Guess the Tornado!!

[Doug Lee]

It's been a while since someone got one of these threads going, so I thought I'd give it a shot. May also be good practice for the upcoming storm season!

[Broken External Image]:http://pages.slu.edu/student/rificijc/xenia1.jpg

First person to correctly guess this one gets to post the next. I'll reveal the answer either tomorrow or Wednesday night.

 

[Joe Nield]

Xenia, OH F5
April 3, 1974

You gotta make it harder than that.

 

[Sam Sagnella]

What's a torando? :lol:

 

[Tony Laubach]

Originally posted by Sam Sagnella
What's a torando? :lol:

It's a special kind of spelling vacuum.. IT SUCKS! :lol:

And, uh, I'll take the liberty of correcting the spelling on the title of this thread unless it was meant to be that way! :wink: In which case, the creator of the torando thread can PM me to tell me!

 

[Skip Talbot]

God, that looks scary. That's one you want to bag with a telephoto lens.

 

[Bill Hark]

Is that Xenia, Ohio?


Bill Hark

 

[Bob Hartig]

That's Xenia, all right--the classic photo taken from Greene Memorial Hospital.

A few years ago, I purchased the 25th anniversary tornado edition of the Xenia Daily Gazette, as well as the last available copy (or so I was told) of the one-year edition. Stunning reportage, with some images you just can't find online--although there are a fair number of pretty cool online images. Check out the websites of Kitty Merchant and Homer Ramby. Ramby's site also includes an amazing audio of the Xenia tornado. As the story goes, a guy left his cassette recorder running as the tornado approached and eventually destroyed his house. The recorder survived and was recovered. Make sure you turn up the sound!

 

[Anthony Petito]

You should really think about renaming the picture when posting it. The picture was named xenia1.jpg

 

[Khristian Snyder]

^^aww...u gave it away :lol:

 

[Doug Lee]

Originally posted by Sam Sagnella
What's a torando? :lol:

That's what a guy with dyslexic fingers calls a tornado!

I knew this might be easy to someone to guess this one.

And you're supposed to guess, and not use the properties box. If you own a book with the pic, that's okay. These "guess the tornado" threads are an exercise to see how acquainted you are with tornado history, not how much you kmopw about computers.

It's Joe's turn to post one!

BTW, I like to see I'm not the only one on here who catches spelling errors. But sometimes, I don't take take the time to proofread my own posts.

 

[Joe Nield]

Originally posted by Skip Talbot
God, that looks scary. That's one you want to bag with a telephoto lens.

"YOU CAN REALLY FEEEEEL IT WITH A TELEPHOTO LENS!!"

Ok, I'll stop. Guess away. This one's pretty easy, though.

[Broken External Image]:http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/images/big/wea00217.jpg

 

[Andrew Geil]

See a bug? Call pest control. Awesome sign!


Oh, there'sa tornado there.

 

[Robert Dewey]

Midway, Indiana - Palm Sunday '65 (F4)

My neck of the woods!

 

[Kurt Hulst]

I thought it was elkhart IN. Bob H whats your thoughts

 

[Robert Dewey]

Originally posted by Kurt Hulst
I thought it was elkhart IN. Bob H whats your thoughts

Yes, you are correct... It was Elkhart/Goshen -- Midway was the name of a trailer park it struck