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Looks ok to me. Once it flips up on its side and presents the broadside bottom like a sail to the wind, and also low its friction slick side on the pavement it takes off like a sail board. JMO.

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It’s Bull Shit. Saw this someplace else and they listed the wind speeds at 80 mph. Do the math. If I wasn’t so tired I do it for ya. Plus gotta a niece living on the Barracks over their. It was a joke.

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Hurricanes are wierd and do strange things. It is uncanny what the winds decide to pick up and toss around. I watched a 6′ dock box take wave over wave across it and it stayed put on the dock, but a strong gust came along and it sailed off the dock, rolled like a tumble weed across the wave tops at about 60 mph and the lid never opened as it rolled out of site. Later the owner told me it was full to the top with his anchor chains…well over a thousand pounds! It was never found.

and what is up with clicking on the vid controls sending me to some freaking ad?

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It may be fake, but I doubt it. Living in Florida I’ve seen what these storms can do. It would be nothing for a strong cat 2 or cat 3 to do this.

The car might gain even more energy from the wind once it hits the curb, lost friction with the ground and started to roll. Keep in mind that is a Japanese hatchback. If it weighs more than 1000lbs I’d be shocked. Also, I bet 75% of it’s weight sits on it’s front tires, making it spin like a top once it hit the curb and the air got under it..

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How is it the grey car upwind didn’t budge?

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Brad those are likely sustained winds. Throw in the gusts and the wind tunnel effect in between buildings and now you’re talking something much more extreme than a cat 1.

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wsorrian, Understand all that, only one cardboard car moved. This has actually been out for a while and has been discredited. Check it out. Flatulation moves out of your underwear faster then that. Even with a venturi.

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Every car out there is obiviously much heavier and/or has a lower center of gravity. Some are turned where the wind hits a corner, not directly into it’s side. If you are referring to the one to the left in the same row, it’s clearly heavier, and parked where the car beside it would stop it from moving anyway. Judging by the paint lines it’s longer, lowering it’s center of gravity. There was nothing on the other side of the white car to stop the vacuum created by the van from acting on it. Parking the van there actually made it worse.

Anyway, if you watch you can see the second car in that row (the dark one) has it’s hood, roof or trunk blown open at the same time the car takes off sliding. The wind clearly affected them.

I can find no information about it being discredited since it was uploaded 4 days ago.

And you can sneeze at 200mph, it doesn’t mean anything compared to a billion pounds of air moving at 80mph. Try sneezing into an 80mph hurricane and see if you get snot on your face.

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PhotoShopped – by Huckleberry, I’ll wager.

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The reason it may be real is because of hydroplaning:

a. To skim along on the surface of the water.
b. To be or go out of control by skimming along the surface of a wet road. Used of a motor vehicle.

Perhaps there was just enough rain on the road to allow for this to happen.

Picture the side of the vehicle resting on thin layer of water, never really touching the road because of the “plane” of water between the metal and the asphalt, and being pushed along by the wind on the water’s surface.

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Last summer’s Japanese typhoon in the building phase:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120620a1.html

Since the tsunami, these things don’t make the news here and only an American in Japan would think it significant, one who was not from FL, AL, MS, LA or TX. The Japanese, like Galveston, Texans, don’t really think they’re news.

Notice that several of the vehicles, mostly minivans, have pivoted like windsocks including the one next to the car that rolled. Wind tunneling is real, buildings act like huge jib sails, etc. Everything said above about wind and hurricanes is true (I’ve been through six of them.)

Anybody is more expert than I am at how to fake a video, but I know weather and I know photography at the pro level. That clip’s not fake.

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My lifted ’92 Dodge Ramcharger w/36″ mudders wouldn’t be sailing like that.

Runs OVER smart cars like June bugs, too!

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Horrry shit. horrry shit. horrry shit

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-qn5aPEQyk&feature=related

It wasn’t the only car tumbled by the storm.

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This looks entirely real to me. I’ve seen enough hurricanes etc to not underestimate the massive force in wind, even in lighter gusts. Once the wind gets past the edge and starts to lift, anything can fly.

For the curious, take a sheet of plywood, strap it to roof of car, cruise at 65 (below hurricane)
Slide the edge of plywood gradually out over the windshield till you reach the tipping point, and the wind catches the edge….

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It could be one of those plastic cars from India that runs on compressed. Makes hybrids and electrics looks like muscle cars.

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