re: #415 CuriousLurker

Where I lived (San Antonio) was in a sort of bowl shaped depression, so whenever a tornado got in—even a small one—it could do a lot of damage because it would just bounce around off the edges of the bowl like a pinball. Like the ones in your area they rarely resulted in deaths, but they could tear off a lot of roofs and knock down a lot of trees and power lines and stuff.

We do lose a few roofs and trees, but Sask is quite flat and mostly rural. You can walk for miles without running across a building and the trees are in clumps separated by large fields of crops. We had an F3 about a km wide truck across the landscape for more than 40kms and while it did eventually hit a first nations band, it was lifting when it did. It crushed 11 houses, but missed the school, the store and the band office.

Strange thing stole a 12’ trampoline from a friend’s house and deposited it in the trees (10m above ground) about 20m away from a second house. Neither house was damaged in any way.