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    A Very Different View of Mother Nature

    These are just beautiful... it is hard to believe that minutes later that part of the World was about to get ripped apart...


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    This looks like tornado stuff, Widget. Is it?
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    These were sent to me as photos of Katrina, but a friend from Louisiana said they don't look like a hurricane, but rather tornados... they do look rather like the Mid-West don't they?

    Either way, they are spectacular and probably left their mark.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Widget
    Either way, they are spectacular and probably left their mark.

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    Yes, good photos. They are even more fascinating in motion. You get a strange feeling of dread and wonder all at once watching the swirl of the clouds.

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    Wow, Widget...great pics. Awesome show of nature. I read an account in my local newspaper that said the waves in Mississippi were higher than a 45 foot tall lighthouse and all of the multistory homes in the neighborhood were simply washed away....reminiscent of a tsunami. I doubt there was any amount of prevention/preparedness that man could have done to contain the flood waters...short of building a Hoover Dam type wall around the whole area.Thanks for the photos
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    I have been directly in a couple of tornadoes. When other people hid under the tables in the basements during tornado warnings, I would go to the best viewing spot. Luckily I survived my youth. One time the updrafts picked up my car and moved it into the next lane.
    The display was certainly awe inspiring and the most beautiful events I have witnessed, none quite as photogenic as Widgets photos. Most of the ones I saw were at night or low light (dusk) conditions and were mostly illuminated by all the lightning. They never had the big swirl patterns in the sky like those. Looks like something from "The day after tomorrow" movie. The photos kind of look like a remnant of a tropical storm.

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    Spectacular Yes, Katrina No

    Awesome tornado photography by Mike Hollingshead. More are located here:
    http://extremeinstability.com/photographypage.htm

    Snopes article about these specific photos:
    http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/storm.asp
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    Excellent! That makes sense, thanks for the links.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Widget
    These are just beautiful... it is hard to believe that minutes later that part of the World was about to get ripped apart...
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    WW,

    Then you will probably like the work of Leonardo Nierman; same graphic dynamics, but with fewer consequences.

    http://www.paulrich.net/nierman/paintings.html

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    Here is what a fast moving storm over water looks like.
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    And as you enter it.
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    NOT where I would want to be.......

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    That looks like what I ran into just before it got dark on tuesday while I was on I-35 near Stillwater Oklahoma? On my way home from Brownsville TX. I thought most of the storms were over with in tornado alley but I guess not.

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