#unironically wouldn't trade 'em for anything else

[awheckery]

it really is wild how these storms work. for example, here are some photos I took a few years ago when my area got hit.

that first photo looks across the street from the carnage, and despite a distance of maybe 100 ft that house was untouched, while the storm was shredding trees in front of my complex

the storm jumped over this cluster of buildings (including mine), then took the roofs off a gas station and two other apartment buildings in my complex, fucked up a bunch of cars, drove a tree through a house and picked up off the ground again for another mile or so before tearing up more trees and powerlines (tho not quite as dramatically as seen here).

it took two days to get power back. the red cross had to come help out.

and this was just a little baby storm, there technically wasn't enough rotation to call it a tornado, tho it was moving ~140 mph and was destructive enough to be comparable to an EF2.

gotta love living in the midwest.

I've been reading facts on Wikipedia again, and i'm overcome with the need to terrify non-Americans with the most underrated Terrifying American Thing: TORNADOES

Due to a quirk of mountain and ocean placement, the east-central United States has a higher number of tornadoes (particularly exceptionally strong tornadoes) than any other place on Earth.

And they're so fucking scary oh my God