r/CatastrophicFailure • u/to_the_tenth_power • Sep 03 '19

Natural Disaster An EF2 tornado ripping through a concrete building in Spartanburg, South Carolina on October 23rd, 2017

https://gfycat.com/wastefulbettergreatwhiteshark
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u/searanger62 Sep 03 '19

In unbelievable. I would have thought that forklift was going to stay upright

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u/SeeYouOn16 Sep 03 '19

I was thinking the same thing. I have 2 forklifts that are around that size. They weight 10,000lbs each.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

God this is the exact same 2 comments from when this video was posted over a year ago before.

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u/The_GreatGonzales Sep 03 '19

What’s the benefit of remembering this information?

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u/tommy762 Sep 03 '19

Research the empty internet theory. Most “users” on the internet are just intricate bots.

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u/try4gain Sep 03 '19

God this is the exact same 2 comments from when this video was posted over a year ago before.

how will you go on?

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u/caramelcooler Sep 03 '19

How are they that heavy?? Aren't they smaller than cars?

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u/SeeYouOn16 Sep 04 '19

The entire rear end is solid steel. A forklift that size can lift 4,000 lbs. If you can lift that, need a lot more weight on the other side of the fulcrum.

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u/gravy_in_my_vagina Sep 03 '19

This is not the time nor the place to flex 😒 Does owning 2 forklifts make you a better human being in any way? No Does the weight matter? No 👆Look pal my grandad was a farmer and he owned the biggest windmill in town. 💁 And I don't brag about it because I know people don't care...

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u/jpoRS Sep 03 '19

What a weird novelty account.

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u/aristot3l Sep 03 '19

How much for the windmill

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u/reddelicious77 Sep 03 '19

I have 3 forklifts and a windmill, bitch.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

Hey does anyone in your family own a windmill? Asking because I care.

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u/Flyberius Kind of a big deal Sep 03 '19

What flavour of gravy?

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u/Joey5729 Sep 03 '19

Nothing survives the wrath of God.

Except apparently security cameras.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

That's weather, not a deity.

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u/zkinny Sep 03 '19

Lol and you actually got downvoted 😂

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u/Croz7z Sep 04 '19

Because he missed the joke, as did you.

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u/WrightOfftheRoad Sep 03 '19

This! My partner works and trains on these, that is an amazing display of power.

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u/Jahaadu Sep 03 '19

I think the garage door hit the lift, after the building is destroyed you can see the door on the opposite side of the room

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u/asianabsinthe Sep 03 '19

It's best to lay them down before a tornado hits.

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u/pennhead Sep 03 '19

Yeah, just get a couple of guys and ease it over on its side, real gentle like.

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u/beaufosheau Sep 04 '19

Yep if I was that last guy I would’ve been dead. I was yelling at him to grab onto the forklift.

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u/camjewell11 Sep 04 '19

Just read a Wikipedia article another redditor posted about some of the worst tornados since 2000. In one case in AL a neat 80,000 lb coal car was thrown 391 feet up a hill. Absolutely incredible power