Originally Posted by
Donald Merritt
Jerry,
We call large rotating, funnel shaped “wind storms” tornados here.
Don Merritt
Germantown, Tennessee
Donald,
Actually, by comparison, they are small
(to hurricanes), however, they are extremely more destructive in their limited path of destruction.
If I was outside the area of the tornado, I would rather have a tornado, because it is so much easier to be 'outside the area of the tornado', however, if not outside the area of the tornado, then I would much rather have a hurricane - less concentrated destruction by winds (in most cases, but not always, such as the one which hit Galveston in 1900-8,000+ dead, Galveston in 1915, The Great Miami one in 1926, the Okeechobee one in 1928-2,000+ dead, the Labor Day one in 1935, Camille in 1969, Hurricane Andrew in 1992 ... actually the list if big deadly hurricanes is too create to try to list here).
Tornadoes, though, are 'scarier', little warning and great damage in a concentrated area.