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1/17/2005

Costliest/deadliest/strongest tornadoes

Filed under: General — Andrew @ 6:45 am

I found this list of the costliest, deadliest, strongest tornadoes. As I’m currently freezing my butt off in Indiana’s current single digit temperatures, I tornado doesn’t sound all that bad right now.

I enjoyed the wording of the site’s description of F5 tornadoes on it page about The Fujita Tornado Scale:

Incredible Tornado. Incredible damage: Strong frame houses lifted off foundations and carried considerable distance to disintegrate; automobile-sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 300 ft (100 m); trees debarked; incredible phenomena will occur.

I must admit that a part of me almost wishes for one of these awesome phenomena to strike. Lately I’ve been struck by the degree to which contemporary society has sought to immunize itself weather. I remember being scared of tornadoes during my early years. The massive 1974 Xenia Tornado happened fairly close to my childhood home of Dublin, Ohio, and I remember more than once being shuttled down to the basement during sever weather. I also remember the blizzard of 1977 shutting down nearly everything (including school :) ) for a couple of weeks. A giant winter storm this past month only shut things down for only a couple of days. Perhaps weather-induced vacations are becoming a thing of the past?

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