1 How does Integrative Complexity fit into this?

2 Also ChaserTV.com and TornadoVideos.net, both of which have a setup where you can see the guy sending the stream's GPS location on a map with radar overlaid.

3 Look, I can see my house on TeeVee. Oh shit.

4 I've lived in small town Ohio all my life.  Not once has a tornado done any destruction in town, until 2 weeks ago.

Crazy I tell ya.

5 Pretty awesome the variety of important stuff you can get from this portal!

6 1How does Integrative Complexity fit into this?
  Working on that right now...I'll find an angle. Or cease to give a shit. Either way it's good.

7 Integrative Complexity

Smart enough to notice the destruction of this year's storms.  Even smarter to know that this is all beneath the JEF.

8 Reminds me of Dan Rather doing his report of a hurricane tied to a palm tree. Note to Dan, its not the wind that will kill you, its the plywood or shingle traveling at 150 mph. Courage.

9 In the middle of a heavy thunderstorm I could swear a downburst hit my street. Trees with 4-5 ft. thick trunks were snapped in half.

10 I've been keeping an eye on this.  Today's onslaught is smacking the north part of Alabama around like a red-headed stepchild, but it seems to be staying there, and thus away from me, unlike two weeks back.

I know 3 killed in MS so far, probably more elsewhere but I haven't had a moment to distill it all...

11 Ok, you Yankees can't handle our weather.

Send it back.

12 For getting a heads up on possible severe weather before it happens I recommend the "Storm Prediction Center" web page. 

13

Posted by: Ginormous Goober DeLarge at April 27, 2011 05:31 PM (Q5+Og)

I love Ron White's take on it. He said that it's not that the wind blows..it's what the wind blows.

14 Tornadoes, tomatos.  Integrative complexity.

15 Crows come in murders, kangaroos come in mobs, and tornado watches come in globs.

16 Once, when I was in Yugoslavia, this absolute STORM of artillery fire forced us to be late by a few minutes.  We almost missed lunch!

17 I blame Global Warming, and Bush.

18

You can also haz thread to tell us all about your most horrific storm stories, tornado-ish or not.

My worst storms were the shitstorms I sufferd through every report card day when I was in junior high. These storms climaxed when my Dad would polish his size 14 combat boots on my ass. Cat 5 I figger....

19 If you want your tornados you can keep your tornados!!1!1!!@@2@11!

20

Two of my siblings are in the Chattanooga area. A bad storm hit this morning and an even larger one is about to hit soon. Several tornadoes also were in the area of my alma mater in the Tyler/Longview area Monday and Tuesday.

Hope everyone stays safe.  

21 The Huntsville, AL weather radar image loop

22 "western New York"? Hey - WTF!! That's here. There are thunderstorms around, and sometimes it gets windy, but tornados? Hadn't heard about that. The tornados we get here are few and far between. Years go by without seeing one. When we do have one, sometimes it takes a week to figure out that it even happened.

23

So, my buddies and I rented a beach house near mile post 18 in the Outer Banks in '96 and Hurricane Bertha comes roaring up the coast as a Cat. 3, IIRC.

So what did we, as responsible young men do? We went to Kitty Hawk Kites and bought some boogie boards, yo!

Yeah, all fun and games until a wave that was MUCH bigger than we thought rolled us up the beach and rubbed our skin raw. We got pretty wasted that night.

24

Flooding is next. We have ducks swimming in the back yard.

25 I award you, Ace, my authentic, imported vodka filled bottles shaped like a Russian rifle and grenade packed with shot glasses of 2 fluid ounce capacity in a green wooden box and promotional literature in Polish for your use of the term "Integrative complexity" Yes, the bottles are unopened. No, I don't care if you sell them. And no, they aren't like the teensy little bottles behind the counter at the convenience store. Plus it will get them out of my garage. No, really.

26 I was nearly beaten to death while Frank carefully placed his wrinkly but tender penis into my mouth. I learned a lot about what it means to be the first black president, that day.

27
Hunk, Hickory and Zeke are battening down the hatches. And yonder comes Miss Gulch!

28 I get no respect, I tell ya'. No respect.

29 Ok, you Yankees can't handle our weather.

Send it back.

Send Pecos Bill up to fetch it?

30

I've lived in both Tornado Alley (OK, TX) and the Gulf Coast (Houston) and the worst storm I was ever in was Hurricane Ike. The neighborhood was flooded and we had to cut through a number of trees to get out of the neighborhood. Spent the next two weeks without power.

It was actually a good experience in some respects in that the neigborhood came together to fix problems. We also had more quiet evenings playing board games, listening to the radio, or just talking. Lots of people around town also took to grilling what was left in their freezer, so a few of my friends ate grilled pizza a lot.

31
Duck, early and often. Were I'm at, we shouldn't see any of this till tomorrow morning.

But the stuff in Tennessee looks vicious.

32

Have family in Mississippi near Jackson. Tornado just missed their farm by a few miles an hour ago.They were hit hard a few weeks ago as well (Clinton). This is not unusual for spring, but it has been a rough year---yeah, it will be blamed on stupid climate change. Five dead in that state since last night. It is not over, please keep those in the line of this storm in your prayers.

Has Dear Leader spoken of the Red States with wildfires (Texas, Oklahoma), tornadoes and flooding (most of South. Little Rock has been hit hard). Major damage last weekend in St. Louis. No? Too busy flying on our dime today to be worshipped at the altar of Oprah and NYC? Oh, yeah...must do important "stuff to do" for country.

Eight Americans die in Afghanistan today. Any WH comment? No? Actually, I'd rather not have to turn the teevee off for his phony concern for any Americans.

33

Can somebody connect the dots for me between tornadoes and global warming? I am sure there's a pseudo scientificy reason that they are claiming this is because of climate change but I am not integritively complex enough to figure it out.

34

Has Dear Leader spoken of the Red States with wildfires (Texas, Oklahoma), tornadoes and flooding (most of South. Little Rock has been hit hard). Major damage last weekend in St. Louis. No? Too busy flying on our dime today to be worshipped at the altar of Oprah and NYC? Oh, yeah...must do important "stuff to do" for country.

Eight Americans die in Afghanistan today. Any WH comment? No? Actually, I'd rather not have to turn the teevee off for his phony concern for any Americans.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky at April 27, 2011 06:04 PM (FnRYN)

----------------

Dear Leader is busy, Christy.  Had to rush out of his presser to yak with Orca.  And no, don't expect to hear him offer sympathy to those who've lost loved ones or property to the storms, or mention our dead in Shitcanistan.

I just came in from a nice (but windy!) walk.  Husband's in Atlanta tonight.  They're supposed to get some nasty weather overnight.

35 Once, I saw a one of those old Playskool play-houses fly about 20 feet.  I sipped my coffee, said "Hmm. That was strange", and went back inside.

That's a tornado in Western NY.  I didn't even know until the evening news what it even was.

36

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 27, 2011 06:02 PM (170sK)

Hurricane Ike really did a job here in Ohio. I can't remember the number but the remnant windstorm brought down well over 30 trees on the golf course and left us cleaning up storm debris for nearly two weeks.

