Posted on 05/25/2015 2:21:41 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Edited on 05/25/2015 2:23:36 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Four children were injured
(Excerpt) Read more at touch.sun-sentinel.com ...
There’s a linked video at the source page. Pretty nuts.
THIRST: Revenge of the Water!!
Texas/OK and now Florida
Wow, the actually waterspout was difficult to see.
The mod sure was quick to chop more off my excerpt, but that’s all good. Thanks.
Bounce house air lifts are more common than people think. There have been several cases in our area where children were bounced across parking lots and lawns. Thankfully none were severally injured.
Here in Utah about 2 years ago, we had a little mini-tornado (or a large dust-devil?) that picked up a bouncy castle, dropped the kids off at 20 feet above the ground, then took the thing up to like 300 feet. It came back down about a half mile away. Can’t believe the kids were all OK. They got dropped onto a part of the park where the sprinkler system malfunctioned and the grass/ground was all wet and mushy.
Yep, you can’t just trust the anchors. If the wind starts gusting, get the kids out of that thing.
That reminds me - Sharknado 3 is coming soon.
Damn, were the kids inside still when it went airborne? That was a good drop. At least the thing was designed to cushion.
Waterspouts and dust devils on that particular part of Florida are not uncommon.
In 2000, a waterspout traveled off the beach and went up Las Olas Blvd, tearing off the facades of a few businesses.
Later that year, I was traveling east on Oakland Park Blvd, and tried to outrun one on my Harley.
It got me right at the corner of State Road 7, flipped the bike onto its side and spun it on the gear shift lever until it was ground down to a nub. I had leaped of the bike just in time and was lying in traffic covered in road rash.
Two Rastafarian men came and helped me right the bike, and I drove it home in the hail and rain in whatever gear it was in.
It took me three hours to go ten miles. LOL.
I still have the bike and the scars on my arm from the embedded pebbles.
PS, I was never able to locate the two Rastafarians to thank them. None of the surrounding business people had ever seen them before or since.
Holy cow. I once saw a dust devil rip through my front yard, and that was freaky enough.
Best thoughts and prayers for the kids to all make a speedy and full recovery.
Well did the waterspout make the shot at least?..../s
Snort, there is your mistake.
J/K
Yeah...I know. Pure Hubris.
Ya, mon!
Wow, that is pretty outrageous.
Actually, it was:
Yoo OK mawmah?
Indeed...so outrageous that I needed to wait 15 years for just the right thread to share it on!
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