Video: "Tornado" hits Chonburi! Trucker tosses his lunch aside and shuts his eyes in terror!

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Mobile phone and footage from CCTV showed the moments when what looked like a mini-tornado swept through the parking lot of the municipal offices in Surasak sub-district of Si Racha yesterday. 

 

The unexpected event uprooted and snapped a 12 meter advertising hoarding that fell on the cab of an 18 wheel truck. A nearby Isuzu pick-up was also damaged.

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Trucker Sunthorn said he had stopped for lunch and was eating it in his cab. 

 

He had no warning, suddenly the cab was caving in, he threw his lunch aside, shut his eyes and hoped for the best. 

 

He said he was very lucky not to be injured.

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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Must have been serious if he threw his lunch away.

that looked menacing 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

He  threw his lunch aside, shut his eyes and hoped for the best. 

Like when he's driving.

not sure I ever remember hearing about a tornado in Thailand

they are solid these new IVECO factories in China ( Industrial VEhicles COrporation );

 

Alright, so let's add tornadoes to corona, drought, PM2.5, recession, did I miss something from the complete "what's not to like" package?

Maybe God really exist and he is here to punish us all. Or maybe I am just thinking too mut. 

11 minutes ago, balo said:

Maybe God really exist and he is here to punish us all. Or maybe I am just thinking too mut. 

You think too mut 

2 hours ago, Borzandy said:

Like when he's driving.

Well, at least no ''brake failure'' involved this time

2 hours ago, kenk24 said:

not sure I ever remember hearing about a tornado in Thailand

I have seen several whirlwinds, we called them dust devils.  Once I saw 3 of them at the same time.  I have never seen a really large one but they can get larger.  I have seen a couple forming out over the ocean but not reaching the ground.

4 minutes ago, rwill said:

I have seen several whirlwinds, we called them dust devils.  Once I saw 3 of them at the same time.  I have never seen a really large one but they can get larger.  I have seen a couple forming out over the ocean but not reaching the ground.

Yes; tornados are a specific weather event. 

3 hours ago, kenk24 said:

not sure I ever remember hearing about a tornado in Thailand

Geez you got a short memory. It mentions one at the top of the page....!

1 hour ago, Curt1591 said:

Yes; tornados are a specific weather event. 

Nothing more than a dust devil. I have seen thousands of them. They wouldn't know a tornado if they saw one. If it is over the water it is a water spout not a tornado. With the wonderful construction here a puff of wind would blow stuff over.

TEXAS Dave

4 hours ago, kenk24 said:

not sure I ever remember hearing about a tornado in Thailand

I have seen some videos of water spouts off shore. 

2 hours ago, rwill said:

I have seen a couple forming out over the ocean but not reaching the ground.

The net is full of images and videos of "waterspouts" on Thai waters.

(Pattaya, Krabi, Phuket, Ko Lipe, ....).

https://www.google.com/search?q=waterspout+thailand&source=lnms&tbm=isch

https://www.google.com/search?q=waterspout+pattaya&tbm=isch

 

1 hour ago, cdavid10 said:

Nothing more than a dust devil. I have seen thousands of them. They wouldn't know a tornado if they saw one. If it is over the water it is a water spout not a tornado. With the wonderful construction here a puff of wind would blow stuff over.

TEXAS Dave

It didn't even seem to blow the motorcycle guy down... surely Dorothy is still in Kansas..

21 hours ago, webfact said:

shut his eyes and hoped for the best. 

The Thai answer for everything.

12 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I see you live life to the max ....

????

I see you like to make stupid inane comments about people and things you know nothing about

A personal attack has been removed.

10 hours ago, gk10002000 said:

I see you like to make stupid inane comments about people and things you know nothing about

Easy tiger... 

I think in Asia they are a "Typhoon"  as the word tornado is a bit of a tongue twister for Asian folk.  

On 4/14/2020 at 12:52 PM, marko kok prong said:

Must have been serious if he threw his lunch away.

probably 10 bahts worth of rice!!!

On 4/14/2020 at 6:12 PM, ianezy0 said:

Geez you got a short memory. It mentions one at the top of the page....!

a couple of months ago one went thru Chachoengsao, quite a few homes were damaged,

7 hours ago, essox essox said:

probably 10 bahts worth of rice!!!

Well i didn't think he would be eating smoked salmon topped with caviar.

That's a dust devil alright. Seen many in the middle east. The Arabs call them 'jinn' (devil) which is probably how they got their western name.

 

We had one rip through our mooban in Udon Thani when we lived there. It was a pretty scary few minutes.