Nicolas Orellana and two others tried to close the door on a tornado when it touched down in suburban L.A.
“But never in my life did I imagine a damn tornado,” said Orellana’s son, Edson.
Within seconds, he spotted a tornado across the street. Roofs had been ripped off and their remains were swirling in the vortex, along with other debris. They heard the whistle of the wind.“We wanted to stop the monster from coming in,” he said. “I don’t know what you do in a tornado,” he said. “My instinct was to get as far away from the flying debris as possible.”
“I thought nothing could scare or surprise me after everything I’ve lived,” Orellana said. “But how wrong I was.”The tornado, which cut a path nearly a half-mile long, was 50 yards wide and lasted for about three minutes. It registered an EF1 on theAn EF1 tornado is any that records winds between 86 and 110 mph and is considered a “weak” whirlwind. The most powerful tornadoes — with designations of EF5 — have wind speeds of more than 200 mph.
“These things are just material,” Orellana said, as he looked around the office, “but if it had hurt one of my kids, my employees, it would have been catastrophic.” Gary England, a longtime on-air meteorologist in Oklahoma and the voice of a meteorologist in the movie, confirmed that grabbing the door was “not the thing to do.”
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