We even had to re-sod a green after a 40 foot Silver Maple came down on it.

37 This Integrative Complexity schtick sounds awfully familiar.

38 21May 3, 1999, Oklahoma City. Worst tornado I have ever been in.
  Do tell. I grew up in Moore.

39 We were living in Atlanta when Hurricane Hugo hit Charleston.  There was damage all the way to Charlotte, NC.

Opened the Atlanta Constipation one morning and there was the nastiest letter to the editor I've ever read, from some woman in Chicago, telling us that "anyone who lives along the coast of the U.S. deserves what ever they get!!111eleventy!!111.  Hmm.  Guess they never get tornadoes in Illinois (and I know better, I've been through one).

40 Tuscaloosa is getting fucked up at this moment.

41 Those bastards can hit anywhere. I spent years either living or working in Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Indiana, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and probably other places that are tornado prone. In KY and TN the tornado sirens were always going off and I never paid them any mind.

Then a couple of years ago one missed my house in NEPA by a little more than a mile. It snapped 3' diameter pines like twigs. No power for 3 1/2 days, so all the food spoiled. It happened on December 1st, so there was no heat, either.

IT SUCKED.

At least we were semi-prepared. If you're not, you have an important project to work on.

42 20

Two of my siblings are in the Chattanooga area. A bad storm hit this morning and an even larger one is about to hit soon. Several tornadoes also were in the area of my alma mater in the Tyler/Longview area Monday and Tuesday.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby is feeling worried at April 27, 2011 05:46 PM (170sK)

So are several of mine. One of them is a rookie policeman who just got back from National Guard training less than a week ago - I bet neither he nor his wife are going to get much sleep tonight.

43 A regional medical facility sustained major damage in Cullman, AL. 

Drudge has up 11 dead since last night.

44

TWCBreaking Reports that Tuscaloosa #tornado may be 1 mile wide.

45 45

TWCBreaking Reports that Tuscaloosa #tornado may be 1 mile wide.

Dear God.  Prayers.

Dear Leader:  Fore!

46 Our son has a friend at U of AL.  Jeebus.

47 Can somebody connect the dots for me between tornadoes and global warming?

Did you ring? Or is that only in my head. Anyway, dear students, as any UA-Huntsville Bio student should know, all that murderous Amazon jungle clearing by the defense-industrial complex of the United States of Cheney Western Hemisphere has caused the  winter  Arctic snow cover to be UNEXPECTEDLY larger in square kilometers than GreenPeace and Dr Mann predicted, based upon the Kola Penninsula tree ring data.
The UNPREDICTED size of the snow-covered land mass has led to UNANTICIPATED lower than normal air temperatures in the usual Canadian air masses that routinely sweep into the central USSA.  At this late date in April the air from the northwest should be warmer, the UNFORESEEN cold collides with the usual warm moist air from the Gulf and BAM, BAM-BAM-BAM, BAM-BAM click click click

48 What was that about the glory hole of nature?

49 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SAVE THE CLINTON LIBRARY AT ALL COSTS!!!


sorry for shouting.

50 Is DOCTOR Amy Bishop in a loony bin in Alabama? 

51 Sirens been going off all day here in Tennessee. Purple on the radar right now. The only thing saving us here is that the temperature is not has high as in Alabama. We have had a few tornadoes but not like it could have been but it ain't over yet.

52 @50: Speaking of which, I suppose there will be an Obama Presidential Library and Memorial Golf Course one day?

53 51 "Is DOCTOR Amy Bishop in a loony bin in Alabama? 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2011 06:38 PM (UOM4 "

Yes, she shares a padded cell with VICE PRESIDENT Joe Biden.

54 Main page is all F-ed up. No dotted lines. Entire posts disappearing. Business as usual.

55 Storm chaser stream

56 Good grief.  The video of the tornadoes on the Weather Channel is terrifying. 

Where's Al Roker, holding an umbrella, when you need him?

57 Having lived in Birmingham almost all my life, I can tell you that Tuscaloosa always gets hammered.  It is a tornado corridor leading straight to Birmingham sixty or eighty miles away.

58 Weather.com Tweet Tracker

59 Everybody I ever met from Birmingham has been hammered. Coincidence? That's what they want you to think.

60 Doctor Amy Bishop makes a strange sort of sense, which worries me.

61 Have the "Tornado Epidemic is Caused by Global Warming" stories started yet?  Cause like, you know, tornadoes in Tornado Alley are such rare events and all...

62 You haven't had an interesting afternoon 'til you've spent one on a school bus w/ 20+ K - 12 kids on board when the sirens go off...

63 Birmingham's next.

64 A hurricane drove the british out of D.C. during the war of 1812. They didn't have very many suvs back then.

65 63 You haven't had an interesting afternoon 'til you've spent one on a school bus w/ 20+ K - 12 kids on board when the sirens go off...

I've been on a few field trips to downtown Chicago where I wanted to kill myself.

66 Holy crap.  The Weather Channel guys are getting all nervous over the live cams of downtown B-ham.  Debris is flying.

The reporter just said he's never seen things falling out of the sky with the storm so far away.  Jeebus.

67 its starting to look a little ruff here in northeast Ga. at my house.

68 Getting a storm here in the the occupied territories of VA.

69 dang it.......  make that northwest.

70 That's a huge tornado.

71

FORGER, I can only imagine how much you need a drink right now. I know that happened in MS today, as the warning came as buses were loaded. Here is link from Clarion Ledger in Jackson:
http://tinyurl.com/6bdpjwx

72 Why can't the debris hit the weather crew?

73 Told ya.

74 68 its starting to look a little ruff here in northeast Ga. at my house.

Posted by: Racefan at April 27, 2011 06:52 PM (y6kVi)

Be careful.  My husband is on the way to Atlanta now, and they're supposed to get nailed tonight.  Remember the smallish one that went through downtown ATL a few years ago?

75 73 Why can't the debris hit the weather crew  MSNBC news staff?

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at April 27, 2011 06:54 PM (qIHlG)

FTFY

76 Ooops, off, sock

77 Wow.  Anyone watching the Weather Channel broadcast out of Birmingham? 

78 yes i remember it. they are still fixing windows on some of the highrise buildings.

79 Obama has fired up the HARP tornado machine again.

80 yes Jane, i am watching it.

81 What do all these tornadoes have to do with Obama's birth certificate, anyway?

82 Wow. He says you can't even see the entire tornado on the screen.

83 Maybe its sheer coincidence, but the weather here in Connecticut is turning awful ugly all of a sudden, no kidding around...

84 Shoot a few bodkins into the sky and see what happens.

85 Man, pray for the people of N. B-ham.  Jeebus.  A large wedge tornado.  I've never seen anything like this.

86 yikes.......that looks bad. most of  the time whatever happens in Biemingham is headed my way.

87 Birmingham... Never heard of it...

88 "Extreme damage to West Birmingham." 

89 This is an ugly looking storm... Birmingham might look like a liberal city in a few minutes...

90 Dang, we're under a Tornado Warning and a Flood Watch.

91 91 Dang, we're under a Tornado Warning and a Flood Watch.

