Sunday, April 08, 2007

Storm Photos Link


This is a link to a page that has more than a hundred storm chaser homepages. Great browsing for tornado photos. Chaser Home Page.
I remember an afternoon one spring in Mustang, OK that looked just like this. We get tornadoes in Florida, but these Midwest whoppers are of a different breed altogether. The cloud-top heights are nothing comparable. Once you've seen this, it's not soon forgotten.
Another afternoon, this time in Florida, I was driving between jobs at Disney (site-selling cell phones) and the ATT Wireless store in south Orlando, when I looked out my window: I remember remarking to myself that if I was in Oklahoma, the storm over to my left (west) would look like a wall cloud. Sure enough, just then, a funnel dropped-down for a few seconds. It wasn't much of a tornado and ended as quickly as it began. I turned on the radio, typical of Florida at the time, they broadcast a warning for the little tornado about 15 minutes after it was long-gone.