Storm Gerrit: Ring doorbell shows moment tornado ripped through Manchester suburb

Ring camera footage during Storm Gerrit shows a tornado whip through a Manchester suburb.

A resident captured the aftermath of the storm, which included damage to her car and debris in her yard.

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45 comments
  1. Well that was riveting, but more importantly that Ring doorbell is just looking out all over a street, isn't that illegal? its impinging on peoples privacy, my neighbour has one but had to put up a high fence and put a sticker on the fence warning there was a Ring doorbell inside, so it couldn't film peoples cars and homes and bystanders.

  2. I know elsewhere a few houses lost their roofs and chimneys but Ive seen more intense winds during a summer thunderstorm than in this video

  3. I see no nothinf to suggest a spinning column of wind passed through anywhere in manchester. Simply high wind and and bad storm

  4. It tickles me that the people ridiculing the storm would be the first ones on TV, papers selling their stories if their roof was ripped off during the night by a storm. People’s homes have been ruined, a couple destroyed. Have some empathy and respect. We get tornadoes here (UK holds the record for most tornadoes per square mile in the world actually) they’re smaller than the US but are still dangerous…our houses are built much more solidly than US houses thankfully (or were, don’t imagine a new build house would fair to well) but that solidity can cause more surrounding damage…hence crushed cars. I hope those affected can rebuild and insurance companies pay out for them to do so. Must be awful, especially at Christmas. 😢

  5. An empty video? That's what you call a tornado? Maybe try google to figure out what a TORNADO actually is. Or learn a bit about journalism! What a disgrace!

  6. My visions of a Tornado aftermath are some what flawed…….Where are the miles and miles of levelled houses and buried cars etc……

  7. Tornado? 🤔 the brits are loosing their minds, 😅 I remember when the British was tough, now a strong wind is on the new around the world 🤷🏻

  8. Seriously as a mancunian that was not a tornado 😅..that was the end result of 40 mph winds …but apparently we had an emergancy declared ..lmfao ..

  9. His wheelie bin is still standing,cant call it a tornado unless its a mile away from the house . You got of lightly there 🙂

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