SuperTornado: Anatomy of a MegaDisaster
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May 22nd, 2011. A powerful tornado cut a mile-wide swath through Joplin, Missouri. It was the costliest tornado disaster in history, with insured losses close to two billion dollars. It was also one of the deadliest, with 161 lives lost… and one thousand injured. The scale of the Joplin disaster drew teams of scientists hoping to find out what made this storm so destructive. And what can be done to protect communities and people in the future. What did they learn by peering inside the violent realm of a Super Tornado?
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Don't think 2 million dollars is that much considering the size of the tornado
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A beautifully done video with regard to tornado modeling, and especially where it explains the effects of rear flank downdraft.
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Frodo Baggins lived in the right house.
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Don't build houses from wood?
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Thank you for your hard work....
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What's the name of the track during the closing credits?
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bravo to Donald Sutherland for that phenomenal narration job.
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All that destruction would be minimalized if Amuricans built their houses from bricks and not from paper mache.
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Why does everyone like this narrator? He puts me to sleep. Yes, he's got a great voice but his delivery is beyond lifeless. I wish everything was narrated by Mike Rowe or Morgan Freeman.
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HOLY CRAP DAT TORNADO WAS BIG
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The Joplin Tornado was a hoax set up by NASA, George Bush, Obama, and the Illuminati to distract us from the New World Order.
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Awesome quality video space rip! the narrator smooth voice keeps your attention throughout the piece. I would pay for more high quality vids like this. thank you!!
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Reminds me of the twister that ripped thru Bowling Green OH on May 2 1983
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SuperTornado MegaDisaster .....
sounds like a rock band consisting of 15-years olds roleplaying as anime characters in a shounen in their free time -
legal trolololo
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The narrator is Dick Rodstein, who sounds much like Gregory Peck...
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Damn, nature you scary.
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This presenter of SpaceRip documentary, that you can hear; as well as the people that puts this footage, photographs and simulations etc.: the job that they do as absolutely awesome.
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F14 probs
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The Storm needed a name; Barack Insane Obummer sounds befitting, don't you think?
How the dickens did you Americans allow such a toxic, 3rd world pest to rule over you?? Unbelievable.
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