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Stunning Time-Lapse Video Of 2-Mile Wide Oklahoma Tornado
Courtesy of NBC, here is 10-x sped up footage of the massive 2-mile wide tornado ripping through Oklahoma one short hour ago.
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Tyler. Thanks for the update, but it was actually Moore, OK. Just south of OKC.
There's another boost to GDP
/sarc
That thing was massive!!
even more stunning is that NBC actually came up with something worth watching.
Krugman must be salivating at all the new economic activity to come.
The broken windows alone should have an effect on GDP.
CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT
It's a simple couple of clicks in Sony Vegas Pro vid editor ...
Geesh.
i wonder what Obama administration is feeling right about now . . . . . . ? any opinions ?
Castration; wants to impose it, maybe feels he did for awhile the last couple of yrs, or feels like it's coming his way ...
that video is like what you would see when the imf/worldbank loans money to your country in order to "develop" it .. that is, if the imf/worldbank were visible clouds and the whole suckage were limited to a few square miles and less than one hour
how many dead in the Bagladesh clothing sweatshop? a thousand anyway
where the fuck is the time lapse footage of the building collapsing?
imagine how great it would be to see floor after floor packed with designer labels and workers making 24 cents per hour getting crushed in real time.
either way blame global warming
we love NBC, its affiliates and most of all comcast for sparing us wall to wall coverage of their sponsors' slaves being crushed or suffocated to death much better to watch Anderson Cooper with furled brow engage the CNN weather persons about its exact track and speed as he awaits his next exploitive interview with some poor soul who lost their everything earlier today.
Just wait in fact count the effing days 'till when Anderson and that dipshit Erin cohost a special on the OK Tornado (I am sure they will come up with a clever brand name for it in the next few hours) and how it was caused by the evil carbon producing enemy. And if they are really good they will link it to immigration, austerity etc like how a tornado shelter was cancelled due to budget cuts or how a few down and out undocumenteds were in their cardboard shantys when all hell broke loose today.
(and the cynic in me would like to bid Benghazi, the IRS scandal etc. a hearty farewell and good night; you will be replaced by a carbon tax that will be enforced by DHS and IRS - and this sad and tragic tornado story will be milked for all it is worth until the lazy daze of summer are in full effect)
Toss a coulpe of MSNBC onair windbags in front of that wind bag and we'd really have something... Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes to the front of the line please...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aHYSnP3Irg
oooo yeah wow but hey just a big storm.......
On the otherhand, imagine what this would have been like
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/12-killed-blast-chinese-factory-ar...
Zero I'm ashamed and angrered at the same time--what you say is so true. +100
All those gun nuts shooting their bullets in the air and now we have tornadoes. Please do something mr president. For the children.
/sarc
What a blowjob!!!!
"A father of a third-grader still missing sat quietly on a stool. Tears fell from his eyes as he waited for news of his son."
Amazing....at least 70 elementary school children dead or injured and idiots here are making jokes.
"it's the children".....how many will grow up and contribute to society?
stupid bleeding heart Americans....if you went to Africa, your heart will explode after seeing reality.
From the bottom of my heart...go fuck yourself!
What we need now are commmons sense laws against tornados that kill so many children, so quickly and so easily. This crisis should not go to waste.
obama to biden, "shal we outlaw breezes larger than zephers and fans larger than 7 inches?"
biden to obama "may i be the wind tsar sire?"
Why don't you go to Africa and STAY THERE. Maybe they would let you be their god or something, you sure see yourself in that light.
re: "A father of a third-grader still missing sat quietly on a stool. Tears fell from his eyes as he waited for news of his son."
"the gods looked down in anger on this poor child..."
I reckon they are about as sad as everyone else is. Why do you conflate them? There's a lot of hot air coming out of Washington DC, but not this devastating.
oh boy, i'm goin to hell for what i'm thinkin obama be thinkin...God bless those good folk in ok, and all the kids...we rebuild tomorrow...we rebuild tomorrow...AMEN!
God bless America.
Pray the tornado away.
Don't worry, illegal Latinos on standby to replace however many citzens killed to provide soldiers for war with Iran.
Krugman can suck a funnel cloud.
Or a funnel cloud could drop a house on him....just sayin'
seasonally adjusted, of course
Well, did they tell the Pres or not? When did he know there was a tornado? And is it Bush's fault?
