I usually drive up to the St Cloud golf course to take pictures of the storms that roll through. The view is usually so blocked by the flat lands in the neighborhood. Although, this last one shows we got quite a good "gusting" as well. I don't care if the family thinks I'm weird by filling-up my hard drive with hundreds of pictures of storm clouds. I DO love me some storm clouds. Every cloud is unique. Don't they realize that? (grinning broadly)
Besides, the storms in Florida are so different compared to the Oklahoma storms. Oklahoma storms can be huge and go up 60-thousand feet or more in the severe cells. In Florida, it seems like the storms clouds almost touch the ground and don't go up nearly as high. Completely different experience. Since the cloud-tops never get as high down here (usually) our tornadoes are generally F0 or F1. It's rare for us to get a whopper.
We had an F0 tornado in Orlando the other day. The damage was limited to a few roofs and pool screen enclosures. Again, not as scary as Tornado Alley super cells. (I used to hide under overpasses rather than report on those big boys.)
