News Jun 20, 2010 at 11:01 pm

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1
I'm still fucking depressed. I wore a coat I bought this WINTER today.
2
Oh my word!
3
god damn the cold is better then the 100 + shit last year.
5
This strikes me as like base jumping. Must be an incredible adrenaline rush, but you're pretty much asking to die. That video was nuts
6
That's a total pussy tornado.
7
My question is: does that usually happen in Montana or even at all in Montana?
8
Oh my gosh!

Now, quit turning the camera sideways!
9
Whoa. Going to hide in my basement now.
10
@ 7, sure, in eastern Montana, like anywhere else in the Great Plains. But not nearly as often as in Tornado Alley, and they're usually smaller tornadoes like this one.
11
So...they can say 'holy shit' but not 'oh my God'? Don't they realize that the holiest shit comes from God?
12
These people remind me of that Simpson's line:
"(Sigh). Do you ever have any thoughts that you don't say out loud?"
13
This is why I live in the Northeast. Our thunderstorms don't level towns and the blizzards in the winter don't toss trucks around like toys.
14
Metra is the local arena there in Billings. I used to live about half a mile from it. Saw many hockey games there way back when. Also saw Clapton there.
According to news reports the arena is pretty much a total loss, roof gone, interior smashed and very, very wet.
15
One reason the tornado may appear to be less strong than others is that at this particular event has reached its end stage, known as "roping." At this point, the distinctive, twisty funnel cloud begins to lose definitive direction and the dark, wide wall cloud we associate with storms in their stronger stages has lifted. I was a weather girl in high school.

Carry on.
16
Awesome. I love this video. As tornadoes go, it's fairly mild, possibly an EF1, but it still fondly reminds me of back when I used to storm chase and when I was almost killed by that massive EF3 with a wall cloud about 2km wide. That was . . . horrifying.
17
I put the video on mute and listened to "A Night on Bald Mountain" in the background. Much more fun that way.
18
@12 - give 'em a break - imagine the adrenaline. Haven't you ever been super amped on adrenaline? It makes you reeeal chatty.

I do think it's funny that - as @11 pointed out - she feels that it's OK to say "holy shit" but "Oh my God" would be blasphemy. :)
19
The last thing I would do during such an awesome display of natures fury is call someone to tell them what I was seeing. Seems to me people don't live in the moment anymore; life has been condensed into a Facebook update.
20
Fascinating video, but WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY TURNING THE CAMERA SIDEWAYS?!!!!
21
@20, so they can fit the funnel cloud in the frame. She probably didn't realize at the time that the image would turn, too.
22
@20, motion sickness FTW!
23
I think it might be a good thing. Perhaps they'll build something that will be considered a viable venue for music acts. The acoustics in that place were absolutely abysmal. The only thing it was good for was for sports, and that's also debatable.

I think I read it's been 40+ years since they've had one.

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