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While the storm report doesn't hint at this, if the 12,500 foot elevation stands, I believe that the tornado will go down in the record books as the highest known elevation tornado in the U.S. The previous highest elevation tornado took place at Rockwell Pass, California on July 7, 2004. The elevation of the pass is 11,600 feet, and it is estimated that the base of the tornado was at approximately 12,000 feet.

If the 12,500 foot elevation of yesterday's Mt. Evans tornado stands, then it should take the record. I'm awaiting "official" comment from the National Weather Service (NWS) in Boulder, and will post that as soon as it becomes available.

***Update 7/29/12, 5pm: The NWS in Boulder has not issued a revised or updated storm report or "public information statement" on the tornado, however a recent posting on their facebook page states that they used the photographer's position and extrapolated via Google Earth that the elevation of the base of the tornado was approximately 11,900 feet. This would make it 100 feet short of the old record referenced above. So, at the moment, the Rockwell Pass tornado record stands.

I have some personal reservations about a 100 foot difference being calculated via Google Earth, but "it is what it is..." I suppose. I don't know exactly how the Rockwell Pass elevation was calculated back in 2004, as the available documentation states that they "estimated that the base of the tornado was at approximately 12,000 feet" so I think its safe to say both of these tornadoes were very, very close to one another insofar as elevation is concerned.

Riders from the 29th annual RAMROD (Ride Around Mount Rainier in One Day) cyclist rally take a break and pose for pictures in front of the mountain, crowned with a large lenticular cloud on Thursday July 26, 2012. A lenticular cloud forms at the peak when warm, moist air hits the surface, cooling into a cloud as it rises upward towards the summit. Although it appears to be stationery, a lenticular formation is a signal of steady air flow but, as seen here, only cold enough around the top of the mountain to appear as a cloud. Sometimes it means rain the following day, sometimes it's a signal of cooling temperatures. This view is from Inspiration Point, the highest point of the ride at 4,850 feet elevation and a big payoff for riders after making it through the first 75 miles. The RAMROD is organized each year by the Redmond Cycling Club. For more information, visit their website.

Carl Jung in "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" wrote:

...I had a dream which both frightened and encouraged me. It was night in some unknown place, and I was making slow and painful headway against a mighty wind. Dense fog was flying along everywhere. I had my hands cupped around a tiny light which threatened to go out at any moment... Suddenly I had the feeling that something was coming up behind me. I looked back, and saw a gigantic black figure following me... When I awoke I realized at once that the figure was a "specter of the Brocken," my own shadow on the swirling mists, brought into being by the little light I was carrying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre

The music dance and sing
They make the children really ring
I spend the day your way
Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
One mile over we'll be there and we'll see you
Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too
Twenty four before my love you'll see I'll be there with you

I will remember you..

Along the drifting cloud the eagle searching down on the land
Catching the swirling wind the sailor sees the rim of the land
The eagle's dancing wings create as weather spins out of hand

Go closer hold the land feel partly no more than grains of sand
We stand to lose all time a thousand answers by in our hand
Next to your deeper fears we stand surrounded by a million years.

…Another version relates that the Pied Piper led the children into following him to the top of Koppelberg Hill, where he took them to a beautiful land and had his wicked way,[1] or a place called Koppenberg Mountain.[2] This version states that the Piper returned the children after payment, or that he returned the children after the villagers paid several times the original amount of gold.

History
The earliest mention of the story seems to have been on a stained glass window placed in the Church of Hamelin c. 1300. The window was described in several accounts between the 14th century and the 17th century.[citation needed] It was destroyed in 1660. Based on the surviving descriptions, a modern reconstruction of the window has been created by Hans Dobbertin (historian). It features the colorful figure of the Pied Piper and several figures of children dressed in white.

This window is generally considered to have been created in memory of a tragic historical event for the town. Also, Hamelin town records start with this event. The earliest written record is from the town chronicles in an entry from 1384 which states:

It is 100 years since our children left.[3]

Although research has been conducted for centuries, no explanation for the historical event is agreed upon. In any case, the rats were first added to the story in a version from c. 1559 and are absent from earlier accounts.…

Hammer of Los wrote:...

Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there.

The music dance and sing
They make the children really ring
I spend the day your way
Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
One mile over we'll be there and we'll see you
Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too
Twenty four before my love you'll see I'll be there with you

I will remember you..

Along the drifting cloud the eagle searching down on the land
Catching the swirling wind the sailor sees the rim of the land
The eagle's dancing wings create as weather spins out of hand

Go closer hold the land feel partly no more than grains of sand
We stand to lose all time a thousand answers by in our hand
Next to your deeper fears we stand surrounded by a million years.

...

When was the last time you experienced something that left you with a profound sense of awe? You know, that feeling of being overwhelmed in such a good way because something is so breath taking or wonderful. Hopefully the answer to this question is very recently, because new research indicates that having more and regular awe-inspiring experiences is actually very good for your physical and mental health.

