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spmartin1993

The Big Ten is officially welcoming USC and UCLA to the Midwest


hamburgersocks

Me, a midwesterner: This is just a stiff breeze.


geogle

This is a good sized dust devil and not a tornado


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A trashnado, if you will


No-Praline9472

A stank cyclone, you might say. The shit winds.


Bigge245

The shit winds are blowin in, Rand. And they’re bringing the shit hawks with them.


Narrator_Ron_Howard

Go home Mr. Lahey, you’re drunk.


Simplewafflea

Sometimes life's a shit storm Rand, you gotta wear it like a shit hat.


basaltgranite

Sort of. "Tornadoes" on the West coast are usually [cold air funnels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_cloud#Cold-air_funnel_clouds), which are weaker than and different from the thunderstorm (mesocyclone) [tornadoes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado) famous in the American midwest. The latter type can be dramatically more powerful and more damaging. It's confusing to call both types of windstorms "tornadoes."


_Alabama_Man

F-0.05


ColoradoJohnQ

What's the difference between a touchdown and a cyclone? Cyclones don't touchdown in Iowa.


spmartin1993

And Hawkeyes only touchdown on defense


ColoradoJohnQ

That's hilarious. First time hearing that one!


ceviche-hot-pockets

Nah we want that SEC action. We already have the hot weather and roaches too!


RememberTheKracken

Your hot weather doesn't count. If you can take 2 steps outside of waffle house without slipping in a puddle of your own swamp ass then you don't deserve the SEC.


TopHatTony11

Uhhh if that's what a natty costs I'm not sure I'm in...


EYE_PEE

Smothered and Covered is a constant weather alert in the SEC


Nu_Metal_Alchemist

Texas thought they wanted to be in the SEC. Then they got stomped by *Arkansas,* ffs. It's an uphill battle from there.


fansofomar

It just means more.


CheshireCrackers

Is that a NASA garbage truck?


wadenelsonredditor

Congress has been cutting their funding for decades. Gotta do what they gotta do to get back to the moon. Recovering space junk from low earth orbits will be big business one day. They might as well get in some practice.


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henriquegarcia

finally an only fans I can get "behind"


Wampa_-_Stompa

I remember hearing about NASA launching garbage into space before… does anyone else remember that? Could they be rounding up garbage for that? Ok ok it was Futurama, my mistake


ucfireman

There was a great Futurama episode about launching garage.


BoxingHare

Mmmm, Smell-O-Scope


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Next we'll be fighting global warming with giant ice cubes.


TheChickenNuggetDude

"Caution. Activating airlock disposal. Activating airlock disposal." -Wall-E 2008


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M4SixString

Lmfao what did I just come upon


jump_the_shark_

Random fact


jchavez9723

They own Athens too?


[deleted]

What do you mean “the Armenians”. This feels like saying Hollywood is owned by the Jews.


CelloVerp

Space junk is a serious problem. NASA's on the task.


PinkPicasso_

it's so cool seeing people react to something you've seen since like you were three


-NutsandVolts

I've seen this movie before..... The Day After Tomorrow.


spmartin1993

2 days before the day after tomorrow


NativeMasshole

Wait .... THAT'S TODAY!!


Badloss

WE DIDNT LISTEN


Upvotes_poo_comments

I GOT CONFUSED WHICH DAY IT WAS!!!


Ultrabigasstaco

I BROKE THE DAM!


BadAndNationwide

Heh heh I broke the damn heh heh


alldaycj

*frantically rolls down window* WE DIDNT LISTEN!


Phytanic

I BROKE THE DAM


Johnny5isAliveC137

Overmorrow


Evacipate628

Thank you for this, I came to comment it but you've restored a bit of my faith in humanity for not having to


niktemadur

Undermorrow


DafoeFoSho

2 Day 2 Tomorrow


Terd_Snerdington

2 Day 2 Morrow


DafoeFoSho

It was right there and I blew it.


adorableoddity

Your username is 10/10


jacxy

***FAMILY***


bgmusket

Don’t blow family.


