Where's Hamilcar when you need him?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/28/us-weather-idUSTRE73P2PK20110428
It's 45 now. I wonder if a high occupancy building was hit to bring such a high body count. I know tornadoes are vicious, but I don't recall ever seeing a 45 dead figure for any of them.
About 130 tornadoes, over 60 people dead. My house survived easily somehow.
It's terrible stuff. My condolences are with the gulf states- Hopefully the dead will merit some federal money for the states, at the least.
The areas affected are not along the Gulf Coast. Geography fail, Lettow.
Has anyone blamed gays yet?
Quote from: JonasSalk on April 28, 2011, 01:23:58 AM
The areas affected are not along the Gulf Coast. Geography fail, Lettow.
Did I say they were? Merely that it hit the gulf states, not the gulf coast, er..
Quote from: DGuller on April 27, 2011, 11:45:21 PM
It's 45 now. I wonder if a high occupancy building was hit to bring such a high body count. I know tornadoes are vicious, but I don't recall ever seeing a 45 dead figure for any of them.
There was a tornado in the 1930s (I think) that killed like 600 people. Part of the reason is that it touched down in Missouri and stayed on the ground for many hundreds of miles, destroying everything in its path until it got to south central Indiana.
Anyway, I think the Ohio is expected to crest today. Downtown Louisville is = threatened with catastrophic damage. This has been the wettest April in the history of the city. :wacko:
Quote from: Caliga on April 28, 2011, 04:16:59 AM
Quote from: DGuller on April 27, 2011, 11:45:21 PM
It's 45 now. I wonder if a high occupancy building was hit to bring such a high body count. I know tornadoes are vicious, but I don't recall ever seeing a 45 dead figure for any of them.
There was a tornado in the 1930s (I think) that killed like 600 people. Part of the reason is that it touched down in Missouri and stayed on the ground for many hundreds of miles, destroying everything in its path until it got to south central Indiana.
It was also an F4 or 5 that was a mile wide IIRC.
Quote from: Martinus on April 28, 2011, 02:47:29 AM
Has anyone blamed gays yet?
God judged the SHIT out of Alabama because that state is absolutely overflowing with fags.
More likely, given that it's Alabama, is that he judged the state because it is overflowing with teh blacks. :(
Quote from: Caliga on April 28, 2011, 05:11:55 AM
Anyway, I think the Ohio is expected to crest today. Downtown Louisville is = threatened with catastrophic damage. This has been the wettest April in the history of the city. :wacko:
I'm sick of the wet.
It's sunny here right now. :)
Quote from: Fireblade on April 28, 2011, 05:31:36 AM
Quote from: Martinus on April 28, 2011, 02:47:29 AM
Has anyone blamed gays yet?
God judged the SHIT out of Alabama because that state is absolutely overflowing with fags.
That was my thinking too.
Quote from: Caliga on April 28, 2011, 08:00:50 AM
It's sunny here right now. :)
Yeah, it is okay right now. Which means they get a day of working on washed out roads before they get washed out again.
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 28, 2011, 08:00:02 AM
Quote from: Caliga on April 28, 2011, 05:11:55 AM
Anyway, I think the Ohio is expected to crest today. Downtown Louisville is = threatened with catastrophic damage. This has been the wettest April in the history of the city. :wacko:
I'm sick of the wet.
We are in the middle of a horrible drought with no end in sight. I would love to take some off your hands.
Quote from: Valmy on April 28, 2011, 08:05:52 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 28, 2011, 08:00:02 AM
Quote from: Caliga on April 28, 2011, 05:11:55 AM
Anyway, I think the Ohio is expected to crest today. Downtown Louisville is = threatened with catastrophic damage. This has been the wettest April in the history of the city. :wacko:
I'm sick of the wet.
We are in the middle of a horrible drought with no end in sight. I would love to take some off your hands.
I'd love for you to have some. This shit isn't good for grapes.
Flooding has closed all of the casinos in Tunica, MS until further notice. Power be out all over the place. Luckily, our urbanites are dazzling, so Jackson will have a healthy glow tonight.
I was staying with my grandparents one summer in SW VA and I was like 7 or 8. I remember distinctly that I had just learned the "fact" that tornadoes couldn't hit in the mountains.
We were driving to visit my great-grandparents (my family is notoriously long-lived) and a bad storm was coming through. We were right in town with a wooded hill to our right and houses to our left. The wind was really bad and suddenly we heard loud crashes and trees started falling over. Before we knew it a funnel cloud comes right over the hill not too far behind us, any trees in its path were knocked over. It actually started physically pushing the car forward despite my grandfather locking the breaks. He then intentionally drove through someone's flower bed / yard and into a side street to get distance from it.
As quickly as it appeared it was gone, I have no idea what it was rated but it was relatively weak, it was knocking over small trees and such. It passed directly through several houses without causing any notable damage.
Still was amazing to actually see one, they almost look so strange that actually seeing it you sort of wonder "is this for real?"
I saw a tornado down in Houston once. It looked badass. Good thing I didn't have a house in its path or anything. :cool:
That's the weird thing: that sort of severe weather is dangerous as hell, but it's almost mesmerizing to watch. A very dangerous supercell came through my area the other night (with accompanying tornado warning). It was pitch black but whenever lightning lit it up, which was extremely often, it was totally awesome to watch... and I mean awesome in the original sense of the word, not valley girl awesome. :cool: Oddly enough it wasn't even raining or windy where my house is, but the storm was only like 3 miles to my south.
Quote from: Scipio on April 28, 2011, 08:40:04 AM
Flooding has closed all of the casinos in Tunica, MS
What will those poor fake Indians do to make a living now? :weep:
I got to see one in 2000 when Xenia Ohio turned on its tornado magnet and got hit again. The supermarket a street or so from the hospital got pulverized.
