Just watching a guy from a restaurant cooking and giving away food before it goes bad. So many hurting and so many helping.
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I'm sorry, not so sympathetic! I live in "tornado alley", IF, big IF, I were given notice that a tornado would hit my house in three days, I'd pack up and leave! You have time! It was pretty easy to watch on TV and see this wasn't a hoax! This was the real deal! GET OUT!!!!
We had a warning this spring a good chance of tornado out breaks in the general area, MAYBE! We had the storm shelter ready, three days worth of food, radio, batteries, games, water etc. We are registered with the PD and FD for location of our storm shelter, a metal box under the garage floor, concrete!
I've lived in KS my entire life, I'd seen three tornado's up to that day. That evening, I called in THREE tornado's from my back yard to Skywarn (Ham radio link to the NWS)!! But we were ready, and no one could tell us where in the state or states, it was going to happen for sure. Where do we run? It covered TX to NE and CO to East of St. Louis!
At least these people could have moved inshore and been safe!
I watched a couple on CNN two nights ago, "we feel safe here, it's home, we are going to ride it out", they lived in a high rise apartment/condo building? REALLY?
They were asked, and all but told to leave, ignored that to "ride it out" then complain about how long it took to get rescued or helped?
I'm sorry, I'm by no means trying to make lite of it at all! It's terrible what is going on there, and only getting worse! But so much of this could have been avoided had people paid attention to the weather, used some common sense and gotten out of harms way.
We had a warning this spring a good chance of tornado out breaks in the general area, MAYBE! We had the storm shelter ready, three days worth of food, radio, batteries, games, water etc. We are registered with the PD and FD for location of our storm shelter, a metal box under the garage floor, concrete!
I've lived in KS my entire life, I'd seen three tornado's up to that day. That evening, I called in THREE tornado's from my back yard to Skywarn (Ham radio link to the NWS)!! But we were ready, and no one could tell us where in the state or states, it was going to happen for sure. Where do we run? It covered TX to NE and CO to East of St. Louis!
At least these people could have moved inshore and been safe!
I watched a couple on CNN two nights ago, "we feel safe here, it's home, we are going to ride it out", they lived in a high rise apartment/condo building? REALLY?
They were asked, and all but told to leave, ignored that to "ride it out" then complain about how long it took to get rescued or helped?
I'm sorry, I'm by no means trying to make lite of it at all! It's terrible what is going on there, and only getting worse! But so much of this could have been avoided had people paid attention to the weather, used some common sense and gotten out of harms way.
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I think they need to give away one of each color. I won't be picky!!!
I thought I had already suggested that??!!
Indeed! I have to put my feelings to the side and hope, and wish, the best for all involved!
Sorry, I'm opinionated on these things!
Nothing wrong with being opinionated... you know what they say:
Opinions are like A-holes... everybody has one!!
Opinions are like A-holes... everybody has one!!
woooow!!!! i guess u arent very sympathetic!!
i cant feel that way. to many people lost to much and watched their homes burn to the ground. leaving didnt have anything to do with that. the devastation is awful no matter how u look at it!
i cant feel that way. to many people lost to much and watched their homes burn to the ground. leaving didnt have anything to do with that. the devastation is awful no matter how u look at it!
I don't think that's what he (she?) meant... The people who disobey the evacuation orders only make it harder for the responders to do their jobs...
It's like the people here in CA not clearing the brush away from their house like they are supposed to, and then staying behind trying to fight off the wild fire with a garden hose!!
I've seen ravaged, I've seen distraught, I've gone a week without power from an ice storm, a tornado missed my wifes parents by a block, but got her grandparents house. I was here in '91 when the largest, at that time, tornado on record hit less than five miles from my house. There might have been a ten min. warning! McConnel AFB didn't even have enough time to scramble the B1's, stationed here at the time! It wiped out most of the base housing, but missed the runway with the planes sitting on it.
Last spring we had to help my wife's cousin and her family pick up what we could after an EF5 hit the trailer park they lived in, one of the three tornado's I called in that night!
I still wake in tremors from that night! Have you ever been in the dark, using lightning to spot a tornado, and pin point it's location as best you can, when they are on the radio telling you are the only one that can see it and KNOWING MANY lives depend on this report?
I'm sorry it happened, I'm sorry there has been so much lose, but much of that could have been prevented had they paid attention and evacuated when they were given ample opportunity to do so. No one in my area had that time, it was a clear day that went bad. We had some notice, but no idea when or where it would hit, these people had time, knowledge and chose to ignore all of the above.
Anyway, we need to get off this subject and move on before the thread gets closed!
Go win a mod!!!!
Last spring we had to help my wife's cousin and her family pick up what we could after an EF5 hit the trailer park they lived in, one of the three tornado's I called in that night!
I still wake in tremors from that night! Have you ever been in the dark, using lightning to spot a tornado, and pin point it's location as best you can, when they are on the radio telling you are the only one that can see it and KNOWING MANY lives depend on this report?
I'm sorry it happened, I'm sorry there has been so much lose, but much of that could have been prevented had they paid attention and evacuated when they were given ample opportunity to do so. No one in my area had that time, it was a clear day that went bad. We had some notice, but no idea when or where it would hit, these people had time, knowledge and chose to ignore all of the above.
Anyway, we need to get off this subject and move on before the thread gets closed!
Go win a mod!!!!
well maybe it just hit me wrong when they said they couldnt be sympathetic.
ok back to the prize i have my eye on!!!
ok back to the prize i have my eye on!!!
You might as well all go to bed now... because I am going to win this Mod in the morning!!
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