It’s a twister, Fannie Mae!
posted at 4:21 pm on June 3, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Ever want to see a tornado up close and personal, then live to tell about it? MS-NBC has video from three perspectives in an Iowa bank last week as a twister destroys it. Fortunately, this happened on Memorial Day when the bank was closed for the holiday, so no one got injured. The cameras were less fortunate, as can be seen here:
Undoubtedly, those who have less-than-favorable loan terms may cheer at the bank’s renovation, but otherwise, this is a pretty impressive video about how a tornado destroys a structure. At least we don’t have to spend two hours putting up with Helen Hunt’s daddy issues to get to the best part.
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Ah, the planet is so fragile. Only we can save it.
Hah!
RobCon on June 3, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Wow!
kcd on June 3, 2008 at 4:27 PM
A visual metaphor with the tornado as President Obama and the bank representing the American economy?
Ed, you are a sly devil.
Bishop on June 3, 2008 at 4:27 PM
Maybe the bank was attacked because it rejects Mexican Consular Cards. Racist bank!
Weebork on June 3, 2008 at 4:28 PM
I thought that was Hill’s office after losing the Nom.
davidk on June 3, 2008 at 4:28 PM
I would have stuck with Jami Gertz personally :)
windansea on June 3, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Take that capitalism!
Chuck Schick on June 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM
That was cool footage.
Dr. Manhattan on June 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Karma for our treatment of Rev. Pfleger.
Rhinoboy on June 3, 2008 at 4:43 PM
I blame Bush!
(Someone had to say it.)
Bigfoot on June 3, 2008 at 4:53 PM
The tellers just hate it when the Tasmanian Devil comes in to deposit his paycheck.
Cicero43 on June 3, 2008 at 4:54 PM
Chili Con Permiso…
ronsfi on June 3, 2008 at 5:03 PM
Save this footage – this may be how it looks
when the Shillary entourage crashes the convention.
Timothy S. Carlson on June 3, 2008 at 5:31 PM
being from Oklahoma, this is a common thing, the house I grew up in… located in Pryor, Oklahoma. had a foundation in the pasture behind it, nestled against a nominal hill… this foundation had pipes and nails sticking out, twisted, reaching for the sky, a small reminder of what is left when a big one comes through… in Oklahoma there are many tornadoes every year, but a few are the big ones F3 and F4’s I don’t have recollection of any F5’s but I’m sure they’ve been around…
watching the video I naturally think “what would I have done?” and I just can’t say you could have done much of anything but kiss it goodbye…
Kaptain Amerika on June 3, 2008 at 5:32 PM
+1
labrat on June 3, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Amazing video footage. That’s why I keep my savings in the coffee can buried in the garden.
D’oh!
localmalcontent on June 3, 2008 at 5:40 PM
They only installed those cameras to protect the bank from criminals…they aren’t in it for the science!
Nosferightu on June 3, 2008 at 5:55 PM
About 4 or 5 years ago, we spent the night in the basement watching the weather channel as three of them converged on us from the southwest. One of them was a F-5 that completely destroyed Hallam, NE, ran along the road a mile north of us, then veered northeast to destroy a large high school and many homes. I don’t know where the other 2 went, but we didn’t get much damage. Electricity was out, and we had 8 inches of rain that night. It went on till 4:00 AM. I went over to help with the cleanup in Hallam and got my first taste of FEMA. After a day of them, we told them to get out, and we’d take care of our own. Total assholes.
a capella on June 3, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Back in the late 70’s an F5 tornado hit downtown Wichita Falls, TX late in the afternoon. As it was approaching a bank all the employees and customers hid in the bank safe and locked the safe behind them. The building was totally destroyed but the folks in the bank vault survived. Then again, a German exchange pilot at Shepard AFB was on leave that day and when the tornado was heading straight for his apartment, he ran into the laundry room and crawled into a dryer (he took great pictures of the storm as it flattened a middle school across the street that was being built) he lived with just some black and blue marks on his legs. The worst thing is to be in your car and get cought by the storm – it’s a death sentence.
Agent of the Cross on June 3, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Was that an alien peeking in the window right before the storm hit?
jdpaz on June 3, 2008 at 6:18 PM
This would never have happened if y’ll had stopped exhaling.
/algore
docdave on June 3, 2008 at 6:31 PM
That wasn’t actually a tornado. It was the tab for my recent home renovation passing through on its way to my checking account.
Blacklake on June 3, 2008 at 6:44 PM
Oh, come on; she looked pretty hot in that movie.
Jaibones on June 3, 2008 at 6:50 PM
Don’t piss off Mother Nature!
rmgraha on June 3, 2008 at 9:45 PM
Yeah there was that one scene where like 80 mile per hour winds plastered her top to her chest, it was almost like being there.
SlimyBill on June 3, 2008 at 10:28 PM
That one gave me a chuckle, thanks.
Ballistic on June 4, 2008 at 12:09 AM
Since I’m an Iowa native it really saddens me to see how much destruction took place in my home state. KCRG.com has another video that’s from a surveilance cam across the street from a house and shows the house being completely destroyed. It reminds you of just how small we really are on this planet.
Afterimage on June 4, 2008 at 10:00 AM
That was Global warming if I have ever seen it. A new Tax and a little more bureaucracy will take care of that.
koypop on June 4, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Well shake it up baby, now,
shake it up baby,
Twist and shout,
Twist and shout.
Red Pill on June 4, 2008 at 1:58 PM
Of course I realize those are different songs…
Come on baby,
Let’s do the twist…
Red Pill on June 4, 2008 at 1:59 PM
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