something so loud you cannot even hear your own screams is something that honestly is probally the most terrifying thing you can ever go through, let alone losing your leg.
In my area, had two cyclones that knocked out power in my area and we just got it back earlier today. But an F5 is something I could not imagine going through
I feel like sometimes it may not be said enough, but this channel is really something unique, that you can't find elsewhere on youtube, I really appreciate the work you do, bringing the stories and experiences of these people to light and giving them a platform to talk about the things that normally gets left out when regular media covers these sorts of events.
My partner endured the Joplin tornado as well. He gets really antsy during tornado season but I’m glad that me watching the radar and giving him updates helps him feel better. Knowing so many people personally affected by tornadoes and then moving out of the valley is surreal. Not many people seem to know much about them, let alone the personal level at which it can impact people-on a regular basis too. It’s understandable, considering how much tornadoes shape the areas that they affect on basically a cultural level. It feels so much more different to experience it and hear accounts from friends than to see it in the news or etc. I’m hoping that when I move back I can work within meteorology and help funding for severe weather relief. Thank you for sharing your stories with us, and thanks Azeal for helping spread the word as usual 💕
Bruh, I remember hearing about Pogo's story and how he was still pulling debris from his body a decade after the tornadoes. 😭 That's so crazy to hear his story again in VR Chat. Glad he is doing well today. ❤
I remember coming home from elementary school, and seeing this happen on TV, I felt so scared for all the people that where in it. I'm so grateful my dad came to Joplin to help clean up, and him coming home and showing me and mom the damage we where in shock, I do hope everyone now is doing better. Edit: I live in KC MO so we where also under a tornado watch or warning I never asked.
As a Missourian it definitely is common practice to just ignore tornado watches and warnings, since it feels like they happen every other day. But damn it's terrifying to imagine just the off chance that you'll be hit by something so utterly catastrophic
I also went through the Joplin F5 tornado. I was on the outskirts of the town, so I wasn't in the path of the tornado. But I was there for the aftermath. I saw places destroyed, went to a food drive, knew of a professor who passed away in the tornado. My brother told me years later that he and my mom was supposed to be at the Walmart that was destroyed by the storm, but that my younger sibling stopped them from going because they kept putting off taking a bath.
I remember driving through what happened after the joplin tornado when it got hit... I was playing on a GBA and when we arrived in joplin I turned the game off and looked out the window as we drove around what happened. So much destruction and trees down...
The freight train thing is very real. In all of my research on F5/EF5 tornadoes, most people say it DIDN'T sound like a freight train, and it sounds far worse.
It’s awesome to find videos that talk about the single most traumatic and life changing experience of my life. I honestly never thought you’d upload a story about this storm but here we are.
I feel like not enough people know how powerful tornadoes actually are. An EF4 tornado can pick up a metal dumpster (yes, those blue ones), pick it up, fold it, and wrap it around a tree. That's just one example, and EF4s are WEAKER then F5s (and yes there is a difference between EF and F), so these guys really went through hell, and that's an understatement. And the most shocking part of tornadoes is that all of the damage was done effectively by nothing but wind, just absurdly strong wind. I really hope both of the people interviewed here are doing alright now, tornadoes are very traumatizing and there's been incidents where some people unfortunately take their own lives after surviving Edit: Turns out they went through one of the very few EF5s in existence, so they went through the worst of the worst. EF5s can dig TRENCHES in the ground and rip PAVEMENT off of roads and they can also break into basements in very bad cases (yes, seriously). Both of them are very lucky to be alive
Severe weather is a wild thing. Hurricanes and tornados are unpredictable. Tornados can take hard turns or do 180. Hurricanes do eye replacement cycles and rapidly intensify dropping pressure to 900 ish mmb. Things like Joplin and Moore are historic events.
Models aren't perfect, scientist work with what they have. These storms are unpredictable. It pisses me off when people who don't know a thing about meteorology. Start conspiracy theories about this stuff. Becuses it hurts actual people and makes science communication all that much harder.
I was 10 minutes (around 5 miles) south of Joplin at the time of the storm. It was THE SCARIEST STORM I've ever saw. The giant F5 tornado was just one of MANY vortexs in that storm. I remember seeing these long tendril like things come down from the clouds as if a giant cloud tentacle kaiju was reaching out with its claws, licking the tree tops. I was cowering on my dad's backyard deck just amazed in awe at the sheer power I was witnessing. "Oh god, please go back up!!" I thought and the snake like clouds would slip back up into the boiling mass of lime grey vapors of a black ceiling.
I lived thru a derecho and hurricane Beryl this year. I'm still shaken up by the Derecho to the point where I kept checking the weather multiple times per day. Its getting better but I've never lived thru a derecho before. They are very rare in my state.
I wasn't hit directly by the Joplin EF5, but at the time I lived in the area, maybe an hour away, and felt the same storm. I remember going outside with my family some time after the sirens had stopped. Occupied by the golf ball sized hail in the lawn, we didn't know what had just went down at the time. Either the next day or a few days later we drove to Joplin to see what had happened. I was pretty young, so it didn't really affect me, but there aren't many sights quite as sureal as tornado aftermath.
