Well, slowly but surely I'm putting together a collection of my adventures on my website.

And yes, you're probably right about the right angle thing, but my issue with it is that tornados can be erratic. They might travel south for a few feet or a kilometer or two, and then suddenly veer off in another direction, or zig-zag around.


Since that experience, I started watching the weather a lot more closely and I've seen numerous funnel clouds, and one other tornado. A lot of the funnels and the other tornado occurred on my 1000K brevet. That was an interesting ride! On the third day there were storms all around (we actually had to seek shelter in someone's barn at one point), and funnels were forming all over the place. I've got a photo of one on my site, although if you didn't know what you were looking for, it would be kind of hard to spot (my camera of choice is an inexpensive one-use camera). I was riding along watching the sky when this funnel suddenly formed off in the distance ... it kind of hovered a bit and then began dropping lower and lower ... and then there was a big cloud ground debris! I was standing on my pedals at this point and I started shouting, "It touched down!! Look! Look!" I think that was the last thing the poor guy riding with me wanted to hear!