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Massive F4 Tornado Hits Canuckia
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| Massive F4 Tornado Hits Canuckia
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| MisterMeener |
| Holy shit! That sucker was big and strong and so close. |
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| Zeke |
Quote: Originally posted by MisterMeener
Holy shit! That sucker was big and strong and so close. |
Yeah, those guys are friggin' nuts... |
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| mcbutton1970 |
How many millions of dollars of IMPROVEMENTS did it end up doing?! :D
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| Miller |
| Those things scare the crap out of me. One just missed our house when i was little. Great footage though. |
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| Zeke |
Quote: Originally posted by mcbutton1970
How many millions of dollars of IMPROVEMENTS did it end up doing?! :D
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If there were no intelligent life around...did it really happen??? |
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| mcbutton1970 |
Quote: Originally posted by Zeke
If there were no intelligent life around...did it really happen??? |
Food for thought, my friend ... |
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| catdr9155 |
Quote: Originally posted by Miller
Those things scare the crap out of me. One just missed our house when i was little. Great footage though. |
We had the same thing happen to us when I was a kid, no footage though. :( The catfish falling from the sky would have been neat to tape. |
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| Zeke |
Quote: Originally posted by catdr9155
We had the same thing happen to us when I was a kid, no footage though. :( The catfish falling from the sky would have been neat to tape. |
Hey Cat...yeah, mixed in with an odd eyeball |
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| IGOWFO |
| Damn that looked mean. Did not look like a very populated area though that is the only good thing. |
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| teeroy |
we had a bad one here in 2003, the government refused to call it a tornado because no one had pictures of it. if it is a definite tornado, the gov't pays for all damages incurred. but if it's a "strong wind" event, than your insurance has to cover it.....if you had insurance. it went right down main street in town, the day before the town's 50th anniversary celebration and Canada day.
Experts study suspected Alberta tornado
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 2, 2003 | 4:25 PM ET
CBC News
Investigators with Environment Canada are going to the town of Grimshaw in northwestern Alberta on Wednesday to see if it was indeed walloped by a tornado.
Dan Kulak of Environment Canada in Edmonton said investigators will be able to tell if it was a tornado or very high normal winds by studying the damaged area from the air.
There's no doubt the community of 2,700 was hit by severe weather late on Monday afternoon.
There was heavy damage reported along the town's main street and business district, with roofs and walls blown off, trees uprooted and vehicles overturned.
Roy Stiles said he saw what he thought was a tornado funnel as he fled to a park gazebo, trying to protect his granddaughter from flying debris.
"We jumped to the floor, huddled together, holding on tight to the central post of the shelter. I didn't think we were going to get out of it unscathed."
People in the town are wondering why no one warned them.
Large parts of central Alberta had severe weather and even tornado warnings issued. But there wasn't one for Grimshaw, located about 480 kilometres northwest of Edmonton in the Peace River region.
Mayor Brian Allen said he hoped there would be some type of warning system in place.
Warnings were an issue three years ago when a tornado devastated a campground by Pine Lake in central Alberta.
Eleven people died there.
Environment Canada has something called Doppler radar. According to an Environment Canada Web site, it can provide up to 15 minutes warning before a tornado hits.
However, department spokesperson Mike McDonald said Doppler only warns about the potential of a thunderstorm system to develop tornadoes, not whether there are actual tornadoes out there.
The radar didn't spot anything unusual on the northern tip of the front that passed through Grimshaw, he said. |
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| teeroy |
| cue Colin Powell....... :D |
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| Vowels |
holy fuck!
FTE all the way and i was fucking THERE and must have driven right through yesterday afternoon
glad i got right the hell outa there |
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| Major Player |
| The land in that part of Canada by the looks of that video is extremely flat with no trees so with a zoom they could have been further away than what it appeared. Still if if was me driving you would have heard nothing put f bombs and driving as fast as I could the opposite direction that tornado was moving. |
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