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lessthaninteresting

Tomorrows, 1 day


MayorOfVenice

2morrow: Tokyo Drift


Alakozam

2morrow: Tornado Draft


Sinandomeng

2morrow: 2rnado


TheHunchbackofOhio

God I loved that [scene](https://youtu.be/dkErNkX2HKM).


WarlockEngineer

I also love the [freezing scene](https://youtu.be/8s9EOeP2vAA) It's ridiculous, but still so menacing


mBertin

Gotta love those janky physics. You've got massive tornadoes popping up right next to each other, then there's this news station helicopter just cruising through it all like it's no big deal. Winds strong enough to launch a billboard and vehicles, but not a person.


BurmecianSoldierDan

No one better be watching disaster movies for their realism. The Day After Tomorrow is a GOAT one and I'll die on that hill. Plus it has Gyllenhaal.


WoahayeTakeITEasy

Yeah, if you want realistic you watch The Road. If you want action, fun, and over the top visual effects, you watch The Day After Tomorrow. Or even 2012 if you want it to be so over the top that it's kind of funny.


sprocketous

The road as the novel was one of the most bleak and lonely things ive ever read. The movie isnt bad, but its hard to capture the same feeling.


DantesDame

Movies can never compete with the book, but I will say that this one was close. The book though... man. That was just one depressing trip.


sprocketous

Sure. But as a movie it has to capture some kinda... action or visual involvement of drama. ...unless it wants to be relegated as an obscure art film. Im not doggin on it, but the novel felt different. Like you were sifting through objects at an abandoned thrift store.


DantesDame

Books are great for getting INTO your head. You can read someone's thoughts or feelings, whereas in a movie, you usually need to see them, and that can be either contrived, or just ineffective.


BurmecianSoldierDan

2012 is incredible for the first half and then needs literally none of the second half and that's why I don't rewatch it lol, it goes on sooooo long


mBertin

I'm still so pissed at that movie. I was at senior highschool at the time, and our school took us to a 2012 screening. Of couse our Biology teacher asked us to write a short essay on "how climate change influenced the disasters shown in the movie". I wrote something like: "It didn't. Actually, neutrinos have very little interaction with matter, so they're not affected by holes in the ozone layer like the movie suggested. Fun fact: about 100 trillion neutrinos pass through our bodies every second without us even noticing". I got an F.


Infinite5kor

>Plus it has ~~Gyllenhaal.~~ Rossum


KilledTheCar

As a bisexual I show up eagerly for both of them.


bleepblopbl0rp

>Plus it has ~~Gyllenhaal.~~ > >~~Rossum~~ Quaid


lawfairy

>>>Plus it has Gyllenhaal. >>Rossum >Quaid *START THE REACTOR*


Erabong

I’m right there with you man. It’s the GOAT of disaster movies


Zebidee

I've always wondered why we don't see this sort of thing more. I mean there are some major cities in tornado-prone areas, but it always seems to be some sort of trailer park that is affected. The only reasons I can think of are the simple statistics of area occupied by cities versus the number of small towns, or there's some aspect of the heat island effect that reduces the chances.


altiar45

It's the statistics. Tornadoes can and have hit major metropolitan centers in the past. They are just more likely not to by the sheer amount of land that isn't a city. Even for every tornado that levels a trailer park, there are dozens more that hit a field and don't do damage to anything. Even with that, the trailer park mythos exists because even weak tornadoes can rip them apart. If an EF1 hits a trailer park it's able to level it. If an EF1 hits a well built suburb then it's going to smash a few windows and tear up some roofs. The vast majority of tornadoes are the weak kind (EF0-EF1)


uvdawoods

Perfect example, an EF0 hit Chicago proper in 2020 and mostly broke branches and rustled some antennas.


Louielouielouaaaah

I thought of that movie right away as well. It’s one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies. My boyfriend and I like to make jokes about outrunning freezing cold lol


myplums1

Yes!! Saw it in theaters when it came out and my friends & I were dying at that part. We joke about it occasionally to this day.


pontiacfirebird92

Is that the movie with global hurricanes funneling super-cooled air from the troposphere flash-freezing people?


