OT- Tornado in Montebello, CA, Everyone OK? Options

[ClayPerrine]

I just saw on the news there was a EF1 tornado in Montebello, CA.

I know y'all aren't used to tornados, so I wanted to check on you. Even baby tornadoes like this can be scary if you have never seen one.

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Seriously, is everyone OK?

[wonkipop]

we get them here. but not USA scale.
i knew i had a set of photos on file.
found them.
back in 2015. up at one of my jobs.
it was attempting to form.
didn't go full funnel and hit the ground.
but it was spinning up.
went very dark mid morning.
went outside as i wondered what was going on.
fortunately it was tracking laterally and not coming at the house.
up in northern victorian in an area of australia very similar to the midwest.

a couple of years before the late construction stages of the project a funnel hit the ground only a couple of miles from here and did a lot of damage.
i joked with my client that he lives in tornado alley.

the strongest ones here are recorded at F3.
don't get close to the size of monster storms of mid west USA.
still can kill you if it happens to go right over you.
its virtually impossible to engineer anything to resist the wind forces of these things.
even the less powerful ones.