Pictures of Katrina rolling into Alabama. Sent by a friend.

[roguevalley]

Imagine.

[MADem]

1. Stunning photography, truly! nt

[ladylibertee]

9. They are indeed Awesome.How can something so absolutely..

beautiful and extraordinary cause so much terror and upheaval?

[populistdriven]

79. These are old photos of Nebraska - see snopes postings below

[Tess49]

85. Yeah, these look like the wall clouds we get here in Oklahoma.

Just before they drop a tornado. These are beautiful pictures.

[SeattleGirl]

2. Oh. My. God.

These are beautifull, horrible, AWESOME pictures!

[roguevalley]

4. God bless all those people. I am just speechless over this.

[wake.up.america]

7. Impressive pictures -eom-

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. no, not katrina

check snopes

[roguevalley]

6. I will and I will inform her too. THis is so amazing.

[SeattleGirl]

10. Can you be a little more Pacific?

Your suggestion is a little too Atlantic (B-) ). I went to snopes, but not sure what I am supposed to be looking for. Thanks!

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. hmm It has been posted several times

the link that is.. these photos are from tornado alley

I saved them, in my puter for weather reference photos but they are not from Katrina

[SeattleGirl]

18. Thanks.

I thought this looked more like a tornado than a hurricane. Still, they are absolutely stunning photos!

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. yes yes they are (Added link)

let me see if I find the link, the photos are also atributed at the link

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/storm.asp

[SeattleGirl]

22. Thanks!!

n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. you welcome, google is your friend

and yes I love them... they are incredible

[pnorman]

30. SHIT!!

I just passed those photos onto a friend who lives close by Hattiesberg MS. He, his family, and his house (now full of relatives), seems to have come through OK, but with few "tense moments". But I sent him the URL of this page, so he'll no doubt be aware that it's a "Snopian thang".

pnorman

[SeattleGirl]

37. Just send an email with the correct info.

No harm done. They are still incredible pictures!

[vajraroshana]

13. ding ding ding, stunning photos but not of Katrina

Kinda odd that these photos are being circulated as such.

They are fantastic photos, I wonder what the original photographer(s) thinks of his/her photos being sent through countless emails in this way.

[vajraroshana]

87. Not Katrina photos! Doesn't anyone pay attention

nt

[mogster]

5. Amazing! Fantastic pictures!

:wow:

[babylonsister]

8. Alabama, so that's after this storm hit LA? OMG!

:wow: :wow:

[unhappycamper]

12. Nice pics, bogus story

Those pics look suspiciously like those found at

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/storm.asp

[expatriate]

14. Nope, not Hurricane Katrina

Someone sent me those photos weeks before Katrina hit. Sorry. They've been making the rounds for a while - and that's not how hurricanes look. Those are various clouds, some of them wall clouds. The one with the funnel is the formation of a tornado.

[MnFats]

15. NOT KAtrina! Check 'what's new' at www.snopes.com

does that look like the gulf coast to you?
they're from Iowa!

[expatriate]

16. Here's the Snopes link

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/storm.asp

People who have been through a hurricane only wish it was that teeny.

[Dover]

17. Amazing pics but NOT Katrina!

These pics have been making the rounds on the internet for over a year. A friend emailed this to our local weather man and he just laughed and gave her the scoop. He said they've been associated with everything from Katrina to the Armegeddon.

[eleny]

19. Nominated - thanks for posting these!

Even if not Katrina - they give an education on just how huge they can be.

[expatriate]

24. Those are tornadoes forming - nowhere near the size of a

hurricane. A hurricane is hundreds - even thousands of times bigger than these clouds. It also looks nothing like this.

[newswolf56]

21. These are the most mind-boggling weather photographs...

I have ever seen -- and my journalism career spans 45 years. Your friend is obviously talented, has a great eye for design and should submit this work to an agent for international sale. The pictures are truly magnificent: I have e-mailed a link to everyone on my "friend" list, and will send more links to colleagues tomorrow. Thank you so much for posting them.

Maybe if enough people nominate them, they'll stay up for a while. They surely have my vote.

[LunaSea]

25. more outstanding weather photos

here-
http://donaldedavis.com/PARTS/photos.html

[Peter Frank]

26. WOW!!! n/t

[Name removed]

27. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[SeattleGirl]

28. Come on, be nice

Those of us who may have thought they were of Katrina (orignially) have been educated by those who knew whey were not. I think most of us want to know the truth, and are open to being corrected when necessary. I know now they are not pictures of Katrina, but that doesn't mean I'm retarded.

And please, don't degrade those among the human race that are mentally disabled.

[President Jesus]

46. no, I won't be nice, because this points to a much larger problem...

...increasingly here at DU, which is "post first, research later."

In the case of these photos, it's dumb, but harmless. (It would only take a minute to check on snopes to see if the photos were a hoax or not.)

What irks me, though, is that there is way too much rumor mongering around here. Thousands of fellow citizens use DU as a primary source of information, and we're all doing each other a serious disservice when we post unsubstantiated rumors as fact.

[Poll_Blind]

68. Prez J is right- posting crap as fact does NO ONE any good. n/t

PB

[Bozita]

31. They're actually beyond "unbelievable"

More like bullshit!

