The Most Shocking and Destructive Natural Disasters | Code Red Compilation | Earth Stories

I lost family to the tornado that hit Ky in early 2012. They're nothing to scoff at, beautiful and terrifying at the same time. You ever get a warning and told to seek shelter don't try to be the one that thinks they can get closer or get a better look.

Imagine being on a plane on the tarmac. I'd have shat my pants.

I've lived in SW Missouri and SC Kansas. I can tell you if you do not have a storm shelter it's only a matter of time.Cant afford it? Dig It yourself work on it when you can afford it just do it!!!

I was in a EF 4 tornado in May of 1982,Marion Il. It was at 315 pm. on a Saturday,it leveled 2 schools,a bank an apartment complex etc... Stayed on the ground for some 13 miles,never forget it!

I was right in the middle and survived the Joplin MO tornado while helping do search and rescue through it all. We had no warning, no alarms, no weather updates, and it was just a beautiful ordinary day then all hell broke loose. I lost so many friends, and several individuals I knew that cant be imagined. I cant express how important being prepared while also being diligent is so important with storms being unpredictable. I still reside in Joplin MO and do not plan on moving.

I'm currently laying in bed wondering how much wind it takes to pluck a chicken.

I moved from CA to Tornado Alley, fairly recently, and having never experienced a tornado before, or ever really even given tornado activity a second thought, I can tell you, I certainly learned quickly, and that naive outlook got permanently erased! I'll never forget my first, and profoundly defining experience! I remember speaking to my dad, at about 8am, one morning, and I said, "something's wrong, Dad...It's still dark out." Nonetheless, I continued on, nonchalantly, with my day, remaining in my state of blissful ignorance, only to find myself, both, shocked, and terrified, about an hour later, as an EF3 tornado crossed the highway, directly in front of my car. I have, since, educated myself, extensively, so I have the necessary awareness to keep myself safe, at all times, and luckily, I also have a large, underground storm shelter, on my property, that is, now, always prepped for emergencies! I am grateful for that eye-opening, and humbling experience, though, and I feel fortunate that I escaped, what could have been, a terrible fate!

My dad was a police officer in Lacy Lakeview Tx when the Jarrell Tx tornado hit in '97. When the Jarrell Tx tornado hit, he volunteered for a rescue/relief effort. He said the unfortunate thing about the Jarrell Tornado, is it was a little town off of I-35, and most of the parents to children were out of town at work, so there was no way for them to be saved. He said while a lot of people obviously lived, it felt like it wasn't a rescue effort, but rather a "piece people together" type of situation. He said the most haunting thing of it was just seeing body parts scattered everywhere, and he's still haunted by it to this day.

Heyyy i recognize some of pecos hank’s footage in there! Right on!

In the 1980s, a devastating tornado came dangerously close to my grandmother's house in Missouri. I've never encountered a sound as deafening in my entire life; it was undeniably terrifying. Mother Nature is the only force that truly instills fear in me

" Wild Tornadoes"... Aren't they all wild? Never heard of a domesticated tornado..

What breaks my heart is all the helpless animals that die in these tragedies. Major fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, flash flooding, earthquakes humans can leave and know what those sirens mean but what about the animals

I was in a farm house 5 miles from bobcayon here in ontario when it got hit. The rain was going sideways window blew in. I got a go bag together and the dogs close, slept near the basement door. Scary shite.

The statement made by one of the contributors about the chances of experiencing a tornado mixed with the expanse of land are slim(my word) reminded me of an interview of a man who just had his home damaged, IIRC, in 2022 in OK. It surprised me when he stated he has lived in OK all of his life (so far) 60+ yrs and that was the first time he'd ever saw a tornado. As I mentioned it surprised me to hear that as, I guess I was so used to hearing tornado followed by OK in the same sentence, that, I wondered how could he not have saw a tornado, living in OK.

It has always amazed me that a school district, in tornado alley, will pay thousands and thousands of dollars on gymnasiums and football fields but will not make sure there is adequate shelter in their schools from these tornados. When I was in school, many moons ago, in Texas, they taught us to go into the hallway and put a book over our head. Really? Like that is going to protect you? And that hallway becomes a massive vacuum. Yeah, lol, that book is really going to help you. I sport a scar on my forehead from 26 stitches after a tornado came through. I live in Oklahoma now, lol, not any safer from the naders. lol

An EF-4 hit right outside of my town in Colorado a few years back. I lived up at 10000 feet and that sucker didn’t care. Craziest part was that there was a forest fire where it hit. Made things far far worse. Ended up propagating the fire an extra couple hundred acres. I don’t think there was any loss of life, but there were crews out there working to contain the original 40000 acre fire. Talk about apocalyptic.

Funny because in Missouri we don’t have 30 minute warning of a tornado with sirens nor alarms. Sure we have like 3 or 4 hour alert on the phone, but anything can change between those hours

See to me when you base the tornado on how much damage it did that means you're kind of basing it also on how well a structure was built and maybe even how well it withstood the test of time which are two things I don't think should be in the mix of categorizing the tornado

"We actually dont know the last processes that really make a storm form a tornado" Fascinating. So intriguing. It's like storm chasers are trying to track and quantify chaos

Love a good heavy duty thunderstorm.. filmed one at my house that I thought was gonna take my roof off. Can’t wait for the next one.