Tornado hits Birmingham

Post by **Loopz** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:25 pm

Those who know me know i have a bit of a thang for Tornadoes so i was naturally peed off to miss out on witnessing the 2nd tornado in Brum in 10 years

details here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west ... 725279.stm

Pooka · Post by **Pooka** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:33 pm

Bloomin ell!

The climate is getting well weird now.
Just waiting for a volcano to erupt in Epsom now.

Post by **Loopz** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:14 pm

UK has more tornadoes per square mile than the USA. The difference is the size and they last seconds! Unusual to get one in a city though...

Post by **Loopz** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:45 pm

Post by **Loopz** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:57 pm

Video Footage of the twister

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs ... 726103.stm

Dog · Post by **Dog** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:35 pm

Did it improve the place? Must've been a shift in the tropical climate

Post by **Loopz** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:15 pm

i think we had the same joke when we had the earthquake

and the last tornado

Also Mr Solitude...It does help to have a warm climate to get this twisters

Miss Behavin · Post by **Miss Behavin** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:24 pm

I'm gonna take u to see one Mr Loopz - u know being ur No1 worshipper I'll make it happen

Kagey · Post by **Kagey** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:06 am

Hope you didn't loose to many of your precious Palm tree's
unlike me

My beloved tree outside met the road today
Had yet another roadblock at either end of my driveway

quite amusing having the Police lift the courdon so i could get my car out of my drive

discocyst · Post by **discocyst** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:13 am

of course it would have to land in kings heath wouldn't it... just at the end of my bloody road!!

i've lost 2 bushes from the back garden and our fence is knackered!! it also ripped the roof of greggs... pasties all over the place!!

Post by **Loopz** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:46 am

Was u there when it happened Mr Dem ?

little twin star · Post by **little twin star** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:29 am

poo - u must be well p*ssed off.. i know how much u like tornado's

discocyst · Post by **discocyst** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:41 am

Loopz wrote:Was u there when it happened Mr Dem ?

no, i was at work, had to bloody walk home from the city centre too.. some bloke video'd it with his mobile from the pub though, it looked pretty mad, wished i'd had seen it too!!

Post by **Loopz** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:20 pm

Tam - you can imagine! I drove from work through Brum to take a look at the damage but the traffic was bad. I ended up heading towards Walsall where i could see the storm in the distance. It still looked evil

Dem - Is that the same mobile phone video on the bbc website ? or is it ya mates ? send it me!

discocyst · Post by **discocyst** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:05 pm

no, it wasn't the one on the bbc site, it wasn't as good as that, i haven't got it, this bloke on the next table was showing it to his mates and i asked him if i could see it. it was almost like snow or something, leaves and rubbish and all sorts or crap flying round, was just a bit further down the high street to that picture of the card shop