This was an amazing story to listen to.... As always, your videos are a treat and further my understanding of the unique paths people can take in life.
I drove through Joplin about two hours before the F5 hit that day on my way out to DC with family. I lived in southeast Kansas at the time, so our route took us straight through the center of town. Had no idea what happened until we got to a hotel after dark. It's difficult to exaggerate just how psychotically fast our midwest weather can turn to absolute hell. It was clear skies when we passed through. Twister was not there, and then it was there.
I had a home building company in IL when this happened . We tried to help with houses but they would not allow outside contractors. They only wanted cash.
As someone who’s from a tornado prone area in the south east aka Dixie alley, I’ve had my fair share of close calls with tornadoes primarily in 2011 during the super outbreak when I was 10. I put the Joplin EF5 up there with the Jarrell F5 as being the most sinister evil tornadoes. I’ve always said this to a few friends who we plan on making a storm chasing team together. “I hope to never encounter a tornado like Joplin or jarrell” It also sickens me at how our government responds to such disasters.
How houses are built in the US it reminds me of the three little pigs story and how the wolf blows the houses away. In my country the houses survive just find cad 5 hurricanes, but some times the ground gives away because of the water and that takes the houses away.
179$ is still ridiculous i said what i said, this video angered me for the right reasons 😭😭 loved watching it w u in popcorn palace azeal glad to see ur content is back love u fox man dad
Hey quick question. How is the UAE the same thing as Saudi Arabia? I mean they’re literally different countries. (I realize there might be some financial control-type thing, but still.)
something so loud you cannot even hear your own screams is something that honestly is probally the most terrifying thing you can ever go through, let alone losing your leg.
In my area, had two cyclones that knocked out power in my area and we just got it back earlier today. But an F5 is something I could not imagine going through
Washington State?
@@vJř-b3u probably, but oregon was affected too
@@vJř-b3u yep
“ it’s just a leg” wow… my heart breaks and I’m in awe in that strength!
That moment was so powerful to hear in the recording, truly harrowing
I feel like sometimes it may not be said enough, but this channel is really something unique, that you can't find elsewhere on youtube, I really appreciate the work you do, bringing the stories and experiences of these people to light and giving them a platform to talk about the things that normally gets left out when regular media covers these sorts of events.
That intro was metal af...
My partner endured the Joplin tornado as well. He gets really antsy during tornado season but I’m glad that me watching the radar and giving him updates helps him feel better. Knowing so many people personally affected by tornadoes and then moving out of the valley is surreal. Not many people seem to know much about them, let alone the personal level at which it can impact people-on a regular basis too. It’s understandable, considering how much tornadoes shape the areas that they affect on basically a cultural level. It feels so much more different to experience it and hear accounts from friends than to see it in the news or etc. I’m hoping that when I move back I can work within meteorology and help funding for severe weather relief.
Thank you for sharing your stories with us, and thanks Azeal for helping spread the word as usual 💕
no horror stories can compare to the raw terrible power the earth is capable of
no horror compares to being small in such a large universe, subject to the laws of physics
Bruh, I remember hearing about Pogo's story and how he was still pulling debris from his body a decade after the tornadoes. 😭
That's so crazy to hear his story again in VR Chat. Glad he is doing well today. ❤
I remember coming home from elementary school, and seeing this happen on TV, I felt so scared for all the people that where in it. I'm so grateful my dad came to Joplin to help clean up, and him coming home and showing me and mom the damage we where in shock, I do hope everyone now is doing better.
Edit: I live in KC MO so we where also under a tornado watch or warning I never asked.
As a Missourian it definitely is common practice to just ignore tornado watches and warnings, since it feels like they happen every other day. But damn it's terrifying to imagine just the off chance that you'll be hit by something so utterly catastrophic
Azeal on a roll with these uploads. Keep up the good work, I love every video.
True
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I also went through the Joplin F5 tornado. I was on the outskirts of the town, so I wasn't in the path of the tornado. But I was there for the aftermath. I saw places destroyed, went to a food drive, knew of a professor who passed away in the tornado.
My brother told me years later that he and my mom was supposed to be at the Walmart that was destroyed by the storm, but that my younger sibling stopped them from going because they kept putting off taking a bath.
I remember driving through what happened after the joplin tornado when it got hit... I was playing on a GBA and when we arrived in joplin I turned the game off and looked out the window as we drove around what happened. So much destruction and trees down...
The freight train thing is very real. In all of my research on F5/EF5 tornadoes, most people say it DIDN'T sound like a freight train, and it sounds far worse.
What a terrifying experience...
An f5...
(Remembers the movie "twister") (the one with the mini-drones and the Tornado hunters...)
*_OH._*
It’s awesome to find videos that talk about the single most traumatic and life changing experience of my life. I honestly never thought you’d upload a story about this storm but here we are.
