It's Tornado Season

[Bible_Belt]

As of the 10pm news Tuesday night, my weather forecast was for some uneventful rain. They had even dropped the chance of rain. The forecast said nothing about severe storms. There were no watches and no warnings until the storms hit at 4 am and the town sirens started going off.

I'm ok, but here is the town next to mine:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/harrisburg-illinois-pictures

Here is what a 2x4 looks like after it hits the cinder block wall of wal-mart at 170 mph:
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x252/dotheopposite/2x4.jpg

more images on google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...0l56617l0l56898l7l7l0l4l0l0l227l402l1j1j1l3l0

The destruction isn't as huge as in Joplin, MO, last spring, but I have never even heard of tornadoes in Illinois in February. The storm season last year was the worst that anyone can remember. And this year we are getting a very early start.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Yesterday was even more deadly, death toll at about 30 in Kentucky and Indiana, 90-something tornadoes confirmed in the mass outbreak.

The funerals for the people killed in Harrisburg IL are going on right now. These nutballs are showing up to protest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_baptist They are the ones who show up at military funerals and tell everyone that they are all going to hell. They also try to get physically attacked, which is not hard, so they can sue everyone and try to fund their inbred church-cult with the money.

I have never seen people so widely hated in my life. Osama was more likeable. Everyone wants to kill them. There are thousands of people lining the streets in Harrisburg right now as a counter protest, including these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_guard and every old guy with a Harley in a 200-mile radius...and hundreds of undercover cops. From what I hear, the Westboro car just got their tires slashed once already this morning. It happens to them in every town. The Kansas plates and "God Hates Fags" bumper stickers are not very stealth.

 

[Serg897]

Its funny isnt it. You can read the Bible and easily justify every single thing the WBC does and believes. It is Christianity in its most purest form.

Im glad that the Supreme Court sided with them last year in the Snyder v. Phelps case. That way everyone can see just what a horrid book it really is, what it can really justify and what kind of malevolent diety the Christian God really is (one with dictatorial tendencies).

Free speech is something you can never take away in our society, since the second you stop the WBC and others like them from expressing their views you are opening yourself up to censorship. Who decides just what is too offensive, too inflammatory? I for one will always say what I think, and claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, anytime.

 

[Warrior74]

Well you know when tornados and natural disasters hit other countries and poor minorities its gods retribution. When it strikes middle america and the deep south, you better not say god hates us!

 

[Bible_Belt]

I for one will always say what I think, and claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, anytime.

Sure, over the Internet where you can hide. It's a little different when facing an angry mob.

The Westboro cult are very brave over the computer, but not so much in person. I would think that people who are so assured of their place in the afterlife would spend less time running for their lives from angry crowds (like Jesus). They sneak into a town, find an empty back alley, jump out and take a pic of one of them holding one sign. Then they run like hell. Afterward, they all claim victory on their twitter accounts.

If you are interested in supporting the WBC, here is their web site: http://www.godhatesfags.com/ My advice if you attend any protests is to invest in a good pair of running shoes.

 

[BMX]

We just had on on the other side of my city in North Carolina. Dang.

 

[Gaucho]

The destruction isn't as huge as in Joplin, MO, last spring, but I have never even heard of tornadoes in Illinois in February. The storm season last year was the worst that anyone can remember. And this year we are getting a very early start.

I know global warming doesn't get much credence at times and I really haven't looked into how much weather patterns have been changing as a whole, but in Australia this summer, we basically just went without a summer altogether. It rained in Sydney basically every single day, like we were living in London. In 30 odd years, I have never seen anything even remotely close to it.

I would never associate one offs to some type of larger change, but if this trend does persist, I think the global warming bugs have some extreme ammo and we can probably all go short the insurance industry!