why does it look like the trees are blown down in all different patterns and directions in stead of in one main direction as the tornado path goes on ......just trying to understand tornadoes
Well back in 1925 there wasn't sufficiate warning systems like we have in place today. To compare the two is unfair at best. I live in Tuscaloosa and saw it come right by my home not a mile away before ripping through my town. I knew it was coming as did almost all. Had we not had warning systems in place I assure you that the number would have been very close to that 1925 amount.
All this timber laying around will eventually be a fire hazard. A big "blow down" in Minnesota's BWCA on the Canadian border blew down millions of trees. There were a lot of forest fires several years thereafter from all of the downed timber. Probably the same risk here in Alabama.
@macinfloydvolk Not sure, there was an F5 that hit Jarrell, Texas in May of 97. That one leveled a whole community as well. Now, maybe it do as much total dmg cause it hit a small town vs. a larger city, but the tornado itself was way more powerful. Death toll wise, the tri-state tornado in 1925 killed nearly 700 people. But this tornado was probably one of the better documented ones I've seen ever.
Behold the power and mercy of God!!!
MrGSWAGG92 8 months ago
why does it look like the trees are blown down in all different patterns and directions in stead of in one main direction as the tornado path goes on ......just trying to understand tornadoes
seadannie 9 months ago
@seadannie tornadoes are rotating columns of air, the rotation of the tornado causes the trees and destruction to look random
wh4tukn0w 9 months ago
This proves how truly small we are.
tongatiger 9 months ago
I didn't think it was going to end...
bdodgey 9 months ago
Well back in 1925 there wasn't sufficiate warning systems like we have in place today. To compare the two is unfair at best. I live in Tuscaloosa and saw it come right by my home not a mile away before ripping through my town. I knew it was coming as did almost all. Had we not had warning systems in place I assure you that the number would have been very close to that 1925 amount.
kdog66205 9 months ago
You can see massive damage even in the lowest lying areas,it looks like there was no escaping this monster.
TheZepmeister 9 months ago
Behold the power of mother nature
joadhill 10 months ago
Behold the power of mother nature.
joadhill 10 months ago
I was thinking the same thing.. I am from Vancouver, Washington and was 5 when mt. st helens blew
cwalker2734 10 months ago
The number of trees down is just mind blowing.
cstalley 10 months ago
QUESTION: I wonder if they will let loggers come in and get these trees? It would seem to be a big waste of lumber not to. Any ideas anybody?
lovethatcat2 10 months ago
@lovethatcat2 they are so broken up when you see them on the ground that it is not worth the effort...
CabooseKid 10 months ago
Absolute Disaster...my goodness my heart cries for these people
GHHMASA 10 months ago
since part one and two how far miles it been through from begin to end ?
holtville05 10 months ago
All this timber laying around will eventually be a fire hazard. A big "blow down" in Minnesota's BWCA on the Canadian border blew down millions of trees. There were a lot of forest fires several years thereafter from all of the downed timber. Probably the same risk here in Alabama.
omgthisiscrazy1 10 months ago
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Valllick 10 months ago
God Of Air
AlfoTheOne 10 months ago 8
Sad to see all those roads by the gas industry... probably mountaintop removal will be next to destroy the state...
dryan22 10 months ago
@dryan22 most of those roads are people's driveways... this is actually a fairly densely populated part of the state
CabooseKid 10 months ago
We just have no sense at all how out of synch we are living on this planet.
dryan22 10 months ago
I haven't seen timber flattened like that since Mt. St. Helens
stlouismom 10 months ago 10
@stlouismom reminded me of same thing...
circusoflife 10 months ago
@stlouismom I live in Tuscaloosa, was very scary ... worst one to ever hit us by far.
macinfloydvolk 10 months ago 2
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@macinfloydvolk Not sure, there was an F5 that hit Jarrell, Texas in May of 97. That one leveled a whole community as well. Now, maybe it do as much total dmg cause it hit a small town vs. a larger city, but the tornado itself was way more powerful. Death toll wise, the tri-state tornado in 1925 killed nearly 700 people. But this tornado was probably one of the better documented ones I've seen ever.
neoplasmax 10 months ago
@stlouismom There won't be a shortage of firewood for the next several winters, that's certain.
tongatiger 9 months ago
It looks almost like tunguska.
drevenkaine 10 months ago
there are no words to express... on a positive note the lumber industry will be booming.
drevenkaine 10 months ago
@drevenkaine all building trades will boom...lets see the insurance company's try to weasel out of paying
alross18058 10 months ago
@drevenkaine Not really. There will not be enough time/manpower to collect all of those downed trees before they begin to rot.
etyer 10 months ago
UNBELIEVEABLE !!
conky111 10 months ago