uPtoWnNY said:

Timmy84 said:

The Metro DC and central Virginia areas got tornado warnings RIGHT NOW. I think there's a tornado warning west of Central NC.

That's why my ass is never leaving NYC. The worst weather we get is the occasional noreaster, but nothing like the shit in the south or midwest.

Tornadoes are VERY rare comparted to the snowstorms you get or earthquakes in Cali. And they generally stay in rural areas. These are the most tornadoes EVER in recorded history so it's not like it's a common occurence. I've never seen or been near a tornado and I'm smack dab in the middle of Tornado Alley.

Timmy84 said:

uPtoWnNY said:

That's why my ass is never leaving NYC. The worst weather we get is the occasional noreaster, but nothing like the shit in the south or midwest.

Right. I feel for those who ACTUALLY moved DOWN SOUTH. You're not safe ANYWHERE. Move to California, you'll get an earthquake, move down south or even upper south, tornado and hurricane center.

I can deal with snow and cold(I like the change of seasons anyway). But hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, mudslides, brush fires? Fuck that shit!

uPtoWnNY said:

Timmy84 said:

Right. I feel for those who ACTUALLY moved DOWN SOUTH. You're not safe ANYWHERE. Move to California, you'll get an earthquake, move down south or even upper south, tornado and hurricane center.

I can deal with snow and cold(I like the change of seasons anyway). But hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, mudslides, brush fires? Fuck that shit!

I feel ya.

paintedlady said:

Lammastide said:

It's official. We've now had at least one tornado in Southwestern Ontario, about 1-1/2 hours from Toronto. Looks like this weather system is a beast.

Also, for the first time in its history the nearby Queenstown-Lewiston Bridge that connects Ontario with New York State was closed today because the surrounding winds got up to about 120 mph.

Lammastide said:

paintedlady said:

Also, for the first time in its history the nearby Queenstown-Lewiston Bridge that connects Ontario with New York State was closed today because the surrounding winds got up to about 120 mph.

Must be that tornado that went through NY, PA and 'em...

uPtoWnNY said:

Timmy84 said:

The Metro DC and central Virginia areas got tornado warnings RIGHT NOW. I think there's a tornado warning west of Central NC.

That's why my ass is never leaving NYC. The worst weather we get is the occasional noreaster, but nothing like the shit in the south or midwest.

...same here with Long Island.

Must be good luck but we never got much tornado damage. We had a warning but it left us before it could even impact. Now NC is mostly in the clear (except for the coastal region) until 9:00 pm. Things will be clearer after 12:00 am. But what a couple of days month this has been.

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Has there been a role call for the orgers who live in the six affected states? I'm watching the news right now and I thought about the folks here. It's really scary.

applekisses said:

Has there been a role call for the orgers who live in the six affected states? I'm watching the news right now and I thought about the folks here. It's really scary.

I know Vainandy's from Mississippi but I would believe he's alright. I don't know anyone from this site who lives in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky or even Virginia (some parts including DC were hit marginally hard).

Timmy84 said:

applekisses said:

Has there been a role call for the orgers who live in the six affected states? I'm watching the news right now and I thought about the folks here. It's really scary.

I know Vainandy's from Mississippi but I would believe he's alright. I don't know anyone from this site who lives in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky or even Virginia (some parts including DC were hit marginally hard).

I was thinking about that too. I personally don't know anyone from here who lives in those areas, but I haven't been around in a while, so I don't know a lot of the new folks.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...ure=relmfu

[Edited 4/28/11 18:01pm]

SCNDLS said:

uPtoWnNY said:

That's why my ass is never leaving NYC. The worst weather we get is the occasional noreaster, but nothing like the shit in the south or midwest.

Tornadoes are VERY rare comparted to the snowstorms you get or earthquakes in Cali. And they generally stay in rural areas. These are the most tornadoes EVER in recorded history so it's not like it's a common occurence. I've never seen or been near a tornado and I'm smack dab in the middle of Tornado Alley.

