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Fark. Texting her and she hasn't replied yet. I want to say she's either hustling or still hanging out in the shelter and didn't know I texted.
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Macinfarker: Female reporter onsite just scolded disaster tourists for causing problems. good on her.
Pot, meet kettle.
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Marine1: God-is-a-Taco: Marine1:
They're possible, you just have to be willing to build one. We carved a damn fortress into Cheyenne Mountain, for fark's sake.
They should be built into the price of a home. This thing where people get killed and they find the corpse 1/2 a mile away from the home because they didn't have anywhere to go is getting really old. Especially when it's a kid.
Why would a business offer a service like that at a price people here could afford, much less for free? They're there to make money, not care about people.
It's not that much more, really. Especially when you consider the cost of housing in the Midwest and Great Plains.
Let's say you don't put a basement in EVERY home. If these towns can dig trenches for sewers, storm drains, and water mains, they can dig a 20'x20' (hell, smaller than that) every block or two as a tornado shelter.
It's a practice that we know would save lives. There's no real reason NOT to do it.
If anything, it's the other way around. (Gonna use Detroit and the Bay Area, because I know their housing prices)
Detroit - nice family home with good schools, and Detroit Public Water - $130K.
Cost of good, storm-resistant (so that when the house gets ripped away, you're not in a hole, you're still in a room) basement - $50K (pulling this out of my ass, but the point remains)
Detroit + basement - $180K
Mountain View - starter home - $800K. Actual selling price - $1.3 million cash (Because the Bay Area is currently completely freaking insane).
Cost of basement - $100K (Let's say it doubled because of CA environmentalists and just generally higher costs because of ridiculous real estate)
Mountain View plus basement - $1.4 million
Except that salaries are based around cost of living. If you can afford $1.3 Million, you can probably afford $1.4 Million (especially since you paid the 1.3 Million in cash. Yes you did. If you're buying a house in Silicon Valley today, you're paying cash. End of Story). That's not necessarily the case with $130K->$180K.
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Di Atribe: Marine1: There's no real reason NOT to do it.
We just told you a bunch of reasons why it's not done. You just keep ignoring them.
Denying people live-saving shelter in an area prone to violent storms is not a good practice, and there's no reason for it, period. If they can't put some form of shelter in, they need to build somewhere else. A strong room might not have been enough for this stuff, even... sheesh, man, these pics are unreal...
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jshine: Macinfarker: Female reporter onsite just scolded disaster tourists for causing problems. good on her.
Pot, meet kettle.
One of them is doing her job. The others are being vultures.
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WizardofToast: I just heard a hospital was leveled but evacuated. I don't know if that was the one my mother's in.
Fark. Texting her and she hasn't replied yet. I want to say she's either hustling or still hanging out in the shelter and didn't know I texted.
http://tunein.com/radio/Oklahoma-City-Police-s147235/
They're giving locations of areas that they're working on clearing... I hope this helps...
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meyerkev: Detroit - nice family home with good schools, and Detroit Public Water - $130K.
The fark?
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WizardofToast: I just heard a hospital was leveled but evacuated. I don't know if that was the one my mother's in.
Fark. Texting her and she hasn't replied yet. I want to say she's either hustling or still hanging out in the shelter and didn't know I texted.
I hope your mother is safe.
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WizardofToast: I just heard a hospital was leveled but evacuated. I don't know if that was the one my mother's in.
Fark. Texting her and she hasn't replied yet. I want to say she's either hustling or still hanging out in the shelter and didn't know I texted.
Nobody would be getting texts there..
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WizardofToast: I just heard a hospital was leveled but evacuated. I don't know if that was the one my mother's in.
Fark. Texting her and she hasn't replied yet. I want to say she's either hustling or still hanging out in the shelter and didn't know I texted.
Stay calm, okay? All the area hospitals are gonna be flooded right now. I'm sure she's fine, just busy.
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ringersol: The Downfall: "Tornadoes are not hurricanes."
.Blah blah sis boom bah and in closing wharrgarbleExcellent work. You've blah blah successfully blah composed of
Everybody on FARK is paying attention to you now princess. What s it that you really want to say?
