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Ya sport, maybe you should shut the window. Real genius at work here.

I've seen inside a tornado. Not quite as intense as the one in the video. But I figured that while I'm there, I'll have a good look. Not like there's anywhere to hide at that point.

I was eating pizza in a parking lot in Canton when one dropped out of the sky. I had my dad on the phone and this was the conversation.


Me: "are you at grandpas yet? I stopped for pizza" (grandpas is a mile from where I am sitting)


Dad: "yup just got there".


Me: "Well I bought the jeep and am currently eating pizza in it and..... What the fuck......That....looks...like a tornado" ...


ME: "whole shit" (pizza goes out the window) "THAT IS A FUCKING TORNADO AND ITS COMING RIGHT AT ME!!!"


ME: "DAD, i AM GETTING THE FUCK OUT OF HERE, YOU GET THE PARENTS IN THE THE BASEMENT!!!"


That was a scary day.

Last year I watched the show that guy is on, "Storm Chasers" on Discovery. It was a good show. There's lots of people that chase tornados just for the thrill, or to make a buck, but there's also a lot of legit meteorologists that are doing great work out there. I don't remember if the guy in the video is a meteorologist, I think he might be. Anyway, it may look (and be) stupid, but thanks to guys like this (with the proper equipment of course) a lot of good data has been collected.