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Close Encounter Of The Tornado Kind: Watch What Happens When Nature's Fury Is Unleashed
Aside from the impressively calm demeanor of the gentleman holding the video camera, this disturbing clip of the Washington Tornado's power offers a helpful (if not terrifying) analogy for how quickly calm serene surroundings (e.g. stock markets) can be "freaking destroyed" almost instantly by an external force.
And for the Keynesians, before you start babbling about the GDP growth in the rebuild - please visit the Broken Window Fallacy truth page.
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Maybe bernanke could get a PT job as a forecaster for the Weather Channel after he's done raping the american middle class
at the hindesight weather station
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your weather last week was rainy, partly cloudy, we had no idea of course.
He was crazy for taking that video for too long! Plus it makes staying out of shelter look survivable and may well cause others seeing it getting killed believing it!
I'm sure the Weather Channel is responsible for many storm deaths from showing many videos of people surviving horrific weather like that!
Is this supposed to be some kind of ZH cryptic metaphor?
This was actually the result of the new 'Affordable Weather Act', they promised "If you like you nice sunny weather you can keep it...period." Guess it was just another government lie....
All kidding aside I feel very sorry for what these people are going through, I hope they have insurance, and they are lucky that they were not injured or killed.
Washington State? My guess is the night shift at HAARP in Alaska got the wrong GPS coordinates.
Nerves of steel. I'm sure his woman felt calmed and safe by his stoic demeanor.
If that's his woman in a calmed state I'd hate to see her when he's not around
Washington, IL...just east of Peoria. I've been there in the past.
It WAS a nice little town...
I live in a nearby community, and I can tell you emphatically that this IS a nice little town. Those affected by the tornados are being incredibly resilient, and those who were fortunate enough to be outside the path of destruction (stretching out many many towns in Central IL) are helping out in every way possible. I don't expect rebuilding to begin in earnest until after the winter, but I promise you this town will roll up its sleeves and rebuild the parts that were damaged/destroyed. My guess is after next week, you likely won't hear about Washington, IL until the one year anniversary, because these good people will quietly go about rebuilding their lives vs. sitting around and waiting to be rescued by .gov. I'm guessing this is much the same scenario in Moore, OK.
Washington, IL
I'd be expecting a tornado if I lived there.
It almost seems like God can get addresses wrong when meting out judgement. If you live in someplace call Obamaville move out quick. Alexandria? Clapper Mills? Kind of scares me to be next to a town called Diablo.
Washington, IL
next up, homeowners insurance with a $13,000 deductable
Good.
And bring on more pictures of people standing on piers watching an approaching hurricane.
The gene pool needs a good cleansing. This is as good a place as any to start.
vix is at 12 and change. complacency doesnt get any more obvious than this.
The vix has been obsolete so some time now.. Tyler had an article a while back explaining how it came to be...
Here is a metaphor, when you know the plane you are on is going to crash, do you start ranting and raving upsetting everyone around you, or do quietly make peace with whomever or whatever and face your end with dignity and a touch of grace? There is also the set of people unable to grok that the plane is indeed going to crash...
"grok"...?
"Grok" comes from a 1963 sci-fi novel by R. Heinlein, <I>Stranger in a Strange Land.</i> It means comprehend "in fullness."
Much grass...
I LOL'D. Because evidently, you need to have drank the horseshit statistics of AGW until you're under the table in order to "grok" that this particular ship is going down by those means.
Not concerned, because you idiots wont be able to fudge climate data forever.
If you are going to troll. At least bring something to the table...
Here is something for you to try and grok...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.2297/abstract
And since they knew twits like you have a hard time reading and understanding, they made a little movie with you mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GhJR3ywIijo
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Oh btw the way, if it was really fudged then the Kochs could easily fund and buy off some reputable scientists to show that was the case. Oooops, they tried that
http://berkeleyearth.org/summary-of-findings
http://www.businessinsider.com/koch-brothers-funded-study-proves-climate-change-2012-7
So are you are liar or merely a fool? My bet is both...
ah, the ol "well the sun hasnt brightened much, so we cant say its the sun, really"...apparently you believe TSI being reduced down to one representative number is all well and good and we can consider our heat source to be static and unchanging.
wonder what you think of the 09-10 sunspot funk and the resultant polar vortices and how that's fkd with the jet stream as of these last few years.