[SeattleGirl]

32. Please.....

Is your post meant to imply that those of us who orignially thought they were of Katrina are stupid? If that's not what you meant, then I apologize right now. But it seems to me that there are folks here who don't want to give anyone any room for making a mistake, for posting an opposing viewpoint, etc.

Got news for you: none of us are perfect. As I said in an earlier post on this thread, I first thought that the pictures WERE of Katrina, but when it was pointed out to me, with "evidence", that they were instead pictures of a tornado, I was fine with the correction, and it seems some others are as well.

So please, tell me why these pictures are "bullshit". Do you demand that everyone one in your life does everything perfectly? I hope not.

Sorry, not trying to diss you, but I really want to know why you had this "bullshit" response.

[Bozita]

34. The photography is as spectacular as the lie

no offense intended

[SeattleGirl]

35. So, do you think it was intentional to say the pictures are of Katrina

instead of a tornado? I have to say, I don't know what the point would be of that.

And I was not so much personally offended as I was puzzled at your response. No offense taken.

[SeattleGirl]

36. P.S.

The pictures ARE awesome, in both the positive and negative way.

Positive in that they are absolutely beautiful.

Negative in that they depict a natural phenomenon that can bring untold destruction to people and property.

[Bozita]

38. Every one of those photos is a once in a lifetime experience

The series was simply beyond belief.

[SeattleGirl]

40. Ain't that the truth!

They are spectacular and horrifying at the same time!

[fujiyama]

39. THe photos themselves are real

and pretty amazing.

It's just the description that's not accurate.

[SoCalDem]

51. They are real...just not katrina

:)

[Lilyhoney]

29. I'm speechless. nt

[Nothing Without Hope]

33. I'm recommending because they are awesome, but not of a hurricane

This is far too small - it's obviously a violent storm that is spawning tornadoes over a local area. Katrina spread over multiple states and its eyewall was well over a hundred miles from the outer feeder bands. It would not have looked like this. Absolutely stunning photography; it's rare to capture a newly spawned tornado this way and the lighting is spectactular. Those curving bands of clouds must have been moving very fast - it took courage/foolhardiness to stand there taking photos. There are many storm-chasers - both professional and hobbyists - who do just that, and they would be thrilled to bag what this photographer has.

[expatriate]

41. You should really edit your subject line now, since

the photos have been debunked. Otherwise, they'll end up being sent on from here as photos of Katrina.

Hurricanes are thousands of times larger than these storms. These are wall clouds, which tornadoes have been known to develop from. They are small change in size compared to even a Cat 1 hurricane.

I can understand why the error was made, but why is the thread still headed with the subject line that these photos are of Katrina?

[SeattleGirl]

42. Maybe the OP has gone to bed?

Your point is a good one, though.

[expatriate]

43. Yep, just figured that - I'm on the other side of the world!

I do tend to forget at times there is about 15 hours difference!

Well, hopefully they'll check the thread when they're back online! :)

[SeattleGirl]

44. Thing are going so fast and furious right now

it's very hard to keep up! Leave DU for even half an hour and the whole world seems to change! I imagine it must be really disconcertin to someone 15 hours away!

[RebelOne]

45. These pix have been posted many times.

How can anyone believe that they are of Katrina? They are photos of various tornadoes.

[theHandpuppet]

47. WHOAAAAAA NELLIE!

INCREDIBLE photography!

If I saw that coming for my house I'd need a change of clothes, that's for sure... if I had time before I passed out from terror, that is.

BTW, to the original poster -- thanks for posting these. I know they're not of Katrina, but they're still awe-inspiring.

[newswolf56]

48. Well, this certainly makes me look like a complete fool...or does it?

I wrote the above post (#21) before anybody else had responded to the pictures. But because I was thinking about what I might suggest that could help the photographer market the work, I didn't put my post up on this thread until I had e-mailed the link to my friends. Thus I hadn't seen the other posts and didn't know I was the victim of a hoax. As so often is the case, no good intention goes unpunished: my punishment the damning but wholly false appearance I was heedlessly babbling on in stupefied enthusiasm -- stubbornly ignoring the fact the hoax had already been revealed by Nadinbrzezinski (to whom my heartfelt thanks).

Thus I was mortified (and not a little hurt) when I read the remainder of the thread -- the 20 comments I suddenly discovered had preceded mine. Even so, my vexation with the hoax's perpetrator is minor compared to my contempt for the poster who called me (and others like me) "basically retarded."

What I assumed we were looking at was not the whole hurricane, which I think all of us know was far too huge to fit into such photographs, but rather the leading edge of the hurricane's weather system, which (depending on the conditions it is displacing) can indeed breed the sort of spectacular scenes shown in the pictures. I have seen such episodes myself: huge frontal systems from the west invading the Pacific Northwest coast (though never anything quite so monumentally powerful as in these pictures). The OP, an Alaska resident, has no doubt also witnessed such scenes -- and was therefore all the more easily taken in.

