Comments by "irresistablejewel" (@irresistablejewel) on "Fire Tornado Spawns on Driveway" video.
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@djmevans With wind speeds in excess of 157 mph, wave peaks maybe 50-70 feet (it felt like being on the "Big Dipper" roller-coaster, Blackpool, for most of three days); you then have a 40,000 ton vessel basically free-falling from a peak into a trough. I'd skip the last step because: usually it was quicker; the carpets (on a steel deck) were quite "bouncy", but I'd become detached from the ship. So to move about the vessel you need to act like "Spiderman" and stick to one of the corridor walls (...or it might strike you).
(FYI Typhoons and Hurricanes are different names for the basically same thing, a "Tropical Cyclone"; called Typhoons in the Pacific; Hurricanes in the Atlantic).
While I was "hanging around" in mid-air (seemed like ages): my mind must have concluded this was a "near-death-experience": it produced an image, from some old war-comic; somebody parachuting, coming in to land. I'd never been parachuting (before); not too bad a landing (from about 100 feet), that sequence of events still amuses me.
These "Super-Typhoons" also pick up a lot of moisture and throw that around too; "the eye" maybe 200 miles wide; the Captain tried to stay in it (about 3 hours), then back in.
While I don't get seasick (except in revolving restaurants); I find it very difficult to watch a big wave rise up and coming barreling towards the ship; it is quite daunting.
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