Well it looks like the world has come to an end in Harrisburg. Several tornados have been reported touching down. Trees are down, people are rushing to red cross shelters.
What I want to know is the following:
Why do tornados sound like freight trains. During the wall-to-wall news coverage this afternoon people called in to channel 8 in Lancaster, from their basements, saying they heard what sounded like freight trains overhead. Now I can understand the parallel to a train. Wind is loud, and from what I remember from The Wizzard of Oz tornados ARE LOUD.
But why do they sound like freight trains? Why not a passenger train, or a commuter train? What is wrong with them? Are freight trains super ominous?
I myself think of tornados when I hear freight trains. When I see an enormous freight train go by I often explain it to others as sounding like a tornado.