Where are you? 

92 Id hate for Jordan-Hare West to get leveled. (posted via shitty ipad)

93 92 Richmond,VA. Someplace called Ballsville is getting pummeled.

94 reports of buildings missing..... thats the first time i have ever heard that said.

95 Folks, we got lots of room up here in Eastern Washington state where we might get a tiny tornado about every decade.  Just something to ponder.

96 "Wedge tornado"? Is that one thats bad for democrats? (posted via shitty ipad.)

97

What happens when LauraW's hump gets packed full of souls and can't hold anymore?

Is that the start of the Zombie Apocalypse?

98 Local weather douche is saying that this may be a "historic tornado outbreak" around Birmingham.

You morons in that area hang on to your hats!

99 I ummm....errrr....want to offer.....my....um....thoughts....to the ......errrr.....crackers.......who.....

.....Oh, who the hell am I fooling.  Fuck you red staters.  I'm off to partay and run my pie hole in NYC.  How do you commuters like the taste of my ass?  Oprah says it's delicious.

100

Today's storms missed me. Last night was awful...but not as awful as the weatherman made it sound.

Meanwhile, the Rock House Fire in West Texas is on Day 19, with over 275,000 acres burned.

101 they just said EF4 or EF5 damage on the news. thats not good.

102

Meanwhile, the Rock House Fire in West Texas is on Day 19, with over 275,000 acres burned.

Posted by: Mama AJ at April 27, 2011 07:25 PM (XdlcF)

Barry is offering prayers for Texas as we speak.

103 via twitter... uncomfirmed reports of buildings gone

104 Dear Lord.  A swath of damage a mile wide for however many miles it traveled.  Now it's reorganizing.

105 IGoogle is connected to the weather underground.

106 Barry is offering prayers for Texas as we speak.

To put them out or make them spread?

107 Now another serious storm organizing south of Birmingham.

Tuscaloosa took a direct hit.  Mayor says it's "devastating and catastrophic."

108 Univ. of Alabama had to be severely damaged. 

All those poor people.  And there's more to come.

109 The worst thing I've been through was when Mt. St Helens blew her top,
May 18, 1980.

While we were not on the flooding side of the state, (That was a huge glacier that got melted in a nanosecond), we were on the ash fallout side of the state.

Gray ash fell from the sky for days.  Ash anywhere from a foot to 6 inches deep depending on location. Then it got hot.  Moonscape. Hell. Nuke-like.
The stuff coated everything, damaged cars, clogged rivers, sewers. Then it rained.
And turned into pottery clay.  Slicker than snot.  It lingered around for years.

Rather another volcano than a tornado. They scare me.

110 damn, hospitals almost full and people still coming......

111 We were living in Alaska (Air Force) when I was a baby.  My mom took pics of the ash on our car after a volcano eruption.  It was like nasty, gray snow.  She said it seeped inside the windows.

One cool thing about living there, she also had a pic of a huge king crab (it covered a card table).  She kept it in the trunk of the car for a couple of days (very cold weather) and would break off a couple of legs for dinner.

112

Where are you guys getting this info?  

A few touchdowns reported around where I am in NC, but only mild thunderstorms for me so far.

113 Steph, watch the Weather Channel.  That's all they're covering.

114 We have about 3 different tornado sightings 10 to 15 miles to the west.

115 Thanks, Jane.

116 and would break off a couple of legs for dinner.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2011 07:40 PM (UOM4 .

i'm impressed........  not just anyone would do that. unless your a AOS moron.

117 and would break off a couple of legs for dinner.

You'll be hearing from us.

118

We had a tornado go through our neighborhood right after we moved in. Destroyed a few homes just a couple blocks away, damaged roofs in the next block and caused a lot of tree damage on our block. That was my introduction to the weather here. We've had lightning hit a tree and the shed out back. The winds blew down part of the fence on Monday.

I never was a wimp about strong storms...until the first year here showed me what they could do. I need to get a grip, but today's storms aren't helping.

119

weather.com's twitter feed:

Debris falling out of the sky over Meridian, MS likely from LARGE tornado passing to their S in Clarke Co

120 Racefan, duck....seriously.

121 Maybe the tornadoes will spread out some of the flood waters.

122 damnit........  they just said the one from Birmingham headed to Rome, Ga..........  it takes about 15 minutes for me to drive there.

123 Well, it's nice here in Savannah.  Which means we're screwed for hurricane season.  At least we have time to pack the kittehs, pics and videos, and a few valuables and get out of town.  Then come back to the remains of a house filled with snakes and alligators.

124 Now, they're saying that here in NC we're going through a lull, but it will be coming through, again, really hard around 2 or 3 in the morning.   Great.   Guess, I'll be up half the night.

125 "66 63 You haven't had an interesting afternoon 'til you've spent one on a school bus w/ 20+ K - 12 kids on board when the sirens go off...

I've been on a few field trips to downtown Chicago where I wanted to kill myself.
Posted by: Jane D'oh"

You win.

"72  FORGER, I can only imagine how much you need a drink right now. I know that happened in MS today, as the warning came as buses were loaded. Here is link from Clarion Ledger in Jackson:

http://tinyurl.com/6bdpjwx

Posted by: ChristyBlinky"

We were sitting on the road waiting our turn to get around a retard who was driving too fast and hydroplaned his ass into a ditch.  AND it just happened to be at the foot of a hill where one of Jackson, MO.'s , (just down the road from Cape Girardeau..) sirens is located, so it hit us FULL BLAST!

Do you know how glass shatteringly, soul piercingly high pitched 1/2 a dozen little girl's screams of terror are???

I think I may need to go to the Beltone guy ....

Anyway, the kids were freaking out, "OMG, WE'RE GONNA DIE!!!  MR. JOHN, WHAT DO WE DO?!?!?!"

"Sit down, shut up, keep your eyes peeled out the windows, and if you see anything, holler.." 

SO, we get around the retard and we're pedal to the metal to the trailer park, a tornado's Ground Zero in most cases and where about 80% of my kids live, and I tell 'em, "Get yer butts off this bus, don't hose around, and beat feet as fast as you can 'til you get home!"

One JR. High boy sez, "Mr. Johm, my Mom don't get home 'til after 5:00..."

"Son, go home, keep one eye on the sky, and if you see the shit coming your way, grab some blankets and get you ass in the bathtub and cover up.  And I'll see you tomorrow morning."

Another bus driver delivers in the trailer park 1/2 a mile away and she saw a funnel cloud drop down, but not touch the ground and lift back up, so I know my boy is fine.

The rest of the kids all live in houses with under ground basements, so I got them home as quick as I could, and as I dropped the last 3 off, the shit hit the fan.

I had turned the 2-way radio down so I could concentrate on my kids and not have to hear about situations I could do nothing about.  When I turned it back up, drivers were herding their kids into houses along their routes for shelter. 

The wind and rain drove visibility down to about 30 feet so I flipped on every light I had and started making my way back to the barn.  As I got closer the storn let up and by the time I had RTB, It was just a nice shower.

