S4 Ep29: It's a Twista! The Terrifying Facts Whirling Inside Tornadoes
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
4.1 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever seen a tsunami, a blizzard, a volcano erupting? |
| 0:09.1 | How about a tornado? |
| 0:10.8 | Is there any more frightening proof that human beings are tiny when compared to the vast power |
| 0:16.2 | of the natural world than a whirling dervish of unbridled fury unleashed in seemingly random fashion, |
| 0:23.5 | hurling debris and stealing lives? And have you ever wondered what exactly powers nature? |
| 0:30.6 | Is nature's power synonymous with divine power? |
| 0:35.8 | Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm an actor and a writer who left L.A. because of the nonstop parade of earthquakes, |
| 0:44.3 | followed by wildfires, followed by mudslides, that seemed to be the norm there now. |
| 0:49.3 | It was just too harrowing to live somewhere so plagued by natural disaster that you have to keep an emergency |
| 0:54.5 | kit in your trunk in case of, well, emergency. But, you know, if you aren't into courting |
| 1:00.8 | disaster every day in the form of one of those life-threatening events, you can just leave L.A., so I did. |
| 1:07.6 | But what happens when you find yourself faced with a powerful and frightening natural phenomenon that isn't bound by a particular locale? |
| 1:15.7 | What happens when nature takes the wild natural disaster for a spin? |
| 1:21.2 | From the origins in their hearts of thunderstorms to their devastating impacts on communities, tornadoornadoes are more than just wind and water. |
| 1:30.0 | So grab your solar-powered flashlight and let's explore the twisted truth about tornadoes. |
| 1:36.2 | The Tijuana. When most of us think of tornadoes, we imagine the great swirling funnel cloud that carried Dorothy Gale to a magical land in the Wizard of Oz. |
| 1:57.1 | Or maybe we think of the cranky but lovable cartoon, the Tasmanian devil, as he spins around in an indomitable messy rage, wreaking havoc on his surroundings. |
| 2:07.1 | Or we think of hunky, modern weather cowboys chasing adventure and thrills as they race across the west and pickup trucks trying to glimpse the wonder of a tornado. |
| 2:16.8 | But those who have really experienced tornadoes probably don't count wonder among the terms |
| 2:22.0 | that first spring to mind when they think of the awesome weather phenomenon. |
| 2:28.8 | Anyone who has experienced one can tell you tornadoes are frightening, unpredictable weather |
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