R.I.P. Oklahoma

Keith Davis kbob42 at gmail.com
Mon May 20 21:06:18 CDT 2013


We are definitely in it. 

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On May 20, 2013, at 10:01 PM, "Rev'd Seventy-Six" <revd.76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My vote is we are In The Shit. Downtown metro Atl. took a tornado six
> years ago, totally out of the blue. Whole streets were glutted with
> shards for weeks after. Took two months and disaster relief to get the
> cityscape glittering again. We were lucky. I grew up in the ass-end of
> tornado alley and find the uptick frankly terrifying. A twister in the
> countryside is enough of a sumbitch. Last thing you want is one all
> methed-up with a craw fulla glass...
> 
> 
> On 5/20/13, bandwraith at aol.com <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
>> This is fucking unbelievable. During a quiet moment at the office this
>> afternoon I turned on the tube. There was a helicopter shot of this
>> massive funnel cloud just hovering over a suburban area- it seemed like
>> forever. The commentator was rather dispassionately describing the
>> scene, commentating on tornadoes of the past and what causes them to
>> form, etc., as people were obviously being mutilated in the distance.
>> 
>> http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57585407/at-least-51-dead-after-massive-okla-tornado/
>> 
>> Is this up-tick in these mega-twisters and other weather phenomenon,
>> like Sandy, the result of global warming?  If so, we're in deep shit.
> 
> 
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