I park my bus, duck inside the garage and find about a dozen other drivers hunkered down.  I ask, "Is this the line to the head??"  "No, we're riding the storm out.." 

"Ok, I'm gonna go take a leak and I'm outta here." 

"You can't leave, the sirens are going off!!"  (again)

"Bullshit,  I'm a Big Boy now and I can leave if I choose..."

Just so you know, NO tornadoes touched down in Cape County during all of this.

Keep abreast of the weather around you, keep an eye on the sky, have a plan for IF the shit hits the fan, and most importantly...

It's OK to be scared, but...

DO NOT FUCKING PANIC!! 

PANIC WILL GET YOUR ASS DEAD.

126 They are preempting Survivor.

127 127 They are preempting Survivor.

Irony.

128

At least we have time to pack the kittehs, pics and videos, and a few valuables and get out of town. 

My mom is packed up and waiting for the evac order. Fire's 4-5 miles away now. Was 10 miles away yesterday...

129 I lived in Iowa. I know about tornadoes.  They suck. And blow.  Sometimes at the same time.

130

watching this live:

www.abc3340.com/

 

131 For the first time in history (!!!) possibility of tornadoes at 10. 

132 I can see that in the photo all of the people present are from the APR. Why did this country have to be chosen as the one that would house such chaos and war? And the civilians are the ones who are suffering. In my opinion, I don't think that ending the Jackal's life would stop this war. The Factions themselves are the ones that can find peace.

133 I saw a barn get picked up, turned 90 degrees and set back down on it's foundation.  Destroyed, of course, but sitting right where it was.  The next tornado came along a couple of weeks later and sent it right to hell, one board at a time.
A little old lady got pulled out of her house while she was taking a nap, they found her between her box springs and mattress leaned against a tree, still sleeping.
Unpredictable things, these tornadoes.  Don't like them.

134 This spam isn't making any senses at all.  What we need is some sort of Machine for Sale to kill the other spambots.

135 133 For the first time in history (!!!) possibility of tornadoes at 10. 

Posted by: NASA at April 27, 2011 08:11 PM (UOM4 .

yeah i heard that. tornado warning here now........  no sirens yet tho.

136 Be comforted by the fact that he is probably a lot better at that than you are, Jane. He and his buddies are a lot better at that than most people there.

137

Given the response to the Gulf oil spill, I expect the prez to show his support for Alabama (and Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, etc.) by taking the girls to Disneyworld.

 

"debris ball"?? Oh, crap.

138 All you North Ga. morons, seek cover.  My husband is almost to his parent's place at a retirement village outside the city.  He's getting concerned.

139 138 Be comforted by the fact that he is probably a lot better at that than you are, Jane. He and his buddies are a lot better at that than most people there. Posted by: wholesale lingerie

WTF? We have spambots kicking commentors comments back, now?

140 Every time a tornado warning ends 2 more begin.

141 Can you ban spambots?

142 they just said the big one was going to hit Rome at 8:54 and my town at 9:10.......

143

Of course, yesterday the winds did find a trailer here:

A trailer on Atkins-Clark Road in south Bossier Parish flipped over while a dozen people were inside, Baswell said. He said only two of them sustained minor injuries, but the people were trapped inside for a short while.

 

Alabama weather guy telling kids to put on bike helmets in Piedmont and other towns.

144 Jane they said a big one would hit Atlanta about 10:00

145 they just said the big one was going to hit Rome at 8:54 and my town at 9:10.......


And you're still posting here because.....?

Get your shit and get to shelter NOW.

146 144 they just said the big one was going to hit Rome at 8:54 and my town at 9:10.......

Posted by: Racefan at April 27, 2011 08:27 PM (y6kVi)

Don't screw around with this system.  Do you have a secure (hole) place to go?  Seriously.

147 Out, damned Sock...
( SortaAngryMax and Wordy Bastard { You could have identified them if you'd used the bleeding link... } slink away, to return later along with other sarcastic socks...

148

All you North Ga. morons, seek cover.

Great, I get to worry about my dad and step-mother instead of just my mom!

Who would have thought I'd be more worried about my parents than my husband right now...

149 It's Armageddon in Alabama. They've got at least 3 F4's on the ground, reports of multiple fatalities. Pray hard.

150 146 Jane they said a big one would hit Atlanta about 10:00

Posted by: Racefan at April 27, 2011 08:29 PM (y6kVi)

Yeah, my husband's folks live in a retirement cottage with a huge basement. 

Now go get in a secure place, dammit!

151 Can you ban spambots?

Resistance is futile.

152 jeebus.  The spam is self-aware and stalking me.

153 Get your shit and get to shelter NOW.

Posted by: mpurinTexas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at April 27, 2011 08:29 PM (paOeu) .

we really dont have shelters..........  you just get to the lowest part of your houseand hope for the best.

154 Things look much worse over in east Tennessee.

155 Oh my God. Is anyone else watching the link I posted above? I can't even repeat what they just described.

156 I live in Maryland Heights, Mo and the St. Louis tornado last Friday went right through our neighborhood.  Just got power up Mon night.  The biggest thing that stood out to me was the unbelievable pressure I felt in my ears as it arrived.  It was almost disorienting.  I look out the window and a pine tree about 25 feet from the house is uprooted and resting on my neighboring condos deck.  I step outside and there are tree tops and a mailbox on the road.  Roof shingles by my front door.  Next condo building over had their deck ripped out and tossed a hundred feet or so.  Their chimney collapsed.  Next neighborhood over, about 400 yards away a few roofs gone.  Find out that just over a mile away it went to F4 and flattened a couple blocks completely. 

It traveled 22 miles in heavily populated areas, and through an airport, and yet nobody died.  If I didn't already believe in miracles before, I would now.

157 Knoxville looks like it might get hit.

158 I am mamaaj. It's crazy. And I'm in Central Ohio and can't turn it off.

159 The whole map is red down south.

160 a twitter feed, people are asking for all kinds of help

161 wholesale lingerie wholesale corset sexy lingerie wholesale corset sexy lingerie china

162 we really dont have shelters..........  you just get to the lowest part of your houseand hope for the best.


Bathroom. Pull a mattress off your bed and cover with it. If the bathroom is on an outside wall, go to an interior hallway or closet. Someplace in the middle of the building with no windows.

Also, IF YOU ACT NOW, you have time to throw together an emergency kit. Water, dry food, pain killers, first aid kit, flashlight, meds if you have any you must take. Make sure you've got your shoes on and that you have extra clothing.

Go now.

163 Can someone please kill the spam? 

164 The most sureal thing I've seen in my life, was the week after the Moore tornado in 1999, and seeing cars wrapped like preztels around trees.

Prayers for the South on this crazy night and what has been a crazy last week....

165 Just spoke with my husband.  He's fifteen minutes from his parents in Austell (outside Atlanta).  They at least have a deep, large basement in their retirement home.  He said he's already seeing vivid lightening.

