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Subject: Re: [OM] IMGs: Weekend Storm Damage
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:53:23 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
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>Interesting that the trees seem to have simply been pulled out of the 
>ground.  My experience also as a small tornado passed a short distance 
>behind my house in Florida about 20 years ago.  A large ficus was just 
>pulled out of the ground and laid on its side with its roots flailing in 
>the air.  Had the soil been softened by recent rain?
>

     Others who have experienced microbursts tell me that the interior is full 
of small twisters.  I have my own experience with one, and all I can remember 
is the sensation that the entire sky was coming straight down.  Videos shown 
after this storm show that they are pretty much the result of a mature storm 
suddenly dropping its core downwards due to lack of sufficient upward draught.

     I also have a first-hand experience with straight-line winds.  You have no 
idea what it's like to have 1/2" hail hitting you in the back in an 80 MPH 
wind.  It's like being hit with rock salt from a 12ga (no first-hand 
expeerience with that).


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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