Storm Aeanoid
LuckStory
It was late tornado season in the great plains, and the birthday of Ethan Flowers. Being a man who loved to chase storms and take pictures and videos of tornadoes, he had driven to hang out in an area expecting severe weather that day. The day dwindled into evening, and as the storms began firing up, Ethan was eager to get a good birthday tornado. In his excitement, he found himself accidentally positioned in the heart of the storm, with the action much too close for comfort. He sat behind the wheel of his stationary vehicle on the edge of a field, observing what appeared to be a large tornado on the horizon. The flatness of the great plains allowed for the view to be 3/4ths sky, and the threateningly dark twister, shrouded in a dark blue mist of rain, occupied most of that sky as Ethan pointed his camera towards it.
"That is a rain wrapped tornado," he narrated for the video, as the supercell flickered lightning and the rumble of thunder could be heard. He began to mutter about the tornado's presence in amazement as the sound of pattering rain on the car began to intensify. The mutters turned into swearing as he realized the tornado wasn't moving, and that could mean only one thing: it was coming straight towards him. To the north and to the west of the driver, giant, destructive hail was falling. To the east, muddy roads dead-ended into mountains, and to the south, a ghostly tornado materialized. He had been boxed in.
"There it is, that's a giant tornado, and it might be coming right this way. Here it comes," he narrated as a sudden blast of rain began pouring on the car, before he turned it around to flee. Tearing down the road in the opposite direction, with windshield wipers dancing back and forth, he could feel the gravity of his mistake as he lamented, "there's a tornado right there, and there's giant hail, what have I done?"
Once he had finally made it to the end of the stretch of road, he slowed down, feeling like he was a safe enough distance to resume his filming, as the tornado had crossed the road and went into an adjacent field. He turned his car back around to face the twister as he calmed down to assess the situation. "There it is, right there, there is a rain wrapped tornado," he reiterated, calculating that the tornado would safely continue its northern trajectory, passing parallel to his current position.
"Alright, time to video tape this tornado," Ethan casually declared as he slipped past a stationary truck in the road, traveling a few feet down the road behind it to get a better angle on the looming monster. "There it is... That is a pretty big tornado, it's totally rain wrapped. This is the stupidest thing I've ever done in my life." The words barely left his mouth before a sudden barrage of rain started to fall on the car once more, and he realized he was in range of the outer bands of the storm once again. The panic returned to his voice, exclaiming over a thunderclap, "oh God, it's coming. It's coming."
The tornado had suddenly changed trajectory and was traveling straight towards him once more. "GO!" He shouted, honking at the truck resting behind him and in the way. The truck took off and Ethan began accelerating backwards as a hail stone hit the roof of the car. "It's coming! It's coming right on top of me!" He whipped the car around and began speeding down the road, adjusting his rotating camera to point at the storm that was now chasing the storm chaser. "I'm escaping the tornado, it's right next to me! Holy crap! Oh my God, it's right next to me, I'm inside the- Oh God, here we go, this is the tornado." The deafening roar of rain started to pound his car, coupled with the violent 'smack' sounds of the hail hitting the pavement, and the 'bang' when it would hit the roof again. He was inside the rain that wrapped the tornado and the road was barely visible through the intensity of it, but speeding back down the same road he had come from, he managed to escape the twister that had done a U-turn to cross the road back into the field he found it in. Now he was close to where the tornado had originally crossed the road.
He had slowed to a stop once again to turn around and assess the situation, and that's when the unthinkable manifested. As he searched the horizon for the tornado at other other end of the road, he looked more closely at the field where it had originally spawned and discovered even more terrifying. As his eyes focused on the thick, rainy mist, he was able to discern the enormous wedge tornado which now occupied the field, dwarfing the first one which had been engulfed by the strength of the behemoth."It's coming," he repeated a handful of times, fully panicked, before adding, "I don't know what to do. Except die."
"There it is, it's right in there, the giant tornado," he was nearly stunned by its appearance before remembering the deadly serious situation he was in. "Oh my God, hang on. Giant tornado, right next to me, right in there," he panted as he swiftly pulled back onto the road in an attempt to out-race the monstrosity. Soon, the hum of the continuously accelerating car and Ethan's exclaims were drowned out by the roar of wind. "It's sucking!" He shouted again and again. "There's a giant tornado, it's sucking! It's coming right for me! Oh my God, it's a mile long, you can't even- Get out of the way! Go, go, go!" He urged everyone who was still on the road to escape the twister, including himself.
With the wrath of Mother Nature bearing down on him, it felt like an eternity before it was finally over. He had finally managed to drive fast enough and far enough to make it out ahead as the supercell continued its path in the distance off to his left. Ethan had gotten a good birthday tornado, even if it was a little more than he bargained for. Shaken up by the life-threatening situation, he continued down that road, and even though the storm was miles away now, he didn't stop to look back this time. It seemed that he had learned his lesson, but glancing at the faraway storm in the side-view mirror, he couldn't help but think it was still beautiful.
Story (written by me) is a fictionalization of a real event that happened to Pecos Hank! Video here!
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