I'm glad you and your family are ok, flea. I think the death toll in AL will keep rising for a while as people get into the more rural areas around there. Apparently half of the town of Phil Campbell, AL has been completely razed. The photos from where the tornado was in the early part of that video show that the Forest Lake neighborhood, which was behind those stores, has nothing left standing, not even the trees.
Yes! Ohmigod! Someone's blondie bear's a twenty-question genius!
Harmony ,'Help'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hayden - Apr 28, 2011 2:44:35 am PDT #5676 of 30001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
le nubian - Apr 28, 2011 2:53:54 am PDT #5677 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
oh dear.
flea - Apr 28, 2011 3:06:20 am PDT #5678 of 30001
information libertarian
Yeah, I saw someone asking "why so many deaths, were people (like the videographers) just ignoring alerts?" but when your NEIGHBORHOOD IS GONE there's not much you could have done to protect yourself. A lot of people in the south don't have basements; if you live in a trailer you're basically fucked.
Kat - Apr 28, 2011 3:40:32 am PDT #5679 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Whoa. That's terrifying. I cannot believe so many deaths!
I think, with HoD, it's just the density of the language along with the meandering narrative that has slowed my students, and myself, down. It's like reading one long prose poem.
le nubian - Apr 28, 2011 3:59:49 am PDT #5680 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
but when your NEIGHBORHOOD IS GONE there's not much you could have done to protect yourself.
that's right. And when tornado warnings come, sometimes there isn't enough time to go any kind of distance.
Jesse - Apr 28, 2011 4:07:15 am PDT #5681 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, that's really horrifying.
Theodosia - Apr 28, 2011 4:30:19 am PDT #5682 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I've been told the best you can do if you're in a house without a basement is climb into the bathtub with something over you like a mattress.
(Except that in my house, the bathtub is on the 2nd floor corner. But we have a basement, and I'll be there crouched under the old cast-iron sink, clutching my favorite cat.)
Nora Deirdre - Apr 28, 2011 4:43:02 am PDT #5683 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Yeah, I saw someone asking "why so many deaths, were people (like the videographers) just ignoring alerts?" but when your NEIGHBORHOOD IS GONE there's not much you could have done to protect yourself. A lot of people in the south don't have basements; if you live in a trailer you're basically fucked.
Yeah, I love hearing people Monday morning quarterbacking from their safe (likely non-trailer) homes on the choices that people facing an immediate disaster make.
(Um, not directed to anyone here obviously!!!)
What an awful situation in the Alabama/Georgia area.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 28, 2011 4:47:56 am PDT #5684 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I can't believe all the tornado activity this month. April really is the cruelest month.
And also I heard something about a hurricane developing, which is a couple months ahead of the season.
Sue - Apr 28, 2011 5:00:08 am PDT #5685 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Frank, there's nothing on the National Hurricane Center's website. (Why yes, I do have it bookmarked.)