Sometimes you see pink or yellow stuff stuck to everything in a photo of tornado damage–what is that stuff?
Insulation. The pink insulation from the walls of a home has draped trees as much as 50 miles from the point where a house was torn apart. • What does a tornado do to the crops and dirt when it goes over a field? Depending on the forward movement of the tornado and how strongly the tornado is interacting with the ground, there can be a wide variety of effects. A nearly stationary tornado which has extended to near ground level has been known to dig (actually blow) a trench as much as 3 feet deep. Other tornadoes have gone over wheat fields and just barely bent over the stalks. • If a tornado can do that to crops, what can it do to a road? Most of the time, it doesn’t do anything to a road. But intense tornadoes that have extended downward to very near ground level have ripped up hundreds of feet of asphalt pavement and thrown it up to a hundred yards away. Our opinion is that perhaps the edge of the uppermost layer of asphalt begins to “peel” and the rest follows little by little. It i
