Shocking Home Video From Inside a Tornado

Shocking cell phone video has emerged from yesterday’s destructive storms in Dallas, TX. At least one tornado was confirmed, and Eric Meyers caught it on tape. The screaming leaves little doubt of where Meyers is, “We are in the tornado!”:

From CNN:

Authorities in northeast Texas were assessing damage Monday morning after a tornado destroyed homes, knocked train cars off their tracks and injured at least four people.

Five homes in Rice, Texas, were destroyed as 125 mph winds whipped through a seven-mile swath of Navarro County Sunday evening, said Eric Meyers, the county’s emergency management coordinator.

Meyers rode out the tornado inside a vehicle and videotaped the twister as it tore the roof off a school about a block away.

“We are in the tornado! We are in the tornado!” Meyers yells several times in the video.

“The sheer power was just amazing,” Meyers said in an interview Monday on CNN’s “American Morning” program.

Authorities in northeast Texas were assessing damage Monday morning after a tornado destroyed homes, knocked train cars off their tracks and injured at least four people.Five homes in Rice, Texas, were destroyed as 125 mph winds whipped through a seven-mile swath of Navarro County Sunday evening, said Eric Meyers, the county’s emergency management coordinator.

Meyers rode out the tornado inside a vehicle and videotaped the twister as it tore the roof off a school about a block away.

“We are in the tornado! We are in the tornado!” Meyers yells several times in the video.

Shocking Home Video From Inside a TornadoVideo: Tornado caught on camera

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“The sheer power was just amazing,” Meyers said in an interview Monday on CNN’s “American Morning” program.

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  • The Good Source 101
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 2:34pm

    I’m going to start yelling ” I’m in an Earthquake, I’m in an Earthquake!!!!” out here in California.

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  • WeTheHomers
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 2:29pm

    Holy flying do do Dorthy. One reason not to move from Cali to Texas.

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  • TheBees
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 2:10pm

    Where was he again? Oh yeah that’s right, IN THE TORNADO! IN THE TORNADO! IN THE TORNADO!

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  • Docrow
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 2:01pm

    Where was the flying cow?

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  • RoAdFiXeR
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 1:52pm

    I’m being over taxed….I’m being over taxed …..and still no one from Washington to help clean up the mess….

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  • Voice-O-Reason
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 1:52pm

    He should have been saying “I am not in my right mind, I am not in my right mind!”

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  • Rubicon
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 1:36pm

    That’s some scary stuff.

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  • NHABE64
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 12:35pm

    I don‘t know if this guy is nuts but whether he is or isn’t he is exactly the type of guy I would have loved to have at my back in Vietnam Hooyah!

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  • seanpatriot
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 12:09pm

    I take it, he’s IN THE TORNADO

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  • momisaverb
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 11:59am

    my friend called me from near Rice, Texas, as her kids had watched it go by their house. Amazingly, we live one hour northwest of them, and our skies were CLEAR ! I had to call it up on the weather sites to see the storm cells. The tornado was hidden in rain when it hit the interstate. I-45 so I don’t think people could tell how serious it was.

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  • Speak without Fear
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 11:51am

    Sorry for the double post

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  • Speak without Fear
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 11:49am

    All of America is experiencing a raging HURRICANE right now……..

    VOTE Nov. 2…….all commies and socialists OUT! Save America!

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  • Speak without Fear
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 11:47am

    All of America is in the middle of a raging HURRICANE right now……..

    VOTE NOV. 2……………….Out with the commies and socialists!!!!

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  • stop spending
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 11:38am

    Turn that freakin car around and drive away from it…. JEEZE !

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  • OriMai
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 11:10am

    Close but no cigar.

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  • snowleopard3200
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 11:07am

    We had a twister a few days ago here in Phoenix, saw it come down only a couple of blocks away, people were watching it and wondering what it was. I was trying to get them inside and away from the area, telling them and shouting at them, while they just stood about admiring it.

    Thank God it did not hit here, people never cease to amaze me at times just how little they really comprehend certain dangers.

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  • Dirty Harry
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 10:53am

    And your insurance premiums and mine goes up because morons like this would rather get his 15 minutes of fame on YouTube than to put his car in “D” and go elsewhere.

    I know I know, they say to not try to outrun a tornado, but I’ve lived in Tornado Alley all my life and that tornado was clearly 1 you can see ahead of time enough to get out of the way.

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  • baron94
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 10:41am

    After watching this, I came to the conclusion that as stupid as this guy was, the driver of the car going in the opposite direction (21 seconds into the video) is even more of an idiot. He drove right past the base. It‘s not like you couldn’t see this coming.

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  • ed0315
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 10:40am

    We are outside the tornado, we are outside the tornado, WE ARE OUTSIDE THE TORNADO! Damn dude, you were in your car, not the tornado.

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  • MrButcher
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 10:35am

    did you see those yocals on the other side of the road driving through the tornado?

    fools!

    that rube was just a blown object to the head away from a dirt nap

    it’s not THAT the wind is blowing. it’s WHAT the wind is blowing..

