Green | March 04, 2012 | 34 comments

Entire month's worth of tornadoes hit in one day

source: http://news.yahoo.com/photos/tornadoes-tear-through-midwest-slideshow/

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In what may be the biggest daily tornado outbreak on record for March, an entire month's worth of twisters struck in a single day.

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34 comments // Entire month's worth of tornadoes hit in one day

  • JanforGore
  • JanforGore
    • +2
      JanforGore  

    • http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/03/spate_of_tornado_destru...

      "NORMAN, Okla. — Stories of destruction and survival are starting to emerge from this week’s deadly tornado outbreaks, which have killed at least 51 people and flattened communities in a wide swath of the nation's eastern midsection.

      Storm chaser and meteorologist Reed Timmer, who was racing after some of those deadly twisters with cameras and weather instruments, said this weekend’s bout of extreme weather is possibly the largest March tornado outbreak in U.S. history.

      “The storms were moving so fast it was very difficult to keep up,” said Timmer, a 1998 Forest Hills Central graduate who was recently the star of the canceled Discovery Channel show “Storm Chasers.”

      “It also makes them that much more dangerous.”

      At least 50, possibly more, reported tornadoes touched down between Friday and Saturday. Timmer said that number could be double when things are sorted out.

      Friday's violent storms touched down in at least a dozen states, killing 19 people in Kentucky, 14 in Indiana, three in Ohio, and one each in Alabama and Georgia. An earlier round of storms killed 13 people in the Midwest and South.

      The National Weather Service said the four twisters to hit Kentucky on Friday were the worst in the region in 24 years. Three of them had wind speeds up to 160 mph.

      In Indiana, an EF-4 tornado — the second-highest on the Fujita scale — packing 175 mph winds hit the town of Henryville and stayed on the ground for more than 50 miles."

    • 1 year ago
  • ThresholdBroken
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      ThresholdBroken  

    • I could taste the sweet irony that the affected are the climate change deniers in the biblebelt. Where is Jesus now homie?

      Darwinism in effect............

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
  • ThunderHeart
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      ThunderHeart  
    • ThresholdBroken:

      NO SHIT! We got hit here in Murphy, NC, where you cant throw a rock and NOT hit a Baptist. Next day on Facebook, you can BET the Christers were praising Jesus that it hadnt been WORSE. Good grief.... Somebody quoted the "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help" thing....and I was thinking, "Screw that...I want to lift up mine eyes and see the truck coming that will restore my damn lights."

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
    • +1
      JanforGore  

    • http://news.yahoo.com/hospital-says-ind-toddler-found-field-dies-232551004.html

      "LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A hospital official says an Indiana toddler found in a field after Friday's violent tornadoes has died.

      Fourteen-month-old Angel Babcock of New Pekin (PEEK'-in), Ind., was found after her family's mobile home was destroyed in the storms that ravaged the Midwest and South.

      She had been in critical condition at Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, Ky. Chief nursing officer Cis Gruebbel says she suffered head and neck injuries and her family decided to take her off life support.

      Her father, mother and two siblings were killed in the storm.

      Her grandfather, Jack Brough, says the family is thankful for the thoughts and prayers they have received and is looking to God.

      The girl's death brings the overall toll from the storms to 39 across five states."

      Truly heartbreaking.

    • 1 year ago
  • coolplanet
  • kennymotown
    • +2
      kennymotown  

    • I think we need big solutions to climate change, but in this political atmosphere good luck. I've never seen a Republican or Tea Party person agree with what real science has been saying for decades. Now with a great degree of ignorance, reality is hitting us pretty hard. Waking up people in the Bible belt or flyover country is in the hands of Mother Nature. For their sake I hope for their safety, but maybe it will take many more storms like this to actually get their collective asses away from the TV and the deniers. Thank Goodness Senator Bill Nelson is retiring, now if we can please have a car or tree land on Senator Imhoff's head! :)

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
    • +4
      JanforGore  
    • kennymotown:

      Yes, well true enough about Republicans for sure...although, they were talking about it not too long ago before oil hijacked them. So perhaps if the Democrats running for Congress would actually talk about it and stand up to them on it as well we would see a change on that score. I haven't seen one on any side give this the attention it needs now. So I'll say it again, politics will kill us all.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
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      kennymotown  
    • JanforGore:

      It certainly will kill us and all the Bible thumpers as well, unfortunately their leaders have been brainwashed about abortion and are on the wrong side. Our roles as citizens is electing responsible politicians, the Government is us, and as soon as we take it back from the Capitalist Corporations (And I don't know how) the sooner we can really fix it. :)

    • 1 year ago
  • coolplanet
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      coolplanet  
    • kennymotown:

      Only problem is that we've been saying this since the 1970s and look where it's gotten us.
      Politicians aren't listening to the scientists or they wouldn't even be considering building the Keystone XL pipeline. NASA's James Hansen has warned flat out that if we go the way of the tar sands "it's game over for the climate."
      We need to challenge Obama and the democrats on this, constantly!