I suspect others made similar assumptions: that these photographs were various views of the oncoming storm-front, a sequence photographed over a considerable distance (as from a speeding vehicle), the work ending after a tornado finally put its foot down in the last image. This assumption was made all the more plausible by newscasters' oft-repeated descriptions of tornadic storms and other such activity as typical of the hurricane's approach.

To call our gullibility "basically retarded" therefore reflects both a limited knowledge of nature and a truly breathtaking ignorance of the human thought-process -- an ignorance that is contemptible in its lack of empathy, repugnant in the offhanded haughtiness of its elitist scorn, and offensive in its malicious belittlement of those of us who were (very understandably) taken in by an exceptionally clever hoax.

[CBGLuthier]

67. Online Manners

Poeple are just jerks. What can you do.

I knew these weren't Katrina photos because I read snopes every day.

But so what. There have been some posts here that were so outrageous that the posters would deserve a little chastisement for not checking their facts first.

But this is not such a case. There was no obvious tipoff that these were fakes and not connected to Katrina.

[GodHelpUsAll2]

84. The fact that

ALL of the photos appear to be in rural areas or even farm land should be a BIG tip off that these are not photos of a hurricane.

[DS1]

49. people will believe just about anything

[SoCalDem]

50. Midwestern tornados..I have seen these many times in Kansas

Impressive, no?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

52. Stop this nonsense, please. You got suckered.

You've seen how big hurricanes are from satellite photos. Please use some common sense.

[malaise]

53. Hauntingly beautiful

Thanks.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

54. OMG! These are SPECTACULAR! These must be amongst

the best landscape photos I have ever seen.

[Gman]

55. Beautiful Photoshopping, but definitely not Katrina

Hurricanes do not look like that coming in. When a hurricane comes in, first there's high, thin clouds, then the clouds thicken and lower, then some drizzle, drizzle turns to rain and the whole time the wind picks up. Actually, an approaching hurricane can be quite innocent and benign looking. Then the wind picks up and the rain starts.

These pics are not from Katrina. My guess is they're somewhere in the mid-West with some of approaching cold fronts, others of approaching summer thunderstorms off the Rockies.

[demo dutch]

56. It could be of tornados coming in that are associated with hurricanes

[Bridget Burke]

57. No, you can't see the tornados that accompany hurricanes.

Mostly because only an idiot would be standing outside--or anywhere near a window.

These are real pictures of tornado weather--not photoshopped.

Whatever the source, WOW!

[demo dutch]

58. True

[Gman]

62. You never see the hurricane generated tornadoes

because they're usually blended in with the driving rain. Tornadoes from hurricanes don't look the same as in the mid-West where these pics were obviously taken.

Another tipoff to me that these are not from Katrina is that there are o pine trees in the pics.

[Renew Deal]

59. Those are real

But they are not Katrina.

[ComerPerro]

60. Others have said here, not Katrina, according to Snopes, however

These are incredible pictures.

[NNadir]

61. Your friend is an outstanding photographer.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

72. You mean he used copyrighted material a photographer worked hard to get

You mean he used copyrighted material somebody else, namely a photographer, worked hard to get. Happens a lot on DU. Sometimes it's ok to do so, sometimes not.

[Catchawave]

63. Remember the tsunami photos ?

http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/tsunami1.asp

[newportdadde]

64. "Its a faaaakkkkkkeeeee!!!!!"

Wonder if anyone will get the reference.

[merh]

65. Wow!

:wow:

Thanks for posting these, bookmarked & nominated.

Folks, New Orleans is not the only area devasated by Katrina, don't forget about the folks in MS and AL.

We need your help :grouphug:

[bpilgrim]

66. wow - added to the gallery...

http://news.globalfreepress.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-2517

thanks for sharing :toast:

peace

[pitohui]

69. yr friend is no friend

these pix are a hoax & float around the internet after every disaster

it gets old

[bpilgrim]

70. gotta link?

thanks :toast:

peace

[TwilightZone]

73. Here it is....

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/storm.asp

[bpilgrim]

76. thank you

:toast:

peace

[jus_the_facts]

77. Here's the link to the original photos...A LOT of others as well......

.....this guy is a storm chaser and extremely talented. :hi:

http://extremeinstability.com/my_chase_accounts.htm

[atommom]

71. Stunning tornado pics!

[Fleshdancer]

74. breathtaking photos

If the photos are this overwhelming, I can't imagine what it would be like to witness that in person. wow.

[MsUnderstood]

75. So scrolling down, stunned by the awe and beauty

And then BAM there is the dog standing up on hind legs. . . I truely laughed out loud!

[Raiden]

78. Those pictures are AMAZING!

It amazes me how nature can be so incredibly beautiful and at the same time so incredibly destructive. It makes humanity seem so insignificant.


:wow:

[Penndems]

80. Wow. Just WOW.

Awesome photography of that monster.

You might want to check into posting them here, too:

http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/viewimages.html

[geomon666]

81. That's not Katrina

Those are midwestern super cells.

[Penndems]

82. *smacks forehead*

I've been PUNKED! :P

Still, though, those are AWESOME photos.

[dave502d]

83. WOW! n/t

[Liberal In Texas]

86. Incredible. What else can you say? n/t