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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.
Farking worthless CNN. I vowed to never watch them after the Boston bombing fiasco; this seals it. They don't let facts get in the way of a good scaremongering.
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Second, WHY THE HELL DO PEOPLE STILL LIVE IN OKLAHOMA?
Seriously, whenever I hear about a place getting beat to hell by nature, it's Oklahoma, Kansas, southern Indiana, and New Orleans. I'm not just talking about normal disaster weather like you'd get in the gulf, but the kind of weather that destroys whole cities... Always, it's these places.
And yet people still move there. They still live there. They get hit by a tornado or hurricane, and they just rebuild and wait for the next one.
When do you finally say "F♠ck this shiat!" and move to Wisconsin, Michigan, Kentucky, or some place where you don't see frequent tornadoes and hurricanes?
My sympathies to those affected, but if this is your third or fourth tornado in the area around where you live, shouldn't you be reconsidering your homestead ideals?
If it were me, I'd get the fark out of New Orleans, Oklahoma, Kansas, or anywhere in tornado alley or hurricane zones that are below farking sea level. I'd also not live anywhere near the banks of the Mississippi River, or near the parts of California that are set ablaze every damned year.
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gameshowhost: Marine1: And? It should be built into the price of t
So, regulation.
Yep. That's what it's called. Occasionally, it's not such a bad thing.
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This text is now purple: 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.
I think the idea of climate change and tornadoes revolves around the idea that the warm gulf air is warmer and the cold air mass is colder, leading to stronger intensity when they combine, making more and stronger tornadoes.
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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.
If it was a F12 tornado, they could access the BIOS.
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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.
Given that the F7 key (coupled with Fn or Ctrl or Alt) often brings up a grammar/spellcheck/thesaurus in most programs, this is fitting.
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PacificaFitz: mzkitty901: CNN reporting kids were in the schools
grain of salt coming from CNN
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gameshowhost: Marine1: And? It should be built into the price of t
So, regulation.
Approved of in Oklahoma! That should go over just fine. We're dealing with a realist here, I see.
Marine1: Denying people live-saving shelter in an area prone to violent storms is not a good practice
OK hold on, you think that builders are just being cheapass meaniepants? That's the only reason you can think of? Not the high water table or the bedrock being impenetrable? You've got it all figured out, clearly. NO ONE has thought about this more than you.
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ontariolightning: 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..
In fact texting is the best way to get in contact with someone in a heavily saturated area with missing cells (towers). During Katrina, I was there during and after, you couldn't get a line out but you would eventually get a text. Text messages are "store and forward" and they enter the SMSC (short message service center) where they sit until they're delivered for a period of time up to and perhaps even longer than 72 hours depending on the carrier. So text away! She may not be able to get an SMS out but chances are she'll get the inbound.
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ZeroCorpse: First, condolences to those struck by this disaster.
Second, WHY THE HELL DO PEOPLE STILL LIVE IN OKLAHOMA?
Seriously, whenever I hear about a place getting beat to hell by nature, it's Oklahoma, Kansas, southern Indiana, and New Orleans. I'm not just talking about normal disaster weather like you'd get in the gulf, but the kind of weather that destroys whole cities... Always, it's these places.
And yet people still move there. They still live there. They get hit by a tornado or hurricane, and they just rebuild and wait for the next one.
When do you finally say "F♠ck this shiat!" and move to Wisconsin, Michigan, Kentucky, or some place where you don't see frequent tornadoes and hurricanes?
My sympathies to those affected, but if this is your third or fourth tornado in the area around where you live, shouldn't you be reconsidering your homestead ideals?
If it were me, I'd get the fark out of New Orleans, Oklahoma, Kansas, or anywhere in tornado alley or hurricane zones that are below farking sea level. I'd also not live anywhere near the banks of the Mississippi River, or near the parts of California that are set ablaze every damned year.
Everywhere has a risk of something, except maybe northern Manitoba, but who wants to live there?
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ZeroCorpse: First, condolences to those struck by this disaster.
Second, WHY THE HELL DO PEOPLE STILL LIVE IN OKLAHOMA?
Seriously, whenever I hear about a place getting beat to hell by nature, it's Oklahoma, Kansas, southern Indiana, and New Orleans. I'm not just talking about normal disaster weather like you'd get in the gulf, but the kind of weather that destroys whole cities... Always, it's these places.
And yet people still move there. They still live there. They get hit by a tornado or hurricane, and they just rebuild and wait for the next one.
When do you finally say "F♠ck this shiat!" and move to Wisconsin, Michigan, Kentucky, or some place where you don't see frequent tornadoes and hurricanes?
My sympathies to those affected, but if this is your third or fourth tornado in the area around where you live, shouldn't you be reconsidering your homestead ideals?
If it were me, I'd get the fark out of New Orleans, Oklahoma, Kansas, or anywhere in tornado alley or hurricane zones that are below farking sea level. I'd also not live anywhere near the banks of the Mississippi River, or near the parts of California that are set ablaze every damned year.
The gas is cheap and the drugs are AWESOME.
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Villemus Fortis: Unable to reach my younger brother or his family. This sucks.
Location?
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I realize he probably shouldn't be walking into a disaster zone, but ... (shrug). I'm not there to talk him out of it. Plus, he's a grownup.
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SpdrJay: I was led to believe this kind of thing would stop happening after Bill Pullman and Helen Hunt got that trashcan full of bubble gum machine prize containers up in that big tornado way back in the 90s.
WTF happened to that idea?
The idea was to improve warning capabilities. I believe they had an hour on this tornado. That's about as good as you're going to get.
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OtherLittleGuy: ecmoRandomNumbers: CNN reporting that it might have been an F7 tornado.
/listening to these people fills me with rage and wonder.
If it was a F12 tornado, they could access the BIOS.
Computer Joke Simulpost!
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Now That's What I Call a Taco!: Sounds like a teacher sacrificed her life to protect 3 kids at the school by laying on top of them as the tornado hit. Wow.
Or he.
Anyhow... not dead yet... hope the teacher makes it. Giving one's life for others is a noble cause but not getting killed in the process is much better.
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gameshowhost: How far were yesterday's tornado touchdowns from you, Di?
Yesterday's? The ones in Norman & Shawnee? Or do you mean last week's in Granbury & Cleburne?
Norman is about 150 miles north. Granbury is about 80 miles SW.
And they just issued a tornado warning for Montague County, TX. That's about 50 miles NW of me.
Driving home now. Please excuse any delay in responses.
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globalwarmingpraiser: You know, I hope that the people realize that they are in the way if they are not trained in what they do. Please stay out of the area if you are not a trained First Responder. You could get hit by a moss covered three handled family gredunza.
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ZeroCorpse: If it were me, I'd get the fark out of New Orleans, Oklahoma, Kansas, or anywhere in tornado alley or hurricane zones that are below farking sea level. I'd also not live anywhere near the banks of the Mississippi River, or near the parts of California that are set ablaze every damned year.
This is retarded. There is nowhere you can live where you will be guaranteed safe from natural disaster. Storms, fire, earthquakes, landslides, flooding, blizzard, tsunami, yada yada yada. I get massive eye roll when people spout this "just move" bullshiat.
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