Top Twisted Tornadoes And Waterspouts in the World

Spellbound by the destructive forces of nature’s fury, we focus a morbid curiosity on twisters. Tornadoes combine more catastrophic energy in a tinier area than any other weather phenomenon. Also spawned from powerful thunderstorms, waterspouts form over warm water and sometimes move inland to join their stronger vicious sister, the tornado, and to wreak havoc on man and his environment. Here are 70 of the most wicked twisted sisters Nature has produced:



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much more:

http://www.thenatureanimals.com/2010/07/top-twisted-tornadoes-and-waterspouts.html

:wow:

Even Jerry Brueckheimer never thought of that.

mine, anyway.

I was living in Smyrna, TN during the big tornado outbreak in April 1974.



After all these years I still have nightmares.

time (30 years?) I had recurring nightmares. Not often, but regularly. Others have had the same experience. Weirdly, I didn't dream about them much while actually living out there, only after we'd moved.

And I've had lots of them.

maybe it was watching The Wizard Of Oz as a child.

about the ways the universe can easily snuff out life in Earth. I think it is called Death From The Skies. The book was very unsettling and stayed with me long after reading it. Plait begins each chapter with what observers would notice on any given day as one of these extinction level events occurs. For example, if the Earth was in the direct line of fire from a gamma ray burst the only thing that would first be noticeable to someone on the side of the Earth getting hit would be that the sky would brighten considerably for a few minutes. The brightening would fade and return to normal and within 24 hours everything would start to die. Scary stuff!

I added it to my Amazon.com Wish List.


another book that has lots of really cool and interesting information is "Earth's Aura" by Louise B Young. A short history of hot air balloon flight...how the Jet Stream was used by Japan during WWII...a natural occurrence called "The Green Flash"...and lots of other neat stuff.


:)

I'll spend an hour reading through posts, adding books to my Amazon wish list all the while.

Books! Oh god, am I addicted...

I'm another book addict.

the look of them, the feel, the smell...



You can tell a book addict right off...he or she has books stashed in just about every corner of the house


I know I could probably fill a storage shed with all the books I've read over the past 50+ years

:)

Except for the bathrooms!

Over the past 20 years I've sold about 400-500 books to "thin the herd" but regardless of how I try the bookcases never get less crowded.

I find their power and fury absolutely magnificent, awe inspiring. I've been through eight myself, and while I respect them and their power, I also have become a bit jaded by them over the years. Much like Californians who sleep through earthquakes, I simply don't consider tornado warnings and such that big a deal unless they are headed right for me. Then I'll hit the basement. But non-natives just absolutely freak when the sirens blare, and family and friend who live outside of tornado alley wonder at how I can be so calm about these storms. They're known, familiar, that's why. Me, I couldn't live where the earth shakes on a regular basis:shrug: