TC Larry

[den]

Cyclone Larry (cat.5, 290kph winds) is battering Innisfail and Cairns right now. The eye passed ove Innisfail ay 8.30 (7.30 EST) Good luck up there.

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I almost got a look at the '98 Nashville tornado up-close-and-personal. I was working downtown, in an office on the 15th floor, and like a bunch of idiots we were all watching it approach out the office window. About the same time my sense of self-preservation belatedly kicked in, the "move to the stairwells" alarm went off and everyone went, "Oh shit, yeah, that's a tornado!"

I remember two things vividly: watching it pass over the Nashville Electric Service building and the searing blue flashes of transformers blowing up one after the other; and seeing something that looked, at first glance, like a piece of paper blowing around in the air currents -- only to realize that it was actually an entire plate-glass window blowing around in the air currents, and probably half a mile away.