166 Racefan, I hope you're not reading this.  A mile-wide tornado is on the ground in your area.  Prayers for you.

167 5/27/97 Jarrell, Texas F5 tornado. If you weren't underground, you were screwed.
Thing wiped out an entire subdivision, literally nothing left but foundations. Asphalt was ripped off the roadways and a friend who went up to help said there were several cows with their hide ripped off.

We lived about 30 miles south of Jarrell at the time and were dodging funnel clouds, hail and high wind. I got lucky in that the only damage we suffered was our mail box blown over and our mail got wet.

Several entire families were wiped out in Jarrell.

Seriously, those of you in the danger zones, don't dick around.

168

Posted by: mpurinTexas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at April 27, 2011 08:47 PM (paOeu) .

i have done most of that.......... 

169 i have done most of that.......... 

Good, now unless your running on wireless from your bathtub, shut off the computer and take cover.  We'll wait.

170 Seems like the more wind turbines they build the more severe weather we get.

171 Husband contacted his elderly aunt who lives in a cottage on a hill above his parents.  She's agreed to grab her dog and come to his folks' down the hill and get in their basement.  Told me on the phone that it's looking nasty (even after dark).  He never gets nervous with weather.  He's nervous.

172 My brother in law's inlaw's had their trailer park destroyed by a twister.  In Tuscaloosa.  Apparently all are safe though one has an injured leg.  No real details.  I'm hearing this  from my wife, via her mother, via her brother's wife.

173 Tornado on the way to Rome, GA.  Racefan, if you're reading this (and I hope you're not) get in a damned bathtub with a mattress over you...NOW.

174 Oh, Boy928 has lost power in Birmingham but is safe.

175 Wow I am really really praying.  The stuff I'm reading is scaring the crap out of me. 

176 a twitter feed, people are asking for all kinds of help

Posted by: curious at April 27, 2011 08:46 PM (k1rwm)

OMG!   There's a pic on that Facebook page of a picture of Birmingham and it looks like a bomb went off.   Nothing but rubble.

177 Husband just called.  It's looking nasty where his parents are.  Like I said, he never gets nervous about weather.  He's going to drag his aunt and her dog down to his parent's basement.  They're northwest of Atlanta.

178 OMG.  Weather Channel just mentioned Peachtree City.  My two b-i-ls and two young nieces live there.  (Rick Sanchez also lives there.)

179 179 375,000 without power in Birmingham.

180 Old family home burned to the ground a week ago last Sunday. Last night, tornado hit the town where I have a small business, which is still without power and has water soaking my stuff. I get to go clean up tomorrow. Today I got stung by a wasp while I was watering the yard at my house on the coast, which is drought-ridden and for which I can't buy a sprinkler system because the money is gone for taxes. Good times.

181 185 Old family home burned to the ground a week ago
last Sunday. Last night, tornado hit the town where I have a small business, which is still without power and has water soaking my stuff. I get to go clean up tomorrow. Today I got stung by a wasp while I was watering the yard at my house on the coast, which is drought-ridden and for which I can't buy a sprinkler system because the money is gone for taxes. Good times.

Posted by: texette at April 27, 2011 09:06 PM (pcdjz)

Damn.  Prayers for you.  I can't imagine.

182

Jane, go to this link that curious posted above.   Click on the photo of Birmingham, so it will enlarge.   Heartbreaking.

a twitter feed, people are asking for all kinds of help

 

183 Jane, it's in the comments close to the top.

184 Made sure the parents NE of Atlanta wwere watching the news...

185 25 confirmed dead in AL.   This is awful.

186 Don't want to sound whiny. Have life and loved ones. I think I'm just shellshocked.

187 188 Jane, it's in the comments close to the top.

Just saw it.  No words.

My husband arrived a few minutes ago to his parents.  He's getting everyone (including his elderly aunt and her dog) prepared to go to their basement.  I won't rest until I know they're all okay.  I believe my sister, who's in S.E. Atlanta, will be okay.  Looks like the nasty stuff will miss her.

I can't remember anything like this series of tornadoes in my life.

188 Posted by: Steph at April 27, 2011 09:10 PM (AkdC5)

I've been crying and praying since I saw that picture.  I have a friend in Georgia and I can't reach her and we're all sort of freakin out.

189 I hope and pray we hear from Racefan later tonight and he's okay.

190 Yeah, Jane, I'm sure I'm much older than you, and I've never seen anything like it.   What it's doing to AL is horrific.

191 Tomorrow is my birthday. Racefan damn well better be around to tell me Happy Birthday. Along with the rest of you southern morons and your families.

Damn.

192 It sounds like tornados are going through the same places where they've already been hit in AL.   The videos they're showing on that ABC link are terrifying.

193 OMG.  Tractor-trailers blown off I-75 in N. Georgia.  Racefan is in the path of a tornado on the ground.  Damn it.

194 OMG.   Tuscaloosa has been flattened in places.

195 I hope the JEF is enjoying his corrupt ass tonight.   Partying his ass off raising money.   Fucker.

196 U of AL has been damaged in Tuscaloosa.  We've got a friend attending there.

Well, I won't be sleeping tonight.  I'm freaking out about family and friends in the path.  Mr. D'oh is sensible and I'm sure he'll get the old folks to the basement (it's a walkout, though).  Still, I'm thinking of the elderly people in the nursing home/assisted living.  And they're next door to a small hospital.  Dear Lord.

197 Racefan, if you're able to read this and respond safely, please, when you can, let us know you're okay.

198 i'm still kicking and well.........  sirens still going off but i think the worst is past me now.

199 203 i'm still kicking and well.........  sirens still going off but i think the worst is past me now.

Posted by: Racefan at April 27, 2011 09:30 PM (cyyJw)

Big nasty wet kiss!  With tongue.

200 Link at #131 has some amazing videos of the tornados.

201

One of my sons is in a vacation cabin in the mountains of NE Georgia (Helen, GA). I wish he'd left today for Florida.

I have never seen such a line of storms as this one. I am sure there have been some, and it is tornado season, but this combined with the wildfires in Texas has been horrible.

At least 16 dead since yesterday from this storm. Meanwhile, The Won campaigns and swills champagne.

202 L.......  it got kinds wild there for a minute..........

203 i'm still kicking and well.........  sirens still going off but i think the worst is past me now.


Thank God.

204 206 Isn't Helen,GA the one with the German town?

205 206

One of my sons is in a vacation cabin in the mountains of NE Georgia (Helen, GA). I wish he'd left today for Florida.

I have never seen such a line of storms as this one. I am sure there have been some, and it is tornado season, but this combined with the wildfires in Texas has been horrible.

At least 16 dead since yesterday from this storm. Meanwhile, The Won campaigns and swills champagne.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky at April 27, 2011 09:35 PM (FnRYN)

Helen is up in the mountains (kind of Alpine area).  Yeah, not totally immune to tornadoes, but I don't believe one has ever hit there.  Husband's best friend and his wife live in Big Canoe outside Atlanta.  They've had some nasty weather.

And fuck Teh Won.  He doesn't care.

206 yes Helen, Ga. is a alpine village in the mountains........   cool place.

207 207 L.......  it got kinds wild there for a minute..........

