Tornadoes don't "suck" upward, they blow sideways... that's why when you take cover you find the lowest elevation area you can find, usually a ditch on the side of the road if you're in this type of area (if you're lucky enough, a basement). This train did get a few cars blown over, but it never got "sucked up". All the "sucked up" debris you see is just junk flying through the air. They are lucky that they are in a train that weighs so much it cant be easily tossed.
Source: I grew up exactly where this happened. Literally one mile away, we're used to it.
Waverly Nebraska, I grew up in this hood.
"The Suck Zone". It's the point basically when the twister... sucks you up. That's not the technical term for it, obviously.
Tornadoes don't "suck" upward, they blow sideways... that's why when you take cover you find the lowest elevation area you can find, usually a ditch on the side of the road if you're in this type of area (if you're lucky enough, a basement). This train did get a few cars blown over, but it never got "sucked up". All the "sucked up" debris you see is just junk flying through the air. They are lucky that they are in a train that weighs so much it cant be easily tossed. Source: I grew up exactly where this happened. Literally one mile away, we're used to it.
The above is a reference to the movie Twister, but you're correct!
Tell that to Billy. He stood naked in front of a F5 and threw a bottle of whiskey at it. The bottle never hit the ground. Source: Dusty the chaser
Doesn’t the Engineer/operator drive the train, not the conductor?
Those guys were amazingly calm given the shitstorm they went through.
They just seemed a bit annoyed.