These are definately strange times like no other. Remember, we've gotten snow down South for the last two years straight (snow that actually stuck to the ground). We used to get snow about once a decade or fifteen years.

And the summers, oh Lord. They get over 100 degrees and stay that hot for weeks at a time these days. It even stays hot on into the fall sometimes. I don't ever remember it being like this. Back when I was in school, we didn't even have air conditioners in the schools. Just open windows and a box fan (blowing on the teacher while we burned up). And this wasn't in the "old days", this was the 1980s. But nowadays, they have these new schools and when the air conditioner breaks down, they send them home. The little spoiled brats.

vainandy said:

SCNDLS said:

Tornadoes are VERY rare comparted to the snowstorms you get or earthquakes in Cali. And they generally stay in rural areas. These are the most tornadoes EVER in recorded history so it's not like it's a common occurence. I've never seen or been near a tornado and I'm smack dab in the middle of Tornado Alley.

These are definately strange times like no other. Remember, we've gotten snow down South for the last two years straight (snow that actually stuck to the ground). We used to get snow about once a decade or fifteen years.

And the summers, oh Lord. They get over 100 degrees and stay that hot for weeks at a time these days. It even stays hot on into the fall sometimes. I don't ever remember it being like this. Back when I was in school, we didn't even have air conditioners in the schools. Just open windows and a box fan (blowing on the teacher while we burned up). And this wasn't in the "old days", this was the 1980s. But nowadays, they have these new schools and when the air conditioner breaks down, they send them home. The little spoiled brats.

I can't stress enough how wacky these last two winters have been here, especially with the snow and ice. I hate that shit. Gimme my 70 degree winters anyday!

PLEASANT GROVE, Ala. – Firefighters searched one splintered pile after another for survivors Thursday, combing the remains of houses and neighborhoods pulverized by the nation's deadliest tornado outbreak in almost four decades. At least 281 people were killed across six states — more than two-thirds of them in Alabama, where large cities bore the half-mile-wide scars the twisters left behind.

The death toll from Wednesday's storms seems out of a bygone era, before Doppler radar and pinpoint satellite forecasts were around to warn communities of severe weather. Residents were told the tornadoes were coming up to 24 minutes ahead of time, but they were just too wide, too powerful and too locked onto populated areas to avoid a horrifying body count.

"These were the most intense super-cell thunderstorms that I think anybody who was out there forecasting has ever seen," said meteorologist Greg Carbin at the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.

"If you experienced a direct hit from one of these, you'd have to be in a reinforced room, storm shelter or underground" to survive, Carbin said.

The storms seemed to hug the interstate highways as they barreled along like runaway trucks, obliterating neighborhoods or even entire towns from Tuscaloosa to Bristol, Va. One family rode out the disaster in the basement of a funeral home, another by huddling in a tanning bed.

In Concord, a small town outside Birmingham that was ravaged by a tornado, Randy Guyton's family got a phone call from a friend warning them to take cover. They rushed to the basement garage, piled into a Honda Ridgeline and listened to the roar as the twister devoured the house in seconds. Afterward, they saw daylight through the shards of their home and scrambled out.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...re_weather

SCNDLS said:

vainandy said:

These are definately strange times like no other. Remember, we've gotten snow down South for the last two years straight (snow that actually stuck to the ground). We used to get snow about once a decade or fifteen years.

And the summers, oh Lord. They get over 100 degrees and stay that hot for weeks at a time these days. It even stays hot on into the fall sometimes. I don't ever remember it being like this. Back when I was in school, we didn't even have air conditioners in the schools. Just open windows and a box fan (blowing on the teacher while we burned up). And this wasn't in the "old days", this was the 1980s. But nowadays, they have these new schools and when the air conditioner breaks down, they send them home. The little spoiled brats.