Researchers Melanie Rudd of Stanford University, Kathleen D. Vohs at the University of Minnesota, and Jennifer Aaker of Stanford University, conducted a series of experiments into how people experience awe and found numerous benefits. Chief among them, a greater feeling of satisfaction with life as compared to those who had not felt awe. There was also a greater desire to take time to help others and a general feeling that there is time to do things instead of the typical “there is no time” stress so many experience these days.

Previous studies have reached related conclusions, for example – lower blood pressure, less heart conditions, and other physical benefits have also been linked to more frequent awe experiences.

But don’t think this means we all have to go to Machu Picchu or the Grand Canyon in order to improve our health (though it would be nice). The team says that according to their research, “a trip down memory lane, brief story, or even a 60-second commercial” can also elicit feelings of awe. So if you have the right dinner parties or simply a good conversation partner, you can still get the awe you need to live better.

Nordic wrote:A 60 second commercial? What kind of ghastly fucktard wrote that crapola? I have a reverse sense of awe after reading that.

Luther Blissett wrote:wtf, didn't we have a thread about the Pied Piper of Hamelin here just a year or two ago? I don't know where else on the web I would have found such a thorough exploration of the subject as I remember.

From Lily:

…Another version relates that the Pied Piper led the children into following him to the top of Koppelberg Hill, where he took them to a beautiful land and had his wicked way,[1] or a place called Koppenberg Mountain.[2] This version states that the Piper returned the children after payment, or that he returned the children after the villagers paid several times the original amount of gold.

History
The earliest mention of the story seems to have been on a stained glass window placed in the Church of Hamelin c. 1300. The window was described in several accounts between the 14th century and the 17th century.[citation needed] It was destroyed in 1660. Based on the surviving descriptions, a modern reconstruction of the window has been created by Hans Dobbertin (historian). It features the colorful figure of the Pied Piper and several figures of children dressed in white.

This window is generally considered to have been created in memory of a tragic historical event for the town. Also, Hamelin town records start with this event. The earliest written record is from the town chronicles in an entry from 1384 which states:

It is 100 years since our children left.[3]

Although research has been conducted for centuries, no explanation for the historical event is agreed upon. In any case, the rats were first added to the story in a version from c. 1559 and are absent from earlier accounts.…

Though I thought I read that the children were taken into a mountain.


(Listening to Wendy & Bonnie's "The Paisley Window Paine" while reading about the Pied Piper of Hamelin takes your head into a strange space)

The faeries, despite their mischievous nature, were also known as the People of Peace or Quietness, the Good People, the People of the Hollow Hills, the Shining Ones, and seem to have had a special liking for pipers who were inveigled inside their hills to perform at faery weddings.
http://www.incallander.co.uk/faeries.htm

Burnt Hill wrote:Remember this?-

The faeries, despite their mischievous nature, were also known as the People of Peace or Quietness, the Good People, the People of the Hollow Hills, the Shining Ones, and seem to have had a special liking for pipers who were inveigled inside their hills to perform at faery weddings.

Burnt Hill wrote:Remember this?-


Maybe not the best choice for awe inspiring, but it is a trip down memory lane, it is/was profound, and its 60 seconds!

The Crying Indian
How an environmental icon helped sell cans -- and sell out environmentalism

BY GINGER STRAND

Published in the November/December 2008 issue of Orion magazine

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/ ... icle/3642/

I watch the crying Indian again on YouTube. Here’s the genius of it: the ad appeals to a vague feeling of national guilt that—following in a long iconic tradition—is associated with Native Americans. What we’ve done to this land is not right, and the Indians know it, because we did it to them, too. As the Indian contemplates the trashed landscape and car-choked freeway, a dark possibility opens up: our way of life is destructive. The cars, the pollution, the factories: it’s not, despite what we’ve been told, the best of all possible worlds. Something must change. And then that bag of trash arcs out the window and explodes like a revelation at his feet.

AhabsOtherLeg wrote:Could the story have stemmed from a sort of half-remembered version of the Children's Crusades in 1212? The details are similar. A mysterious figure (the shepherd-boy Nicholas) turns up in the town, preaching and playing his pipe, then leading the children away up (or into) a mountainous region, in his case the Alps. A lot of the children from his doomed Crusade did eventually return to their homes, though many died, or stayed wherever they ended up, or were sold into slavery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%2 ... raditional

Maybe Hamelin lost an unusually high proportion of it's youth to this expedition in comparison to other towns? 1300 is just about 100 years after the events of 1212.

There are definitely versions of the Pied Piper story where the children were taken into the mountain, much in the way that faeries were said to steal babies and take them into faery hills to raise as their own, replacing the child in the home with a changeling.

The faeries, despite their mischievous nature, were also known as the People of Peace or Quietness, the Good People, the People of the Hollow Hills, the Shining Ones, and seem to have had a special liking for pipers who were inveigled inside their hills to perform at faery weddings.
http://www.incallander.co.uk/faeries.htm

Just thinking aloud here.