#tw tornadoes

[mylittlestims]

Dust Devil (the pegasus!) with sandstorms and dust devils, maybe also wheels kicking up dirt?

Dust Devil | Dusty Gust Stimboard with sandstorms

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[scarfacemarston]

TW Tornadoes Things my local news crew is saying: "potentially catastrophic tornadoes in the area now

"This is a "storm for the history books" Fuck - "if this storm hits your house, you gotta cry"

wtf "your life could be in mortal danger" I've never heard this happen in all my years of living here....and we have had multiple historic tornadoes. There's not much you can do to protect yourself from tornadoes. Most people don't have basements.I f you're lucky, a bathroom downstairs/ inner wall. Thanks, climate change.

[halfspunthreads-blog]

It's weird what your brain does with trauma even when you think you're over it. It's been several years since I was almost killed in a tornado (0/10 experience btw) but somebody turned off their wind/rain noise generator at work unexpectedly and my brain decided to pump approximately 800 tons of adrenaline into my body in response.

Like, it was one tornado (okay it was like five ripping through the area during one superstorm, but only one came within 100 ft of the building) and the tree through the building didn't actually kill me. Get the fuck over yourself, brain.

[fruitbasket-gossip]

⏯️for kelpsy

// cw tornadoes, storms, extreme weather,

[cockroachinaroom]

TIL

Dr. Leigh Orf at the University of Wisconsin makes accurate simulations of tornadoes in a computer that can do about 10 quintillion calculations per second, to figure out how tornadoes form and work.

[kylorenscar]

"...and I have to live with that. Forever."

[kenni-woodard]

Storm chasers both amaze and aggravate me

Like we need the tornado documentation and data

But FAM

if you are close enough to see it like that

BACK UP

it's not safe 🥺🥺🥺

You can see it's by mcdonalds

And it's big as hell

Bru

Why are you driving TOWARDS IT

he really just said "people need to be underground"

😂😂😂

YOU NOT UNDERGROUND

[mjrtaurus]

Recently learned about Lilapsophobia and how I've had it all my life without realizing it was not just common sense to be bugging tf out when the fucKING SKY IS ANGRY.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I had a boyfriend, and in the middle of the dream, a tornado came by and turned him into a bucket. The bucket said “Lyrical” on it, so I concluded that that was his name.

[scottishaccentsareawesome]

A couple months after Kate joins the Tornado Wranglers, Tyler uploads a video to their YouTube channel. But instead of it being him and Boone in the truck, it's just Tyler sitting in a motel room by himself, and addressing the camera full-on.

"Kate Carter is one of the smartest people I have ever met," he says. "She figured out a way to disintegrate tornadoes, do you guys know how huge that is? Do you know how important that is? It's amazing. She's amazing. And yes, you have the right to your own opinions, but a lot of those opinions that I see - that we all see - in the comments seem to be based on very face-value judgments. Because if you really knew her, if you took the time to learn how awesome she is and what she's done - and is continuing to do - for this world then you would not be making comments like that. You think we don't really know what being a "Kater" means? We know you're not fans, we know you're literally "Kate Haters" so let me just say this - it will not be tolerated. Myself and the Wranglers LOVE our fans, and we love that you help spread awareness for our causes and you share our videos to help teach people about tornadoes and tornado safety, and that's awesome. But Kate Carter is one of the Tornado Wranglers now, and that is not going to change any time soon...not unless she ever wants it to. And I hope she never does, because she is a great asset to our team. So if you care about the Wranglers, you will recognize that Kate is one of us, and if you don't like her, or don't like somebody else on our team, that's fine. You're entitled to your opinion, but don't go filling up our socials with hateful comments when all we are trying to do is make this country and the world a better and safer place to live in. Yes, Kate and I are dating, but that is nobody's business. She doesn't like her private life to be made public on social media and neither do I, which is why this YouTube page is about chasing tornadoes and not a video diary about what we do on the weekends when we're not driving in those trucks."

"...Growing up in Arkansas, my mama always raised me on the rule that if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." he said. "Show us your support by showing respect, or just leave the comment box blank. If you feel it, you should chase it - but you don't always have to say it. Stay safe out there and we'll see you on the next ride."

This video became one of the Wranglers most shared videos and in the weeks that followed Kate got such a huge outpouring of love from the fans (including a few fan pages dedicated personally to her) that she was brought to tears (happy tears) more than once.