I feel like not enough people know how powerful tornadoes actually are. An EF4 tornado can pick up a metal dumpster (yes, those blue ones), pick it up, fold it, and wrap it around a tree. That's just one example, and EF4s are WEAKER then F5s (and yes there is a difference between EF and F), so these guys really went through hell, and that's an understatement. And the most shocking part of tornadoes is that all of the damage was done effectively by nothing but wind, just absurdly strong wind. I really hope both of the people interviewed here are doing alright now, tornadoes are very traumatizing and there's been incidents where some people unfortunately take their own lives after surviving
Edit: Turns out they went through one of the very few EF5s in existence, so they went through the worst of the worst. EF5s can dig TRENCHES in the ground and rip PAVEMENT off of roads and they can also break into basements in very bad cases (yes, seriously). Both of them are very lucky to be alive
Severe weather is a wild thing. Hurricanes and tornados are unpredictable. Tornados can take hard turns or do 180. Hurricanes do eye replacement cycles and rapidly intensify dropping pressure to 900 ish mmb. Things like Joplin and Moore are historic events.
Models aren't perfect, scientist work with what they have. These storms are unpredictable. It pisses me off when people who don't know a thing about meteorology. Start conspiracy theories about this stuff. Becuses it hurts actual people and makes science communication all that much harder.
Going through Joplin is crazy. There aren’t many tornadoes that are worse to get hit by than Joplin
I was 10 minutes (around 5 miles) south of Joplin at the time of the storm. It was THE SCARIEST STORM I've ever saw. The giant F5 tornado was just one of MANY vortexs in that storm. I remember seeing these long tendril like things come down from the clouds as if a giant cloud tentacle kaiju was reaching out with its claws, licking the tree tops. I was cowering on my dad's backyard deck just amazed in awe at the sheer power I was witnessing. "Oh god, please go back up!!" I thought and the snake like clouds would slip back up into the boiling mass of lime grey vapors of a black ceiling.
I lived thru a derecho and hurricane Beryl this year. I'm still shaken up by the Derecho to the point where I kept checking the weather multiple times per day. Its getting better but I've never lived thru a derecho before. They are very rare in my state.
I wasn't hit directly by the Joplin EF5, but at the time I lived in the area, maybe an hour away, and felt the same storm. I remember going outside with my family some time after the sirens had stopped. Occupied by the golf ball sized hail in the lawn, we didn't know what had just went down at the time. Either the next day or a few days later we drove to Joplin to see what had happened. I was pretty young, so it didn't really affect me, but there aren't many sights quite as sureal as tornado aftermath.
This was an amazing story to listen to....
As always, your videos are a treat and further my understanding of the unique paths people can take in life.
I drove through Joplin about two hours before the F5 hit that day on my way out to DC with family. I lived in southeast Kansas at the time, so our route took us straight through the center of town.
Had no idea what happened until we got to a hotel after dark. It's difficult to exaggerate just how psychotically fast our midwest weather can turn to absolute hell. It was clear skies when we passed through. Twister was not there, and then it was there.
I had a home building company in IL when this happened . We tried to help with houses but they would not allow outside contractors. They only wanted cash.
So many videos lately, love listening to these while i am playing videogames, always good stories to tell
As someone who’s from a tornado prone area in the south east aka Dixie alley, I’ve had my fair share of close calls with tornadoes primarily in 2011 during the super outbreak when I was 10.
I put the Joplin EF5 up there with the Jarrell F5 as being the most sinister evil tornadoes.
I’ve always said this to a few friends who we plan on making a storm chasing team together.
“I hope to never encounter a tornado like Joplin or jarrell”
It also sickens me at how our government responds to such disasters.
10:17 the UAE is not Saudi Arabia they are two completely separate countries
added a blur to remove the incorrect information, should be changed soon
Ty@@Azeal
How houses are built in the US it reminds me of the three little pigs story and how the wolf blows the houses away.
In my country the houses survive just find cad 5 hurricanes, but some times the ground gives away because of the water and that takes the houses away.
I want so badly to watch this but it is 11:43 thank you for peak content to ruin your sleep schedule to azeal
New Azeal video dropped, I'm strapping in with the pizza for lunch
Yoooo :3
@Azeal I got the stuff now, if I don't finish I'll be strapping in later at night with popcorn
That is a GOOOOOOD thumbnail
Aww thank you!!
@@AzealI concur
new azeal video, this video is so scary, though
179$ is still ridiculous i said what i said, this video angered me for the right reasons 😭😭
loved watching it w u in popcorn palace azeal glad to see ur content is back love u fox man dad
ly2 gamer
YAY!!! Hello @Azeal. Hope you're well
Azeal tornado video!!!!!!!!
gonna fall asleep to this
Worked
Makes me ask why i pay large tax on my minimum wage employ pay cheaks for government when this is wat they do
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Interesting
is there any way to submit my story other than your website? it just doesn't work in my country :(
Hey quick question. How is the UAE the same thing as Saudi Arabia? I mean they’re literally different countries. (I realize there might be some financial control-type thing, but still.)
UAE Qatar and Bahrain are all kinda the same Arabian oil states
world name?
New video lets go
IM EARLYYYY LETS GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Here first!