but right, the sun doesnt need to be considered, the models well state that man's influence has well overtaken the sun as the primary driver of the climate. (Hansen's exact words to me.)
study up on some solar physics, bro, and get a grip on the heat capacity of co2.
once you can grasp that, then you'll start wondering why you ever supported a cockamamie pile of bad statistics in the first place.
of course I wont hold my breath, since you have a PHD and all, and are thus all-smart and dont need to listen to anyone, since you have a slip of paper saying you know something!
oh, the irony, its the exact reason the financial world is an utter and complete mess, because people with slips of paper as opposed to actual experience are calling the shots based on what their models tell them they should see.
cmon even cameron is saying "get rid of the green crap" now
Do you take me as a fool which you can blow shit out out of your ass and think it represents a statement of authority?
The above has the equivalent of less than zero content...
Edit: if it did have any redeeming value he could at least point to some denialati blog link. It is a tell that he can't even muster that level of rebutal...
Shelter in place!!
I don't know if hurricaine ties aret code up there, but they do come in handy when keeping your house attached to the foundation is important.
no kidding
at less than 2 bucks a strap, talk about cheap insurance
Kenny Powers' house got tore up!
Omama Care -- Now More Than Ever
"When Josie comes home, so good, she's the pride of the neighborhood".
Jim Cantore approves this message
http://i.usatoday.net/life/_photos/2011/09/15/Jim-Cantore-has-weathered-...
Rehypothecate this!
through all the wreckage....the only thing I could focus on was that his TV....was still standing. I'm long Sony.
I compared his suburban neighborhood, before and after.
Wow.
me too
where do you think those stairs came from?
If the FED would've let that happen in 2007/2008, we'd alreadly be built back up and moving forward.
"I changed my mind. I don't want this house anymore. You can have it."
"No it's yours. You have to pay for it."
"No, it's not mine, I don't want it. It's yours. You have it."
"No you have it." ...
And my sincerest apologies to the victims out there. I know it ain't funny when it's your own house and it is happening right now. May you get all the comfort and help you need, and may your sense of humour return soon. If it is any consolation, I know if it happened to me, I would be crying and grizzling with the worst of them. Have a rest, best wishes.
o/t lighthearted: "Neil your bedroom is on fire"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4zAganvdlI
Yep, got the whole series. Classic entertainment!
Crazy!
Dude...kudos to this guy for not totally melting down into a blubbering indigent. Pretty good situational awarness I'd say.
This happenned to my brother last year. His house was destroyed. You can see it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9oK3-TsVFU
At 1:15 the house with a car and truck sitting sideways in the driveway is his. Watch a little further and you can see my brother wandering around.
The property was a near total loss. The house was torn down and rebuilt, but the two next to him are just slabs on vacant lots now.
Guy with the mullet?
It's not a mullet, he buzz cuts his har, but he is wierd looking.
... obligatory "You should make homes with bricks" comment
Bricks are not always safe. I was in N. TN once. A tornado had pass through a brick building took a pretty good hit. I am not sure what can take a tornado hit. When Hurricane Andrew hit S. Miami - the older concrete block homes held up but many lost their roof. As it hit the coast - it spun off smaller tornadoes. I am not sure what can hold up to those heartland tornadoes.
Heavy chains bolted to buried concrete blocks holding the house down. Open your windows and doors to equalize air pressure. Extreme low pressure system, unequal pressure inside and outside your house causes pressure build up that blows the roof off of your house. Needless to say, none of that will protect your house from flying debris, and if you are sheltering in your home then you really won't want a sheet of corrugated iron flying through the door and hitting you in the face ( or embedding itself in your kitchen table ).
Monolithic concrete dome is supposed to be pretty windproof. Most people wouldn't go for that. If i were building new in a tornado zone i'd do reinforced insulated concrete forms.
EF4 tornado...building materials are irrelevant.
I like a man who doesn't lie to his kids:
"Is this gonna save us?"
"I hope so buddy."
Typical spring day in Oklahoma.
What we think we 'have' is so tenuous. Less than 30 seconds and it could be all gone. Do not put your hope in money or in 'stuff'.
Photos have nice memories, and you can't always replace photos ( or negatives ). One or two trinkets may have sentimental value. Everything else - you can buy another one. Depending, of course, on your debt levels and your insurance.
