95% of Greensburg, KS was destroyed by a tornado last night

9 dead so far
more likely to come
http://www.kansas.com/197/story/62467.html

5/5/2007 6:35:58 PM

Holy Shit

5/5/2007 6:36:47 PM

God must hate them.

5/5/2007 6:37:44 PM

Andover 2.0

5/5/2007 6:40:11 PM

They're saying the tornado is either a high F4 or F5

5/5/2007 6:42:07 PM

yeah, KFDI was going crazy with warnings and stuff yesterday, it was pretty bad.

I have family there and might get some first hand pictures, because they're asking for all the volunteer fire fighters and police to help with the cleanup and everything

5/5/2007 6:44:11 PM

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"God must hate them."

I have a feeling that God isn't a big fan of Bible Thumpers.

5/5/2007 8:41:40 PM

those 9 should have strapped themselves to a water pipe using their belts. that would have saved them.

5/5/2007 8:46:17 PM

One of my friend's family lives in that county.

5/5/2007 8:53:37 PM

that looks like the damage I saw in the '99 wichita/haysville tornado. Thats an image that def sticks out in my mind

5/5/2007 8:56:25 PM

why do people continue to live in areas that are hit by hurricanes, or tornados, or floods, most years?

if i was born in an area that was prone to one of those phenomenon, i would pack up and move out of there as soon as i was old enough to.

5/5/2007 8:56:40 PM

problably becuase their lifestyles feed millions of people

5/5/2007 9:02:10 PM

^^Because not everyone can live in Arizona and Nevada.

[Edited on May 5, 2007 at 9:03 PM. Reason : .]

5/5/2007 9:03:07 PM

^ huh? they can move to any place they like.

^^ what do you mean?

they are farmers?

still, you can sell everything and move.

that farm ain't no good now, is it?

[Edited on May 5, 2007 at 9:04 PM. Reason : ]

5/5/2007 9:03:49 PM

Remember a few months ago when there were like 165 tornados in one day and only a handful of people were killed? It speaks volumes to our ever increasing advanced warning as well as how small tornados are compared to the land mass they are affecting. So really your chances of being affected by a tornado are fairly remote. Only the big ones like this are attention grabbers.

5/5/2007 9:07:21 PM

^^Most of the country is affected by meteorological phenomena. Those areas that are not are deserts, and they still flood when it rains. Where are you suggesting people live to not be at risk of one of those three things?

5/5/2007 9:17:33 PM

seriously, in the south you get hurricaines and nasty droughts. in new england you get noreasters and blizzards. in the middle of the country you get tornadoes. the midwest is also thrashed by blizards and the occasional tornado. california is king bee with wildfires, mudslides, earthquakes, and the like.

5/5/2007 9:24:05 PM

just think if a F4 or F5 hit Chicago or Oklahoma City......

5/5/2007 9:39:30 PM

Yeah, all of the "Let's control the weather!!1" freaks would come out of the woodwork.

5/5/2007 9:43:15 PM

terrorists control hurricaines using a neutron particle beam.

5/5/2007 9:57:14 PM

shitty wok!

5/5/2007 10:00:21 PM

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"Remember a few months ago when there were like 165 tornados in one day and only a handful of people were killed? It speaks volumes to our ever increasing advanced warning as well as how small tornados are compared to the land mass they are affecting. So really your chances of being affected by a tornado are fairly remote. Only the big ones like this are attention grabbers."

Exactly

I love how people say stupid shit like "I wouldn't live there"
Where the fuck do you live right now? B/c Raleigh has been hit by the outskirts of hurricanes, tornadoes have set down here, and in 2000 22 inches of snow fell, crippling the city for 2 weeks.

Some people are just ignorant

5/6/2007 4:39:52 AM

OEPII1, are you in the business of biodome construction or something? Where the fuck does one go to "get away" from natural disasters? That can't seriously be the best you could come up with. People fucking lost everything they had, you spineless dog.

5/6/2007 5:09:36 AM

tornados can happen almost anywhere. Hurricanes are much worse and the major question is to ask why do people live on the coast in surge prone areas? they live there because its pretty and humans naturally just want to live by the sea. If insurance companies don't provide insurance the government has to. There is one million dollar house in texas that has been rebuilt by federal dollars four times.

5/6/2007 5:29:26 AM

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"why do people continue to live in areas that are hit by hurricanes, or tornados, or floods, most years?"

Thats just asinine.

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"There is one million dollar house in texas that has been rebuilt by federal dollars four times."

Thats actually pretty cheap if it is on the coast, at least by NC standards. I'm not saying the Federal government should be in the business of insuring homes in high risk areas, but to abandon whole swathes of the country just because of natural disasters doesn't make financial sense.


[Edited on May 6, 2007 at 8:38 AM. Reason : .]

5/6/2007 8:35:23 AM

good god

5/6/2007 10:11:36 AM

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"why do people continue to live in areas that are hit by hurricanes, or tornados, or floods, most years?"

Why the hell not? Obviously, there are some pretty significant redeeming factors, and for each person who lives there, the answer will vary as to what those redeeming factors are.

5/6/2007 12:00:09 PM

what a shitty looking town.

i mean, obviously it looks shitty now, but it looks like it was shitty before too

5/6/2007 12:04:57 PM

That town is about an hour west of where I live. This weekend has sucked with all of the bad weather.

^ Most towns in Kansas are small and are farming communities. What the fuck do you expect - NYC??

