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26 December 2008
If Your Roof Is Gone, Does It Matter If It Was a Tornado?
I have asked this question to myself many times. Any Meteorologist, who works as a forecaster, will tell you that people get very upset if you tell them that the damage to their home was not caused by a tornado. I am not sure why this is the case, it would probably make a good PhD thesis for some Psychology student! Straight line winds can, and most of the time …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.