Oklahoma players OK?

[wobbufet]

Ya, I understand areas where they can happen, but are really uncommon to not have a need for storm shelters. Here in MD, we maybe have 2 or 3 total a year, and they're usually very small. I've lived here my whole life, and I've only once seen a wall cloud, and that was from a good distance. However, I just can't understand why you wouldn't have the in a state like OK, or KS.

Well, we do have one in our KS house, but it was built in..... 1920, I think. It really creeps me out, and it doesn't look like it could withstand much.

 

[DarthPika]

Here's an absolutely amazing video of one of the very large, and destructive wedge tornadoes (tornadoes are often described by their shape, such as rope, stove pipe, wedge, etc) that destroyed parts of OK the other day.

Language warning, the "S" word is used once. Just mute it if you'll be offended.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h84yTNXCXPQ&feature=channel_video_title

The tornado in this video has officially been rated as an EF-5. This is probably the best (and closest) video of an EF-5 tornado you'll ever see in your lives. When I was watching the weather channel (they were streaming live feed from the helicopter), I remember seeing how large the tornado was, and seeing the damage, it was worse than other videos I had seen. The devastation 200+mph winds can cause is simply unbelievable unless you see it for your self. Luckily despite that we've had at least 3 documented EF-5's this year, and 2 of them have hit populated areas, they're still very rare. Usually, they don't hit much but farm land, but this year they sadly hit cities and towns. I guess that's the threat you have to deal with out there when you build up an area. There's more places to live, but the odds of a populated area getting hit also go up.