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[โ€“] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

While I'm not from a tornado prone region, I don't think that's a tornado.

It might even be an edited image that's been compressed many times? The grey thing seems to cut into the top of the building in some areas. As if they took a photo of a closed waffle house and edited it to look scary for the joke. Or something on the window/foreground

Or it is indeed a very scary cloud and I'm glad I don't have to deal with that regularly

[โ€“] JakenVeina@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago

Looking closely, it rather does look like it's edited. The lines between the dark and light of the sky are quite abrupt, for example.

But at first glance, I had no trouble believing that to be a tornado. They come in MANY shapes and sizes.

Never seen one in person, but living in tornado alley all my life, I've seen more than enough pics and footage.