Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

Tornado at least 1.5 miles wide just south of Oklahoma City. Some are saying it's the strongest ever recorded. Entire neighbourhoods have been flattened.

https://twitter.com/MikeFrancisWX/status/336584463901421568/photo/1

https://twitter.com/zerwekh/status/336585534405242882/photo/1

Video: http://www.wmctv.com/category/240217/video-landing-page?clipId=8899079&autostart=true

 

Read it. Massive tornado, absolutely huge. It's currently been measured as F4 on the Fujita scale so not the strongest unless it's upgraded. 37 dead at the moment.

 

Yep, just been watching video of it myself. Incredible power. Strong mature trees having their trunks split apart and the entire branch system ripped away, leaving the lower portions in the ground. Entire streets and neighbourhoods blown completely flat down to the concrete pad. I've heard that the tornado was upto 2 miles wide. I mean two bloody miles, for pete's sake. Been upgraded to F5, by the way.

 

I'm not surprised by the death toll. Tornadoes are ****ing lethal even when they're not that big. Much more dangerous than hurricanes as they're so unpredictable and the wind speeds are much greater than hurricanes, although hurricanes affect a much bigger area. Most buildings in Oklahoma City should be able to withstand the average tornado or should have a basement. But this was not the average tornado!

 

Apparently many of the deaths were actually by drowning. Kids trapped in the rubble of an elementary school which then filled with water.

 

What a horrible way to die. At least if you got crushed by a collapsed building or hit by flying debris you would go quickly. I've been to the States a fair few times and a few years ago there was a tornado warning in the area where I was. It was pitch black as well so couldn't see a thing. But I was in no danger as the tornado passed a couple of miles away from where I was and I was in a safe building anyway (well the safest building I could be in anyway).

 

Said about this earlier, how many tornadoes are there in the USA atm? That tornado is huge!

Was in Jamaica a few years back and we had a Tornado warning but luckily it passed a few miles away from us.

 

Flying debris would be the easiest way to go, imagine being stuck in a air pocket in a collapsed building.

 

Those supercells are nasty...can cover a large portion of the Plains at one time, dropping tornadoes in a number of locations. Read somewhere that in an average year the continental US gets more than 1000 confirmed tornadoes; obviously, the majority aren't anywhere near this powerful, but it's good to be somewhere well-removed from that particular quirk of climate nonetheless.

 

Horrific .

 

Just been watching the BBC , that is some total devastation .

 

http://road.cc/content/news/84212-norwich-police-seek-driver-who-tweeted-about-collision-cyclist
Intelligent.

 

No way..... what a moron.

 

Absolutely shocking behaviour, clearly lacks the maturity and mental capacity to be allowed on the roads and based on the explanation of what happened from the cyclist, he's very lucky he wasn't more seriously hurt. As a club cyclist I do see some drivers who have real resentment towards cyclists being on the road, I've had people shout at me to get on the pavement when I'm cycling in a designated cycling lane on the road for example, people drive so close that the wing mirror clips your elbow and I've had an apple (?!) thrown up me going up Shooters Hill near Blackheath... Unfortunately both parties do like to tar everyone with the same brush, all drivers are idiots, all cyclists are idiots etc... unfortunately there are idiots in both parties!

 

The US get loads of tornadoes every year. Most of them do little damage and kill no one. I'm really interested in tornadoes as I studied them for my degree and the severe thunderstorms are spectacular to watch. I would love to go storm chasing in the future. But I'm not ignoring the fact that this was a tragedy. 91 dead so far - that's a huge number for a tornado.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8055736.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/22582183

 

According to Sky Italia Moutinho and James Rodriguez have signed for Monaco for €70m.

 

Love that footage from 1982 in Monaco. Brilliant ending.

 

Stunning race and I watched live on TV , not like some , and DON'T give me that " I wasn't born " ****e .......

BTW have already warned MRS Jasper that pretty much all of Saturday & Sunday morning will involve me sitting in front of the TV ;-)

 

Hate drivers like this, had so many like it when I use to cycle.