Steve,
I hope you didn't believe that hills would protect you from a tornado,
because they wont.
Well, not exactly "protect" and if you've been to the "black hills" they
is a bit more like small mountains... and anecdotally at least, tornadys
just don't form nor live long over complex topography. I wasn't really
worried, mostly because I'm not a worrying kinda guy. Even a track
the width of a power-line isn't likely to intersect with *my* track at
the same time, probably even if I were playing "storm chaser". But...
having seen the vehicles *designed* for such activity (was it real or
was it affectation?) I was primed to think a little more about it than
usual.
Here in NM we had a singular tornado touch down south of SFe near Waldo
a few years ago... the eastern plains see them off and on...
If you see one of those buggers on the plains and you have a road to
run to, you run perpendicular to the motion of the tornado. A
"stationary" tornado is one that is coming right at you.
We really only had one road, the one we were on, and our only choice was
go forward, stop, or turn back.
The Springfield to Monson Tornado two summers ago in Massachusetts
left a twenty mile track up and down hills for twenty miles that
looked like it had been cleared by bull dozers for the installation of
high powered lines. Neat and clean, with trees barely touched a few
feet in from the track itself. Un be effing leivable .
Mother nature laughs at us while we squirm in our seats. And we
thought she loved us! Is it tough love or is she just a sadistic bitch?
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