North Carolina tornado, last Saturday. These are the ones you don't want to see because they killed 11 people. Article here. On April 9th funnels flattened Mapleton, Iowa and destroyed 65% of the town. No one was killed and there are some great vids of it on You Tube. Tornados are so fascinating to watch, but, our warning system needs to be changed. I do not need to hear that whistle going off every day, just because one has been spotted in a field five miles away. Everyone here ignores the warning because they blow it all the time. We need to know when there's real danger, not hysterics. Something has to change. I don't know what happened in N.C. that night, but, my heart goes out to those people.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Deadly tornado
North Carolina tornado, last Saturday. These are the ones you don't want to see because they killed 11 people. Article here. On April 9th funnels flattened Mapleton, Iowa and destroyed 65% of the town. No one was killed and there are some great vids of it on You Tube. Tornados are so fascinating to watch, but, our warning system needs to be changed. I do not need to hear that whistle going off every day, just because one has been spotted in a field five miles away. Everyone here ignores the warning because they blow it all the time. We need to know when there's real danger, not hysterics. Something has to change. I don't know what happened in N.C. that night, but, my heart goes out to those people.
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That photo scares the shit outta me. They reported that the town was so rural they had no sirens in place. Heartbreaking. I agree we need a better warning system. Those sirens go off here every time we get a big thunderstorm and are totally ignored...too much crying wolf.
North Carolina and Virginia both. Gloucester and Deltaville got torn all to hell. Some roads were just opened back up yesterday. Those towns are about an hour away from us. Too close for comfort. My heart aches for them.
it never ceases to amaze me the TRILLIONS the government has spent through the years making wars, and yet nothing has been developed to perhaps stop a tornado or hurricane....i mean i know it's mother nature, but could such a thing be done? think of the lives and cost of rebuilding it would save...
i saw one tornado as a kid....the sky was pink, then GREEN, then a small tornado.....
another time a tornado went through cordova, illinois and we drove by the next day and it was beyond belief how one house was totally destroyed and then the house 20 feet away was UNTOUCHED...surreal....
they should have a siren that sounds like a morris code----5 sirens in succession if the tornado is 5 miles away....4 if 4 miles away....then let it wail continuously when it's 2 miles away.....because in all honesty, when it's 2 miles away, traveling at what, 150mph+ it could be there within minutes.....
I usually go outside and look. That's the only way to tell really. They blow that GD siren everyday. I don't give a fuck if some sub station or windmill in buttfuck is getting hit. No one does.
I actually live in North Carolina, where the tornadoes hit. I moved down here almost 4 years ago from Buffalo, NY, and this was my first experience with tornadoes (especially the "super cell" ones we had). I have a 22 month old, and a 3 month old, so my husband and I got the two of them and we sat in our downstairs coat closet for an hour. The dog, too. Scariest experience of my life. Only lost power, and some downed branches. The tornado that came near us was 2 miles away. I'm so glad we don't have to deal with this all the time!! My heart goes out to the 22 people that died across the state, and those who lost their belongings. So sad! We don't have sirens or anything here, so a lot of people didn't know about it if they weren't watching tv or listening on the radio.
I'm glad you're okay. It must have been terrifing. Are they common there like they are here?
Also, do they run the warnings on a strip on TV like they do here? When there's a touch down here, there's usually a warning on the bottom of the TV on most channels.
Iambriezy and I had a conversation about this not too long ago. I used to live in the middle of Kansas and I can totally relate to the sirens going off all the time. You just don't hear them after a while. You look up in the sky and think, "It'll be fine." If one were actually coming you'd have no clue because that fucking siren has cried wolf so many times you stopped paying attention.
Pat, no they're not common here at all. Last time this happened was 1984! I was out shopping around noon that day and I heard a tornado watch on the radio. It was sunny and beautiful out, so I just ignored it. My phone was blowing up with weather alerts around 3, though, so I turned on the TV and it was all over the news! I applaud you for dealing with that often!
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