Tornado (2021)

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10 pointsjoebig3 comments

It's a little strange seeing tornadoes talked about like this when they are common, occasionally tragic, but most often harmless outside a little property destruction, occurrences at home.

It is, though I suspect this is more of a difference between discussion about pretty much any big natural disaster that reaches us at a distance mostly through media reports?

Large direct hits to populated areas by natural disasters produce a lot of trauma and I imagine most of them _do_ get treatments somewhat like this, though I imagine they're usually pretty local (or at least mainly of interest to people in the area).

Someone published an entire ~50-page magazine/book (https://www.depts.ttu.edu/nwi/Pubs/ReportsJournals/The_Lubbo...) about the 1970 Lubbock tornado, and I know Houston's got at least one Hurricane Harvey book (and it wouldn't surprise me if Ike and T.S. Allison and maybe even Rita did the same).

Tornadoes are exceptional events on the Indian subcontinent: rare to the point of there being occurrences numbering roughly 50 in a recorded meteorological history of 160 years.

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