I've never seen a tornado throw a cow through a house. I have seen the aftermath of a tornado trying to climb a mountain and digging a trench down to the base rock. If a tornado can dig out a couple hundred ton of shale and sandstone in a few minutes I don't imagine it'd have too much trouble with a cow.
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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Whatever they do, it's way easier for it to throw your house into the cow. So if you want to be afraid of something I suggest you invert the relation.
Didn't a tornado chaser and his team die because a big tornado lifted his truck and smashed it on the ground ?
You heard em. Sorry op, you're gonna die from beef.
Wot ?
The force to throw a cow around, sure. (Although perhaps not a Category F1 or F2.) The accuracy to hit your house, and the control to leave the wall upright long enough for the cow to hit it, maybe not. You should make sure you have an underground storm cellar to get into, because it would suck worse to have the 🐮🐄 🐮 🐄 🐮 be the last thing you see because the tornado picked YOU up and threw you at the herd.
Haven't you seen cars, trucks, tractors blown around from a tornado? Cow usually weighs much less.
So, I’m no meteorologist, nor am I an expert in cows 🐄. But I’m gonna go out on a limb and say… yes… maybe? Theoretically tornadoes can in fact pick up whole houses… take for example (The wizard of oz). I have also seen on the news whole cars being thrown around. Yikes! 😳 😬…
I suppose it would have to be a strong enough tornado 🌪️, hitting the area you live exactly, to take the 🐄 and break and enter into your 🏠.
I’m reminded of the movie Barnyard and the farmer dude’s little tiff with his wife… “course there’s gonna be cows outside! It’s a cow farm!” Lmao
Houses are not the greatest example I think. It's almost like saying a gentle breeze can move a massive sailboat. Better examples would be like rail cars that can be picked up. They don't break apart into smaller and lighter pieces and have a much higher weight to surface area ratio so they don't behave like sails.
Yes. A tornado (if powerful enough) can not only send a car into Billy's room, but quite literally leave nothing but the foundation behind.