Not a Hypercane but Close enough...

Mother Nature can be one hell of a bitchy cunt. And look at this: She's not afraid to prove this.

First Person View Of Joplin Tornado

We've seen over and over again in 2011 just how crabby the old gal can be. From the earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan, to what is being dubbed the Tornado Super Outbreak of 2011. Mankind can design hybrid vehicles and go green all he wants but in the end, Mamma Nature is not inclined to respect mankind in return.

From poor Joplin Missouri, to war-torn Huntsville Alabama, to quaking-in-boots-but-overwise-unharmed Overland Park, KS, these people will all tell you Mother Nature has her bipolar mood swings. And having grown up in the Midwest myself, I would pass the warning on to you.

Tornadoes are serious business. This is not a scenario where you want to jump in your car and stick your iPod out the window on record unless you are Charles Doswell III with umpteen years experience under your belt and you know what you are doing. The Joplin tornado started out as a small, slender, multi-vortex little kitten of a twister that rapidly and swiftly transformed into a bloodthirsty, man eating lion on crack and steroids... as some poor people stuck in a gas station quickly found out. And for some reason folks, I was reminded of my late dog, the Rott Chow mix... who went from sweet and playful to a savagely snarling, terrifying bloodthirsty monster in the blink of an eye. Went from being a family pet to a force of nature, like that. Forces of nature are unpredictable, forces of nature prove to man just how small he really is, forces of nature... can kill.

With respect to tornadoes, folks, it is a lot like my late dog, except there is no restraining them or taking them out and putting a bullet in them. Speaking of bullets, Mother Nature does not have a bullet with your name engraved on it. She has billions of them engraved with "To Whom It May Concern". Rich or poor, great or small, male or female, young and old... that's simply the way it is. And you would do well to remember that.

Please, enough driving up to the edge of a twister to get yourselves some really good footage. The only thing standing between you and eternity at that point is sheer blind luck. Once we bury you, that's it... there are no second chances.

The Joplin tornado, once it was on the ground, was labeled by on-air meteorologists as to be UNSURVIVABLE. Meaning, people who were doing ALL of the right things such as taking shelter in a basement, etc were STILL getting killed. A million so-called storm chasers with cameras all pointed at it, with the latest in Doppler equipment, calling in all manner of live reports, was not going to change a damn thing... Joplin had TWENTY MINUTES warning, and LIVE COVERAGE, and ALL SORTS of tornado shelters and still this EF5 (the most violent) created a Tornado Emergency situation and transformed this once lively Midwestern town into a starkly ravaged hell on earth. And all this was caused by... a weather phenomenon that began its hellish life span as a non threatening looking funnel cloud.

The people in the gas station were all extremely lucky to have been in the heart of this satanically violent EF-5 and lived to tell about it. The gas station itself was a complete loss.

The weather has gotten alot crazier in the last 20 years by my perception, either because we've gotten better at keeping tabs on it or there really is something going on, with regard to monster supertornadoes becoming more and more common. So please, unless your name is Charles Doswell III, or Eric Rasmussen, or something similar... the next time you are faced with Mother Nature and her temper tantrums... if you are in immediate danger...

PUT DOWN YOUR VIDEO EQUIPMENT AND TAKE SHELTER AND LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!