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  • SCKNTIRED
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 10:16am

    LMAO.. Glad he is ok. However I think I would have been saying something else, if you know what I mean,

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    • KimNTennessee
      Posted on October 25, 2010 at 11:56am

      I‘d been saying some things that would’ve gotten my mouth washed out by Mama. Still LMAO. I hope this didn’t seriously hurt anyone. We have them all the time around here and they are terrifying. I would’ve had that car in reverse with the pedal to the metal.

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  • NE Cowboy
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 10:00am

    I love how he thinks he’s “in the tornado” when you can actually see it in the distance in the video. And yea, your right Susan, they might want to re-think there current emergency management coordinator, IMO. Being THAT close to a tornado, he’s lucky to be alive!

    Steve

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 25, 2010 at 10:16am

      Yes not exactly “in” … but pretty darn stupid.

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  • Oh, God!
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 9:53am

    Too cool. Finished watching Storm Chasers yesterday and my adrenaline was going just watching it. Can’t imagine what it would be like if I was actually there. Mother Nature is amazing and also terrifying.

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  • SusansSS
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 9:49am

    This guy is a bubble short of level, not the brightest light on the tree. In other words, he wasn’t thinking! The LAST place to be in a tornado is in ones car! Forget the tornado picking up his car, hes lucky the wood flying around didn’t come through his car and kill him! And this guy is the county’s emergency management coordinator? I think the county might want to rethink that!

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  • kevtheatheist
    Posted on October 25, 2010 at 9:48am

    Sooo..he is in the tornado?

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    • MAULEMALL
      Posted on October 25, 2010 at 9:54am

      Dudes a stud…

      Takes a manly type of fool to jump into a Tornado..

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    • john seven eighteen
      Posted on October 25, 2010 at 10:08am

      My company salesman was driving back to Dallas when he went right past this very tornado. he took out his Blackberry and got photos of it, then high-tailed North to get the heck out of the way!

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    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 25, 2010 at 10:11am

      Simple point to the video from my perspective…see tornado coming and you run to hide in another direction below ground. Forget the car and the houses, get under cover, you only have one single life on this world.

      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (art)

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    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 25, 2010 at 10:17am

      Looked at that video a couple of more times, it seems the tornado is actually passing by in front of them, not over them, so his statement of “I’m in the tornado” is a little off…probably why he is somehow still alive – besides the grace of God himself.

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    • AProudConservative
      Posted on October 25, 2010 at 11:05am

      Where was he again?

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    • FIRED UP FREE MAN !
      Posted on October 25, 2010 at 11:19am

      For some people their dog is all they have. For an out of control government to focus on this poor old man, highlights just how out of control our leaders are. Instead of focusing on an old man and his dog, maybe they should focus on the gangs in the neighborhood, JOBS, or here is a thought, all those crooked politicians who break laws daily, and those who break their oath of office and thumb their nose at the constitution. Let’s investigate this further and see if we can’t find out who gave the order to MURDER the dog and why. Surly we could find a small piece of justice for this old man and his friend.
      Let’s give this old man JUSTICE:

      Attorneys in the State of Oklahoma

      Where can I file a complaint against an attorney licensed in the State of Oklahoma?

      The Oklahoma Bar Association was created in 1939 by the Oklahoma Supreme Court to assist the Court in the regulation of the practice of law. The association is located at 1901 N Lincoln Blvd, and can be contacted at the following address:

      P.O. Box 53036
      Oklahoma City, OK 73152-3036

      Phone: 800-522-8065 or 405-416-7000
      Fax: 405-416-7001

      FIRED UP FREE MAN !  
    • Areyoukiddingme
      Posted on October 25, 2010 at 11:42am

      Look at :30 in the video. the car that literally was “in the tornado” drives on by. i am sure a few miles down the road they stop to change their shorts.

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    • stephenb.net
      Posted on October 25, 2010 at 11:49am

      Apparently that guy…right there taking the video….yeah, he was in the tornado. He said he was so it must be true. But not really right? I mean if he was not crapping his pants he might have been more factual regarding the actual distance between his car and the tornado. He was near a tornado, way too close to a tornado for my comfort zone but he wasn’t in the tornado because not once did we hear that scary music that we know comes from the tornado that we saw in the wizard of oz. In a tornado..humph!

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    • Rick Itz
      Posted on October 25, 2010 at 12:26pm

      I am not 100% clear, was he in a Tornado??

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    • corp-mule
      Posted on October 25, 2010 at 12:59pm

      For those who say he *wasn’t really* in the tornado …he actually was. He was on the outer edge of it, not within the core of it but, none-the-less, he *was in fact* “in the tornado”. He was within the circular motion of debris around the outer edge of the tornado.

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    • LostOneironaut
      Posted on October 25, 2010 at 1:04pm

      LOL

      “we are in the tornado! we are in the tornado! we are in the tornado!” if this was a horror movie i would have expect a huge semi-trailer to fly out of nowhere and land on his car.

      verwy scarwy

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