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- Comment on That must have been a terrifying thing to see 2 weeks ago:
Iowa/Missouri maybe?
Growing up where I did you’d hear about famous outbreaks, I recall one where a particular county had a few dozen touchdowns in one storm. But most people here have never seen one directly.
But like I said, treelines limit vision here by quite a lot.
- Comment on That must have been a terrifying thing to see 2 weeks ago:
A dozen funnel clouds is pretty easy, those are genuinely common. 2 touchdowns in 25 years also sounds about right for you guys’ conditions, that is not so common. And sure, the heaviness of the rain doesn’t indicate tornadoes or anything, but tornadoes and rain absolutely do show up in the same circumstances and tornadoes absolutely can be obscured by rain.
You tornado alley folks are also particular in the Great Plains having sightlines that are absolutely huge. The rest of us in the midwest have tornadoes too, we just also have treelines. You cannot expect see a billion miles in every direction from the highway, your line of sight in one direction may only be 100’ or less.
Anyway, you may have the most, but you guys don’t own tornadoes.
- Comment on That must have been a terrifying thing to see 3 weeks ago:
Probably. Consider too, it’s actually kinda rare to see one, since the storm they’re happening in often has heavy enough rain that you can’t see very far, especially if it’s in the evening.
In these cases, you hear them before you see them.
- Comment on Czechs and throwing Catholics out of windows. Name a more iconic duo.. I'll wait 5 weeks ago:
Romans and coups. An Austrian Hapsburg and another Austrian Hapsburg. Russia and taking massive casualties.