I'm surprised there hasn't been any pictures of the Jerry City bridgeI think these are the only ones I have from within Jerry City itself (it just sort of clipped the town):
There are a bunch of others from that general area though (mostly within a mile or two in either direction):
Wow...there really isn't too much content on your computer at allI don't have a lot of videos so I'm probably not the best person to ask for that specifically, but I can definitely relate to the pain of having to organize a huge hoard of material lol
For me the most important thing was to be able to quickly sort + find by date, so I landed on this for my main folder:
For outbreaks, each folder then has separate subfolders for individual tornadoes, and I use the outbreak folder itself for more general stuff that isn't attached to a specific tornado. For example, my 5/31/85 folder (the numbering is just to keep them in sequence for my article):
There's more beyond that but it's probably not useful or applicable here. Anyway, I do end up with some folders that only have like one or two photos/videos/newspaper clippings/whatever in them, but I don't really mind because it's way faster and easier to find what I need or sort and save new stuff.
Mind if you resend the photo on Imgur?Just sort of stumbled upon this one. The John Speirs farm west of Miller, SD was known as "one of the finest in the county," at least until July 1, 1928. That afternoon, a large F4 tornado swept across the property and leveled every single structure, sweeping several of them away and throwing heavy machinery up to half a mile. The photos here are quite small and don't offer a lot of detail, but the before and after is rather striking:
Btw, I assume the graphic says July 3 because that's when the photo was taken. The tornado itself occurred on July 1.
I believe Grazulis said this one was an F5
On another random note, here's a car (part of one, anyway) thrown through the roof of a house by the 6/10/58 El Dorado, KS F4:
The car was located somewhere in this area but I'm not sure exactly where it landed. I found one report that said it traveled a few blocks and another that said half a mile. El Dorado isn't all that big though so I don't think it could've been that far.
Hope you can post any of the better ones!
Yeah, his description mentions it may have reached F5 intensity but he ultimately rated it F4. I think that's fair. I haven't really seen anything that screams F5, although I also haven't really gone out of my way to look for photos. There's an anchor-bolted home here, but it's post-cleanup:
Yeah, been thinking about getting into WORM (write once, read many) media such as LTO tape drives, since, unlike flash media and external HDD's, those can't be overwritten or encrypted by ransomware and all the other crap that goes around these days. Unfortunately LTO drives can be quite pricey, aren't nearly as straightforward to set up as USB media and the tapes themselves aren't quite as rugged as one may think. Sony ODA is another potential option, and the drives use a regular USB interface, but the problem is the format is discontinued. Because of that, the prices are insane - I sure as hell ain't gonna spend $100+ per disc and $2,000+ for a drive.
Interesting note, I've been contemplating doing something like that. Such would be a massive undertaking and I'd likely need help from at least one person, but it may be an interesting idea to create some kind of web page that is a cross between (the old) YouTube and Grazulis' Significant Tornadoes. Here's a silly mockup I made in Paint:
Obviously no, it isn't possible for a tornado to lift an entire foundation base out of the ground.
Those sorts of rumors aren't uncommon with high-end tornadoes (especially in the past). It's almost always a product of people looking at where subfloors were blown away and not really understanding what they're seeing. Or occasionally it's like a thin concrete pad that's been cracked and dislodged by a large debris impact or something. It's super rare for actual slab-on-grade foundations to suffer any kind of damage, really.
So far the only time that a slab has been confirmed as completely blown away was outside of Bremen from the Mayfield tornado. And that was n't traditional slab on grade, rather slab on CMU stemwall with any anchoring tied into the slab rather than the stemwall foundation, making the slab just a subfloor on that case. Meaning (this is the theory) that the house was picked up in Eli style and pulled the slab with it.
All known footage of the May 6, 1975 Omaha tornado.
Bob Dunn's series of incredible photos. These will never not mesmerize me:
Some random damage shots. Even though the home construction was poor, the contextual damage was impressive.
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