[chumbyy]

the sky is a swirling vortex of color 💙🧡💜💚

[autocrats-in-love]

Prompt (378)

The hero gasped at the tornado quickly approaching them and the villain.

“We don’t have time to hide!” They shouted to the villain.

“It’s okay,” the villain said, grabbing the hero’s hand. “Just hold on. I’ll get us out of here.”

[geraldofallon]

Fallen London Travel Guide:

Sea of Voices

Where nothing is truly dead. Polythreme, Clay Men, and living clothing.

[jokerislandgirl32]

Cooking Up A Tornado

Zach: So we just had a tornado warning….we’re all safe and sound!

Zach: Violet made sure we all were in the basement with our essentials…

Zach: Then she ran back upstairs….while every single phone in our house is going off warning us to get to shelter!!!

Zach: And she comes running back downstairs with her mother’s cookbook screaming, “if we’re going, grandma’s going with us!”

*Gives her an angry glare*

Violet: What?

Zach: You could have died!

Violet: That tornado would have died if I didn’t get my mom’s cookbook!

[charmwasjess]

This unstable spring weather is reminding me of when I was a teenager, I had a massive, irrational phobia of tornadoes, despite growing up in an area with little to no chance of them. It was so bad that my mom took me to a psychologist because I'd do irrational things like hide in the bathtub instead of going to school if there was any chance of severe weather. It didn't help. Every time the sky got dark, I'd get that weird, frantic, achy-itchy feeling.

And then, one day, I'm sixteen, working my first job at a coffee shop and I get a panicked call from my boss. I look out the window and almost comically, like it showed up just for me, to make some point, there's this beautiful white tornado dancing right towards us. I remember thinking it looked like the skinny part of an hour glass. It's true what they say about them appearing to hold still when they're heading for you, so I got a very good look at it. The trees were bending flat to the ground and the double doors of the shop were getting sucked open. Me and the other teenaged employee crowded the kids (we were also an ice cream shop, there was a birthday going on) into the center room, and we sang "happy birthday" over and over again to drown out the sound of it hitting the building. We were okay, but it took off several adjacent roofs and smashed up cars in the parking lot.

This was a weird way to start loving tornadoes. (cut for weather geekery)

They are like dreams - for all the data, we know relatively little about why they happen. We can see their ingredients: moisture, atmospheric instability, wind sheer, but sometimes all those pieces are in place and a tornado won't form. In fact, most often, it doesn't. They're still rare. The language we use to talk about them endlessly fascinates me: they are born out of thunderstorms called super cells, which have a 'lifecycle.' One thunderstorm can birth a single tornado, or many that live and die along the greater lifespan of the thunderstorm. The way they multiply is fascinating, one tornado can be circled by wispy, smaller, satellite tornadoes, or more rarely, two full-sized tornadoes side by side, a pair of twins. A group of tornados is a "family."

They come in all shapes and sizes. Mine was a skinny rope funnel, and a relatively weak example - F1 on the scale. The 1925 Tri-State tornado, F5, the strongest on the scale, was the longest recorded tornado in history with a 219-mile track. Part of the danger of that storm was that nobody even realized it was a tornado until it was right on top of them because it was so huge: it was said to look like a red, boiling fog from horizon to horizon because it was rain-wrapped, and had sucked up a lot of red river mud. Water tornadoes and fire tornadoes are both a thing.

They behave inconsistently too. The El Reno tornado that killed the storm chaser and scientist Tim Samaras in 2013 is often personified as evil, a storm set out to kill storm chasers, because it seemed to behave with particular, intentional nastiness. In 30 seconds, it went from a small tornado to a 2.6 mile wedge. It's hard to even imagine the scale of something like that: someone observing from a safe distance miles away is suddenly inside the literal tornado within less than a minute. Most tornadoes move in a more or less straight trajectory - this one repeatedly changed directions. But this is just another example of how even when scientists know how tornadoes generally behave, we're still figuring them out.

Of course, all of this is not about overly romanticizing a phenomenon that kills a ton of people each year, a fact that is only going to get worse with climate change. And certainly research funding and money for early warning systems or national weather services being less prioritized in the politicization of climate change.

I still have tornado nightmares a lot. I had one last night, which is I guess why I'm still thinking about the shapes. It's always the same: I'm standing in a house, usually my childhood home, and there are families of tornadoes that go right past it, but never hit. I still think they're so interesting. And it's funny the way anxiety can turn into fascination under the right circumstances.

[jasvvy]

the effects of hook + a chain