Picture This: Up the Waterspout

[unhappycamper]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/a-907005.html



When a tornado forms over a body of water, a waterspout occurs. High layers of cool air blow across the water as warm, moist air sweeps up from below. This results in a thin, dense columnar vortex that sucks up water into a giant mushroom-shaped spray. This particularly impressive waterspout was photographed by "Buggie" Vegas, owner of Bridge Side Cabins and Marina in Grand Isle, Louisiana, on June 19. According the United States' National Weather Service, the waterspout did little damage.



unhappycamper comment: Der Spiegel has a link to other 'Picture This' pics at the link.

[hunter]

1. I've seen only one waterspout and it was far away.

I've never seen a tornado and I don't want to see one. I've got two tornado stories, the closest tornado quit a few miles from where we once lived.

I remember a story about a waterspout washing/blowing some people off a pier my dad and I used to fish from, but I can't find it using google or the other search engines.

These things remind us people are not the center of the universe...