EF4

5/21/2013 1:05:00 PM

actually an EF-5, and it's energy "dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima."

http://www.wral.com/power-of-moore-tornado-dwarfs-hiroshima-bomb/12469704/

5/21/2013 4:44:24 PM

Pretty textbook I would say

5/21/2013 4:55:24 PM

To me that looks like a supercell to me

5/21/2013 4:56:41 PM

its an elephant head

5/21/2013 4:58:20 PM

before:



after:

5/21/2013 5:03:43 PM

the winds moved the camera as well

5/21/2013 5:11:01 PM

supposedly the marque of the movie theater in moore after the tornado went through

5/21/2013 6:38:57 PM

I've experienced 2 tornadoes; one was an EF3 that I slept through (as well as my on-call pager and cellphone) and it was about less than a mile from my house

For all the weather nerds, why does Bangladesh get some many Nados?

5/21/2013 6:52:57 PM

^Bangladesh doesn't get that many. Canada gets the second most. Every continent except Antarctica has had tornadoes.

5/21/2013 7:08:14 PM

Well they seem to dot the list of deadliest tornadoes; maybe not the most but they sure do get pummeled.

5/21/2013 7:41:22 PM

They have very unstable weather, but the tornado season is very short.

5/21/2013 7:58:27 PM

No victim blaming itt yet


Tornado alley, tornado followed same path in 1999, and people are still living there in 2013.....ok go ahead and blame the victim.

5/21/2013 8:05:05 PM

Moore, OK is a modern day Sodom that brought God's wrath upon themselves.

5/21/2013 8:12:05 PM

^^ Good idea because lightning tornados always strike thrice.
I left it open so we can blame them later if it happens again.

In the meantime, how's that dead zone on through downtown Raleigh coming along? Have they cleared all the homes and businesses out of there since a tornado just went through there a few years ago?

[Edited on May 21, 2013 at 8:14 PM. Reason : l]

5/21/2013 8:14:20 PM

^^ makes me wonder how long til Westboro Baptist shows up

5/21/2013 8:22:38 PM

Quote :

"CBS has pulled the "Mike & Molly" finale, titled "Windy City," from the Monday, May 20 schedule. The comedy's Season 3 finale features a tornado descending on Chicago. "Due to the tragic events this afternoon in Oklahoma, we are pre-empting tonight’s season finale of 'Mike & Molly,' which has a related storyline,” a CBS spokesperson said in a statement. "A repeat broadcast of 'Mike & Molly' will run in the time period. The season finale will be broadcast at an appropriate date.""

OMFG!!! MIKE AND MOLLY PREDICTED THIS!!! THIS IS YET "MOORE" PROOF OF THE ZIONIST ILLUMINATI BILDERBERG GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY!!!

5/21/2013 8:24:30 PM

The Sunday episode of Family Guy, the first line is "do you know where the remote is? There are tornadoes in the mid-west and I like watching poor people scramble to save what little they have left."

5/21/2013 9:32:32 PM

Quote :

"Well they seem to dot the list of deadliest tornadoes; maybe not the most but they sure do get pummeled."

They are a country full of poor, starving people on the brink of death anyway. Every time it rains the res a death toll.

5/21/2013 9:36:13 PM

why didn't Tody Keith stick his boot in the tornado's ass

5/21/2013 9:37:21 PM

I wonder if the tornado scattered any guns around when it demolished houses? Like, is some kid going to find a revolver in his backyard and shoot himself in the face now?

5/21/2013 9:40:27 PM

^Stricter legislation against tornadoes.

5/21/2013 9:42:57 PM

If we closed the border, and secured our coast, all of this moisture wouldn't be able to come in and cause tornadoes.

5/21/2013 9:47:31 PM

if we would just stop sending federal aid to disaster sites all the people in these dangerous areas would eventually die or move and we would all have a few more dollars in our pockets

5/21/2013 9:48:51 PM

but i worked hard to live in a place without tornadoes, why should i have to share that with others?

Quote :

"Apparently the fatalities were double recorded at first and the death toll is indeed only 24 and only 9 are children."

took them a while to realize the bodies had been ripped in half by the tornado

[Edited on May 21, 2013 at 10:02 PM. Reason : 51 half bodies. ]

5/21/2013 9:52:10 PM

http://now.msn.com/westboro-baptist-church-tornado-due-to-kevin-durant-supporting-jason-collins

TWW did it first

5/22/2013 1:39:04 PM

Quote :

"The Sunday episode of Family Guy, the first line is "do you know where the remote is? There are tornadoes in the mid-west and I like watching poor people scramble to save what little they have left.""

LOL! I watched this episode yesterday and lost it. No way they would have aired that after the fact.

5/22/2013 2:01:21 PM

I seriously stopped the episode on Hulu and listened again because I was like damn, I bet there's fifteen conspiracy videos on Youtube already.

