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Tornados across the SE US

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Reports are that an EF5 tornado over a mile wide has gone from Tuscaloosa, to Birmingham, and on to the NE towards Atlanta. Last I saw it had been on the ground for close to an hour. Reports are that Tuscaloosa has been devastated, a hospital has been destroyed or damaged, a mall destroyed. Authorities cannot get to the university to do an assessment. Debris is landing up to 100 miles away. Birmingham has been hard hit, but no estimate of damage. The state of Alabama has initiated its mass casualty operations plan. So far 32 are dead and that number is expected to rise. Other tornadoes are being spawned.

The storm is approaching Atlanta and the Smokey Mountains.

If you are in the south east, all the way up to Maryland, don't fuck around. Pay attention to the weather and get your ass to shelter ASAP if necessary.
 
I saw some early pictures from the area on the Weather Channel. Horrible. :(

72 dead across the region. The death toll will probably pass 100 before it's all over. :(
 
I remember growing up in Tornado Alley in Ohio. While checking on my aunt after the Xenia, Ohio tornado, I saw a piece of straw which had been blown through a telephone pole. People were taking pictures of it. A year later I saw that picture in our school science book. I yelled out, "Hey, I saw that!" Fortunately, my teacher was not angry and we had a long discussion about tornado safety. Our school had tornado drills, fire drills and nuclear fallout drills (we were close to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base).

After we moved to North Carolina we discovered we were in another Tornado Alley. Weekend before last we had a tornado hit just up the road from us. We were without power for two days. Since Mom is confined to a hospital bed at home, I can only try to protect her without moving her. I am still up this late because of the tornado warnings close to us. I cannot really sleep until the threat has passed.
 
Sector 7 said:
I remember growing up in Tornado Alley in Ohio. While checking on my aunt after the Xenia, Ohio tornado, I saw a piece of straw which had been blown through a telephone pole. People were taking pictures of it. A year later I saw that picture in our school science book. I yelled out, "Hey, I saw that!" Fortunately, my teacher was not angry and we had a long discussion about tornado safety. Our school had tornado drills, fire drills and nuclear fallout drills (we were close to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base).

After we moved to North Carolina we discovered we were in another Tornado Alley. Weekend before last we had a tornado hit just up the road from us. We were without power for two days. Since Mom is confined to a hospital bed at home, I can only try to protect her without moving her. I am still up this late because of the tornado warnings close to us. I cannot really sleep until the threat has passed.
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Be safe, Sector 7.
Everyone, please be safe.
 
Cripes. That's a street full of houses next to the University that thing is tearing up behind those trees, isn't it? Makes you sick to your stomach to think about it.
 
I'm sorry to hear of the deaths and destruction. As with the others who've posted, I hope any of you living in the region stay safe.
 
Hilbilly Rage said:
But global warming is a hoax. :shifty:
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What..? :wtf:

Heard from my sister this morning briefly.. she is picking up my mom (they live in Northern Alabama). There's no power, some damage, and they're looking for gas today. The thing that matters is that they are ok, this morning.
 
The jet stream has shifted a little. That's why the south east is getting all these wonderful treats lately that used to bedevil Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and the upper plains pretty much exclusively. Now the misery is expanding.
 
Wow... Just horrible...

I grew up in Nebraska and have not-so-fond memories of having to dive toward the basement on several occasions throughout my childhood. One night, 7 tornados ripped through Grand Island, NE... Completely leveled entire blocks of homes.

This kind of weather is typical of La Nina weather pattern years. We're dealing with horrible drought in New Mexico this year because of it. One of the side effects is that our seasonal moisture is traditionally abundant after a La Nina, but so are our severe weather frequencies... I'm sure we'll see an uptick in tornados across the east side of the state.
 
This is clearly Gods' punishment, he's killing the sinners. :roll:

The tornado last week that hit St Loius was amazing. Why aren't there better warnings this year? However if you live in a trailer are screwed. Are you supposed to dig a hole?
 
Lindley said:
SPOCKED said:
Hilbilly Rage said:
But global warming is a hoax. :shifty:
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What..? :wtf:
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One of the going theories is that climate change is responsible for the apparent increase in severe weather we've been seeing lately.
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Not to mention the blizzards and severe heat waves, drought ect.. Every time I see or hear about things like this, I think about all the jackasses who go around saying global climate change isn't real. Then you see this, it just irritates me.
 
Weather happens.

Not everything is about climate change. However humans have lived for the last 10,000 years which has been one of the most stable in the known history of the Earth. Climate change, it's changed a billion times in the Earth history. The debate needs to be about how much humans are actually causing it and how much is actually the sun.
 
^^This... Let me tell you about how just about every mountain top in New Mexico burned around 1240 AD...

Of course, that was before the Forest Service decided (about 100 years ago) that EVERY fire needed to be put out. :rolleyes: Thankfully that belief has changed...
 
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