Tornado Lightning at Sugar Mountain Farm

The national weather alert had given a warning for tornados, not something we usually get in our area. I read that there had been baseball size hail already and a tornado progressing from the nearby city in our direction up here in the mountains. I setup our Casio Exilim EX-V8 digital camera recording video in the window looking across the valley and waited.

See:

http://flashweb.com/blog/2011/05/tornado-lightning.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Lightning
• Tornado
• Vermont
• weather

[pubwvj]

That is what we do, engineering our home and other buildings here on our farm for maximum durability so they can survive any weather, any snow load, etc. A side benefit is far lower maintenance, lower energy usage and actually lower cost since we've thought through things so carefully. There are a lot of details such high mass giving high thermal mass which reduces energy consumption and increases durability. Arches and curves are another set of trick up our sleeve.

[edsch21988]

this is a good video, i also have video from this day of the storms, may 26, i think the day was. tornadoes are rare here in vermont, but the fact that they do happen is, quite incredible. it makes me want to try to engineer buildings with certain standard features tuned toward damage reduction from a myriad of weather phenomenon in mind, including wind, hail, earthquakes, floods, and just about everything in-between.