They say an EF4 tornado has the impact of ten tons of TNT. An EF5 (much rarer) the same impact and energy of the atomic bomb we dropped on Hiroshima.
I know this trivia because I wanted to understand it. After the south was rocked by four EF5’s during the 362 tornado outbreak on April 27th 2011.
That’s four atomic bombs
Along with 358 more
I knew it was historic
And I knew about the El Niño years
How the 2011 year was so different
I assumed it was climate change,oceanic tempatures upswelling,impacting the jet stream
I remember wanting to understand,
How is it we can track a thunderstorm for days
And we only have 13 minutes of lead time for a tornado after we catch the hook echo?
They form in minutes
And 3 minutes
Or less
Can change everything if you’re
packing heat at Hiroshima levels
That was the year
I saw brick homes turned to dust
Trees splintered through vehicles
Waterhoses through tree trunks
The view flying over
Showed
The trees laying down like crop circles
the swirling motion of the storm
I saw a rose in a vase on a window-seal untouched
That was the year I helped people
get their grocery list
Because they just stood there
Forgetting where they were
That was the year
We gathered bodies
Out of pastures
And trees
That was the year
Black helicopters
Flew over
And some landed
And some we were told was the President
But he didn’t land
Because they said it would
Be better
At the moment
If he didn’t
I don’t know if that was true or not
That was the year
I saw people fight
So they could fill their cars with gas
Because it was rationed
the year
I started feeling a hook echo in my gut
Whenever someone rattled off religion as an answer to weather
Loss
or world events
That was the year
I wanted to understand
Rather than forget
Today I thought about it
While I heard a story
On whether or not
We should repair our NOAA satellites
And while someone
Explains the need for this technology
Some student sitting in a college class room is showing a flat earth video explaining how all of our satellite images are fake
While in another room
A congressman looking over the budget
Asks
“Why do we even need this NOAA budget? We can just turn on the weather channel.”
But right here
It’s April again
And in 3 minutes or less
We can run out of lead time again
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