Posted by: Racefan at April 27, 2011 09:36 PM (cyyJw)

Now that your ass is okay, spill it......

208 Tuscaloosa Hobby Lobby is toast.

209 TWC breaking news

210 Tuscaloosa Hobby Lobby is toast.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at April 27, 2011 09:42 PM (qIHlG)

There was a lot in Tuscaloosa that is no more.  Hell, in a lot of AL.

211 I'm doing laundry.  For some reason, when I get stressed out, I do freaking laundry.

Husband called and says he has all the old folks as "under control" as he can get them.  Heh.  Better him than me.  I get to sleep with teh kittehs.

212 just big wind and rain...... but it was the first time that i threw money, gun. Meds, cellphone, a pair of jeans and t-shirt in a igloo cooler and headed under the house.

213 Jane, that's funny.   I vacuum.   Glad your husband has his family tucked in and safe. 

214

CNN saying dozens dead.

215 Hello from Far Eastern Kansas, formerly East Tennessee.

216 Catoosa County, GA has requested a trailer for "mass casualties".  Damn.

217 217 just big wind and rain...... but it was the first time that i threw money, gun. Meds, cellphone, a pair of jeans and t-shirt in a igloo cooler and headed under the house.

Posted by: Racefan at April 27, 2011 09:48 PM (cyyJw)

Heh.  I call that a plan.

218

but it was the first time that i threw money, gun. Meds, cellphone, a pair of jeans and t-shirt in a igloo cooler and headed under the house.

So...you don't do that every Wednesday?

Huh.

Different strokes, I guess.

219 Hello from Far Eastern Kansas, formerly East Tennessee.

Posted by: Holger at April 27, 2011 09:49 PM (YxGud)

Did you get hit?

220

Catoosa is alittle north of me........  it doesnt look like its over yet.......

221 Tomorrow morning, the Weather Channel/MSNBC will have Al freaking Roker bouncing around like a clown on meth "reporting" from some death and destruction in the South.  He should have been there tonight, hugging a tree.

222

Good Lord, now they're saying at least 40 dead in AL since this morning.

223 225

Catoosa is alittle north of me........  it doesnt look like its over yet.......

Posted by: Racefan at April 27, 2011 09:55 PM (cyyJw)

Grab that damned Igloo cooler and crawl back under the house.  Seriously.  (Did you remember extra ammo?)

224 West Knoxville got hammered with hail as big as tennis balls, several tornadoes confirmed but the real bad stuff missed Oak ridge/Clinton/ Norris went either south or north. I heard in Bluegrass they got eight inches of hail!!! Governor Haslam has declared a state of emergency. JEF will remain silent as he did with the Nashville flooding.

225

Grab that damned Igloo cooler and crawl back under the house.  Seriously.  (Did you remember extra ammo?)

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2011 09:57 PM (UOM4 .

well hell yes, i'm a Moron.......   2 clips and a new box of shells.............

226

Well, Mr. Blinky says the weather channel is a bunch of hysterics and not to watch it with son in mountains and all. Family is a bunch of weather nerds, and believe climate change is a bunch of crap (weather has been cyclic since the big bang). One son was a meteorology major for a year at FSU, then switched toengineering.  We are also used to hurricanes and such, but this is wacko. We live 1/4 mile from Atlantic and our tornadoes are mostly water spouts off the Indian River and piddly little F1s. This is a whole 'nother ballgame.

Praying hard for Alabama, Georgia and the rest of the states in the path. I think the worst is past my family in Mississippi. But Drudge saying 115 tornadoes and 25 dead. It is like an inland hurricane.

Crap...husband just said a dangerous one heading towards NE from Jasper about 20 miles from Helen. Son is watching radar so I hope he will be ok.

227

Radar for Knoxville still looks very bad.   TN still getting hammered.

228 Posted by: Steph at April 27, 2011 10:05 PM (AkdC5) It's thundering like a sob right now.

229 major damage in Cullman,AL............  thats where Hank Jr. lives.

230

This link is to Weather Underground, and you can see the radar for anywhere.   It's really bad.

http://tiny.cc/jhwzb

 

 

231 It's thundering like a sob right now.

Posted by: Holger at April 27, 2011 10:06 PM (YxGud)

You know you're in a tornado warning right now according to the radar.

232 I was in the bathtub under a mattress with my kitty Monday afternoon.

233 3 TVA nookler power plants on diesel power.

234

In Catoosa a 3 story hotel has collapsed with multiple injuries reported.

235 So in the middle of all this shit, D'oh Boy Skypes me and tells me how psyched he is to hopefully be going to Shitcanistan (he'll find out next month).  He says "only" a couple of his buds got Purple Hearts.

Shoot me now, after I fish his dad and grandparents out of the tornado ruins.

236 I am not one to panic but feel pretty panicked right now. Son and gf aware that it is 15 minutes away. I am sure he will be ok, and am praying for those who have lost family and friends today.

237 most of northern Bama without power.

238 Jeebus, Jane.   Nothing like scaring his mom half to death, but I know as afraid as you are that you're very proud of him.   I keep him in my prayers.

239 Posted by: Steph at April 27, 2011 10:08 PM (AkdC5)

Yep. Can't find the flashlights so I got the glowsticks out just in case the power goes.

240

Crap...husband just said a dangerous one heading towards NE from Jasper about 20 miles from Helen. Son is watching radar so I hope he will be ok.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky at April 27, 2011 10:03 PM (FnRYN)

It's heading that way, but it's the mountains. 

241 Prayers for all.

242 believe climate change is a bunch of crap (weather has been cyclic since the big bang).

Not to be picky CB, but I haven't been around quite that long

243 well yall, time for me togo again.........  seeya later.

244 243 Jeebus, Jane.   Nothing like scaring his mom half to death, but I know as afraid as you are that you're very proud of him.   I keep him in my prayers.

Posted by: Steph at April 27, 2011 10:13 PM (AkdC5)

Yeah, he wants to go.  Killing us.  Told him about the tornadoes and he STFU about Purple Hearts and such. 

245 248 well yall, time for me togo again.........  seeya later.

Posted by: Racefan at April 27, 2011 10:14 PM (cyyJw)

Crap.  This can't be good.

246 I admit as any Volunteer fan would that I detest the Crimson Tide, but prayers to all of 'Bama.

247 Be careful, Racefan!   Hang on!

248 I wonder, if a Tornado was approaching Oak Ridge, would they activate the Air Raid Sirens?

249 The tornado sirens in Tuscaloosa failed.

250 My God, Hackleburg, AL is completely destroyed according to a firefighter there.   School and everything.

251 Just spoke with husband in his folk's in Austell, GA (N.E of Atlanta).  He's got his parents and aunt in the basement, watching Weather Channel.  Said it's getting nasty.  I've never heard him sound so tense. 

252 Don't worry, I live in a reinforced concrete building with a basement.

253 My brother says this stuff goes as far back as Louisiana.

254 Looks like part of this is heading toward Ball Ground, GA.  Husband's best friend lives in the area (Big Canoe), and so does Zell Miller.

