Hey - There's tornados inside those friggin things..!

[RagAss]

This should sober up a few of the folks making light of what is headed their way. Always wiped the smiles off of the tourists down here in Florida over the years.


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<Tornadoes from Hurricane Irene are just one of the surprising things that people should look out for as the storm threatens landfall along the East Coast.>
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http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/hurricane-irene-7-surprises-1924/

[KaryninMiami]

1. Yup- I tried to explain this to my mother on LI but she wouldn't listen

When you live in Florida, you know that these storms- even a cat 1 = are nothing to take lightly. And those tornados can move whole trucks and turn heavy objects into projectile missles. I live on the 9th floor over the bay and during big storms, my biggest concern is that something will come flying through my balcony glass door- like a cocnut in a tornedo or a piece of lawn furniture. Not sure even my hurricanae proof sliding glass door could withstand that.

I am worried about this storm- the weather folks are really looking very concerned.

[RagAss]

2. So true...the people who know have that serious look.

[tavalon]

9. A very,very, small spawned twister from a hurricane in the mid seventies in Florida took the end

Of our trailer away. I can never erase that sound from my brain.

[elleng]

3. Yes there are.

Might get attention of some here who think it won't be/isn't 'a big f***ing deal.'

[uppityperson]

4. 2 in NC tonight

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/110826_rpts.html

[SugarShack]

5. Yep, just said Columbia S. Carolina, tornadoes...

[Lost-in-FL]

6. Yup. They go together like peas and carrots.

I hate tornado warnings.

[RagAss]

11. So true.

[Amonester]

7. I once saw a tornado sea water spout off the beach in Hallandale

while I went there visiting my relatives.

Looked a lot like this one (didn't take the pic, but searched for a similar one):



Wow.

EVERYBODY KEEP SAFE

[ohheckyeah]

8. I had a friend who lost

everything due to tornadoes in hurricane Andrew. Huddled in a small bathroom over night with 2 children, they listened to the roof rip off, windows and doors blow in and 2 cars smashed by debris and trees.

Remember Cutler Ridge and Homestead, FL. They were flattened. Fortunately my friends who lived in the neighborhood below had moved just 3 months prior to Andrew.

[Sedona]

10. Hurricane Andrew

blew me all the way from Fort Lauderdale to Arizona before the next "hurricane season" began. :scared:

I still miss the beach and snorkeling although I have been known to don a mask in Oak Creek :shrug:

Hold on tight East Coasters, the worst is sometimes after the storm passes; no food, gas, cash, power, phones or trash pickup in the foreseeable future.

Be good to eachother and be socialists with your stuff if necessary.

[TBF]

13. My husband rode out that one -

just a few blocks from the beach in Miami. They were in a shelter, and then returned to his house a few days later. The house survived with hurricane shutters & sold a few years later for a lot of $$$$ (others in the neighborhood flattened). He talked about the loss of power, food, gas etc... He said you couldn't really go anywhere because authorities kept tight guard.

[tavalon]

14. Ya know, having been safely through so many hurricanes in both Florida

and Texas, I hadn't really seen them as dangerous as the Texas tornadoes, but that picture just blasted that out of my reality. We were just lucky all those many times to have only lost the tail end of a trailer.

[seabeyond]

12. we were having a particularly bad tornado season in texas one year. went to florida for vacation

and felt a relief to be away from them for a week.

low and behold a storm comes in off the ocean and a tornado warning, lol.

i didnt know