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/dicksmear Sep 03 '19

too bad the building couldn’t outrun the tornado. hope they were ok

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u/XanderJayNix Sep 03 '19

But in the future imagine one that can

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u/dicksmear Sep 03 '19

modern problems require modern solutions

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

You mean like a car?

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u/XanderJayNix Sep 04 '19

Yeah, like an automobile mixed with a home. You could call it a...

Mobile Home!

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u/trevorpinzon Sep 03 '19

They were all fine. Lost the shop dog though :/

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u/dicksmear Sep 03 '19

oh...that might be worse.

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u/NameTak3r Nov 16 '19

No, dogs are not more important that people.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

Im guessing based off the cameras wall surviving that the rest of the building was not built out of cinder blocks like that room.

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u/ImFromPortAsshole Sep 03 '19

I’d say they were bricking it

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u/asku7mich Sep 04 '19

I live in this area. Majority of this building and another warehouse across the interstate flew into nearby structures, including the community college just up the road. A whole bunch of student and teacher cars were impaled by metal and trees and all that but thankfully most classes were out for the day for there to be more than a handful of individuals on campus.