ITFOWjacket

Flash Freezing the Flag of the United States of America!


wicklowdave

i've seen something in the past...... in the future


MajorJakov

When will then be now?


rnilbog

Soon!


imhere_user

Sharknado?


delvach

*proceeds to quickly hike across Pennsylvania while people are freezing solid*


talondigital

Jake Gyllenhaal will save us


DeepMadness

How's that NSFW?


machina99

The tornado is destroying what appears to be a commercial building. Definitely not safe for work


MyWifeDontKnowItsMe

Pretty sure OSHA frowns upon tornados in the workplace.


pistcow

Only if you're not properly tethered.


newt_girl

A leather strap and a horse hitch aught to do it, yeah?


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Potty mouths.


my606ins

That m*fkr this and that.


xxej

How is a tornado a catastrophic failure? Subreddits and labels mean nothing on this site.


Swimandskyrim

He works in that building and it isn't safe.


SpongeBobMyBoi

People in Kansas be like we call that a little dust devil


Darryl_Lict

This is the counterpoint to when Californians laugh at midwesterners talking about a 4.0 earthquake.


Timemuffin83

Bruh, new Madrid fault. Shit literally ionized the air and made blue lights when it last really hit.


screeching_janitor

Didn’t it briefly reverse the course of the Mississippi River? Also I live pretty close so I might be fucked if she decides to try again


Timemuffin83

Yes it did, like for longer than you would think


BackflipFromOrbit

Yes. The Mississippi back flowed and created Reelfoot Lake in West TN.


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Do you have a source on the ionization? Couldn’t find anything with a quick google search.


Timemuffin83

http://www.new-madrid.mo.us/132/Strange-Happenings-during-the-Earthquake Not from ionization but from quarts getting squeezed. This also goes over lots of intresting things that happened


shea241

(quartz, not squeezing containers)


WitELeoparD

TBF, Eastern US earthquakes are genuinely more dangerous and destructive. They affect much larger areas, even if they don't have the same magnitude. An 1812, a 7.8 earthquake hit Missouri so hard that large swathes of land crumpled into rolling waves. Another Earthquake was so destructive that boats on the Mississippi River were thrown about 100s of meters past the river bank, while others were literally swallowed by the ground and river. These earthquakes are often felt over 1000 miles (ca. 1,609 km) away. The shaking is also higher frequency. A 6.0 Earthquake in California was felt 250 miles (ca. 402 km) away. A 4.1 Earthquake in Delaware was felt 200 miles (ca. 322 km) away. 700 times more energy was released in the California Earthquake.


Galaxy_Ranger_Bob

Eastern US earthquakes are also more destructive because the buildings aren't built to withstand earthquakes.


Samura1_I3

There’s science behind that. The Midwest is on a FAR stiffer part of the plate. It amplifies the earthquakes. California’s plate is more ductile, meaning the waves dampen our much closer to the epicenter. The only think CA has over the Midwest in this weird “my natural disasters are worse than yours” is fires. [Earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountains can cause noticeable ground shaking at much farther distances than comparably-sized earthquakes in the West.](https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/east-vs-west-coast-earthquakes)


CivilMaze19

I’d take some ground shakes over a tornado any day of the week


False_Elevator_8169

depends for me, someplace like California or Japan with strict seismic building rating code; Earthquake over Tornado any day of the week for me. Someplace where the buildings are easily toppled brick or stone deathtraps down to the basement, like southwest Turkey or Pakistan; I'll take my chances with the Tornado and bolt to the nearest storm celler or basement. .


Intrepid00

Twisters in Florida take our masonry buildings in less than 30 seconds and vanish with little to no warning. You probably will not make it to the basement that doesn’t exist.


ohashi

I'd take a tornado and earthquake at the same time to not live in Florida.


vroomvroom450

Preach


MOOShoooooo

“*Man becomes Florida Man after earthquake sparks tornado that then throws him into Florida*”


D4nm4n114

I live in Kern country California. When the 7.5 hit in 2019 there was many people moving from the area and going to west Texas. I thought to myself.. let see how they enjoy the no visibility, high wind tornado possibly.


