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Thursday, August 13. 2020

Waterspout

Waterspout in Westport, CT on August 4 - later an EF1 tornado



Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 13:25 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Some hearty people there. Knowing that it will probably be a tornado when it comes ashore.
#1 oolioo on 2020-08-13 15:50 (Reply)
When I was seven years old, I went to summer camp on the Gulf coast. One day a water spout formed in the Gulf and headed straight for us watching in camp.

I freaked out! The councilor standing next to me said something to the effect that I didn't need to worry, "They rarely come on land." Obviously, that wasn't a calming influence on me but true to his word, it dissipated before it would have made landfall.
#2 mudbug on 2020-08-13 17:13 (Reply)
I saw one when I was on a fishing boat off Lauderdale and had the same reaction.
But the captain said the same thing, and it was gone within ten minutes.

Still, a cool sight from only a mile away.
#2.1 LS (Link) on 2020-08-14 11:05 (Reply)
While we were RV camping on Cudjo Island in Florida last Christmas, we had a waterspout pass over us in the middle of the night. Cudjo is a very small island, so it didn't have time to develop into a full-blown tornado before it went back out to sea, and it probably took only a minute or two to pass over, but it was scary as hell. One end of our RV started to lift up before it was gone. It blew out some windows in nearby houses, and it swept all the campground's pool chairs out to sea.
#3 RebeccaH on 2020-08-14 17:14 (Reply)

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