255

Thanks, Jane, for mountain information. Husband following on his computer. The radar on the Weather Channel is scarier, so I should not have looked.

I feel so sorry for everyone who this has impacted. Horrible. Hard to imagine this devastation.

 

256 Racefan, when you and your Igloo cooler are able to crawl out from under your house, please let us know you're okay.

257 dang....... it gets bad for a few minutes and then there gone, which is a  good thing..... sirens dont seem to shut off..........

258 I just read that Cartersville Georgia is about to have a "direct hit"

259 Storm cell headed into Atlanta.

260 OMG.  Storm heading for Newnan, GA (Peachtree City area).  Two b-i-ls and two nieces live there. 

Looks on Accuweather like my in-law's place in Austell is close to being hit.

261 53 dead in AL so far.   Jeebus.

262 Dear Lord.  Husband's best friend and his wife are getting a direct hit.  They're in the foothills. 

I'm praying as hard as I can.

263 Jane, i was born in Austell, Ga..........  went to high school a couple mikes from there at South Cobb HS...........   tell your hubby to eat at Wallace bar-b-que...... he had to drive past it today.

264 Yeah, Jane, radar's not looking good there, but your hubby will take good care of everyone.

265 They've at least got a deep, walk-out basement.  Prayers for the poor old folks in the assisted living and nursing home, and hospital next door.

266 Husband "thinks" this tornado went north of where son is, but more cells out there. Said that once one goes through the air stablizes or something and they don't follow each other. Whatever. Prayers for you all and for familes and friends tonight in this storm's path, for God to protect them.

267 You know what helps?  Being able to come here and talk with ya'll.  Relieves a butt-load of stress.

Kisses.

268 Prayers for the poor old folks in the assisted living and nursing home, and hospital next door.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2011 10:39 PM (UOM4

They should have a good emergency plan.   Saying a prayer. 

269 Back at ya, Jane.

270

They should have a good emergency plan.   Saying a prayer. 

Posted by: Steph at April 27, 2011 10:40 PM (AkdC5)

Saw it earlier today visiting mom. They call a Code and the staff gets the patients out of the rooms and into the interior rooms away from the windows.

271 Prayers for Georgia and Virginia and West Virginia Maryland and the entire Southeast. The live alert link on Drudge is unreal. Prayers for Atlanta, Jane.

272 263 I just read that Cartersville Georgia is about to have a "direct hit"

Posted by: curious at April 27, 2011 10:32 PM (k1rwm)

well thats not good..........   i live in Cartersville...

273

Holger, you still okay?  

274 Crap, Racefan.   You're getting pummeled.  Better throw you some food and water in that cooler.

275 Posted by: Steph at April 27, 2011 10:45 PM (AkdC5)

Yep. Looks like a picked a fine time to have a hankering for a Wendy's Baconator.

276 I'm glad my husband decided to go up early today.  He's able to make sure his folks and aunt are okay.  In the meantime, his Life Coach sister and her husband, a senior partner at King and Spalding, are safely tucked away in their little manse in midtown Atlanta.

Husband is supposed to play golf with his sis' latest husband tomorrow.  He intends to ask him about the firm's dropping support of DOMA and support of GITMO detainees.  Considering they were married by a lesbian minister in their Episcopal church, I'm sure he's cool with all that crap.

277 pics

278

Posted by: Holger at April 27, 2011 10:47 PM (YxGud)

Well, maybe the worst of your area will be over, or at least will have a lull, before they close and you can run out and snatch one.

279 Tornado spotted in Halls, TN.

280 Not looking at any pics until tomorrow. Radar is bad enough.

281 He intends to ask him about the firm's dropping support of DOMA and support of GITMO detainees.  Considering they were married by a lesbian minister in their Episcopal church, I'm sure he's cool with all that crap.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2011 10:47 PM (UOM4

That lawfirm is just bursting with ethics.   Well, at least if you're a lefty.

282 Racefan, here's one link, I'm trying to find the other.

Also someone said that some sirens failed in alabama.

283 curious, those pics are heartbreaking.  Now this crap is strengthening as it heads for Virginia.

Heads up, VA and DC morons.

284 curious, I think Racefan may be under the house, again.

285

Jane, there's a pretty good line still to go around the ATL area.

We're still under a watch here, but nothing's happened for a while.  

286 more twitter

People in DC have a tornado warning

287 Looks like D.C. may be active soon. Too bad the parliament of whores is out of town.

288 291 curious, I think Racefan may be under the house, again.

Posted by: Steph at April 27, 2011 10:52 PM (AkdC5)

Good I'm looking at the map and really concerned.  I'm asking God to watch over racefan in particular and all my friends who are in harms way now.

289 FlaviusJulius, you gave me the first smile in an hour or so. Son on phone with husband. The tornado near him was on the ground for 300 miles.

290 Looks like D.C. may be active soon. Too bad the parliament of whores is out of town.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at April 27, 2011 10:57 PM (qIHlG)

Wonder when the shitstain gets back from his party in NY?

291 New thread.

292 Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2011 10:52 PM (UOM4

Jane I've been literally crying since I came home and saw all of this.  Some of my friends are literally alone working in some of these cities.  It's scary there are a lot of power outages.

293 I get concerned every time Racefan comes out from under the house.  If the sirens are still going off, stay under the house.

I'm praying for everyone, including ChristyBlinky's son.  What a horrible day and night.

294 Jane I've been literally crying since I came home and saw all of this.  Some of my friends are literally alone working in some of these cities.  It's scary there are a lot of power outages.

Posted by: curious at April 27, 2011 10:59 PM (k1rwm)

We'll just pray they'll be safe.  And I'll bet you by morning, you'll learn they're okay. 

295 294 Looks like D.C. may be active soon. Too bad the parliament of whores is out of town.

Don't get me started. 

Jeebus.....the Peachtree City area, south of Atlanta, is in the crosshairs...OMG.  My two b-i-ls and two nieces live there.  (And so does Rick Sanchez, but I digress.)

296 I'm wondered about Racefan, too.   Last warning he got was right where he is.

297 (And so does Rick Sanchez, but I digress.)

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2011 11:04 PM (UOM4

Is it bad if I laughed at that?  

298 64 dead across the south.

299

Is it bad if I laughed at that?  

Posted by: Steph at April 27, 2011 11:05 PM (AkdC5)

Nah.  Laughter relieves stress.

300 64 dead across the south.

Posted by: Holger at April 27, 2011 11:06 PM (YxGud)

Sadly, there will be more.

301 305 64 dead across the south.

So far.

White House:  Mr. President, a bunch of people died in the tornadoes yesterday, not to mention the loss of homes and businesses.  It might be a good idea if you went on air and made a statement of concern.

President Fullofhimself:  But....I've got a tee-time to schedule.  I'm worn out from that birther shit statement, and the exhausting flight to Chicago, and talking with that fat-assed sister, Oprah.  Then the exhausting party in NYC.

White House:  Errr.....

President Fulloghimself:  Leave me alone with my waffle.

302

With family in Mississippi earlier today in halls and son in bathroom right now talking to us, it has been a long day. Not sleeping until my baby is in the clear.