Obama to give thanks at news conference for natural disaster - he needs a break.....
There's another boost to GDP
/sarc
That thing was massive!!
That's what she said!
It was massive, and you know people must have gotten hurt from that.
No really, that's what she said.
I wouldn't want to be the guy who cleans the helicopter upholstery..
Interestingly, this is the HAARP reading from few days ago. HAARP map - and I hate to say it team, but I haven't seen it pink before. Sending love and gentle vibrations to those of you that wont be able to keep your cool today.
HAARP has been long believed by many "conspiratorials" to affect weather and Earthquakes with lots of data behind it. I dunno if it's true but the overwhelming evidence sure shows it to be suspect. I'd say more likely than not. Question everything.
Anyway, on to the picture... http://api.ning.com/files/imbe9KBD0dPp000bX0aZjneGvEXuymJeLkfL9ry6hwbmLvDOYvpsIgqyBEtBkakNLkSuNiP2ykIwd*22qjrgVwm2NkRAzBCH/ScreenHunter_136May.2013.56.jpg
*THAT* map is for how quickly the signal is gaining or losing strength, its not the actual strength but the momentum. Also, thats the longwave map - check the shortwave map its thought to be more closely tied to tornados. Longwave is for earthquakes and 'normal' storms. And the HAARP map for sandy was higher than 10 and centered over Boston/NJ exactly where the storm turned inland.
So its pretty obvious these people are sociopaths.... And they turned up the dial on their weather weaponizer up there in Alaska... With complete disregard for the consequences. I have seen days where they f*ck with the jet stream. Anyone not familiar with HAARP's capabilities needs to wake up.
It was a mile wide tornado which is huge but not two miles. CNN doesn't have a clue as usual. They also had a caller say how wonderful it was to have federal responders. That was bogus too. Those responders were locals. It just happened. Feds won't show up until at least two weeks from now. And then just to gawk. Although Obama will probably show up tomorrow just to distract from the news in Washington.
Probably the safest bet on the planet that the Teleprompter will be set-up in front of the destroyed school before the weekend.
Wow
One pic says it all :
http://i.imgur.com/Kv6o6Qc.jpg
FUCK ... makes the Boston Bombings look like child's play.
Yeah, god is good at terrorism
God is just doing Goldman Sachs's work here.
Why not blame "Dubya", or the Obowel Movement.........since "it happened during his watch"....
Obama hates Sooners!
Katrina was allllll Bush's fawlt. Now, will this be Obama's Katrina? Answer: Nope.
silver forget boston...makes that texas explosion the next day look like childs play.....
Yup, any that are still disbelieving that Sandy Hoax and Boston were false-flags/hoaxes will see what REAL greif looks like in the interviews of the victims here.
Dare to compare.
hujel
I lived through Sandy, Douchebag!
i think he meant sandy hook, not hurricane sandy
Yeah, Sandy Hook, but I am not a douche bag, I only play one on TV. Common mistake though.
hujel
Did you happen to see the HAARP readings prior to Hurricane Sandy? Look it up...
I second that
Did you happen to see the HAARP readings prior to Hurricane Sandy? Look it up...
pix or it didn't happen!
Sandy Hoax, bitchez!
Wow. But look on the bright side, there is about to be a new housing boom just south of OKC.
those people... my goodness... looks like a pic from Hiroshima.
A couple dozen elementary school kids got sucked up into this thing. As a dad of two little ones I can't even imagine....
The idea of that is beyond comprehension.
Those children died upon the altar of the state. Without gov't disaster insurance I doubt many, if any, of those people would live in tornado alley because it would be too costly, if not impossible, to insure against such risks. Also, without the gov't being involved in public education and placing the liability of a child's safety while at school upon the shoulders of the school they are attending, would a school have been built in tornado alley at all?
Of course, you won't hear a peep from the MSM about the unintended consequences of gov't intervention into every aspect of life. If anything there will be calls for MOAR, MOAR, MOAR!!!!
Don't they build schools with tornado shelters there? Are they insane? Sub basement with reinforced concrete, use it as a gym, whatever.
No what school administrations in oklahoma do is shut down the older well built schools that actually had basements. Then they build new schools without basements. School administrations should be held accountable for it especially in tornado alley.
I think you're stretching it there, fella. I'd bet not one in ten thousand people who chose to call that place home did so because they could get government disaster insurance. Call me naive, but I think they chose to live there because they liked the area and the climate and the job possibilities, or because their family has lived there for generations.
