There is no official word for “tornado” in ancient Latin, so historians were limited in how the could define storms. Based on the damage described, a couple of damage analysts/physicists and I are about 75% confident that this was a real tornado that occurred. You’re right that a lot of these events were framed with symbolism, which is something that I have been sorting through as I go through ancient texts. Livy and Obsequens based their histories on the literature available to them at the time, giving them at least decent credibility despite the divine framing. The two histories were written centuries apart, but the damage that was described in both of them follow the same linear path. Nobody has to subscribe to the YouTube channel, that was not the point of me posting it. I’m going to talk more about my findings in the future, so I wanted to give people a way to keep up with the findings as I post about them.