His cabin is basically on the edge of a mountain ledge...I said, "Well, that is not good" and he laughed. We are pretty warped that way. Ok, now he is advising son to stay where he is in bathroom with mattress, but that latest red blob is going north.They are both looking at radar on computers instead of the Weather Channel, which makes me nervous. We all know down here that if Jim Cantore comes to your town you are in the clear for hurricanes.

Dear God, those poor people in the path of these monsters. Thanks to morons for being here.

303 Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2011 11:11 PM (UOM4

Just like the Nashville Flood.

304

LOL!

Jane, I heard that the governor of AL said he asked for a declaration of emergency from the WH, and got it.   Of course, he said that didn't include damage.  Huh?   Would have to wait for tomorrow to see about that.

305 We'd issue a press release or something, but you saw me give a speech this morning about how I had to do more important things, so that should pretty much cover it.

306

Posted by: Barry the Magnificent at April 27, 2011 11:16 PM (uqJo6)

Yeah, enjoy the party in NY tonight while people are dying all over the South.  Oh, that's right.   Those are mostly red states.   What was I thinking?

307

Holger, tomorrow will be another presser with BO and MOO being humbled for the South from the Rose Garden or somewhere photogenic. Moochelle will be wearing black and looking at her gigantic hands folded on her ginormous thighs. He will have his fake serious face on and will.be. speaking. slowly.

If he cared he would have already commented on St. Louis last weekend, and Mississippi earlier today. But noooooooo. He was in his comedy act about the BC which no one cares about right now, you sob (not you, Holger, Barfy).

Ok, had moment of normal anger at BO, so tension leaving a bit until I look at radar again. Brief distraction.

308 I think my husband and in-laws are okay, but his best friend in the Ball Ground area, not sure....and very nervous about southeast Atlanta....Peachtree City is a huge suburb....lots of airline pilots and CNN folks (including my youngest b-i-l).

309

If he cared he would have already commented on St. Louis last weekend, and Mississippi earlier today. But noooooooo. He was in his comedy act about the BC which no one cares about right now, you sob (not you, Holger, Barfy).

Ok, had moment of normal anger at BO, so tension leaving a bit until I look at radar again. Brief distraction.

Remember the Nashville flood a year ago?  I picked our son up from MOS school in MO and we passed through Nashville (and spent one night) on the way home from graduation.  Not a Damned Word from POTUS.  Twenty-two people died. 

310

Jane, I think there are some small breaks in the line where your b-i-l might be.   Hopefully, they won't get it too bad.

311 You can bet the prez hasn't let this enter his mind tonight.   He's too busy trying to bring in the big bucks.   POS.

312 317

Jane, I think there are some small breaks in the line where your b-i-l might be.   Hopefully, they won't get it too bad.

Hope you're right.  Rick Sanchez is probably too drunk to know.

313

If I keep thinking about Barky I will burst a blood vessel. So need another distraction. I would drink heavily but like to get my alcohol units ingested much earlier.

314 Husband just called and said he and the old folks are all going to bed.  Thank God.  He's not too concerned for his brothers in Peachtree City.

My prayers go out to everyone tonight.  I cannot imagine.

And Racefan, where are you??  Let us hear you're okay.  'Kay?

315 Rick Sanchez is probably too drunk to know.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2011 11:28 PM (UOM4

Woman, I laughed so hard I'm in tears.   He's probably in a fetal postion drooling in a corner.

 

316 322 Rick Sanchez is probably too drunk to know.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2011 11:28 PM (UOM4

Woman, I laughed so hard I'm in tears.   He's probably in a fetal postion drooling in a corner.

 

Posted by: Steph at April 27, 2011 11:34 PM (AkdC5)

Heh.  Good to laugh in the middle of all this shit.

317

Jane, husband saying the big red band hear Atlanta is now getting weaker and probably going south. Said the big one that hit Tuscaloosa, Ala (and apparently stayed on the ground for 300 miles) missed son by about 10 miles.

Parts of Indiana now under warning. Prayers continue.

318 I'm geting a little worried about Racefan.   He should have come back by now.

319 Steph, maybe he lost power or cell tower signal?

320 There's a new weather thread up.  Sigh.

321 Jane, I was wrong about NE Georgia. Husband said a new tornado just formed.

322 Jane, I tried to see if there was any info on storms in Racefan's area, but no luck, yet.

323 Yeah, Christy, that area's still getting hit pretty hard.

324 I'm just watching WC to see what is going on.  I'm worried as hell about Racefan.

Racefan, if you're able, please let us know you're okay. 

Christy, I'm praying your son will be okay.  Typically, the mountains don't get much interesting weather.

325 Tornado heading toward Pine Mountain, a beautiful resort area.  No words.

326 Jane, I'm just praying that Racefan has lost power and that's why we're not hearing from him.

327 i'm ok.........  went to the ONT for a minute to see how they were........   any word from Austell?

328 334 i'm ok.........  went to the ONT for a minute to see how they were........   any word from Austell?

Jeebus.  Thank God.  Austell is still standing.

So glad you're okay!

329 the power went out for a few minutes but came back on.

330 Okay, if I could I'd kick your butt, Racefan.   Jeebus, you had us worried.

331 i cant believe you know where Austell and Pine Mountain are.........

332 I'm going to bed.  Jeez, I'm exhausted. 

Stay safe, all you morons/ettes.  I'll say prayers for the lost and survivors.  And I'm sure I'll have bad dreams.

333

Thanks, Jane. I was just in family room asking husband if son and gf were back in the cabin's bathroom for the new one and the Weather Channel was on. Some guy said Atlanta was nearly in the clear or something, then said, but the facts that high elevations and big cities were disproven. So you can see why I avoid watching them and rely on husband and sons.

My youngest is the real weather nerd and has successfully predicted nearly all recent hurricanes way before the pack. He is asleep across the river and I did not want to call and pester him an hour and a half ago. Nor did I want to call up my mother in Mississippi and other family who have dealth with that storm today to say, "Hey, pray for M. as he is in a cabin near the tornado!" So you 'ette's and morons have been great tonight. Husband is waiting on a National Weather Svc update radar. Says this tornado is about 20 minutes out and 5 miles from cabin. He "thinks" this will be the last for them (but he thought that an hour ago for the second one). I know my spelling stinks and soon I will be speaking in tongues or Swahili I am so tired.

Hope racefan is ok.

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Good night, Jane.   Stay safe.

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Oh, racefan, glad you are ok.

336

Jane, if you hubby wants togo a bar in Austell tell him to goto the Sweetwater Inn...... its on the main drag.

337 night Jane.........  and thanks for all the AOS folks for just being who you are............  you people are the best of the best............

338 Just got my jammies on.  Racefan, I'll pass the info to D'oh.  And you are a special moron.  Love you.

339 Son has lost cell reception but has a landline in rental cabin. Husband thinks tornado is weakening (this it the third near them tonight). Thanks for your prayers. I may try to get some sleep as it looks like the worst is over for Georgia (until the light of day and we see how bad it was all over the South). God help them tonight.