R.I.P. Oklahoma

[Al Liszt]

These were the mass deaths. There were also the attendant maimed,
malfunctioning, homeless, lorn. It happens every month in a succession of
encounters between groups of living and a congruent world - which simply
doesn't care. Look in any yearly Almanac, under "Disasters" - which is
where  the figures above come from. The business is transacted month after
month  after month.

~ V.


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> Can we even forgive ourselves? Christ, we seem unable to even take
> responsibility when we KNOW we are dumping this shit we are so eagerly
> diving into. As a people, besides being fucked, we are amazingly fucked-up.
>
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> so well-said. When we wish it shouldn't be said.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On May 20, 2013, at 10:41 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This was a 1% tornado.  But only by the old standards.  Future
>> generations won't forgive our idiocy easily.  But forgiveness will be the
>> least of their concerns.
>>
>> On Monday, May 20, 2013, Rev'd Seventy-Six 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.
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> http://posthistoricpress.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>
>
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