Bad Storms, tornado.
The devastation, sadness, watching the news, it looks like a war zone. Praying for all those poor people. |
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I saw that Val - saw the news coverage this morning.  We had tornadoes north of me yesterday too, but I believe it is just one fatality...thank goodness! Lots of damage, but people had warning here. My friends up there said the tornado sirens kept going off all afternoon and evening. |
| La Nina years are bitches for bad storms plus you have a lot more people in the areas now. This has been quite a weather year for many. Someday......someday....we'll figure out how to build where floods don't hit (I think it's called a flood zone....putting parks, golf courses etc in areas that flood...). I'm not sure we can ever build totally tornado proof structures, but we can do better. |
| I watched the news this morning when they interviewed the governor of MO. He was saying many people disregarded the sirens...as they go off often and they just went about their normal weekend activities. Then this really big tornado came. They had an average of 10-17 minutes warning by sirens and news/online postings that the tornado was coming at them....and I saw video - it was huge and loud - pretty hard to miss that something bad and big is coming. But, there are so many people not clued in to the weather or natural events...totally oblivious.  And if the area is like nearby Wichita and So. KS - very few homes have basements - just built on cement slabs. |
| Several generations of "clueless." The cocoon generations are so wrapped up in themselves they fail to keep abreast of what is happening around them, common sense is gone. The "it can't happen to me...or here" is pervasive and the other is "the government will bail me out." I remember reading early US History and the settlers who went west and turned around and headed by east. What they saw frightened them...."the elephant's trunk".......tornados. |
| This observation kinda tyes in with what Dawn and Susan are saying. I was watching the jury being picked for the Casey Anthony trial last week. I was amazed how many people said they don't watch the news or listen to it. If they are to be believed, they only watch programs on Public TV and TV Land. I've had a lot of people tell me that listen/watch the news because it is too depressing. Many of the people don't listen to the weather warnings because there are so many false alarms I think the alarms become like white noise, they don't hear it. I don't know how many times I sat in a bathroom with my children waiting for the all clear sign...and nothing ever even came close to us. Living in FL I watch the skies a lot for rain or smoke from brush fires. |
| During a recent election they polled young adults asking where they got their news, especially political news......Jon Stewart show. That's depressing. |
| Saw the news this morning...My prayers go out to those poor people...Hope everyone is okay in those parts of the country...Sending our thoughs and prayers... |
| My nephew and his wife are trying to find her family in Joplin. No phones, limited access to the areas (of course). They are currently over 115 dead, with so many more areas to check. I grew up in Oklahoma, almost in the shadow of the NWS Severe Storms Center. We have always been the testing grounds for the latest and greatest equipment/warning systems. But if people don't listen, it doesn't matter. We are looking at some of the storm shelters for our house here and at the lake. I will probably go with the one put in under garage floor - it the dogs can go down the steps. You have to register it with the fire department so they know to look for you. |
| I knew nothing about what was going on and happening... I am saying many prayers for everyone in all the paths of storms coming and having past. Please stay safe everyone. Ali |
Quote: We are looking at some of the storm shelters for our house here and at the lake. I will probably go with the one put in under garage floor - it the dogs can go down the steps. You have to register it with the fire department so they know to look for you. Everytime I see severe storms for your two areas I think about you. My SIL grew up north of Tulsa so is very tornado aware and instilled it in me. If I were in your area I'd probably live in the storm shelter! Guy in school would relate his grandmother slept in the storm shelter every night....just in case. They are expensive but better than becoming Dorothy. |
| I feel so bad for the people of Joplin. My prayers are with them. what horror! |
| My Gr. Grandparents live N. of Ft. Worth in Springtown Tx. It ws always our (MOM and Brother and I) job to go for Easter vacation to their house and clean the celler and make sure the oil lanters were filled, no snakes etc. to just get it ready with canned foods etc. I was too little to understand WHY we did this, but now i know. Then we lived in Midland Tx. I remember my brother and i sitting outside our bedroom windows on the pourch watching all of the tornados and counting them going around us. WITH my mom inside screaming "GET IN THE HOUSE NOW!!" and us sitting there laughing at her. Dang we were adventurous and dumb....... Won't even tell you about going out in the desert and tormenting the tarantulas and scorpions, catching horned toads and box turtles.. |
| Hold on about tarantulas! Those are nice guys...usually guys too since the ladies stay in their dens and the boys are the roamers. When I worked for Extension Service we had an insect zoo so were always collecting wild specimens. I really like the tarantulas! I had one who I niced named Houdini as at least once a week the office personel would come in with ashen faces. I'd ask, "Houdini escape again?" Houdini got a very much more secure cage. We also had the more exotic tarantulas...I really like the little pink toes variety. DH used to live not far from Midland, San Angelo, and talks fondly of his horny toad pets and shooting water mocassins with BB guns. |
| There was a story on the news about a family that couldn't catch the family dog to drag it to the storm shelter. The top two floors of their house were gone. The dog was found two fields away, with a small scratch on one leg. No clue if it ran that far or was carried. Scary stuff. |
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