Ever heard a tornado?

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what kind of pressure something like that would carry? Like I said, it was at least 1/2 mile from the house, but sounded like it was no more than a couple hundred yards.

Dug

As for the tornado sound I would not know but my wife could sure tell you what one sounds like.

We were living in Atlanta at the time. Was a OK day but starting to rain pretty good. I was to go to work at 6PM but the wife wanted me to stay home because she was afraid the weather was turning bad.
I told her what am I suppose to do.... Call my boss and say I am staying home because the weather MAY turn bad. So I left for work.
Within 90 minutes of leaving the house I saw my neighborhood on the local TV because a tornado had just gone threw.
The tornado had come right down my street taking every house out along the way. About 4 doors down it hit a small valley between two hills and went just on the other side of the hill from my house.

To this day (15 years later) this topic may still come up when I least want to hear about it.
The day I went to work and left my wife and 3 small children to fend for themselves in a tornado.

2. Have one in my back yard. Gas is heavier than air and sometimes makes a fog when it is released (reducing pressure on gas makes it absorb heat so things get cold, hence the fog). So seek the high ground if it happens again and "don't smoke" Ha!.

Mark

Mark

As far as a tornado goes, they truely do rumble like a freight train, and don't stop rumbling. Last year one passed within a 1/4 mile from my place. Got home from work and was on the phone with Mom, and it looked nasty out. Kept going to the door and looking at at the world's slowest moving redish-green clouds and kept hearing the sirens going off. Big hail started, then went to dead calm. OH-OH, I knew what that meant, and that wasn't good. Then the house timbers started cracking and popping from suction and the wind picked up and turned into a ground shaking rumble. Just like they say, a freight train. The little place I rent in Joliet during the work week has no basement, so not much can do. Was pretty eery. Went outside afterwards and didn't see anything but some broken tree limbs. Next morning drove the work truck down the hill, was like driving through Beruit Lebanon. Missing homes, roofs, like a bowling alley. A few years ago, one went through nearby Plainfield. Was on the ground for 11 miles at 3/4 mile wide. Oddest thing ever saw off of Rt30, a farm house in the middle of it's path, roof and external walls gone, but internal walls still standing, clock and pictures still hanging on the walls. Go figure.

Mark

Mark

Transco line runs thru here and it runs at 600 psi , used to run 700 but has been dropped due to the age of the line . It was put in about 1954 and goes from tx to nyc.

george