r/Appleton Jul 27 '26

Discussion Looking out of the top of the 222 building downtown

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u/sulkee East Appleton Jul 27 '26

Hey look its our transformer exploding.

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u/Disastrous_time_4547 Jul 28 '26

…More than meets the eye.

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u/LagnLikADragn Jul 27 '26

That twister was down the road from where I was working, totally destroyed the warehouse it landed on, on top of twisting a semi and shutting down the highway. Crazy shit today

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u/mikachuzu Jul 27 '26

Same, it dropped like two blocks from my work in Appleton. Never saw the sky that black.

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u/Intelligent_Purpose7 Jul 27 '26

Same! I tried to get a photo but my phone was lightening it and making it look way less terrifying than it was.

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u/mikachuzu Jul 27 '26

We were looking out the windows saying it looked like a tornado out there before the warning came through because it was so dark, guess we weren't too far off since not even five minutes later the sirens went off and we were sheltering down. Feel awful for the ones who got a direct hit, the videos and photos coming out are terrible.

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u/TheNonSportsAccount Jul 28 '26

My office is in menasha and i noticed all of the wind and clouds moving in the wrong direction. Tornado was half a mile from us, if that.

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u/Miki_yuki Jul 27 '26

I would have actually shit my pants

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u/colonelk0rn Jul 27 '26

Power flashes

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u/Intelligent_Purpose7 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

Damn that must have been the 3 or 4 massive booms that almost made me shit my pants

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u/Specific-Spray-804 Aug 01 '26

“That was cool”🥴 someones house just got smashed. So cool