‘Oh My God! Tornado! Tornado!’: Viral Video Shows Teen’s Freak-Out Over PA Funnel Cloud
- Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:28am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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For starters, let’s point out that a possible tornado ripped through western Pennsylvania yesterday and destroyed nearly 90 homes. Thank God, no deaths have been reported.
With that said, it’s also worth pointing out that a teen who caught early versions of that possible tornado may have created the best storm chasing video ever.
The video isn’t necessarily incredible because of what it shows — it never captures the funnel cloud reaching the ground. Rather, the video is going viral because of what you hear: a young man giving a play-by-play of the funnel cloud swirling over his house. Imagine the most excited Mexican soccer announcer you’ve ever heard coupled with the most shocking screams ever uttered at a horror-movie showing. In two parts below:
(via Buzzfeed)
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Comments (110)
teddrunk
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:27amThat was a tornado? As a kid, we wouldn’t of stopped playing baseball or football with the other neighborhood kids for that puny thing.
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Report Post »hauschild
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:25amWho in their right mind would actually click “play” and watch something so utterly foolish?
Not me. Not bitin’ on this one, but had to comment.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:24amLot’s of drooling people staring at computer monitors and iPhones…
Report Post »kathydan59
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:20amWell I must say I’d rather have kids filming something like this than some fight inside a fast food joint. That mom must have been scared to death.
Report Post »schillinfl
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:20amThat was funny! Oh my gawwwd. lol
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:11amOMG! I just saw that!!!!! Now go back in the house and take your double dose of ritalin kid.
Report Post »Skippy Toes
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:11amHuman nature is always interesting :)
Report Post »Axman
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:09amBy golly, I live in Hempfield too. I missed it, but I’m going to find the neighborhood today and observe the carnage.
Report Post »run42k
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:01amSubstitute the letters ‘UFO’ for the word ‘tornado’ and it will make it more believable. I saw a funnel cloud and he‘s screaming like it’s an F-5 ripping the town apart. Even when he‘s crying that it’s on the ground the tree in the video aren’t even moving. Something is wrong with this video.
Report Post »pennsychica
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:57amI can’t speak my mind… I’m still peeing my pants laffin! Holy mother of idiots!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA! That was funny. Poor young schmuck has no clue.
Report Post »ArmyWifeNiz
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:55amWell, I am a 33 year old grown woman, been through my share of tornadoes, and I wouldn’t even have gotten this video on tape…I would have been in the basement cowering with my food storage and a flash light while sobbing hysterically….;) GAH I hate TORNADOES!!! Gimme spiders! Gimme rats!! Anything but a tornado!
Report Post »BubbaCoop
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:55amOh the humanity!
Report Post »GhostDog51
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:51amIf he thinks THAT was a tornado I‘d hate to see what this kid thought of one of the real tornados I’ve seen down here in Texas. LOL, what a bonehead.
Report Post »ConstitutionalLibertarian
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:50amHilarious! Growing up in eastern Colorado, I’ve seen about two dozen tornadoes, one of which was an F4 that split into two separate tornadoes in the middle of our small town. What the kid saw was nothing, but it was obviously exciting for him.
Extreme weather events are all relative. I would probably get a lot more excited over, say, a small earthquake, than someone who has been through them before, since I’ve never experienced one before.
Why are we all so cynical this morning? Just enjoy the video for what it is.
Report Post »million
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:49amThe best part of the vidio was when Michell Obama went peddling by through the air on her bicycle.
Report Post »ArmyWifeNiz
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:52amZING!!! Well played!!! HAHAHAHAHA…
Report Post »brainpimp
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:48amThat makes me cry for our future.
Report Post »Smokepole
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:47amHoowy Crap, did yinz see dat freakin tornada n’at? I gawtta cawl Chuckie….
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:47amthats one of the weakest tornadoes ive seen in a while
that kid is a fine example of a sissified generation
a future metro-sexual that will panic about every global warming scam for years to come. what a wus
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:12amThat’s nothing… I see those type of tornadoes regularly in MN. JK
Report Post »moonpeace
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:47amGive me a break! What tornado? I live in Pennsylvania, and, believe me, this guy needs to get out of Pennsylvania a bit more often. What a flub!
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:46amFreaking out a bit much I say. The kid obviously has not been around long.
Report Post »StevenL1955
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:45amI’m at Mount Washington, KY, we get some twisters here, I know that kid was scared to death even at a small one. If your not used to these things it can be a mind blower, glad he’s OK. God be with him.
Report Post »Sledgehammer
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:32pmAmen!
