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656of1000
07-16-2009, 12:05 AM
ownage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azV5bC2br-Q&feature=related)
This is the most awesome thing I've seen an a while. Look at 1:04 on the left, you can actually see the tornado! :jawdrop:
doug
07-16-2009, 12:19 AM
oh wow.... absolutely nuts.
240sxDann
07-16-2009, 12:26 AM
damn....
DPancoast
07-16-2009, 02:12 AM
holy crap!
JST2KWIK
07-16-2009, 03:15 AM
that's crazy! why was he honking the horn in the beginning? i didn't see it pass through a crossing. maybe he was trying to fend off the tornado lol
lownslow95
07-16-2009, 09:48 AM
He did end up going through a crossing. Pretty nuts though.
importpower99
07-16-2009, 10:17 AM
well that sucks!
sillyeye
07-16-2009, 10:34 AM
I would have thought the trees would have been rippin out of the ground if its strong enough to **** a whole train up???
jcr557
07-16-2009, 10:44 AM
damnn... and what he said ^
DC2.2GSR
07-16-2009, 05:36 PM
I would have thought the trees would have been rippin out of the ground if its strong enough to **** a whole train up???

gotta remember that trees have very little surface area compared to a big ass train. trees get uprooted and broken off during storms all the time, but i imagine that if the wind isn't strong enough to uproot trees, it could still catch the broad side of a train and push it like a sail and do just what happened in the video. trees remain intact and train gets it's day F'ed up.

think of a semi truck on the highway next to you in a low and wide Ferrari during a wind storm... the truck driver is probably s***ing his pants and you probably don't feel anything in the car.
Teku18
07-16-2009, 11:44 PM
that was awsome!! and on topic of tornados I saw this after the clip ended and it was amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN2_czSBSD0&feature=fvw
OPZ
07-17-2009, 12:58 AM
This was posted on my other car forums, here's what one guy dug up:

It wasn't a tornado?
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lot/?n=20080107tor

THE TORNADO THEN MOVED ACROSS THE CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD WHERE IT BLEW 12 RAILROAD FREIGHT CARS OFF THE TRACK. THE TRAIN WAS MOVING AT THE TIME THE TORNADO HIT IT...SO AS THE MAIN ENGINE STOPPED...THE REMAINING CARS ON THE TRACK CONTINUED ALONG IT AND SLAMMED INTO THE FRONT PART OF THE TRAIN. THIS CAUSED A FEW MORE CARS TO DERAIL...INCLUDING ONE CONTAINING HAZARDOUS MATERIALS THAT CAUSED THE EVACUATION OF THE TOWN OF LAWRENCE. THE DAMAGE IN LAWRENCE WAS RATED AS EF2 WITH WINDS UP TO 110 MPH.


Nope. See above quote from story.


And I just noticed that was in the notes of the video. Son of a bitch...