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redshiftsinger · 11 months ago

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what the fuck what the fuck what the FUUUUUCCCCCKKKKK

What are dead man walking tornadoes? :O

it’s a multi-vortex tornado. i dont remember the tribe it originates from (i think it was cherokee), but there’s a native american legend…? saying? that goes “if you see a man in a tornado, you are about to die.”

the most infamous shot of a dead man walking tornado hit jarrell, texas in 1997

it did so much damage to the town it caused the scale that tornados are measured by, the fijita scale, undergo revisions, and it made anchoring buildings in the tornado alley region pretty much mandatory. (it took the entire town off the map. only those who had taken shelter outside of the town or in underground bunkers survived.)

two more examples of dead man walking tornadoes looking like a person are a tornado from 2011 that hit cullman, alabama

and a tornado from 1975 that hit xenia, ohio

#this may seem an over the top reaction if you do not know -- and I don't think I've told anyone this specific detail before actually #not out of secrecy or anything just it didn't seem like something that added much to the story when I've told said story more broadly #I used to have chronic nightmares about tornadoes #I knew almost nothing about tornadoes! I didn't seek out info about them! I knew basic tornado safety that's it #and like. The stereotypical images of funnel clouds. Wizard of Oz.#but my kiddie brain generated LITERALLY ALMOST EXACTLY THAT FIRST GIF as the most terrifying of those nightmares #like I'd have ones where I'd hear the funnel but see nothing and then my house would be smashed to rubble #I'd have ones where I'd see a stereotypical funnel too and all of those were scary #but the ones that would actually wake me up screaming were the ones where the tornado had legs and was stomping toward me #and I'M CERTAIN I HAVE NEVER ACTUALLY HEARD OF THIS PHENOMENON EXISTING IN REAL LIFE BEFORE #I thought my kiddie subconscious completely made it up!#mashing up tornadoes with giants as 'scary things that can kill you' or something #'what's scarier than a tornado? oooh I know! A tornado with LEGS!' like that sounds fucking ridiculous right??#anyway I've told people I used to have nightmares of tornados but not the 'it has legs sometimes and that's the scariest one' part #that sounded dumb to me so I never really brought it up bc at this point I've spent like thirty years thinking it was random brain junk #so I reiterate: what the fuck what the fuCK WHAT THE FUUUUCCCKKK #anyway that's your Obscure Redshift Lore for today

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