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megalynn44: That is freaky. They zoomed in on the school and there was an exposed interior wall with all the backpacks still neatly hanging on the hooks.
It's weird how that happens. I've seen pictures of buildings with most of the walls gone and yet there would still be cups and things sitting neatly on the dinner table.
It sounds very bad about the third grade class, from the looks of it just doesn't appear very hopeful for them. I wonder why they weren't evacuated with the other classes?
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ArtosRC: jshine: Macinfarker: Female reporter onsite just scolded disaster tourists for causing problems. good on her.
Pot, meet kettle.
One of them is doing her job. The others are being vultures.
They're all disaster tourists; some just get paid for it & show their footage on TV.
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/listening to these people fills me with rage and wonder.
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I didn't know the tornado was a farking mile long. I've done cross country in high school to be familiar with the scope of a mile. I can only see a goddamn wall of gastly death like out of a horror movie.
She says more are coming. Hopefully minor ones.
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Adolf Oliver Nipples: The worst part about all of this? If the climate guys are right, this is just the beginning, it's only going to get worse from here.
Why? All global warming will do is push the alley northward. You still need a cold front slamming into warm gulf air. Even if the air generally warms, you still need that intersection with a cold air mass.
Otherwise Houston should have constant tornadoes, being warmer than OKC and all.
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ecmoRandomNumbers: CNN reporting that it might have been an F7 tornado.
/listening to these people fills me with rage and wonder.
God. They should be fined.
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Soonerpsycho: [i.imgur.com image 850x478]
Is that around 1400-1498 S Santa Fe Ave?
35.323888,-97.512074
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meyerkev: Marine1: God-is-a-Taco: Marine1:
They're possible, you just have to be willing to build one. We carved a damn fortress into Cheyenne Mountain, for fark's sake.
They should be built into the price of a home. This thing where people get killed and they find the corpse 1/2 a mile away from the home because they didn't have anywhere to go is getting really old. Especially when it's a kid.
Why would a business offer a service like that at a price people here could afford, much less for free? They're there to make money, not care about people.
It's not that much more, really. Especially when you consider the cost of housing in the Midwest and Great Plains.
Let's say you don't put a basement in EVERY home. If these towns can dig trenches for sewers, storm drains, and water mains, they can dig a 20'x20' (hell, smaller than that) every block or two as a tornado shelter.
It's a practice that we know would save lives. There's no real reason NOT to do it.
If anything, it's the other way around. (Gonna use Detroit and the Bay Area, because I know their housing prices)
Detroit - nice family home with good schools, and Detroit Public Water - $130K.
Cost of good, storm-resistant (so that when the house gets ripped away, you're not in a hole, you're still in a room) basement - $50K (pulling this out of my ass, but the point remains)
Detroit + basement - $180K
Mountain View - starter home - $800K. Actual selling price - $1.3 million cash (Because the Bay Area is currently completely freaking insane).
Cost of basement - $100K (Let's say it doubled because of CA environmentalists and just generally higher costs because of ridiculous real estate)
Mountain View plus basement - $1.4 million
Except that salaries are based around cost of living. If you can afford $1.3 Million, you can probably afford $1.4 Million (especially since you paid the 1.3 Million in cash. Yes you did. If you're buying a house in Silicon Valley today, you're paying cash. End of Story). That's not nec ...
And? It should be built into the price of t
PowerSlacker: Marine1: BREAKING NEWS:
Flooding in St. Louis as Katie Horner achieves orgasm from news that these storms could possibly be on their way to her station's viewing area.
That was a disappointing Google search. She looks like she would eat your balls for breakfast.
Has she gotten rougher since moving from KC? I haven't seen her on air in a few years.
*GIS*
Eh. Nah. Pretty much the same. Not insanely hittable for a weather woman, but not horrible, either.
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jshine: They're all disaster tourists; some just get paid for it & show their footage on TV.
Yes, the professional documentation of a catastrophic meteorological event is disaster tourism. Or course it is.
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PowerSlacker: meyerkev: Detroit - nice family home with good schools, and Detroit Public Water - $130K.
The fark?
Let me rephrase:
Affluent Detroit suburbs (where all the people who work in Detroit actually live) - nice family home with good schools, and Detroit Public Water - $130K
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