May 10, 2012 – LOUISIANA – A scientist caught the birth of rare twin waterspouts on camera as the twisters churned to life over Louisiana waters. One of the powerful and unusually long-lived twisters damaged homes and cut power as it barreled across Grand Isle, a long, narrow island along the southeastern leg of the state’s Gulf coastline. The tornadoes formed at the front edge of a powerful storm system that moved across the region Wednesday afternoon. Tim Osborn, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coast Survey, was just finishing up a meeting on Grand Isle when he spied a man out the window do a double-take and point to the skies. “He came running in and said, ‘There’s a waterspout out there!’ Osborn told OurAmazingPlanet.
