Quotes
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'Tornado' Tommy Dixon : When I was up in that twister, looking down at the Sears Tower, it struck me. I was a man facing his destiny strapped in an SUV. So, what did I do?
Ross Duffy : What?
'Tornado' Tommy Dixon : I popped that lock, and I stepped outside, and I actually flew.
Ross Duffy : You did not.
'Tornado' Tommy Dixon : I flew. I figured, "Hell, I'm already dead, why not enjoy the ride?" Ride that whirlwind! But that's when I saw it. My destiny. I was flying higher than incoming traffic into O'Hare, but I suddenly knew that I wasn't gonna crash. That tornado dropped me straight into Lake Michigan. Point your toes!
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[seeing tornadoes rip through Paris, France]
Ross Duffy : It's worse than Chicago.
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[as the data sled is lost to the tornadoes]
Colonel Mike Davis : This is Cyclone One. We've lost the Data Sled.
Ross Duffy : No!
Billy Chamber : 15 kilobytes of data, and flat-line!
Colonel Mike Davis : But, Doctor, from what I saw, if this hits D.C., we're gonna need to find a new capital.
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Judith Carr : Ross, Florida just called. Their storm track model just sent out an alert. They think our nothern storm is gonna bend south. They think it's gonna collide with Hurricane Eduardo.
[pause]
Judith Carr : Ross? Ross, how bad is that?
Ross Duffy : Jude, if those two storms collide over D.C., and D.C.'s thermal column interacts with the Mesophere, we're not talking Category 6. This is going to be a Category 7.