Tornadoes come with a roar so loud that they actually snuff out their own sound.
It feels as if you are breathing the sound rather than hearing it. Certaintly, events of this past week will bear strong testimony to such a perception. Thousands of homes and businesses have been destroyed and property loss is running into the hundreds of millions of dollars. That's the name most commonly used to refer to these dark-cloaked marauders of the sky. Maybe the Greek for life-smasher would be even better suited, if anybody could find out what that is.