I can't stress enough how wacky these last two winters have been here, especially with the snow and ice. I hate that shit. Gimme my 70 degree winters anyday!

Oh hell naw! I love the cold weather. The colder the better. The colder it is, it makes me feel like I'm somewhere else instead of stuck in Mississippi.

And I hate sunshine. If it were up to me, it would be nighttime 24/7. All that bright sun gives me a headache plus I've always hated sports so I've never found anything fun that goes on in the daytime anyway. Everything I've ever loved goes on at night....concerts, clubbing, drinking, dick hunting....

vainandy said:

SCNDLS said:

I can't stress enough how wacky these last two winters have been here, especially with the snow and ice. I hate that shit. Gimme my 70 degree winters anyday!

Oh hell naw! I love the cold weather. The colder the better. The colder it is, it makes me feel like I'm somewhere else instead of stuck in Mississippi.

And I hate sunshine. If it were up to me, it would be nighttime 24/7. All that bright sun gives me a headache plus I've always hated sports so I've never found anything fun that goes on in the daytime anyway. Everything I've ever loved goes on at night....concerts, clubbing, drinking, dick hunting....

You can do that in the daytime too.

SCNDLS said:

vainandy said:

Oh hell naw! I love the cold weather. The colder the better. The colder it is, it makes me feel like I'm somewhere else instead of stuck in Mississippi.

And I hate sunshine. If it were up to me, it would be nighttime 24/7. All that bright sun gives me a headache plus I've always hated sports so I've never found anything fun that goes on in the daytime anyway. Everything I've ever loved goes on at night....concerts, clubbing, drinking, dick hunting....

You can do that in the daytime too.

Maybe you can, but I can't. These damn men are with their women in the daytime. But after midnight when those women go to sleep, that's when those men sneak out and get with us. Why do you think gay clubs don't even open till damn near midnight? Straight clubs will open as soon as the sun goes down and around one or two o'clock in the morning, they're closing up. Hell, that's when we're just getting started.

vainandy said:

SCNDLS said:

You can do that in the daytime too.

Maybe you can, but I can't. These damn men are with their women in the daytime. But after midnight when those women go to sleep, that's when those men sneak out and get with us. Why do you think gay clubs don't even open till damn near midnight? Straight clubs will open as soon as the sun goes down and around one or two o'clock in the morning, they're closing up. Hell, that's when we're just getting started.

Move to New York.

Timmy84 said:

vainandy said:

Maybe you can, but I can't. These damn men are with their women in the daytime. But after midnight when those women go to sleep, that's when those men sneak out and get with us. Why do you think gay clubs don't even open till damn near midnight? Straight clubs will open as soon as the sun goes down and around one or two o'clock in the morning, they're closing up. Hell, that's when we're just getting started.

Move to New York.

Honey, I couldn't afford a cardboard box in New York, let alone an apartment.

vainandy said:

Timmy84 said:

Move to New York.

Honey, I couldn't afford a cardboard box in New York, let alone an apartment.

Poor Poor Andy. Stuck in Nowheresville, Mississippi.

vainandy said:

morningsong said:

Okay this is a dumb question but it popped in my head and I can't shake it. How does one prepare for tornado? I know that here if you live in a house you should have a shed in your yard as far away from structures and lines as possible where you keep your emergency supplies, I don't see that working in the event of a tornado.

Hoping this clears up soon and everyone makes through safely.

Y'all didn't have tornado drills in school? We used to have several of them every year....as well as real ones.

People always say the safest place to be is in a basement. However, here in the South which is tornado alley, nobody has basements, which is kinda ass backwards if you ask me. But then again, the South has always been ass backwards. Hospitals have basements though and a lot of the office buildings in the downtown areas.

Since we don't have basements, the place to be is in a central location of the house with no windows such as a hallway or a small bathroom with no windows. Then you are supposed to get on the floor and crouch down with your hands above your head. A lot of people bring their mattresses out into the hallway and get underneath them. If you have more than one level, you should go to the ground level.

