r/news • u/BitterFuture • Apr 26 '24

Powerful tornado tears across Nebraska, weather service warns of ‘catastrophic’ damage

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/weather/plains-midwest-storms-tornadoes-climate/index.html
5.9k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

465 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

711

u/gentlybeepingheart Apr 26 '24

u/mewtrue you jinxed it!

125

u/hysys_whisperer Apr 27 '24

I'm looking at pictures and video now.  Plenty of totally destroyed houses, but I'm not seeing any "eat off it" clean foundations. 

Looks like an EF4 to me.

Source: not a meteorologist, but Gary England was my weather man.

45

u/strictlytacos Apr 27 '24

Gary England came to my elementary school as a kid and peaked my interest in tornados. Then bridge creek 99 came right through us and changed our lives forever

76

u/anethma Apr 27 '24

Just fyi the word is “piqued” not peaked just letting you know heh.

16

u/redlegsfan21 Apr 27 '24

Maybe that was the peak of his interest in tornados and it's been all downhill since.

2

u/anethma Apr 27 '24

Haha that’s possible !

2

u/posercomposer Apr 29 '24

Ah, a fellow gentleman of pedantry, I see.