Lots of people---millions actually---live in the Sundarbans, which is pure Cyclone Alley. They get the bejesus kicked out of them half a dozen times a year. Not a one has "government disaster insurance". They live there because, like the folks in Oklahoma, they like it there or were born there.
There's lots of things one might throw on the mantle of government. This tornado is not one of them.
The picture alone has over 300 homes leveled. This is fucking huge.
well lets hope next time they dont build cardboard houses in the corridor of tornados, and if they do build houses in the same area, make them look like concrete bunkers. On a side note im pretty sure all the crappy houses have been built back on the coast in asia, exactly where they were struck by giant tsunami waves. What can you do against sheer human stupidity.
Moore again????? Moore was destroyed in 1999 by an F-5. I've seen maps of 'Tornado Alley' and OKC is literally the bullseye for most and worst likely tornados.
They're reporting this is much worse.
not that it matters which was worse because both had many lives lost and caused tons of destruction, but the 1999 one had wind speeds recorded at 318 mph. that is the strongest wind speed recorded to date on earth i believe.
this storm had 200 mph winds, which is still beyond imagination to most people, but i still dont know if this was as bad a 1999 for comparison sakes, but then again who cares, both are terrible tragedies with many innocent lives lost.
They reported >300mph winds this time as well. Tornado on the ground for 20 miles of destruction. But yes, you are right.
Wow, Moore hit by most most powerful tornado on record and now 2nd most powerful. This might be #1 actually, much wider at ground level.
Central Oklahoma is perfect "tormado alley", a "weather battlefield" where warm moist gulf fronts and cool dry fronts coming down the great plains collide in epic storms, and nearly table-top flat, no hills/mountains to disrupt 'em.
Gotta get back there some day, wonderful violent wild-ass weather not seen anywhere else in America. Dazzling mind-blowing lightning and thunder I'll always remember.
Downtoan Atlanta has been hit by 2 tornadoes in the last 15 years or so. And another one tore out a huge swath just north of Atlanta in '98 or so.
What i said, one would have think they d be living in bunkers by now, no, they just keep building shit houses in the very same dangerous places. Darwin award of the year.
I'm guessing the lightning-flashes-on-the-ground are substations and transformers blowing?
It may take a while to get the lights back on in OK. My sympathies and prayers to them.
Those are LINE SLAPS or when 14 KV circuits catch conductive debris like tin roof sheets and other debris ... transformers have fuses that blow pretty dam quick ... but EVERYBODY says TRANSFORMERS!
It must be an urban thing.
Lots of transformers exploding. ANNNNNDDDDDD it's gone.
For those with iPhones:
http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/1805/4064740?title=broadcast...
Tragic. How people survive these things can only be explained as miraculous.
From the "market's" point of view, however...just think of the gypsum board sales. Goldman is probably already contriving upward GDP revisions.
From President Zero's point of view...probably considering new laws making tornados illegal.
He's glad there's something to take coverage away from his scandals.
+1000 !understatement of the century . He's playin' dick tag right now with Reggie & Jay in the oval office !
Barry takes a HAARP solo.
Wow looks like a bank run..
Well there is the memorial day event I was warning about last Friday. I didn't think it would come in the guise of a natural disaster....this will be on replay all week to provide cover for all the scandals coming out of the whitehouse. Also very difficult to prove if HAARP was involved or not, it rarely leaves any evidence.
My heart and prayers go out to those who lost loved ones and their homes.
Try and prove it wasn't HAARP. Two miles wide.
Remember, it's the ones who believe in the 'broken window theory' running this circus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-12X99jGOU
Try and prove it WAS HAARP.
Exactly
EDIT:
I am agreeing with Divine wind on this, it is unfortunately up to the people to prove any modification or interference which is very difficult. I do not care if I get downvoted for speaking my opinion, I am not here to garnish votes I am hear to share my opinion and part of that opinion was for the sympathy to the people of Moore and the sorrounding area. The other half was to warn people of a large event on memorial day which I made in the comment here last Friday:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-17/how-last-second-flash-crash-pus...
There is tons of documented evidence leaked and made public that prove the US uses weather modification and has been playing with it since the 60s:
Leaked Weather Modification Document
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49239645/48289237-Leaked-Weather-Modification-...
