Okay, so I just watched this video? And my PTSD from growing up in tornado alley Alabama just jumped into overdrive. This completely engrossing video was shot by a guy who witnessed the birth of the tornado that ravaged Oklahoma and took dozens of lives. At :50 you see it coming out of the sky, by 2:00 you’re crapping your pants and by 3:00 your crap is crapping itself. Say what you will about the man who stuck around to shoot this, but you can’t say he isn’t brave. The man’s son introduced this on Reddit thusly:
He was out that way for work today and just happened to be in the right place at the right time. He was worried it was going to come back at him and was searching for a way to scoot out it’s way once he was able to gauge how insanely close it was to him. He hung in there, though. Unbelievable.
Unbelievable is an understatement.
HOW THE SHIT DOES HE STAY COMPLETELY SILENT THROUGH WHAT SHOULD HAVE FELT LIKE HIS RAPIDLY IMPENDING DEATH?
Jesus. I know you’re about to get killed by a tornado and shit but can you aim the camera at the tornado, please? I want to see it.
Not to make light (but I suppose I am), he should’ve provided a soundtrack. If you were filming this, what music would you use in the background? (Don’t say Yakkety Sax!)
Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World’ would fit nicely.
Phillip Glass, Pruitt Igoe
Krieg’s “Hall of the Mountain King.”
Apparently his cajones of steel kept him firmly rooted to the ground. Jesus.