Maybe the one big advantage of the move to digital media: very compact and very reliable mass storage of very high-fidelity image data.
Just remember to back it all up onto numerous durable storage devices, and spread them out a little, so that a "single hit" will not result in irretrievable data loss. With today's very high capacity USB drives, and SDHC, there is no reason why you cannot carry your entire photo album on your person, at any one time!
The person should put some decent shoes and jeans on before going and walking through the rubble.
Tree limb fell and hit my car today but my 1992 Toyota had no noticable damage. Thank goodness it is as old as it is.
Kudos also to the man for being more concerned about his neighbors. Good dude, we need more people like that although calming down on the cursing would be a positive. The wife was upset about losing stuff. Even non-Chinese drywall wouldn't have held up.
In Germany nearly all houses are made of brick and concrete (even interior walls) and they don't even have tornadoes like Oklahoma does. But I guess making them more affordable is a big goal here.
His wife cries when their house gets destroyed? Understandable, but yo: YOU'RE ALIVE.
His eldest daughter, not his wife, according to the text of the original youtube video he posted on Facebook. This channel here is a repost. A brave father keeping it together.
(names deleted here made by me,)
I believe that was his teenage daughter based on the info from the video. Still pretty together considering what's happening. I've dated women who've cried worse over a lost ring or scratching their cars...
What's the problem? The big screen TV, as far as I could tell, was perfectly intact. Probably the same for the SUV and the rest of the crap we "need" for living. Scary situation and amazing video and poor taste to critize folks in such a situation, BUUUUUUT, you're alive, you're unhurt and you got off relatively easy and you're worried about your freaking house instead of what the hell just happened to your world and people around you. Some kudos to the guy for expressing concern about the neighbors, wanting to leave the house, etc.
Was that taken by Stan Marsh?
that woman freaking out made me think of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvPugcb7QGE&feature=player_detailpage
I thought it was his wife and he was goosing her in the dark.
Depends whether you consider the Fed an external force wrt the markets. I don't.
I thought at first they were getting it on in the basement....
Understanding events around you has always been a problem for you hasn't it?
Have you ever considered becoming an economics lecturer?
No, I got my Ph.D. in a real science...
And still cant tell a real mathematical model from a fake one...
Awww, some people are just -so- witty...
Can you name 2 models that you think are "real'?
I'll name one bullshit model, Rogoff and Reinhart
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-18/faq-reinhart-rogoff-and-the-excel-error-that-changed-history
The fakes don't stand up to much scrutiny...
LOL do you really want to open that can of worms of whose fudging what? *cough*mann*cough*jones*cough*hansen*cough*briffa*cough*
just like do you really want to open that can of worms of who's FUNDING what...(government money doesnt count, right? hahahaha)
Buddy, in case you did not notice, that hockey stick is now a hockey team...
I would be more than pleased to provide references...
Just when things look their bleakest ...
You have to cheer up because ...
Things could be worse.
And sure as heck - when you cheer up? Things get worse!
...and it's gone.
LOL.
That was insane! The sirens at the end, the crying, the sounds of the house ripping apart.... wow. It almost reminded me of that crazy nuclear holocaust video Threads for a second.
"Our house ... is freaking destroyed, Josie!"
Josie!
Try the decaf!!
Madness, very real, lets hope they have some insurance - by the sounds of his wife, they don't.
Just MAYBE Ben's helicopter could produce that much wind.
Tom Arnold?
I went down to Tuscaloosa a few years back to run a chain saw for a week. There was no safe place for many there. The tornado peeled the sod from peoples lawns. Nothing but Georgia red dirt where the lawns used to be. Have you ever cut and taken up sod? I have. Imagine the fury of that storm. Bark peeled from trees too big and old to be up rooted. OH, and I figured out in a hurry I wasn't 20 years old running a chain saw is nothing but hard work. The people were gracious and thankful for the many that helped. In my 58 years I have seen nothing like it and I have seen a few storms both man made and not. Help if you can.
I love how competent, brave, cool, and collected these people are ....
Impressive
I know it's shocking, but the first thing I would have done was reassure my wife by letting her know I loved her, she was safe, and that's all that matters.
Then, I would grab the ol' SHTF backpack along with the med kit and tell her to man up, because it's time to start the rescuing.