USC Weather Modification
http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/15C9A.txt
The U.S. government routinely conducts experiments on weather modification
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-u-s-government-routinely-conducts-exper...
Controversial Experimental Weather Modification Bill in US Congress
http://www.globalresearch.ca/controversial-experimental-weather-modifica...
A Recommended National Program In Weather Modification (1966):
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/documents/19680002906_1968002906.pdf
Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025
http://csat.au.af.mil/2025/volume3/vol3ch15.pdf
I don't know why you collected so many junks... I find your contributions to be strong ones 99% of the time and you provided solid links to explain your opinion and allow others to begin their own look-see into it...
There is a very fine line here on ZH (which I have crossed a few times myself) between pushing for 'truthiness' and donning a tin foil hat. Damned if it isn't a blurry one at times.
EDIT: I also recall a provision in one of the UN treaties back in the 50's banning 'weather warfare/modification'... seems it would be silly to include something in a treaty that was sooooo very beyond the realm of possibility.
Thanks BoneSxxx
Just a minor update, being Canadian I thought memorial day was today to match the long weekend we have up here but I just checked and it is next weekend. I apologize for that error, I meant the monday today.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-13/watergate-was-amatuers-justice-...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-17/friday-humor-summing-it#comment...
Again my condolences and sympathy to the families affected by this disaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUXcJq5sK9E
Not believing in weather modification is like not believing in electricity or not believing in airplanes... get a clue!
Here is a link to a private company that is hired by many states, cities, towns here in the us and around the world to increase their rainfall, snowpak ect ect..
They have been in the weather mod business for like 50 yrs and this is just one company, there are hundreds(prolly thousands).
http://www.weathermodification.com/
Lol, snake oil.
Someone started a business claiming they can make clouds, and they have a WEBSITE on the INTERNET so it must be true.
Better get yoself some shares kid, stat.
Prove a negative? That how it works?
The Thunder Child scribbled the following inanity in front of ADULTS:
"... Also very difficult to prove if HAARP was involved or not, it rarely leaves any evidence. "
WHAT an ignorant stupid DUMBFUCK.
The intelligence quotient average on ZH just took a goddamn nosedive!
CHECK the G-D RF emissions in the area, moron!
HAARP Spectrum Monitor Waterfall Chart
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/data/spectrum2/www/hf.html
Yes let's check the 'official' HAARP website to see if HAARP has been used covertly for weather modification, that's real bright there shill bag.
It would seem more want to see proof of HAARP than believe it was employed, just as Sandy, destined to die east of Cuba, was Frankensteined into the animal of a storm that it was. Seems the more proof there is available, the more ignorant people get.
The intelligence quotient average on ZH just took a goddamn nosedive!
Pull. Up.
Pull. Up.
Warning.
Pull. Up.
You ridicule this guy for a conspiracy theory you obviously haven't researched. Here, lemme' help you out.
archive.org/details/WeatherAsAForceMultiplier - 1996 US Air force paper on not just manipulating the weather, but outright owning it.
www.weathermodification.org
http://weathermodification.com/
http://agriculturedefensecoalition.org/?q=weather-modifications
it's called "denial" - brain not ready to acknowledge new information. . .
here's another link for those who dare investigate - quick tho' - ya never knows when the these pages will be gone. . .
dutchsinse shares research
The pics coming in from OK are fakes, taken in a studio in an underground government bunker months ago. Yep, just like 9/11. All paid actors these people, the lot of them. Did you know all those broken windows are plexiglass
Also the CIA used a tornado/eartquake/hurricane making doohicky to release the giant tornado and murder people, definately a head fake to distract them from thinking about their shitty mortgages. Naturally occurring weather events no longer exist, nope, all of them are released by a special machine thingy.
Sadly I dont have a shred of empirical evidence to support my retarded theories, but hey look them up motherfucker, they're on the internet.
this afternoon was an exact square between Uranus /Pluto, part of an ongoing aspect between the two. . . archetypes for Uranus include sudden, unexpected, uncontrolled events, both natural and man-made, natural including the electric, man-made including bombs, weaponry. . . archetypes for Pluto include complete destruction, burning back of the land for future re-growth, deaths, dirty bombs, DU, etc.