Report Post »P-Daddy
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:39amFirst! (not exactly a bucket list item but something I’ve wanted to do)
I would pray that I never have to see a twister this up close and personal but if i do i have the presence of mind to keep my big piehole shut and let the video do the talking.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:47amBeen at the beginning of a twister here in Phoenix not too many weeks back; interesting to be on a balcony and seeing it come down, dancing away like a twist induced freak dancer, and almost hit the building you live in…very facinating.
Report Post »coshively
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:38amI can’t believe this went Viral that fast!
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:47amI can’t believe it went viral at all.
Report Post »chickenlittle
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:12amThat’s the best our young people can up with today for something to do… play videos, make videos, hunt for more videos, and play around with electronic socializing. I know first-hand what a battle it is to get today’s youth AWAY from this sort of time-wasting addiction. Their phones and ipods are this century‘s version of Linus’s blanket in the old Peanuts cartoon strips.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:37amWell, that certainly was a waste of my time…..
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:41amIt is interesting for the birth of a twister, and the revelation of the next hollywood movie star or a future polititician in the making from the sheer volume of noise.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:48amRightUnite
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:37am
Well, that certainly was a waste of my time…..
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Ditto
Report Post »ltb
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:52amI don’t know, that was pretty funny.
Report Post »unsalvageable.org
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:53amRIGHTUNITE -
Agreed… imagine how excited he must get at Christmas!
Report Post »larman
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:55amAuntie Em, Auntie Em!!!
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Kurty C Wipe
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:17amDid you see that? Did you see that? Did you see that? No really!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:18am@ walkwithme…………….im sure the storm has little to do with you worrying………….its a gene trait found in liberals
they worry incessantly about everything
Report Post »Madcat151
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:24amget over it for cripes sake its just a funnel cloud. Kids are suchs wussies these days.
Report Post »leftiesaredangerous
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:34amWas that Al Gore?
This looks and sounds like a liberal discussing global warming.
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:41amRightUnite
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:37am
Well, that certainly was a waste of my time…..
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Really… Well get yer fat arse up and get a job ya whiney twit.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:32amgood entertainment factor. hopefully no damage or harm
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 11:07amWhat was this kid doing just before the TORNADO in HEMPFIELD?
Report Post »Hempfield,…fields of HEMP?
Tornado’s ripping up Fields of Hemp
Hemp Tornado’s ?
Now THAT IS something to scream about !!!!!!!!
Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 11:48amDid anyone else see any hail the size of golf balls? I saw leaves floating down the size of golf balls, but no hail. I never saw any tornado, but I did see a funnel cloud. Talk about over-reacting.
Report Post »I guess when this kid gets nervous, he can’t shut up.
tomahawk85
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:00pmAt the end of this video I LMAF this guy reminds me somewhat of myself….. I see severe WX all the time and if I saw a tornado I would freak out too. LMAO
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:06pmI’ve seen a tornado, but I didn’t freak out. Seriously dude, get a grip.
Report Post »llleslie
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:53pmMaybe people should do some research before commenting. A tornado did touch down in Hempfield, PA. It tore the roof of the high school. It destroyed 30 homes. 90 homes total were effected. Thank God no one was hurt. The kid’s video left alot to be desired but his reaction was dead on.
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GODSAMERICA
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:33pmEvery tornado is bad news and is very destructive and dangerous but I can imagine how he would’ve freaked out to see some really bad tornadoes. I just wish I had video of when I was in college in Oklahoma, I was standing outside and watched two tornadoes cross each other in the sky. It picked up a 45 foot pine tree about 100 feet from me and throw it in my direction, I can tell you right now that I probably never ran so fast before or after that.
Report Post »GreatAmericanBeckFan
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:16pmThat was a tornado it just hadn’t touched down yet and that young gentleman had reason to be absolutely horrified. I lived through a waterspout that hit our Apache camping trailer and while I did not panic I could certainly understand someone who would. It tore our trailer apart and the entire wall came crashing in and I literally caught it before it hit my wife and 6 month old son. My wife had her entire body over him but I was standing there and holding the wall against the wind with all of my might and we ended up sleeping in our van which was not damaged which we had to run through with torrential rain and lightning and wind striking everywhere. The next morning when we went outside the entire campground was a wreck and that is the last time I could ever get my wife to go camping.
Report Post »hochnessmonster
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 3:15pm“It’s huge”!! I’ve see bigger swirls when letting the water out in the bathtub.
Report Post »Templar Knight
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 3:49pmHa, it’s good no one was hurt. But really this kid did remind me of the double rainbow man.
Report Post »anutter
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:02pmHoly Crapola Batman! The devastation is just mind boggling!
Report Post »Patrick in AZ
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:46pmOMG!!! It just blew away some litter! DID YOU SEE THAT?!?!?!? DID YOU SEE THAT?!?!?!?
Report Post »AnOregonian
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 12:04amGood stuff!
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