Heard about this on the news thinking it was going to be similar in scale to the one that hit selly oak a few years back and scared the sh*t out of me when i was my back garden doing the lawn.....


hoqwever, turns out this destroyed houses and injured people. THE WORST TORNADO IN BRITISH HISTORY ....met saying the winds reched speeds of 130mph.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/images/2005/07/28/najia_bagi_tornado_470x353.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/content/images/2005/07/28/ian_lawton_tornado_470x353.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/content/images/2005/07/28/tornado2_talha_davis_470x353.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/content/images/2005/07/28/steve_stokes_tornado_265x353.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/content/images/2005/07/28/sarah_hyde2_tornado_470x353.jpg

Woah. :eek:

The funny thing is I know a construction company which the council put on "disaster standby" directly after 07/07 - I bet they didnt think the reason for more work would be because of a Tornado.

well BBC have just upped there story from 12 Injuries to 19

Just seen this on the news,,, terrifying ,,,but AWESOME

Yeah...BBC say 19 injures 3 seriously.

Yeah I heard about it on the news on the radio around Tea time and thought nothing of it till I watched the local news at six.....unbelievable :uh:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news_web/video/9012da68001d598/bb/09012da68001d780_16x9_bb.asx

that is scary, im used to seeing thouse in taxas and stuff but in birmingham????

...texas even

Just seen it on Spanish television.....blimey!!

wow, its now international news too!

god it rained heavy too, scary

wasnt there a tornado in coventry a year or 2 ago???

hehe...england has its very own tornado alley....

Apparently there are 30 tornados a year in this country, usually very weak ones. This one was a T4 - on a scale of 1 to 10! - I dread to think what a T9 or 10 could do.

apparently a baby died too

I was in the city centre when the tornado came. It was a really bad storm but I didnt think a tornado was around!! I cant believe all that damage was caused. scarey!! LOL

Seems these freak storms are becoming more common in the UK :S What with the Preston tornado not so long ago that ripped rooves off many houses and now this :S

...wasnt even aware preston had a tornado lol

I know a lot of musicians in various bands (even one I used to help out on drums with til recently) that live in the Moseley area. In fact one of them has his house just a few blocks away from one of the worst damaged streets (Birchwood Road) - he lives on Woodbridge Road. I have no idea whether they escaped unscathed or were in the thick of it. Quite worrying obviously. That was one nasty muthafucka of a twister that one - think of what might have been if it veered even nearer towards the city centre.

doesnt bare thinking about, all that glass getting ready to explode and those alleys wuld have acted as brilliant wind tinnels accelerating any winds making them even more deadly!

i can't believe all these families being up in arms and wanting compensation from the council for rebuilding their house. It's their own bloody fult for not having house insurance. i know that the tornado wasn't expected but come off it...... F*ckwits!!!

excatly, there was this one guy moaning that he could not afford the £500 insurance, and that the council should pay up, i bet he could pay for a big screen tv or a flash car, tossers the lot of them, NO WAY SHOULD THE COUNCIL FORK OUT, what about us lot who HAVE paid

although it was nice to see misterwhitby get a rollocking from the people to his face

although it was nice to see misterwhitby get a rollocking from the people to his face
Yes, it's hard to admit that Whitby has got it right this time.
But, hey, the law of averages says the council's gotta get something right!

excatly, there was this one guy moaning that he could not afford the £500 insurance, and that the council should pay up, i bet he could pay for a big screen tv or a flash car, tossers the lot of them, NO WAY SHOULD THE COUNCIL FORK OUT, what about us lot who HAVE paid

although it was nice to see misterwhitby get a rollocking from the people to his face

agreed 100%

The damage from the tornado has been put at £25 million then

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4137456.stm

Well, just wait until Bernard Manning farts and the whole of Manchester goes up in flames.....