A Tornado In North London? - Page 2

Black Lion · (#26 (**permalink**))

Guess a fibre glass floor wouldn't work, they need to hit the earth, one going over a smooth flat surface would loose its friction point.

safetyblitz · (#27 (**permalink**))

man you want to be no where near a Tornado, the sky turns dark and the moment you think that everything is passing over they form....... Remember they can form over the water so I am sure that forming over your door would not be a problem.

When had a huge monstrous one east of us which cut a path about half a mile wide on its trek which demolished houses uprooted 300 yr old trees threw a crane, Impaled a cow with a fence post, and left some houses completely barren as though it LOOKED as if someone had just poured the foundation, no bricks, wood, or any effects on the property, it demolished it and then moved ALL of the debris off of the foundation.......

Some of the tornados here in the past have had enough force to impale trees with wood, trees that have 3-4 ft bases...... so I would feel for you looking at one through plexiglass.....

Now you can ride with storm chasers here and watch them on the plains like Kansas, TX, and OK so at least you would have a chance, but a lot of time you may have to endure golf ball sized hail along with it...... They also make and sell tornado units they can bury in your backyard here as well that have a door about the size of a cubicle with a 5 or 6 steps in which you walk into the earth and barricade the door...

The spooky part about tornados is that it normally gets eerily and strangely quiet before they hit and then you just hear a roar like train is coming through.... The people just south of me had one last year around 10:30 at night and you could hear it but you could not see it and that is not a good feeling, luckily it did not get closer to me......

aurora · (#28 (**permalink**))

Ilive in the areaand was at home at the time.I saw lightning and the sky did go really darkbut I thought it was thunder I was hearing, not a tornado. I was supposed to walk down that road to get my bus, but for some reason decided to leave home later. When I finally did leave home, I took a different route and saw bigtrees from Queen's Park that had fallen into the road onto parked cars.I just thought it was the wind from the night before until I saw the news.

milesdavis · (#29 (**permalink**))

btw its clear that within the first 24 hours of the disaster, giant heavy engineering equipment, including giant cranes, generator sets, food and water, blankets and medical experts are going to be air-lifted to the disaster-hit site. Particular attention is being paid to rescue people trapped in front of their television sets following the tornado.

Specialised medical teams including orthopaedics and surgeons have been rushed to the area. These teams are equipped with mobile operation theatre facilities.

The British Embassy in London says there is no need for panic. HMS Illustrious has been diverted from operational sea training and will sail up the Thames shortly to provide evacuation for all British passport holders.

The Queen is currently re-writing her Christmas Day speech.

101stAirborne · (#30 (**permalink**))

Apedemak wrote:

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Guess a fibre glass floor wouldn't work, they need to hit the earth, one going over a smooth flat surface would loose its friction point.

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They actually bound across the countryside over all types of surfaces. A team of National Geographic Scientist actually filmed the inside witha series of disc shaped camersa palce in its path. It looked like a very thick grey fog full of swirling debris a brief period of blue sky, the more greyness and debris. All over in less than 3 minutes. http://www7.nationalgeographic.com( Inside a tornado, June 2005)