2 Semis drive into tornado

I wonder if it hurts to be that stupid?

Anyway, my brother lives in Grinnell and here’s a couple pics he sent last night. He had some light damage to his house but everything west of him got wiped out.

 

Jesus. First the drivers are idiots. You see a tornado you in order of good ideas

A. Find the first place you can turn around regardless of where or what it is well before you get to it and go the other way.
B. Stop as soon as you see the clouds begining to spin and stay the hell away from it.
C. Find something you can hide under. Like say....a bridge that wont be sucked up.
D. Find a drainage ditch pipe and crawl inside.
E. Find a low spot with ANYTHING you can tie onto and try to get below ground level if at all posible.


Glad they survived but im having a hard time feeling bad for getting hurt for driving INTO a #### tornado. I do feel horrible for the ones that lost their homes though. I hope no one got badly hurt.

 

I got way too close to a tornado. On foot. Silo 70 yards away lost top 35’ I was in next shed. Trying to tie down doors. As wind LIFTED the door, I finally got smart and let it go. Got under cover.
As it passed, knowing my wife was in other shed I went out. Watching the curve of tornado *so I knew I was not in the eye* Glad I was wearing quality eye protection. Long sleeve jacket, sadly not leather gloves.

 

The GPS told him to keep going

 

Over the past two years I’ve been parked somewhere along I 40 either in Oklahoma or Texas and been woken up to massive storms, including tornadoes, touching down in the area about a half dozen times. Having to sit up in your front seat and put your seatbelt on at 2am in the morning when the sky is totally black seeing rain come down sideways With 60 to 80 mph winds and hail beating the crap out of your truck is a real sobering experience. I can’t imagine purposely driving into that mess.

so far, I’ve been lucky enough not to get caught directly in a tornado. But they’ve touched down right around where I’ve been parked at a number of times. And there’s really nothing any of us can do sit there and hope for the best.

 

Ive had one come within about 2 miles from me. If anyone remimbers the one in moore OK. Around 2013ish. I was on my way to deliver to a sams club. Saw it coming. Got off on the next exit. Turned around and booked it. It actully went over the exit i used to turn around on.

 

Driving right into a Tornado in front of you is next level brilliant.

Bro just earned a pre-qualification to become a Western Expess trainer.

 

Never hurts to check the weather.

 

Wonder if the one guy has enough cargo insurance to cover all those cars?