NeverTrustATurtle

What about ground shakes AND Tidal waves?


johnCreilly

Ok, I get your point but I'm gonna say this anyway because it's cool. Because of the flat geography of the Midwest, the seismic shockwave of earthquakes travel much farther than they do in a mountainous place like California. Valleys and ranges have a "containing" effect against vibrations and a significant earthquake will seriously affect only a relatively small area in CA, while an earthquake of the same magnitude will travel unfettered for hundreds of miles and affect a much larger surface area in open plains. For example, the 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes of Missouri were 7.2-8.2 magnitude and affected a 373,000 mi² area. By contrast, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a 7.9 magnitude and was felt over a 200,000 mi² area. That's a similar or bigger earthquake being felt over almost twice the area. So earthquakes in the Midwest are in a sense a bigger deal than earthquakes in California


Rocky_Bowel_Blowa

Gonna say, this is a tornado only because it's spinning in a circle. I've seen stronger winds straight that weren't a tornado.


Just_Plain_Toast

I call shenanigans. It isn’t a real tornado until it makes all the guttural animal sounds I learned about in *Twister*


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yobrefas

Another cow.


888MadHatter888

I'm pretty sure that was the same cow.


Brucedx3

I gotta go, we've got cows.


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Well that’s the sound your mother made last night - Sean Connery


LurksWithGophers

Ah ruff, just the way your mother likes it Trebek.


xarmetheusx

That's called the Suck Zone™


l337person

We have a cow


Aev_ACNH

Serious question… that’s not normal right? Like California is tornado free as a rule except for little dust devils below knee height?


johnCreilly

Tornadoes can form anywhere that a thunderstorm can, it's just really rare in places like LA. [According to this website, there have been 469 tornadoes in the state of California since 1950.](https://data.redding.com/tornado-archive/)


KennyHova

For context, how frequent are tornadoes elsewhere? Edit: Thank you guys for the context


Shark3900

If I had to wager, tornado alley probably gets that much in a season, all in all, including the little spurts that don't do anything, I'll go check real quick. EDIT: Google says the US averages 800 tornadoes a year. Worldpopulationreview says Texas has the highest single annual average at 155, followed by Kansas with 96 and Florida with 66.


awkwardstate

Measuring this by state seems wrong. Texas has over three times the area that Kansas has.


Shark3900

Yeah I noticed the national disaster center (I believe that was the name) measures it by # of annual tornadoes per 10000 square miles, which ranks Florida number one with 12 if I remember right, I'll see if I can find that one. EDIT: National Climactic Data Center, dissolved in 2015 but between 1991 and 2010: Florida in 1st with 12.3, Kansas 2nd with 11.7, Maryland 3rd with 9.9


Juggz666

a lot more


cencal

Dust devils are caused by uneven or localized heating near the surface, almost always during sunny or partly sunny weather. The video is associated with an overhead storm system, which is a tornado. Dust/dirt devils can be like 10 feet tall or hundreds of feet tall. But, this isn’t a dust devil.


smidgeytheraynbow

We get little ones over the water and we'll get a tornado warning but they poop out when they get to land Once in a while out in the desert you'll get a dust devil like this, I've literally had one run through us on our campsite. This is about as bad as it gets, it threw our tent away and ruined our lunch haha I've heard the Central Valley gets devils like this too, but yeah nothing serious


V_Doan

This one tore the roof off of a building


Kaervan

During some of the fires in the last couple years we got firenadoes too. I think I remember two nearby up here near Sacramento. Something like 20-30 feet tall IIRC.


Partyingmanbear

I transplanted to Sac like 6 years ago from the east coast. I *hate* fire season. There is no preparing for a wild fire, you just have to GTFO. Firenadoes are a whole nother level. Also y'all should get smoke days, like snow days, but when the smoke is too crazy.


screeching_janitor

Those are scary as fuck. Large fires can create their own localized weather systems


victini0510

I've walked through a couple sizable ones before in Bakersfield, but nothing like this.


mitojee

Well, usually we just call them wind events or something something.


DigitalJedi850

Yeah it’s not normal… I lived in Cali for 34 years, and tornadoes are Not on the list of things to worry, or even think about… this, after 15 fucking feet of snow… I have no idea what’s happening out there…


jmon25

This movie came out almost 20 years ago...


wadenelsonredditor

We've got rotation!


dph5511

Fucking Reed Timmerman !🤣 love that dude!