I mentioned it here briefly a couple of weeks ago, "my vote's for the "unexpected world event" - a random bit o' chaos that no one was factoring into their realities. . ." in no way consider it a prediction, or any of that nonsense, just pointing out there are other ways to monitor "reality" as we know it.
for what it's worth, this week escalates tension into the relatively rare second lunar eclipse at the weekend, which is also "Memorial Day" - and the month of June has the ongoing Uranus/Pluto still holding the same degree, still potent, still bears taking into consideration, in my opinion.
peace, within/without.
we are all made of stars
excellent choice / version, *nods*
joni knew way back then too,
indeed sister...gotta get those hands dirty
thanks for the joni, she soothes me soul
Nice acoustic version.
Another good one from that venue: Gnarles Barkley - Crazy
beautiful version. always loved crazy, even tho it got crazy popular.
shall we go for the basement trifecta?
flies are buzzing around my head
vultures circling the dead
picking up every last crumb
big fish eat the little ones
big fish eat the little ones
not my problem, give me some
you can try the best you can
try the best you can
dinosaurs roaming the earth
Nice.
Sonic Youth - The Sprawl(From The Basement)
Fuck you, are you for sale?
Does fuck you sound simple enough?
I'm sure Krugman is ecstatic, seeing how the economic recovery is now surely on its way to Oklahoma...
Krugman and his followers need to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
I only wish he was there at the time
Such a humbling sight. Really puts things into perspective.
A big tornado like that has as much energy as a 1 kiloton nuke +...
Oh quite a bit more, I'd say.
Yeah we're talking megatons easy.
Yeah, too much. Too much fucking perspective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUsWxOZolVQ
Thanks for posting this info. I heard about it on the radio......very sad for those folks who are pretty poor already. Hopefully aid comes extensively and quickly.
Being from OK means you are poor?..........Wow!.....I guess that means you live on one of the egocentric coasts.
Crazy.... Like that tornado scene in movie The Day After Tomorrow.
Surely somebody already blamed this on global warming.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22567023
FTFA, "short term."
I have no idea what that's even supposed to mean.
Global warming has been on hold since winter 97-98......get with the program!
The Socialist tax raising liars now call it climate change to cover their pathetic lying asses either way!
The remedy for either is still a massive trillion dollar tax increase!
Actually the Bush administration were the first to use and popularise the term climate change, sorry.
Huh?
How was I not clear?
that's one of the things I miss about living in Oklahoma
I lived in Tulsa for a couple years. Seems we got the very worst of all weather types and we even had several small earthquakes, to boot! The people were nice enough but I am glad to be gone.
The power of Mother Nature exceeds even the power of the handout seeking voter, both of which should never be underestimated..........grasshopper
BBB
Down arrow noted, and most likely deserved......
I just saw there was a death toll. Sorry......even gave myself the second one
The weather dude on channel 4 in the other thread said 300 mph winds. F5.
That's unimaginable. I pray for my countrymen who have been affected.
Mike Morgan is his name, he just came back around again talking about more circulation patterns in Ardmore.
Debris from Moore has been found in Tulsa 120 miles away.
I'm not sure what could have withstood F5 winds.
As a P.E., I can tell you this. There is little to no construction (except for stone structures the size and scale of the pyramids) that can stand, or are designed for 300 mph winds.
Or structures built below grade, like any proper tornado shelter...
And if you build a shelter on the surface for some reason- reinforced double wythe masonry and concrete will work fine against the wind (which isn't the largest threat anyway)- unless you introduce windows or non-redundant doors...
An F5 will lift the asphalt off the road, so above ground structures are defenseless. This was likely an F4, but it doesn't really matter. It was the size of this beast that caused such widespread destruction. God bless the good people of Oklahoma.
Two dozen children dead at one of the schools.
just heard that myself. I could not give you a greenie for that, just a moment of silence.
Thanks "Franks"
reports saying at least 24 children dead. terrible. i am sure sadly it will only rise
There were 4 killed at a 7-11, including an infant. Dozens of horses killed as well.
7 kids drowned in the school.
That school didn't stand a chance. There'll be some handwringing and soul-searching over the school policy.
Bath House must ban Assault Tornadoes by EO!
If only it had done its dirty work on Wall Street or Detroit. What a shame.
There goes Ampex.
I believe they are downtown by federal reserve.
did you mean the feral preserve?
yes
they are in the old fed. rsv.
What is ampmex?
Mexican battery conglomerate?
Your post is a connundrum wrapped in an enigma.....