What are some misconceptions about tornadoes?
People at one time thought that tornadoes made houses explode. Because the pressure in a tornado is very low. So if a tornado came by a house, if you left the windows closed, the pressure would be so much greater inside the house than it is outside the house, the house would explode. That’s not true. The pressure inside a house and the pressure outside a house, if a tornado comes by, is almost the same. The pressure equalizes pretty quickly. But when the wind hits the house, and say, takes the roof off, the walls may collapse. So it looks as if the house had exploded. Can cows be lifted up and deposited elsewhere? That’s a very good question. I have never seen a cow flying through the air. I’ve seen a lot of dead cows out there. Whether they died from fright, or whether they got hit with something, or whether they actually got blown through the air, I don’t know. The thing about cows is, they’re very heavy and low to the ground. It would be difficult to get a cow airborne. It might be
