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Khage
16-09-2008, 18:34
A home left standing among debris from Hurricane Ike in Gilchrist, Texas on Sept. 14. (Smiley N. Pool / The Houston Chronicle) source (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26724729/)

The owner must've been loving it.
Zhorgh
16-09-2008, 18:41
Yeah either he's lucky as hell or his house is just as solid as rock. :eek:
Jack of Blades
16-09-2008, 18:49
I think they invited Chuck Noriss for dinner and if thats the case there is nothing more to disscus.
Mashirafen
16-09-2008, 18:50
Jammy git.
Deli Pastrami
16-09-2008, 19:34
****ing owned. Lol at second pic
prilladog
16-09-2008, 19:36
If I was a victim i'd go burn his house down for karma.
Pilo T
16-09-2008, 19:42
I think they invited Chuck Noriss for dinner and if thats the case there is nothing more to disscus.

Not unless dinner is taking place in that picture. Cause otherwise the house would explode as soon as he left, and then it'd be the MOST damaged part of the picture.
DaveGrohl
16-09-2008, 20:54
anyone else think it looks a bit photoshopped?
=Someone=
16-09-2008, 20:56
anyone else think it looks a bit photoshopped?
*nods*
Phelps
16-09-2008, 21:06
anyone else think it looks a bit photoshopped?

Me wannabe.
csidle
16-09-2008, 21:20
anyone else think it looks a bit photoshopped?Very:eek:
MAS
16-09-2008, 21:35
God photoshopped that landscape irl.
Kazi
16-09-2008, 21:38
I live right in Tornado Alley, so I see pictures of houses left standing while the rest of the neighborhood is completely gone.

But that's a tornado...which is only a couple tens of feet in diameter...hurricanes are hundreds of miles. So either this homeowner got really, really lucky, he built the house incredibly well, or it's just Photoshopped.

I've seen quite a few pixels from storms.
Zhorgh
17-09-2008, 03:27
I live right in Tornado Alley

In one way, you are lucky... I always wanted to see a tornado in real life... :(

One day I'll knock at your door and say ''bring me a supercell thunderstorm". :p
poojawamanthing
17-09-2008, 04:08
I think they invited Chuck Noriss for dinner and if thats the case there is nothing more to disscus.

Chuck can't actually kick above his waist, as well as being like, 5' 2"

But OT, Yeah, it's nice to see when houses still stand, allows for people to have some form of shelter when their homes are destroyed
Killer
17-09-2008, 04:39
Captain Falcon defeated Ike in order to save that house. Proven Fact. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac3RjuPzh3o)


I think they invited Chuck Norris for dinner, and if thats the case there is nothing more to disscus.

*sigh* My work here is done.
Kazi
17-09-2008, 05:36
In one way, you are lucky... I always wanted to see a tornado in real life... :(

Tornadoes are nice and all, but the real sight is a wall cloud.



They usually come right before tornadoes. They're really low and they're gigantic. I was playing in a little league baseball game one day many years ago, and a wall cloud formed right over the diamond. It was awesome.
Tenken
17-09-2008, 05:39
anyone else think it looks a bit photoshopped?

Yes. Look at the size of the house in relation to the telephone poles, or are those trees? Just a bit further back. The house in relation to them looks ENORMOUS.
Russian_Spy_Porque
17-09-2008, 06:21
Completely photoshoped, there isnt even a driveway to it.

As for the wall cloud, that one in the pic is a bit exagerated. They aren't that big unless its like a massive tornado that is about to destroy the world. I know because I've seen some IRL.
Zhorgh
17-09-2008, 18:23
Tornadoes are nice and all, but the real sight is a wall cloud.



They usually come right before tornadoes. They're really low and they're gigantic. I was playing in a little league baseball game one day many years ago, and a wall cloud formed right over the diamond. It was awesome.

Yeah man now I know my fair share about tornadoes even though I never saw one :p. But as I said, one day I'll travel there to watch a few haha. :D
Kazi
17-09-2008, 23:14
massive tornado

That one in the picture looks like it's a thousand feet in diameter, which is pretty big, the average tornado size is like 500 feet. Wikipedia says a tornadoes' size does not have a direct correlation to its damage capacity. Thanks, Wikipedia!



I've seen shows with mile-wide tornadoes, and there have been 2.5 mile wide tornadoes.

If you didn't notice, I fkkn love tornadoes.
Myth
17-09-2008, 23:35
Completely photoshoped, there isnt even a driveway to it.


Could be destroyed, or under all that water.

You to also realize, you're looking at the back of the house in that picture.
Ender
17-09-2008, 23:45
Lone houses just don't survive a hurricane like that.

They can survive more concentrated storms like tornados, which have been known to even hop over houses sometimes, but hurricanes are just too big to randomly miss one single house in an entire neighborhood.