tornado

Twister rips roof off school seconds after drill Of course, the roof flew off faster than the speed of gravity. A junior high student, apparently with his finger extended, was quoted by witnesses as ordering another student to "pull it" minutes before the collapse.

Last night a tornado tore through Evansville, Indiana. Homes close to my own neighborhood were totaled. The death count is up to 22. I was alone in my house. I have always been terrified by storms. I sat in the bathtub, trying to remember the Hail Mary, speaking with a certainty that someone...

I thought you all might find this site a bit humorous. Tornado Fighters I'm not sure if this is a joke or not, but he did approach the NWS for funding: http://www.tornadofighters.com/tornadoletter2.gif I thought I'd do a back of the envelope calculation to figure the feasability, but...

The recent tornadoes in the U.S. have me thinking, why is it that tornadoes rarely occur in urban areas? It seems that tornadoes usually occur in rural areas, particularly in the flat plains of the midwest. Here in metro Atlanta we have had several tornadoes in the past few years, but to the...