This is a pic my dad sent me. A friend of a friend of his was sent this by his son's scout leader. The cout leader took the photo. I lived in Omaha for 8 years and never saw anything like this. It missed my parents house to the north by a few miles. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Thank you for posting that, Paul. On June 9, 1954, my grandparents farm near Rockwell City, Iowa was leveled by an F4 tornado. My granddad was keeping a "weather eye" on an approaching storm, and around 10:00PM he told his wife, "Ma, we'd better get to the basement." Less than a minute later, the house was gone. They found their bed in a field half a mile away. They dug a big hole and pushed everything into it, and started over.
Iam a storm chaser and storms are very much like women they are very sexy but dangerous at the sametime.
Is this true?? Could you be that close to a tornado and not have your nads ripped off?? That close and managed not to **** your pants and take a pic?? Hard to believe.... My girlfriend was born and raised in Nebraska, she has seen some terrible tornados over the years and been fairly close to many off them. After seeing this pic even she called BS...
Some of my great-grandparents on my moms side had farms. Growing up they always told me that farmers had more of a keen eye/sense for weather than any weather man on the 5 o'clock news. Sort of feeling the same way. It's unbelievably close.
The funnel part is just a lot shorter and thicker than you normally see in pictures. The picture is very dramatic.
Just a guess, but if you look at the flag, it is blowing away from the area where the picture was taken. Personally I have never seen anything like this while living in NE. But, if your nuts are big enough, I would not be surprised if some guy heard the wind die down and went outside with a camera and was lucky enough to get the shot. Who knows? I was sent this pic by my father who lives in northeast Omaha about 1 mile from the Missouri River and about 45 miles south of the boyscout camp. He called me at 6:30 that night to tell me that he and my mom were going to the basement because a"big a**" tornado was on the ground and he sould see it from his front porch (he is on the top of a hill). about 2 hrs later the news from the Scout Camp was on the tv.
Hmmmmmmm APparently it was only a wee wee tornado, and short-lived at that. Pic taken by a woman. http://www.mcpress.com/articles/2008/06/12/latest_news/latenews01.txt
That pic was a headliner for the Lawrence Journal-World which is the paper for Lawrence, KS. I grew up in the area and have seen some beautiful storms that Mother Nature has been more than happy to provide. What I think is silly is that for me (and presumedly most mid-westerners) is that in general these storms that roll through are mostly ignored. I recall days of sitting on the patio drinking beer while a severe storm is rolling through. Tornado sires, bah, they are just a nuisance. During the evening hours most every male in my neighborhood would be out taking pictures, drinking beer and BBQ'ing until we actually saw a tornado coming our way. Most every woman (who were obviously the smart ones) would be in the basement with the kids and screaming at we stupid males to get our butts inside. Now I live in CA and can honestly say I freaked out more when I felt a 3.4 earthquake than I ever have when seeing a twister coming my way. I enjoy the 10-20 minute warning about a tornado rather than the "hurry up and wait" threat of the ground moving. The mid-west is getting its arse handed to it this year. Hopefully all of you and yours that may be there are staying safe and are OK. It kind of pi$$es me off when this sort of disaster is happening to so many people yet the media doesn't seem to care yet if a dime sized piece of hail were to fall in Washington, it would be the headline of every paper known to man. I would venture a guess that combining crops being lost, the rivers ebbing, levee's breaking and this happening across multiple states that it's going to cost FEMA and the people much more than Katrina did however this weather is hardly any concern of the main stream media. Sorry for the rant.
The way it looks, the local and state governments have actually handled the situation in a decent manner. Maybe the mayor of the "Chocolate City" should take notes.
Sorry but that is not the Iowa tornado that hit the boy scouts. Check out this link: http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/iowatornado.asp But it's not a bogus pic either.
