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Tornado at airport

#1 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun May 09, 2021 2:08 am

The last place you want strong winds is midst parked aircraft. A low end EF1 tornado (despite the hyperbole in the report link) was enough to get some aircraft temporarily flying at Fairfield County in South Carolina Airport.

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#2 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sun May 09, 2021 2:16 am

Must have been a trailer park nearby.
Tornadoes are attracted to them.

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#3 Post by llondel » Sun May 09, 2021 2:33 am

Or there was a Short 360 at the airport which confused the tornado.

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#4 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sun May 09, 2021 2:36 am

At least a 360 will fly without the assistance of a tornado. :ymdevil:

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Re: Tornado at airport

#5 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun May 09, 2021 6:37 am

Sadly tornadoes, for all those affected, seem to be a part of spring in some states and counties in spring for you folks in the USA, but at least they give ugly foreigners, like me, the opportunity to smile gently at the local naming conventions of the places, that he will never visit, but that they seem apt to hit. There is always a creek in the mix like "the tornado crossed Turtle Pecker Road, paralleled Gum Springs Drive but dissipated before Little Cedar Creek, which was destroyed in the F4 that hit in 1998".

Midst the tragic aftermath, there is always some poor soul thanking Jesus for saving him or her, which leaves this horrible South African cynic thinking "why didn't Jesus just up the ante and not allow the bloody tornado to start in the first place!"...

We get tornadoes back in SA, some of them severe but nowhere near as many severe ones as you poor souls in the US get on an annual basis...

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Re: Tornado at airport

#6 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun May 09, 2021 9:15 am

Trying to find the footage of the Harrismith tornado hitting the airfield (EF3 doing its worst) but these will have to do...



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