Mini Tornados News Today

this afternoon it came ashore as near category 5 strength, as a high category 4 after bidding for hours as it approached. >> oh, you got to be kidding me! you got to be kidding me right now! >> right now it is still a category 3 storm, still a major hurricane with damaging winds spanning out 175 miles from the center. >> oh, my god. >> no less troubling than the winds tonight, potentially even worse hurricane ian is still pushing a massive storm surge onshore. forecasts as high as 18 f...

Vortices, which are basically like mini-tornados that rotate around the eye of the hurricane. those were -- we were getting thrown with those vortices left and right. >> how does the storm compare to others youve been in? >> for me personally, this is the most intense storm ive ever been in. >> has the storm surge reached our area? >> so, as far as we know, we got some general street flooding at the moment but nothing too insane believe it or not. so, thats a very good sign. but nonetheless, wha...

Which is in sonoma county. and we were like, oh, wow thats really close and started to get a little concerned. then the smell got worse. and we started to hear it was moving forwards to area fountain grove which was right across the freeway. but we thought we were safe. we were across the 101, 6 lane highway, and we thought a forest fire isnt going to reach a development over the six-lane highway. >> but it did. >> but it did. we were outside. our power flick errered and sta to gather water and ...