5/6/2007 12:54:07 PM

Where does all this farming talk come from? most people in kansas DON'T farm. Theres a very small amount of people who still actually farm.

and the house in texas was 1 million to be rebuilt. im talking about structural value. the houses you're talking about in nc sell for a mill because the land is expensive as hell. land is cheap in texas.

5/6/2007 1:48:16 PM

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"Thats actually pretty cheap if it is on the coast, at least by NC standards. I'm not saying the Federal government should be in the business of insuring homes in high risk areas, but to abandon whole swathes of the country just because of natural disasters doesn't make financial sense."

actually it makes perfect financial sense if the cost of rebuilding exceeds the cost of revenue generated by developing those properties

5/6/2007 3:44:16 PM

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"0EPII1: why do people continue to live in areas that are hit by hurricanes, or tornados, or floods, most years? ... i would pack up and move out of there "

thats a stupid thing to say.

why do i live on a major fault line next to an active volcano?

and why do you live in a desert, where any attempt at modernity is subject to suicide bomber attacks from a group of Qur'an-thumping goat-fuckers?

5/6/2007 6:25:49 PM

^whoa....you need to slow your role

5/6/2007 7:46:34 PM

woah, you need to suck a dick.

5/6/2007 8:11:19 PM

that is one asshole of a tornado

i wonder if those tornadoes in Day After Tomorrow are actually possible

5/6/2007 10:13:16 PM

seems like kentucky would be pretty decent

doesnt seem like they get a lot of tornados and blizzards and floods and earthquakes and hurricanes

can anyone confirm this?

5/6/2007 10:16:26 PM

is this why twister is on hbo?

5/6/2007 10:51:47 PM

^^Couldnt tell you from first hand experience

but i imagine they get some blizzards and some tornados in Kentucky but not with much frequency

Ill bet they do have those underground coal mine fires (like that one in Pennsylvania with the abandoned town)
Not sure what you call those though.



oh yeah and Crystal meth

5/6/2007 10:59:01 PM

it was on during the day before all this happened

5/6/2007 10:59:25 PM

Kentucky gets a good number of tornadoes, especially northern and western Kentucky. I drove through a hell of a lot of tornadoes in northern Kentucky and southern Indiana when I drove out west.

They also get a fair amount of flooding from hard rains in the mountains. Southeastern doesn't get a whole lot but some floods and snow, but you probably aren't going to get a job not related to the coal industry or the basic service industry.

5/6/2007 11:23:20 PM

When I was in Kindergarten an F4 came through North Raleigh. It destroyed my daycare and a girl in my elementary school died (chimney fell in on her bedroom). A girl in my class showed us her scar from the tornado (leg was cut up by glass). Here is more info about it and a map.

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~nwsfo/storage/cases/19881128/

5/7/2007 1:26:35 AM

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"those 9 should have strapped themselves to a water pipe using their belts. that would have saved them."

I literally just finished watching that movie ten minutes ago...

5/7/2007 2:04:39 AM

man... Oklahoma ftl!!!

5/7/2007 2:17:44 AM

Kansan tornadoes are the worst

I'm glad I don't live in Wichita anymore.

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"I love how people say stupid shit like "I wouldn't live there" Where the fuck do you live right now? B/c Raleigh has been hit by the outskirts of hurricanes, tornadoes have set down here, and in 2000 22 inches of snow fell, crippling the city for 2 weeks."

You don't know shit about living there, so I'd keep quiet if I were you. Hurricanes barely hitting Raleigh is absolutely nothing like having half your goddamn city ripped apart by a tornado. Not to mention that Kansas usually has at least 50 tornadoes that actually do damage every year.

58-tornado outbreak on April 26th, 1991 >>>>>>>>>>>> the "outskirts of hurricanes"

Yeah, we all live in areas susceptible to certain kinds of weather. But living in Tornado Alley is not something I ever want to revisit.

5/7/2007 2:19:23 AM

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"I'm glad I don't live in Wichita anymore."

im glad im not sitting in the sedgwick county jail anymore.





[Edited on May 7, 2007 at 2:20 AM. Reason : ]

5/7/2007 2:19:25 AM

^^man, SOMEBODY's got a sandy 'gina!

5/7/2007 2:24:11 AM

having travelled extensively through that area of the country ...

i'll say Fuchsia is right.

NC people don't know shit about tornadoes.

and its kind of pathetic listening to a bunch of them talk like they do.




[Edited on May 7, 2007 at 3:02 AM. Reason : ]

5/7/2007 3:02:18 AM

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"I drove through a hell of a lot of tornadoes in northern Kentucky and southern Indiana when I drove out west. "

5/7/2007 3:59:42 AM

OK, let me clarify. As I drove down the interstate, the weather was nasty as hell, and every station kept noting tornadoes touching down on either side of the interstate. The person on the radio noted that the rest of the staff was in the storm shelter. Eventually, no station was broadcasting because they had all been knocked out by lightning. I saw a tornado and had to go inside to hole up when I spotted a tornado and started getting pounded by hail. Tornado country stretches across a swath of the midwest, and the data supports me.

I lived in Kansas as well, and there were a couple tornado scares while I was there as well as constant high winds. The meteorology there was much more focused and specific during storms than it is back east. However, the area covered by one tornado is so comparably small compared to say, a hurricane, that the risk is still relatively low. Now if you get hit with a big tornado you are screwed (both in sheer power and the small amount of advanced warning), but a tornado hit at any particular spot is still a rare occurrance, even if less rare then in NC.

5/7/2007 6:05:45 AM

wow, didn't realize there were so many people on here that used to live in KS.
I lived in Wichita from '94 until I graduated HS in '01

5/7/2007 6:46:18 AM