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
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      kennymotown  
    • coolplanet:

      Absolutely, thats why it's called Democracy! Citizen activists, it's our Government we all need to be very active to make it work properly. Getting rid of citizen united, limiting Corporation power and changing the corporate laws is a big part of bringing down the current power structure!

    • 1 year ago
  • coolplanet
  • kennymotown
  • Gravity_Man
  • Gravity_Man
  • ThunderHeart
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      ThunderHeart  
    • kennymotown:

      I dont think ANYTHING can wake them up. If a tornado wipes out 90% of the Christers, the 10 remaining will simply praise Jesus it wasnt ALL of them.That the bible says God gave Man "dominion" over the planet is the single Greatest Lie. As long as millions of Christers BELIEVE the planet BELONGS to man---instead of the OTHER way around---they feel perfectlu OK about continuing to rape and pillage Mother Earth, like a paid-for whore.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThunderHeart
    • +1
      ThunderHeart  
    • kennymotown:

      You are correct, Sir! That's why Obama MUST get a second term. A repub prez will set us BACK, not foreward....and time is running out. Only putting money into Green Energy will save this lovely planet. Republicans wont do that. All the senseless BS about "2.50 a gallon gas" just keeps hammering in their ears. What we NEED is NO gas--and NO NEED FOR GAS. What else has the mid-east GOT to sell? Sand? ONCE we dont need oil....we wont need or give a damn about them.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThunderHeart
  • ThunderHeart
  • coolplanet
  • ThunderHeart
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      ThunderHeart  

    • We got hit---twister came right down our town's main street, damaging Ingle's, Walmart, levelling a feed store, a couple of restaurants.... damage done to varying degrees on houses, too.No deaths that I know of.I(fortunately!) live 15 miles out of town and other than a hard rain, some hail, LOTS of lightening and wind, no problems. Lost power for a few hours.

      Im in western NC.

    • 1 year ago
  • youngdebater
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
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    • http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/04/437185/tornadoes-extreme-weather-climat...

      National Weather Service Warnings for Past Week

      The unexpectedly fierce and fast tornado outbreak so early in the season has folks asking again about a possible link to climate change. Climatologist Dr. Kevin Trenberth emailed me that, because of climate change, “there is every expectation that the [tornado] season will move up in time. The warm winter in the US is perhaps an indicator of the nature of the changes to be expected.”

      The former head of the Climate Analysis Section of the National Center for Atmospheric Research stands by his 2011 statement, “It is irresponsible not to mention climate change in stories that presume to say something about why all these storms and tornadoes are happening.” Below is some clarification of the context of that quote that he added. Trenberth also said:

      Joe, what we can say with confidence is that heavy and extreme precipitation events often associated with thunderstorms and convection are increasing and have been linked to human-induced changes in atmospheric composition.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
    • +3
      JanforGore  

    • http://news.yahoo.com/why-many-tornadoes-striking-us-231201874.html

      "The warm air and rapid jet stream will keep fueling the storms into the weekend, according to NOAA. Weather experts continue to warn that dangerous tornado outbreaks could explode across the Mid- and Deep South and Ohio River Valley.

      "We actually are looking at a risk from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes to west of the Mississippi to the East Coast," Craig Fugate, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told the Weather Channel. "And these storms are moving fast."

    • 1 year ago
  • coolplanet
  • JanforGore
  • ThunderHeart
    • +1
      ThunderHeart  
    • coolplanet:

      I agree.I fear it will get a LOT worse. And EACH "natural disaster" adds another billion bucks that's got to come from Somewhere.WHERE? Soon, even BIG insurence companies will go belly-up. But the tornados, earthquakes and all will KEEP coming. What, then? The Tea Party will STILL say it's "an act of God". If so, they better GET IT--God evidently is PISSED.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThunderHeart
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      ThunderHeart  
    • JanforGore:

      Almist nobody outside Australia knows or cares, but it got too hot to sustain human life in the Outback about 20 years ago. There are virtually NO Aborigines left and their culture is dead. These ancient and gentle people who worshipped Nature, gave Thanks for every Sunrise, thanked the Spirit of every animal used for food, took only what they needed and replaced what they took are dead and gone.Other than the smoke of a campfire, they left ZERO carbon footprint....yet they were first to die of climate change. When the ENTIRE planet gets that hot, it's all over for the rest of us, too.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • JanforGore
  • circlesquared
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      circlesquared  

    • on the same page Jan...posted this as well. Crazy weather is not going away soon...people need to get their seat belts on, it's going to be a very bumpy ride.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • However, this isn't worthy of real discussion here because it isn't about the political flavor of the week. I swear politics in this country will kill us all. And I also want to say that my heart goes out to the people in the middle of this. I don't care what your politics is, what religion you are or if you have one, or the color of your skin. This is heartbreaking and it is another warning of the extreme weather we are unleashing on ourselves and the world by continuing to treat this as something we can shove under the rug. Oh, but don't DARE to say the words "climate change" in reference to this or in an "election" year. We sure wouldn't want to mess up the plans of these parties to "win" and the fossil fuel companies and their rich minions paying for it!

    • 1 year ago
  • thedirtman
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