Cristian; I live here in what they call tornado alley. I and others have seen as many as 7 funnel clouds at onetime together. I have seen barns, houses, and machine sheds moved or strewn for miles. Last year we followed a large path of the remnants of several buildings for 13 miles before we became bored and came back! And what you describe sure seems like a tornado to me. 20some years ago I witnessed from 5 miles away, a town of 500 totally wiped off the map in minutes, nothing but basements left. Luckily no one was killed then, but many have died by them. Here we have what is called Early Warning, and since it came into effect, it has saved many lives. If you ARE experiencing tornados, your authorities would be wise not to ignore it, but learn to carry out emergency precautions! Schools, businesses, and most anything train people in what to look for and what to do when one hits. We have people at work called spotters who are trained to go out and look for them when the season and conditions are here. My first day in computer school one hit the school. Motels, restaurants schools, other businesses and whatnot have posted the procedures for where to go and what to do when they come. My first day of class yesterday, for this semester, we saw a movie for what to do. We see it every semester before anything else is done. Beware the calm yellow sky, if the day goes yellow seek shelter! They sound alot like a freight train and also dump alot of hail before they hit! Rob:
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Cristian Burneci wrote: > Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 02:25:32 +0300 (EEST) > From: Cristian Burneci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: more about floods > X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on Linux > > >Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 13:53:20 +0000 > >From: Michael Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: about floods in Czech Republic... > > <snip> > >Such big floods in Central Europe may be related to greenhouse > >effect. > > Nobody here in Romania doubts about this. Some of the meteorologists here have > already begun to issue alarming long term prognosises, in the light of the > increasing emissions of carbon dioxide. There are some voices claiming that the > Earth's atmosphere has become (again) unstable and, in the worst case, in 50 > years from now we can expect to another glaciation. > > For the past two weeks dissaster struck ramdomly here in Romania. There were > violent storms causing floods and/or landslides in various regions of the > country. Floods have until now affected communities like villages and small > towns almost everywhere, but AFAIK no big town has yet been hit by them. > Noticeably, some important floods were caused in some places not by rivers > overflowing, but by huge quantities of water coming down from the surrounding > hills, as a result of violent deluges. A flood of this sort occured in a small > town called Draganesti in the Olt county, about ten days ago and claimed > several lives In a couple of minutes the water level came to be more than two > meters high and most of the victims had never got the chance to get out of > their houses, being drowned by the mud flow. > > What worries us most here is the increasing force of the storms. Almost all of > them caused extensive damages. There were heavy rains and tremendous winds. In > the evening of August 12th a tornado-like phoemenomen hit the village of > Facaieni located in the plains of Baragan at about 300 km east of Bucharest. > In minutes most of the houses had their roofs torn down. Several solid brick > houses were entirely demolished. A bus loaded with people was lifted up into > the air and thrown outside the road. The bus driver died in the event. Another > two people died when the ceiling of their house fell down on them > while the rest of the house was demolished by the wind. 18 more inhabitants of > the village were injured during the storm. As a curiosity, several TV stations > showed pictures of an old woman staring at a peach tree thrown by the wind in > her backyard, declaring she could not figure out where that tree had come from, > as no such trees had been growing there before the storm , neither in her yard, > nor in any of her neighbours'. > > The meteorologists are still reluctant to admit that a tornado hit the village, > as no tornado has ever been recorded here before, and these kind of > phenomenons are by no means characteristic to these regions. By a strange > coincidence, they say, the damages caused by the storm resembled the ones a > tornado may had caused... but this particular wind wasn't a tornado. > > Anyway we're all fed up with these manifestations of mother nature unleashed, > and worried about what will come next. > >
