Car sucked by tornado - GIF

[Altair]

Car sucked by tornado in Taiwan.




Previously:

Tornado shapes and sizes - photo
Microburst causes planes to takeoff by themselves - video
Fire tornado - GIF
Train vs. tornado - video
Tractor working with tornado in background - GIF

[IntheGroove]

"It's not That the wind is blowing, it's What the wind is blowing." RW...

[rgsparber]

Oh, this brings back some bad memories. Our neighborhood was hit while I was at work. My kids were in a car that was lifted slightly off the road in front of our house. Fortunately, they were not physically harmed. The home behind ours had its side wall buckle. And this, my friends, is why we now live in Arizona!

Rick

[mwmkravchenko]

That's the stuff bad dreams are made from!

[bob_3000]

And this, my friends, is why we now live in Arizona!

So you're not in Kansas anymore?

[rgsparber]

So you're not in Kansas anymore?

Actually, it was in Wheaton, Illinois. Until you live through a tornado, you have no idea of the power of the wind. As the second video points out - it isn't the wind you should fear, it is what is carried in the wind. I saw a 2x4 go axially through a tree to a depth of many feet.

[hemmjo]

Have to wonder WHERE was this woman before she ended up there?

I did not see her anyplace before the burst of wind!!

She had a rough ride.

[rgsparber]

I looked frame by frame and can't figure it out either. If she was not the driver of that car, the wind must have taken her some distance.

Rick

[mlochala]

I got caught in a tornado years ago while on the side of a highway with a flat tire. One of the scariest moments of my life. The only refuge I had was in my truck, and the tornado lifted it three times while I was sitting in it. It didn't move it much, but it gently picked it up and set it down each time. The wind rush was the most frightening thing, as it was so intense. As the tornado passed over the wind changed directions and began blowing the other way. It was nuts.

Before that day in 2008, I had never actually seen a tornado in person before. That day satisfied my curiosity.

[mwmkravchenko]

I take it that she was the fortunate person who was thrown out of the vehicle before it took flight.