Sorta interesting viewing the funnel cloud FROM the hospital.
http://www.twitvid.com/4W6PU
Notice the stadium. Roll Tide.
Quote from: Martinus on April 28, 2011, 08:03:33 AM
That was my thinking too.
Oh? What do you know about Alabama?
I can report that my family and my house are ok. A lot better than others can say.
Quote from: lustindarkness on April 28, 2011, 11:33:41 AM
I can report that my family and my house are ok. A lot better than others can say.
:hug:
This morning someone said Birmingham got slammed too... is that right? :hmm: I knew Tuscaloosa got its ass kicked, but didn't hear anything about Birmingham...
Quote from: Caliga on April 28, 2011, 12:28:01 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on April 28, 2011, 11:33:41 AM
I can report that my family and my house are ok. A lot better than others can say.
:hug:
This morning someone said Birmingham got slammed too... is that right? :hmm: I knew Tuscaloosa got its ass kicked, but didn't hear anything about Birmingham...
Yeah.
QuoteA devastating daylong sweep of tornadoes ripped through Alabama on Wednesday, killing at least 128 people while smashing houses, businesses and government buildings.
The worst path of destruction started in Tuscaloosa and cut across the heart of metro Birmingham, a path where at least 26 lives were lost. A second tornado in Walker County killed 13.
Rescue crews worked late into the night to free those trapped in homes and businesses and to dig through the rubble for bodies.
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley declared a state of emergency and mobilized about 1,400 Alabama National Guardsmen. The damage was so widespread that it'll likely be days before the full death toll and property destruction are assessed across the state.
Hardest hit was metro Birmingham, where at least 26 people were confirmed dead as of late Wednesday -- 13 in Walker County, 11 in Jefferson County, including a child whose parents have not been located, and two in St. Clair County.
"We are going to retrieve the bodies we can right now," said Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Pat Curry. "In a situation like this, the first step is to make sure we have a positive ID."
Fifteen deaths were counted in Tuscaloosa County and more than 100 injuries.
"This is probably one of the biggest outbreaks in the Southeast in quite some time and that's saying something given the recent ones we've had," said Tom Bradshaw, National Weather Service meteorologist in the Southern Region headquarters in Fort Worth.
The enormously wide tornado that roared through Birmingham about 6 p.m. was from the same supercell system that produced the tornado that touched down just south of downtown Tuscaloosa, said Jim Stekovich, meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service Birmingham office. "We've had -- just as predicted -- a massive outbreak of strong, violent tornadoes today," Stekovich said.
From: http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/04/street-by-street_search_effort.html
:(
Jesus... yeah this sounds like the one I mentioned earlier that tore through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana back in the 30s or so. I think the death count from that one was over 600 after all was said and done. Hopefully this one doesn't approach that figure.
Quote from: Caliga on April 28, 2011, 12:52:20 PM
Jesus... yeah this sounds like the one I mentioned earlier that tore through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana back in the 30s or so. I think the death count from that one was over 600 after all was said and done. Hopefully this one doesn't approach that figure.
That's probably the Tri-State Tornado. The thing about that one was it happened before there was any real professional weather service that gave good tornado warnings, and most (maybe no?) cities had tornado sirens. Xenia, OH, which was hit by a tornado of at least F5 intensity* in the "Super Outbreak" of the early 70s didn't have any tornado sirens at all prior to that incident...one of the first things they and other communities in the region did afterwards was put some up.
The Tri-State Tornado was reportedly so lethal not just because of a lack of warning system, but also because many of the people in those communities who tended to be fairly familiar with tornadoes had no idea it
was a tornado. Apparently it was so wide it didn't have the stereotypical appearance of a funnel cloud, but it just looked like a "roiling cloud wall" that came and destroyed everything in its path. Because it lacked the distinctive appearance of the funnel cloud and was moving an estimated 50-60mph (average tornadoes might have 150 mph wind speeds in the funnel but they are travelling around at 15-30 mph, so if you're a good distance away they are actually relatively easy to avoid.)
*
The original Fujita scale's creator had theoretical rankings above F5, and he actually surveyed Xenia, OH after it was hit by the F5 and he said it was the most physical destruction he had seen a tornado create and he speculated it could have been "greater than F5." Since F5 essentially is given out if the tornado causes "complete destruction" it's kind of a logical fallacy to suggest any ranking could be higher..complete destruction is complete destruction, and that's why the Enhanced Fujita scale now in use doesn't have any speculative/theoretical categories.
280 dead :(
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42794539/ns/weather/
Yes Otto, that's the one I was thinking of.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Ff%2Ff9%2FTri-State_Tornado.JPG&hash=c894aa0559bb8632816b907a83d954e5c5fa2581)
MULTIPLE TORNADOES ON THE GROUND RIGHT NOW MOVING THROUGH LOUISVILLE.
head for the hills
run for your lives
:punk:
Churchill Downs has taken some heavy damage. :(
Damaged barns? Aaaahhh!
Quote from: Caliga on June 22, 2011, 08:06:46 PM
MULTIPLE TORNADOES ON THE GROUND RIGHT NOW MOVING THROUGH LOUISVILLE.
head for the hills
run for your lives
:punk:
I was very confused to see this updated. I thought that a mod edited my Joplin thread at first.
Quote from: garbon on June 22, 2011, 08:38:29 PM
Damaged barns? Aaaahhh!
But that's where they put the horses. :huh:
Quote from: Caliga on June 22, 2011, 08:45:15 PM
Quote from: garbon on June 22, 2011, 08:38:29 PM
Damaged barns? Aaaahhh!
But that's where they put the horses. :huh:
Possibly more humane than a halal slaughtering.