Mother nature is a beotch!
 

Two weekends ago we had F2 and F4 tornado's that just missed friends and family members here in NW Ohio. Six dead and over 50 homes destroyed.

Just this past weekend a thunderstorm produced a lightning strike at a neighbors where my daughter had just went for a party. I saw the fire from across the field and sped over there to help if possible. We got some cars moved and unsuccesfully attempted to keep the vinyl siding from melting on the house with a garden hose. Got the poo scared out of me when the tires blew on the farm truck in the barn and when the building collasped. Three local volunteer fire departments showed up and I was amazed at how long it took to put the fire out.... The barn was old and all wood. VERY HOT fire!

Kind of scary sheet!

The F2 tornado aftermath the next day.

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Fire 1 mile west of my house.


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Indeed she is;

Deadly Flash Flood Swamps Arkansas Camp Site

Wow
Those are some scary pictures.
Mother nature is getting out of hand lately.
Tornados are quite rare up here but we had one go through the woods just east of our house (about 300 feet) several years ago that mowed down a bunch of trees.
It touched down in the back pasture just inside the woods and continued past the house about an 1/8th of a mile.
Unbelievable how much destruction they cause.

I'd say there is a reason I don't live where they have tornados, but we have earthquakes so I have no room to talk. Guess it'll get you one way or another anywhere you live.

How come every news broadcast wasn't filled with people saying everyone owes them money like happens in the gulf? (Rhetorical question).

Because we live in a part of the country where neighbors know and care for each other. Local neighbors/friends were working on tarping roofs and clearing roads several hours after the tornado went through and local community members by the hundreds have been showing up daily at a local church for the past two weeks to form work crews to continue clean up. FEMA showed up and tried to take control over the clean up efforts last Tuesday..... Folks in this rural farming community basically disregarded the cluster***** FEMA was trying to setup and continued helping any way they could. Thousands of meals have been served to volunteer workers and families who lost homes all provided by local people and private citizens having been using their own machinery/equipment to remove debris.

I have never been so proud to live in an Ohio rural community where Americans still roll their sleeves up and open their wallets to help a neighbor. I have not heard one person mention that they were happy FEMA showed up.... rather I heard several mention that FEMA should get the hell out and quit interfering with the clean-up efforts. My daughter who is on college summer break and has been helping pick up debris daily, said when FEMA showed up, they tried to take over the church's volunteer center and that they were telling highschool under 18 kids that they could no longer help..... The kids just went out on their own anyways and continued helping their neighbors and friends. The church ended up telling FEMA that they would continue their own operation and FEMA should go elsewhere.

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I just moved out of a house in Millbury that was destroyed by one of the tornados. i was out three weeks and the couple that moved in were there excatly two weeks. Il dig up some of the photos.

It will be much harder to get a settlement from mother nature as opposed to BP. However BP is running a close second. A great difference between a natural disaster and a manmade cluster fark, please don't confuse the two. The people affected by the spill should be compensated.

+1

It's funny how some people miss such a simple point. :rolleyes:

I thought he was talking about Katrina.... that said, in areas of the country like where I live, folks tend to not get too caught up in complaining about how unfair disasters are or who is to blame for an accident and instead roll up their sleeves and get to work fixing the problem. These kind of folks do not expect Uncle Sam to bail them out.

the near total loss of critical thinking skills combined with the domination of opinion-driven media is the primordial soup of our evolving idiocracy.

I understand, as I grew up in the Midwest, too. I think the folks impacted by the BP well leak are seeking help from BP for destroying their livelihood. If some hypothetical chemical company came along and, through their own negligence, rendered your neighbors farms totally unusable for the next ten to twenty years, what do you think your neighbors would do?

Sammy was clearly talking about Hurricane Katrina.

I can see the point if Katrina was what he talking about.

Probably get a job or start a business doing something else to keep food on the table. ;):D

While I am kind of joking, in all likelyhood that is probably what they would actually do.

I have no problem with expecting BP to do what it can to fix this problem, but I also think that this is a very rare "accident" and "accidents" do happen in life..... IMO the press and our govt is working way too hard to paint BP as some kind of monster.


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Tim, I agree that the media/WH is desperate to find a villian. Here in Houston, we need a strong and functional BP. There are many jobs here and all along the gulf coast that rely on BP to generate income. I have 2 friends with BP.
That said, BP has a terrible track record of safety. The corner cutting for a less expensive way is the BP way. There have been multiple fatalities from BP accidents. The company was less than honorable in thier handling of these. They actually deserve much of the bashing.
I'm pizzed at BO's govt and thier response as well. We have an unprecedented disaster and one of this jokers first actions was to send lawyers. They are only useful at this point if they can shovel oil soaked sand or if we use them to plug the hole dammit.
Sign me frustrated on the gulf.

Wow.... You were lucky. I have a buddy who lives near the turnpike exit 5 (couple miles south of the F4 tornado). His daughter was at a friends that night until about 9:45 pm when he picked her up.... Her friends house got hit pretty hard 45 minutes later and will likely be torn down.