Bad Weather/storm Watcher Cake...help Please!!
Decorating By gakali Updated 2 Oct 2007 , 2:13am by gakali
Why not make a tornado coming across a field, or down a dirt road. Probably a FBCT would work well for that. Or even a snowstorm with tiny RI snowflakes and his car stuck in the snow. 
Good Luck.
Now Doug, aren't you just clever!!! What a good idea!!!!
or make a cake that looks like half a tornado.
just a bunch of rounds and pieces carved to shape.
"Hopin' you a whirlwind of a birthday!"
or
"Hopin you blow up a storm on your birthday!"
If you end up doing it this way, using a tornado I mean, you totally have to have debris in there. A cow or two, a tractor, some fencing. That sounds so rad!
If you want something 3D you could use a styrofoam cone on a skewer and have a tornado on the cake. You can make a path of destruction where it has been. Maybe add a miniature of the man or his car. If you want a flying cow you can use wire to make it stick out of the tornado. I'm sure you get the idea. Have fun!
I asked my DH, who is an official weather watcher, that question and he said, "Two words. Wall cloud." It's an area of clouds that extends beneath a severe thunderstorm. If a wall cloud rotates, it might precede tornado development. He said an illustration showing the parts of the wall cloud would also be cool. He also suggested hurricanes because this is hurricane season.
http://www.stormstock.com/Page%20City,%20KS%20Supercell%20Jun%2029,%201999%20from%2035mm%20MP%20digimarc%202.JPG
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Wall_cloud_with_lightning_-_NOAA.jpg/800px-Wall_cloud_with_lightning_-_NOAA.jpg
http://kelvin.ou.edu/METR%202603/meso%20wall%20cloud.jpg
http://stormeyes.org/tornado/SkyPix/skypixwc.htm
http://www.divetrip.com/photos/hurricane_wilma04.jpg
How about a dishevled farmyard with a purple cotton candy tornado? You could wrap it around a bamboo skewer, stick it in a cake and then see if you could attach some plastic farm animals to it. You'd have to use a crusting buttercream recipe so that the liquid wouldn't melt the tornado.
Hi gakali
Here's an idea, an overhead view of a hurricane you know the swirl with the eye in the middle and around the cake the semafore flags that signal a hurricane, red with a black square in the middle. If your not sure what it looks like just google semafore flags and it will be CVSFlags.com
Jibbies
Just for a completely different kind of idea. I live in Oklahoma so I do my fair share of storm watching, as in watching them head for the house! haha But for me it's all about watching the radar. A radar image on top of a cake could be awesome. Really colorful, and if you put the right formation on it, as in a hook echo, an avid storm watcher would definitely recognize it. Just to give you an idea what I'm talking about here's a radar image of a hook echo/tornado.
Thanks again, everyone, for all your wonderful ideas. The cake is done, it's in my pics (my computer is acting up at the moment, I can't re-size the pic to make it smaller and attach it here). It isn't nearly as elaborate as some of your awesome ideas, but I'm happy with how it turned out. Thanks again! 
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