Damn Nature U Scary of the Day: The full force of an EF5 tornado, succinctly illustrated in Joplin,

[BillyJack]

[aquart]

1. I can't even guess how that happened.

But the kid who put on his bicycle helmet had the right idea. Why aren't they standard equipment for adults in those areas, too?

[Kali]

2. holy shit!

:wow:

[lunatica]

3. They're still finding the dead and people are still missing

But I hear some of the missing have shown up alive. No matter how much I try I can't imagine what it must have been like to go through that tornado.

[Lucinda]

4. Wow.

That is scary. :(

[ananda]

5. Tornadoes are weird.

Here in Texas there was one tornado that destroyed a home, killed
everyone in it, and left a bureau standing with a paper check on it.

Another one drove a toothpick through a telephone pole, and another
one put a telephone pole through the trunk of a car.

[buddysmellgood]

6. It seems like the physics must change dramatically. You'd think the wood would splinter.

[hootinholler]

7. That is a splinter

Albeit a long one. We also don't know how much mass was behind it.

-Hoot

[PCIntern]

9. F=ma

you can only imagine the force on that piece of wood which would treat poured concrete as though it were a liquid. I recall the physics of cut-nails driven into concrete...not uninteresting...

[hootinholler]

10. Exactly.

I have a feeling that the trunk in the upper part of the photo was attached when it hit the curb. The heartwood color matches, without a close up I guess a walnut tree, but there are other varieties with heartwood that are darker and it's a little too light for walnut.

-Hoot

[Odin2005]

8. OH. MY. GOD!!!

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

11. How it happened.

[buddysmellgood]

12. That makes more sense.

[Kali]

13. ah, makes more sense

but not much - still a holy shit shot if you ask me!