45 PM
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7. That is a splinter
Albeit a long one. We also don't know how much mass was behind it.

-Hoot
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PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 02:48 PM
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9. F=ma
you can only imagine the force on that piece of wood which would treat poured concrete as though it were a liquid. I recall the physics of cut-nails driven into concrete...not uninteresting...
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 03:08 PM
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10. Exactly.
I have a feeling that the trunk in the upper part of the photo was attached when it hit the curb. The heartwood color matches, without a close up I guess a walnut tree, but there are other varieties with heartwood that are darker and it's a little too light for walnut.

-Hoot
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 02:46 PM
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8. OH. MY. GOD!!!
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ChimpersMcSmirkers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 03:45 PM
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11. How it happened.
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buddysmellgood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 06:16 PM
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12. That makes more sense.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 11:26 PM
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13. ah, makes more sense
but not much - still a holy shit shot if you ask me!
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