Incredible footage from the local station. The first footage I saw was a close up still cam from the DOT tower, building from nothing to quite big in seconds. All I could think of, as it passed restaurants and your typical exit businesses, was COVID-19 at least prevented those places from being filled with diners, patrons and customers and may have saved people. But I hadn't seen the news cast. That station definitely helped people down the line as it rapidly picked up steam.
Even from the few seconds of the tower cam, It was reminiscent of how fast Joplin, Henryville and a few other big time tornadoes, rapidly grew from a rope to a large cone with violent rotation and speed, in just seconds. Interesting comparisons here. Glad this one didn't leave as much fallout as it could have and as much as the other notable ones did.
I also wonder if in the era of streaming television and using DVR and watching recordings and not watching as much live television to miss commercials and to stream, if people are also missing out on these live broadcasts and updates of tornadoes. People like us are going to know what's going on minute to minute and probably be in our vehicles instead of watching TV as a tornado barrels down on our town, but I question if the average person, particularly in the younger generations, is actually seeing news broadcasts like these. They might only be getting a phone update, which many ignore or blow off, or possibly hear sirens.
