chicken3377 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I love Poland...Tornadoes arent too rare but they arent too common they are usually small. This was a big sucker for Poland.

TerminatorKnoedel (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Hi. You are wrong. Twisters are not uncommon in Poland. The northwestern corner of EU is pretty good in reporting such tornadoes, but in general you must draw a kind of "EU-tornado-alley" from N France/S UK up to Poland and Ukraine... propably ahead to W Russia. Btw: Germany had more than 115 tornadoes in 2006. Cheers

clinthotvedt (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Sorry for the English reply, my Polish isn't good enough; The one that tipped the bus was an F1. If it would've been an F3 there wouldn't been no video's from the inside on the web the same day; all the passengers would've ended up in either the hospital or the morgue. Also, don't mistake the Enhanced Fujita-scale for the normal Fujita-scale, which we use in Europe, together with the Torro-scale. This one was F1/T3. There were F3/T7 twisters in Poland that day, but not on this video.

txngasnguns (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Thats a huge tornado for Poland. If I didn't know where, I would almost say this is in the U.S. Monster Tornado for Europe.

clinthotvedt (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Aren't you doing the same in South Africa??? Thanks to Mugabe the economical situation in your country is fucked up enough to head south. In Europe there is freedom of movement and open borders, and you'll see German workers working in Szczecin because they'll make more there than at home. Besides that, in Europe there's also something like "minimum wage" and if these poorer families in the UK wanted to work they could've done so. Any employer would rather hire someone who speaks the language.

clinthotvedt (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

(NW Germany, Benelux, N France and E England) This area gets about 270 tornadoes on average per year, of which 60 alone in the Netherlands (16,000 sq miles) which is higher than anywhere in the US. In Europe though, most buildings are built with a concrete structure with double glass and hipped roofs, keeping damage fairly limited. In Poland, twisters are fairly uncommon though.

clinthotvedt (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Actually, per 10,000 square miles, the most tornadoes are reported from the Netherlands. The only difference is that the American "tornado alley" is over a million square miles, where the European "tornado alley" is less than 100,000 sq miles, and incorporates only the plains surrounding the southern North Sea basin.

jamroll9 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

wtf are u on?????!!!!!!!!!

jamroll9 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

damn right u were in a bad mood... that was horrible, unacceptable, inappropriate, shitty, pooey, attitude, but anyways...lets forgive and forget hey :D LOL

cbass163 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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