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that man has humongous feet.

The crocs really complete it

Stupid reproduces way too fast...

checkered shirt, brown working boots and trucker cap, is this the US american millenial uniform? Who doesn't look like this aged 30-50?

Just about 50, brown steal-toe boots. No plad, though. And no trucker hat, thay leave sun burn spots on my shaved head.
bonus points if he drives a F150 but never uses the hatch besides 1 bag of groceries which he forgot to put on the back seat

are these things dangerous? the whirlwind i mean. they don't exist where i live, i have never seen one irl.

i would kinda just want to walk towards it to see how strong it is. it that a doable thing?

This doesn't look real to me. There is not any debris in the "nice sky". There usually isn't a "nice sky" as well. And it usually has a hue of green.

I'm no expert though. They can be dangerous. Far worse than many natural phenomena.
Ever been right near a freight train crossing as one blazes by at high speed?

Imagine ten or twenty at the same time.

Tornadoes are incredibly loud, and just... sound like destruction... the ground, the air....everything is shaking, rippling, like bombs going off continuously.

It is difficult to capture this with video or audio, because... they are so loud, and hit so many frequency ranges, that you'd basically have to be sitting inside of an arena concert subwoofer to... get the audio experience replicated.

That and... basically everything fairly close to them has a tendency to be obliterated.

They can rip a telephone pole (basically shaved down tree trunks in areas of America tornadoes often hit) out of the ground, and then throw it through a house, like, clean through, and then clean through the next house, and then embedded 5 to 10 feet into the ground, at an oblique angle.

Tornadoes move around fairly quickly, and ... basically everything that gets too close is... blenderized.

If you're within say 500 meters of one, you should either be hiding in a cellar or bunker, or you should be driving away from it as fast as possible.

Notice how this tree... is nowhere near where it got uprooted from.

This tree managed to get broken off, thrown just so that it landed upright, braced against a power line.

Nearly 2 metric ton vehicle thrown about a kilometer through the air, hit the town water tower, bounced off, kept going for another ~ half kilometer.

...

Please do not walk up to a tornado.
- maybe if it's a baby tornado 🥺 please, i wanna pet one, they look so funny :3
- That is a fantastic description of the sound/feeling of a close tornado. It really is like a freight train turned up to 11 with added constant groaning explosions.
- I was terrified of these when I was little, but fortunately they’re not that common in Yorkshire. I made the decision to focus my worry on the Bermuda Triangle instead.
Please don't.
It can destroy whole cities. They are likely 2-3 miles away or more. It is way WAY bigger that you are imagining.

(If the image is real, it could be AI)
- There are other people past the car looking at it, so probably real.
They can be. Pretty hard to tell how large that one is from this pic, but it would definitely be dangerous if you were next to it. Often they are pretty small or don't touch the ground, but even those ones will cause minor damage
I think it's probably bigger and further than you may be imagining and would appear much more frightening in real life.

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This is completely off topic. But as someone who grew up and lived on the prairies my entire life, I'm always kind of struck by the strange beauty of the colours that are at work during a storm.

There's something in how the dark clouds and bright sky behind it create a really great contrast in the ground colours Dark browns, deep greens, etc...

Sorry...I'm babbling. Just something really pretty about the lighting that comes from a good old fashioned prairie storm that you can't get anywhere else.