Beginning of the el Reno OK EF3 that was the widest tornado ever recorded on may 31 2013, just days after the violent Moore OK tornado.
So as I understand there is a Native American legend that if you see the man walking in the tornado you will die. This is because multi vortex tornadoes are particularly violent. 
BREAKS DOWN DOOR DID SOMEBODY SAY TORNADOES?!
So yes! The El Reno 2013 tornado is in fact the widest tornado ever recorded as well as the most infamous for many reasons. First, it was designated an EF3 tornado instead of an EF5 despite the extemeness of it. Why? Because the EF scale looks at damage to grade these things more than the windspeeds- of which this tornado is likely to have the highest of at over 300 mph (EF scale goes up to 200)! (The entire topic for first place in fastest windspeeds is very highly debated though).
Also, during the El Reno tornado, chasers were mistaking sub vortices, which are the mini tornadoes inside the tornado as you see in the gif, for wedges.
This is a wedge tornado. Most sub vortices are what you see in that gif. (Wedge is a term for the shape and girth of a tornado.)
Also, El Reno is the only tornado to have taken the lives of storm chasers. Tim Samaras, his son Paul Samaras, and chase partner Carl Young, and Richard Charles Henderson. There is a memorial where they sadly passed. The tornado was difficult to distinguish the border of, so even experienced chasers had trouble telling when to run. Keep in mind, tornadoes are air, and air is invisible. The cloud you see is dust.
El Reno is a monster in and of itself- hopefully this will be the only tornado to kill chasers and will be the last of its kind due to how extreme it was.
As for the Dead Man Walking legend, El Reno is far from the only tornado to have this legend- this first image is the most infamous with the legend, the 1997 Jarrell Texas tornado.
And this is the 2011 Cullman-Arab tornado during the super outbreak
Is the dead man walking legend really a myth by Native Americans? I don't know. I am a white person living on stolen land so I can't say much. If there is anyone here here who is Native American and has any experience please let us know!
If you want more info on the El Reno tornado there is this video by Pecos Hank- who was present at the tornado! His entire channel is amazing and he makes great tornado documentaries.
Thoughts about rednecks and queers when I get home today.
It's very important that we talk to people different from ourselves, and that goes for both of us.
I was having a conversation with a coworker today that started with 'I don't care of you're gay or whatever, just dont rub it in my face.'
Had he said that a few years ago I probably would have gone on the defense or tempted to have some snappy one-liner. But where he grew up, it was no ones business. If you were gay that was it, everyone knew and nobody cared.
But now it was political.
As a political queer, I explained to him that we'd always been political, but it's only fairly recently in our history that we've been able to have platforms. Like... his knowledge of anti gay laws was legalizing gay marriage ten-ish years ago, but when I told him that when I lived in montana in 2011 sodomy was a misdemeanor he had no clue.
So now that he knows I'll answer questions without shutting him down hes got a lot to say on the topic and I'm listening. And he's getting some of the details wrong for sure but hes trying. But I can tell that these are questions hes been afraid to ask before because he didnt want to say the wrong words.
And the thing is that theres queer rednecks and redneck queers, but it always seems like we're fighting each other and we needn't be. We can, and should, be friends. Because they hate being exploited and excluded and written off the same way we do. Weve got a lot of overlap, we have a lot in common, and we're all tired of houses being too damn expensive.
Can't let British people have air conditioning because first they'd call it something twee like "the climate fixer" and then in 20 years they'll call it "the climb" or "the climmy"
French kids would call it "le climot", frustrating language officials who would prefer they call it "machine pour le contrôle du climat froide à l'interieure de l'édifice"
ah shit they're gaining on us. we gotta jettison some weight. throw all those stolen boomerangs out we don't need em
On it, boss!
Bad news, boss!
What I thought I signed up for with TotK: A fun fantasy action/adventure game with heavy focus on building and crafting mechanics!
What I actually got: fantasy horror that will generate brand new nightmares to haunt me forever after




