5/22/2013 9:23:29 PM

I love dark humor and family guy does some of the best, but sometimes the show has a habit of going just a leeee-ittle bit over the line.

5/23/2013 12:25:50 AM

THERE IS NO LINE

5/23/2013 12:30:22 AM

to where its not funny or where you can poke sticks at something. Im talking about the first.

5/23/2013 12:32:25 AM

now that I have heat vision and am capable of flight, I declare all top threads will only be replies to my posts.

Russian code dictates it.

or im abusing some power spiderman would have respected long ago

5/23/2013 12:40:22 AM

yeah I speak enigmatically

so what

5/23/2013 12:45:29 AM

there is no line to where it's not funny

if it's funny enough, it's always funny

5/23/2013 12:48:16 AM

Just because I criticize family guy doesn't mean im on some high horse. They say some stupid ass shit.

5/23/2013 12:53:38 AM

Family Guy is mostly terrible.

The fact that I don't believe in "too soon" has nothing to do with Family Guy.

5/23/2013 12:55:07 AM

I guess its in a the culture. Expression comes at cost. people don't know what the fuck they say sometimes and it has a net negative effect on every one around

It has nothing to do with why tornados occur

5/23/2013 1:04:38 AM

I recognize that sometimes things are more relevant to some folks than others, and that can be painful.

But the idea that anyone would be truly upset over an unrelated SITCOM that was produced MONTHS AGO is silly to me.

No one who's impacted by this disaster gives a fuck about a sitcom.

5/23/2013 1:38:55 AM

^
I dunno, man. If you sought out some of these people wherever they're living right now (at a homeless shelter or something) and been like "Haha, you poor pieces of shit lost what few possessions you even had," I bet they'd give a fuck. I bet they'd give quite a fuck.

Nobody likes to be insulted, and people who've just suffered disasters like insults less than anyone. I see your point about the show's being produced months ago; but still, if my house had been demolished by tornado and I'd lost ninety percent of my earthlies, and then I saw that shit on Family Guy, I'd be at least pretty annoyed, I think.

Not saying Family Guy shouldn't have run the episode...but I kinda think they shouldn't have, actually. That's another question, though. Point is, I bet tornado victims DO give a fuck when Peter Griffin pokes fun at them.

5/23/2013 2:50:20 AM

Are people who have lost all their possessions watching sitcoms?

I guess I figure they've got more important things to worry about.

This seems like one of those times when people outside of a situation decide to be offended on behalf on someone else because they think those people should be offended, regardless of whether or not said people actually care. It's not all that different from Wolf Blitzer deciding that athiest would/should be thanking God.

If a guy was driving around saying that line to victim's faces, that'd be one thing, but that's not really a timing issue. That's just some guy being a dick.

Tailoring material and having a sense of audience is important, but the audience for a broadcast television show spans an entire country, if not more. I'd suggest that 75% of things depicted on Family Guy (I hate to continue this example, because it's a shitty show) are relevant to a recent, tragic event in the lives of a not-insignificant portion of the audience. What about those audience subsets? Where do we draw the line?

I'm not criticizing the decision to pull an episode of a sitcom, be it Family Guy, Mike & Molly, or even something less fluffy like Louie. It shows compassion, and that's worth something. My main problem is the idea that they MUST pull the episode because it would be insulting not to. Even on such a tiny scale (legislating plot catalysts out of popcorn comedy), taking depictions of reality out of art is a funny idea to me.

5/23/2013 3:35:52 AM

Storms starting to fire along the dry line in the TX panhandle

5/29/2013 2:30:02 PM

"NSSL says the CAP's beginning to break!"

5/29/2013 3:19:03 PM

Another tornado emergency for Oklahoma City. Time to move out of that place.

5/31/2013 8:13:50 PM

5/31/2013 8:49:44 PM

Ripped the hood off the dominator!!

5/31/2013 8:51:10 PM

NW St. Louis is about to eat one as well apparently p

5/31/2013 9:08:29 PM

TWC radar guy is tracking the storms live and keeps getting serious and saying "Oh my!" He seems genuinely surprised and worried.

5/31/2013 9:10:13 PM

http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/USMO0787:1?interactiveMapLayer=radar&baseMap=r&zoom=9

5/31/2013 9:21:46 PM

i like Dr Forbes, he seems to really know his shit unlike basically everyone else TWC puts on camera

5/31/2013 9:46:11 PM

You would think that for as long as people have lived in Oklahoma, they wouldn't take to the roads with impending severe weather. With that said, the chief meteorologist for KFOR was advising people to drive at one point. As much shit as I like to give people for being completely oblivious to warnings, that was clearly uncalled for by a TV met that should've known better.

http://www.whas11.com/news/local/Damage-reported-from-tornado-west-of-Oklahoma-City-209744571.html

5/31/2013 10:23:49 PM