And then there are also storm shelters. Each one will cost an average of $3,500. It's worth buying one if you're a home owner.

728huey said:

Very sad news. One of the CBS affiliates in Alabama has reported that at least 39 people have died in Alabama as a result of these tornadoes, and another 11 people have died in Mississippi.

When I left Louisiana and moved to Arkansas 5 years ago, I basically went from threats of hurricanes to threats of tornados AND earthquakes.

This sucks!

SUPRMAN said:

NMuzakNSoul said:

I pray everyone stays save man. I heard about it.

We truly don't respect mother nature...

How would respecting Mother Nature reduce the number of severe storms and tornadoes?

I have a great idea. And none of you are going to feel this at all.

Everyone needs to stop smoking tobacco & , stop driving their automobiles so much, and put an end to big oil & nuclear power companies once and for all. All of these situations are add-ons to the problem of the greenhouse effect on planet Earth

The same greenhouse effect that is increasing the hole in the ozone layer is also responsible for increasing weather temperatures during the spring AND summer seasons, which results in producing more tornadoes AND hurricanes.

uPtoWnNY said:

Timmy84 said:

The Metro DC and central Virginia areas got tornado warnings RIGHT NOW. I think there's a tornado warning west of Central NC.

That's why my ass is never leaving NYC. The worst weather we get is the occasional noreaster, but nothing like the shit in the south or midwest.

NYC can still get severe snowstorms. And if they ever get their first and only hurricane, best believe that NYC will be wipe off the face of the USA. The scientific evidences were confirmed by The Weather Channel's own show, It Could Happen Tomorrow.

[Edited 4/29/11 0:59am]

Timmy84 said:

uPtoWnNY said:

That's why my ass is never leaving NYC. The worst weather we get is the occasional noreaster, but nothing like the shit in the south or midwest.

Right. I feel for those who ACTUALLY moved DOWN SOUTH. You're not safe ANYWHERE. Move to California, you'll get an earthquake, move down south or even upper south, tornado and hurricane center.

Moved to NYC, Boston, MPLS, Chicago, or any city up north in Canada, you have to deal with snowstorms.

TonyVanDam said:

Timmy84 said:

Right. I feel for those who ACTUALLY moved DOWN SOUTH. You're not safe ANYWHERE. Move to California, you'll get an earthquake, move down south or even upper south, tornado and hurricane center.

Moved to NYC, Boston, MPLS, Chicago, or any city up north in Canada, you have to deal with snowstorms.

Put it to you like this, if I still had to decide between a SNOWSTORM and a TORNADO, best believe the snow is looking good to me.

Timmy84 said:

TonyVanDam said:

Moved to NYC, Boston, MPLS, Chicago, or any city up north in Canada, you have to deal with snowstorms.

Put it to you like this, if I still had to decide between a SNOWSTORM and a TORNADO, best believe the snow is looking good to me.

But what if the snow is stack so high that you can NOT get out of your own car OR your own house/apartment?!?

Now granted, a tornado is worse than a snowstorm. But dealing with snow & ice on the road isn't a freaking cakewalk neither. Believe me!

TonyVanDam said:

Timmy84 said:

Put it to you like this, if I still had to decide between a SNOWSTORM and a TORNADO, best believe the snow is looking good to me.

But what if the snow is stack so high that you can NOT get out of your own car OR your own house/apartment?!?

Now granted, a tornado is worse than a snowstorm. But dealing with snow & ice on the road isn't a freaking cakewalk neither. Believe me!

Well we're doomed anyway.

TonyVanDam said:

Everyone needs to stop smoking tobacco & ,

The same greenhouse effect that is increasing the hole in the ozone layer is also responsible for increasing weather temperatures during the spring AND summer seasons, which results in producing more tornadoes AND hurricanes.

How is my smoking weed putting a hole in the ozone layer? If that's the case, I'm responsible for the firggin black hole!