I need HELP REALLY BAD?

Question

I need to come up with a myth about tornadoes really bad!!!! Some one please give me a lead...My problem is that I do not know how to begin Please help me

Answer 1

A common myth about tornadoes is that the tornado doesn't actually exist until the funnel cloud "descends" and touches down. This, however, is not exactly true. The vortex can exist without the funnel cloud — and indeed can cause considerable damage without producing a funnel cloud, however, this situation is rare. Don't be fooled by the absence of a funnel cloud.

Answer 2

Hm, there's always the myth about opening the windows of the house to "equalize" the air pressure inside so the tornado won't blow up the roof or something. Or that a tornado can carry someone and leave him/her unharmed miles away.

I have an idea. I don't really know what is the project you're doing but maybe you could gather some tornado myths and some real facts, and then make a poll out of it. You could then ask your friends/classmates/ect. to check false or true beside the sentences.
You'd came out with really interesting data about wich myths seems realistic to people or wich facts they did not know.

...In anyway, good luck with your work! :)

Answer 3

A really big misconception I've seen is the myth that Dodge Rams can't get damaged in a tornado, because of that movie Twister. That's totally bogus, and I trashed a very nice truck to find that out. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

I have a couple for you. 1. A good place to go in a tornado is under a freeway overpass....WRONG! 2. Tornadoes don't hit big cities. Guess they don't count Fort Worth & Salt Lake City. 3. It is safe in the woods because tornadoes go around them. Hope this helps you.

Answer 5

You could start with a god or goddess giving an animal or human something to watch over. The character could become careless or disobey the gods and cause storms, tornadoes and volcanoes until the problem is fixed. You could use Aleous, Greek god of wind if you are hurting for a god. Hope this helps...

Answer 6

Take something like the Greek myth of Narcissus. He was so beautiful that he pined away as he stared at his self-reflection in the pond until he vanished leaving the sproutling of the Narcissi flower.

So I'm assuming you have to create a myth as to "why" the tornado exists. What happened to cause it to materialize? Use the same technique as in the Narcissi myth where a person becomes the tornado in the end.

EXAMPLE: (This is based on how a tornado forms between a climatic cold front and warm front colliding to create a “tornado alley” in the American Midwest

Nora, the North Wind, was physically and effulgently beautiful, shimmering with a sparkling luster of indigo and lavender hues. However, Nora had a chilling internal personality that was hideous, cold and calculating. This incongruity mislead many a hero who vainly attempted to tame her, but only to meet their unfortunate frozen deaths, imprisoned in the glacier valleys of the north, forever.

Nora had a sister named, Sothia, the South Wind, whose appearance was dry, parched, chapped and ugly. Men desperately fled from her unsightly visage. Yet, Sothia radiated with an inner warmth and internal beauty that was almost hypnotic, but no man or hero could ever know this true side of her, for they swiftly took flight at her dreadful sight.

One day in the Great Valley, a handsome and gallant man upon a splendid steed rode between the midst of Nora, coldly brooding in the north, and Sothia, warmly rumbling in the South. His name was Ado Alley, and he was on a journey across the mighty land to the frontier of the Wild West to prospect for gold.

So taken by Ado’s chiseled form and striking looks, the two sisters adroitly lunged forward with their tempting charms. Longing for a manly suitor and jealous over her sister’s capture of many heroes, Sothia poured on the scintillating tender warmth, basking Ado with her hypnotic allure while masking her hideousness with the bellowing orange dust of the Earth so that he only saw her graceful silhouette. Nora radiated her temptress beauty in cool waves of magnetic charm, gravitating Ado ever closer. Ado was pulled north, and then south, to and fro. The Sisters of the Winds became angry at each other and began to rage violently swirling themselves into a great battle over the lone man, now consumed entirely in their passionate rivalry. They ferociously twisted themselves into a massive black pillar, a horrible thundering cadence that tore the poor battered man into pieces, flinging his dismembered body along the trail of the raging sisters.

And since those long ago days, when the wind of the north and the wind of the south collide, they form a “tornado”, for the Sisters of the Wind had “torn Ado” into pieces, and the trail left behind to this day is called “Torn-Ado Alley”, or more simply, “Tornado Alley”.

Answer 7

Well I had a teacher tell us one day back in grade school that tornado's don't happen in the mountains... but now I'm grown and live in the mountains and now know thats not true

Answer 8

How about this - Tornadoes are Attracted to Trailer Parks.

Answer 9

Do you mean that you are trying to invent one or are you wondering if any already exist? I'm remembering a tall tale about Pecos Bill who rode a twister or something like that.