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Old Oct 11th 2005, 8:52 pm
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This is a picture of a tornado of Bunbury WA - it caused in excess of £14 million of damage.

Good photo op though!

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:scared: OMG That is one totally amazing photo. You really get an idea of the power behind it. Wonder if they used a telephoto lense!!!
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Originally Posted by Widdi
This is a picture of a tornado of Bunbury WA - it caused in excess of £14 million of damage.

Good photo op though!

Urban myth?

http://reilly.typepad.com/cameronrei...y_tornado.html
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/w...ents/3190/P40/

And these ones are supposed to be of Bunbury damage..
http://www.blogherald.com/2005/05/16...-tornado-pics/

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Originally Posted by Widdi
This is a picture of a tornado of Bunbury WA - it caused in excess of £14 million of damage.

Good photo op though!


Somebody send me the same photo, which said it was taken just before the hurricane Katrina arrived
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Its a tornado - not a hurricane!

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Originally Posted by Widdi
they didn`t send you this picture - as a friend took it and sent it to me -

It had never been on the net till now.

Its a tornado - not a hurricane!
Well, all I can say is that it looks identical to this photo...



...which was taken by an American storm-chaser in 2004.

His site: http://extremeinstability.com/photographypage.htm
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Er... 14m GBP of Damage ........ in bunbury................... were there ever 14m quids worth of assets in bunbury to get damaged? More like 14 quids worth (2 houses and a tinny).
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Er... 14m GBP of Damage ........ in bunbury................... were there ever 14m quids worth of assets in bunbury to get damaged? More like 14 quids worth (2 houses and a tinny).

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Er... 14m GBP of Damage ........ in bunbury................... were there ever 14m quids worth of assets in bunbury to get damaged? More like 14 quids worth (2 houses and a tinny).
LOL, that's exactly what I was thinking!

Last time I was in Bunbury, they were only just wondering if it was time to open a second pub!
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Wherever it was, that is an incredible photo! Id hate to be under that!
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Old Oct 12th 2005, 7:11 am
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I gonna have a word with Bill when I get out there!

Why the hell did he send it to me?

Thanks for that my private investigators
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