we are not proving him wrong. we are telling him not to slander a "disaster" thread.
Any word on that?
Actually yes it is, Tornadoes come out of thunderstorms quite by surprise. The problem here isn't that they mysteriously showed up (they usually do) but where it showed up. That being said, odd tornadoes have shown up way out of Tornado Alley. Staten Island, New York about 20 years ago, and only 10 years ago here in Pennsylvania, we had an F3 tear up a national park. There have been at least 5 tornadoes in my area in the last 15 years, even though I'm not in tornado alley.
Indeed. I live in California, and I've lived to see some small tornados rip their way through the land North of LA. Of course, we DO get the earthquakes, but they're not as frequent or destructive as you'd think. Most of them are tiny if you feel them at all, maybe enough to make waves in your pool, or get the chandeleir to swing a little. And I live maybe 20 minutes West of part of the San Andreas Fault. The only major Earthquake I ever exprienced was in kindergarten during the infamous Northridge Quake, when we lived in the heart of the OC. Of course, I slept through all but the last ten seconds of that quake...
The reason why Katrina was so powerful was because of the Edy's current, which resides in the Gulf of Mexico. Katrina downgraded to a category 3 shortly after it left the Edy's current.
