This dont happen in Oregon

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Re: This don't happen in Oregon

it does now
 

crazyjarhead

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Re: This don't happen in Oregon

packerbacker said:
You can avoid tornados if you also avoid mobile homes. They are tornado magnets!

I glad someone else see's the trend also. Why is that?
 

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Re: This don't happen in Oregon

i'm just glad it was a minor tornado and there were no serious injuries....tornados EF2 and higher are quite rare in ORegon....only 4 or 5 have been recorded.
 

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Re: This don't happen in Oregon

packerbacker said:
You can avoid tornados if you also avoid mobile homes. They are tornado magnets!

Mobile home parks are futurre Urban Renewal Projects assisted by tornados.
 

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Re: This don't happen in Oregon

Good pic. Tornadoes can happen anywhere. I grew up in tornado alley. You get a real healthy respect for Mother Nature after you see what one can do. Hope that's the only one you ever get. And Packerbacker, tornadoes are what make mobile homes mobile.
 

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Re: This don't happen in Oregon

great pic, yeah I was listening to the radio and heard that tornado advisory, I was like wha?
 

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Re: This don't happen in Oregon

WOW!!! I used to live on Lancaster Ave, about 10 years ago. Worked at the
Salem Rescue Mission as a Chaplain/counselor, while I was finishing school.
NEVER SAW ONE OF THOSE, THANK HEAVENS. Did it get into the city?
 

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Re: This don't happen in Oregon

crazyjarhead said:
packerbacker said:
You can avoid tornados if you also avoid mobile homes. They are tornado magnets!

I glad someone else see's the trend also. Why is that?
Back in the seventies, while on the PD, I used a large wall map of Manatee and Sarasota counties in Florida to kept track of tornados for a couple of years. (Hobby project.) I found that they would "touch-down" in a trailer park, then lift back up, only to touch-down in another trailer park a quarter mile to a mile away.

I often wondered if aluminum was the attractant. Aluminum is not a natural occuring metal. It is extracted from clay by using high voltages. I've also noticed that commercial building with aluminum roofs tend to get hit by tornados also. Something to think about.

Eagle
 

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Re: This don't happen in Oregon

I lived in Ft. Rucker, Alabama....and did a stint in Ft. Benning, Georgia.
Don't want to see any more......just reading about them brings back some very bad memories.
 

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Re: This don't happen in Oregon

In my part of the country, (Tornado alley), the old timers used to have storm cellars, now the younger generation are getting away from that, they need to reconsider.

Fossis.............
 

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