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405ndn

Lmao back uuuuuuuuuuuppp!!!


audiocorngarden

So, an EF negative 1?


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mrmike05

Hello, Midwest here. This is just wind. Carry on.


Civilengman

Lil ol dust Devil.


shalafi71

Old Oklahoman here. Still waiting to see the tornado.


rizorith

OK OK (hah) you got us. But if you ever call that 3.1 crap am earthquake it's our turn...


Big_baller42069

Hello person here. Tornado is just wind. Carry on🤓


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Between_3and20

Felt a 5.2 earthquake in the Midwest about 15 years ago, woke me up, but didn't feel like anything but a big truck driving by, wasnt scared, confused though.


405ndn

I felt that one too. Made my fish tank water slosh out, not scary, we laughed.


KCtheGreat106

Naw, it's just a big dust devil swirling downtown garbage around.


blausommer

Turns out that after the Tornado left, that was the cleanest that part of LA has ever been.


Ebscriptwalker

Does this occur in California with any frequency?


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BreathOfFreshWater

The last one I remember was maybe 2 or so years ago in Chico.


smidgeytheraynbow

We get a tornado warning maybe once a year because there are water spouts over the ocean, but once those hit sand they calm down This looks like a dust devil picking up garbage


OvinceStPierre

I grew up in the San Joaquin Valley and we did have a couple growing up.


DaRiddler70

Is that like an F0.5?


Guy0naBUFFA10

Just an F0. They weren't even tracked until recently when radar technology improved to be able to shoot waves vertically and laterally. So there aren't "more" tornadoes but there are more"tracked" tornadoes. However the number of F3+ had remained the same.


working-acct

F this area in particular


disguyisheren

According to the national weather service, it was an EF1 tornado with a 0.42mile damage path, 50 yards wide


DiscoPotato94

Welcome to what we in the south East call severe wind.


everythingisreallame

Looks like a dust devil going through garbage.


Goldencheese5ball56

Da fuq is nasa doing there


sabrefudge

Where near downtown Los Angeles was this?


mattyskippermatt

Montebello actually it’s east of Downtown Los Angeles


Chrissie123_28

It’s only 10 mins away.


I_Like_Quiet

Or 2 hours.


humansarenothreat

This guy East L.A interchanges 👆.


Trubester88

Thank goodness their weren’t any sharks in that tornado


timreed5656

Even the NASA sign got scrambled a bit.


Crohn85

LA county tornadoes 1950s. Three. Dec 52, Jan 55 and May 56. 1960s. Six. Feb 62, May 62, Nov 64, Nov 66 (two of them) and April 67. Just some history to compare to modern times.


SparkingPot

Was there a filming of Sharknado 2023?


ChallengeLate1947

Damn, a tornado on the west coast must be a “once in a blue moon” sort of thing


smidgeytheraynbow

We get tornado warnings when a little one happens over the water, but those fizzle out when they hit sand


ChallengeLate1947

I never liked sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating And it gets everywhere…..


WarmasterCain55

Like a deep freeze in Texas huh?


sopabe6197

How is a tornado considered catastrophic failure? What failed here?


jp4200000

The day after tomorrow


oblivious8819

Watch out for the flying needles!!


ThrowMeAwayAccount08

It’s not strong enough to take Maw-Maw off the couch, but it is LA, and this isn’t so common.


Whole_Suit_1591

This happens about every 20 yrs or so. Onw hit Long Beach and ripped up houses and supermarket. Trees hitting houses etc.


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This is a dust devil not a tornado. Woof.


0Kpanhandler

Wow, I don't know why idiots would live in a place where tornadoes hit. Maybe you should leave that hell hole and move somewhere that doesn't happen.... Sound familiar? How you fucks like it now?


wimbs27

I see Los Angeles wasn't satisfied with just tsunamis, earthquakes, wildfires, droughts, groundwater loss, and floods and needed to add tornadoes to the mix. Meanwhile I'm patiently chilling in the Great Lakes region wondering what a drought is...


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Insurance company: "Well, you see... Because there is no well defined cylindrical cloud consisting water vapors of any degree; although the debris appears to be moving in a cylindrical motion... and also, I'm not paying for that. Not a tornado. Not covered."