Kite Ride To Hell

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Under some circumstances it might be concluded this person might have been intending to commit suicide. Outwardly, this doesn't appear to be the case.

Who in their right mind, living with such violent local weather hazards, destruction of large areas for years would want to go kiting in such a system? Add to this all the abundant warnings, high wind estimates, large hail and visible lightening. There isn't a small enough kite to take out in this stuff of any type.

Microbursts can send out "straight line" winds on the order of 60 to 160 mph over a small area of about 2 miles in diameter. Microbursts occur widely geographically.

This same system, did this in a closely adjoining area;




and ripped down this brick building wall and roof in a nearby state;




Microbursts have also done:






and a great deal more including crashing several commercial jets with loss of life.

More info about microburst at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microburst