SEC tornado alley

[War Wagon]

In bowling parlance "deadwood on lane 5 thru 10". Arkansas (among others) got butt fucked last night, Mississippi today and tonight. Looks like Alabama and Georgia are next in line.

Can't say as I remember a storm or line of storms persist and mow thru so much territory over several days like this/these bastards have. If you've never been in a tornado or even saw one up close and personal, you have no idea now terrifying they are.

Sammy, you called it. You may be an atheist, but say your prayers tonight. Or at least head for the basement.

Stay safe my SEC homies.

[Wolfman]

Thinking the same thing. Hope any folks in that area are safe. Tornadoes suck. Unlike a hurricane here where we get a lot of advance warning, those bastards can sneak up on a town in the middle of the night and do a lot of damage.

[Left Seater]

Can't say as I remember a storm or line of storms persist and mow thru so much territory over several days like this/these bastards have.

Felix will say that this is due to an increase in methane in the atmosphere.


That said stay safe T1B friends.

[Goober McTuber]

Bah. I'll just take a nap. :o

Not to worry. Anything less than an EF5 wouldn't be able to move your fat ass.

Taking out the trash.

[FLW Buckeye]

Shit, I'm just worried about either my neighbor's or my fence getting knocked down.

Hell, son...just prop 'em back up, boy!

[Mikey]

Glad you all are safe.

Just be thankful you don't live in California. Earthquake season is just around the corner.

[Left Seater]

WTF do people do with no house, no clothes, no vehicles? WTF do you do?!.

Uhhh, if you have a decent insurance company and policy you go shopping. Car, clothes, all of it.

Just after college my wife's condo burned to the ground. She lost every thing but the clothes she was wearing, her dog and a backpack with a few photos and one piece of jewelry her grandmother had given her. The fire happened around 6:30 pm on a Friday night and she stayed with a friend that night. By Saturday afternoon she had a credit card from her insurance company and was set up in a hotel. By Wed she was in a new condo, which the insurance company paid for.

Only 72 hours after the fire started she had a check in her hands for the remaining amount of her car, money for a rental car for a month and for the replacement cost of her possessions.

Sure she was shaken for a bit about losing some possessions, but within a few weeks it was as if it never happened. Today she carries no emotional baggage from that event. The only thing I can point to today that might be related to the fire is she makes sure all of our insurance is top of the line and we carry damn near anything offered, even if it might not be necessary. For example we have flood insurance despite being well above the 500 year flood line.

[Goober McTuber]

For example we have flood insurance despite being well above the 500 year flood line.

Interesting. I thought you had to live in a flood plain to qualify for flood insurance.

[Goober McTuber]

I, for one, require a morning and evening shower every day. in the summer, I may take 3 in a day. I would be extremely unhappy doing without a shower for even a half a day. :grin:

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a type of anxiety disorder in which people suffer from recurrent, unwanted thoughts or ideas (obsessions); engage in repetitive, irrational behaviors or mental acts (compulsions); or both. Among people with OCD, carrying out compulsive behavior tends to ease feelings of anxiety while repressing compulsive behavior causes stress.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, OCD affects about 2.3% of the United States population age 18 to 54 years (ie, approximately 3.3 million Americans). An additional 1 million children and adolescents have the disorder. The condition typically begins during early childhood or adolescence and affects men and women equally (National Institute of Mental Health 2006).

Up to two-thirds of people with OCD suffer from additional psychiatric conditions. These conditions, including depression, eating disorders, personality disorder, attention deficit disorder, and other anxiety disorders (eg, social phobia and separation anxiety disorder) can make it difficult for physicians to diagnose and treat OCD due to overlapping symptoms. Of these additional conditions, major depressive disorder appears to be the most common, affecting up to 55% of OCD patients. Bipolar disorder affects as many as 30% of OCD patients, while social phobia impacts 23% (Cosoff 1998; Kruger 1995).

There are many types of obsessions; the most common include repeat thoughts about contamination (by dirt or germs), repeat doubts (eg, whether a door is locked or an appliance left on), need for order or exactness, fear of harming someone, inappropriate or frightening sexual thoughts or imagery, and repeat thoughts of certain images, words, or sounds. In an attempt to relieve the anxiety caused by these thoughts, people with OCD may engage in compulsive behaviors such as excessive showering or hand washing, repeat checking to make sure doors are locked, rearranging objects for order or symmetry, and counting items over and over. Although adults recognize, at least sometimes, that their obsessions and compulsions are unreasonable, children with OCD typically are not capable of this same realization (American Psychiatric Association 2004).

There are no diagnostic tests for OCD. A clinical diagnosis of the disorder requires that the behaviors be extreme enough to interfere with everyday activities (take more than one hour per day) or significantly interfere with a person’s relationships, health, social functioning, or occupational functioning. For example, up to 70% of people report problems with family relationships, and more than half report interference with social and work relationships (Koran 2000; Hollander 1997; Koran 1996; Calvocoressi 1995). As a result, most people with OCD struggle to rid themselves of obsessive thoughts and stop compulsive behaviors.

[Left Seater]

For example we have flood insurance despite being well above the 500 year flood line.

Interesting. I thought you had to live in a flood plain to qualify for flood insurance.

Hell, you can buy flood insurance for your 15th floor condo. The Feds would love you for it. For us it is less than $300 per year, so we buy it.

One other thing to consider is that flood insurance covers you for rising water of damn near any kind, vs falling water which your home owners policy would cover.

[Mikey]

We just got earthquake insurance for the first time ever. It's also about $300 per year. The deductible is something like $40,000 but at least we'd get a new house and all its contents for $40,000.

[War Wagon]

Basement? What's a basement?

From a lot of the pics I've seen of the damaged homes down there, it would seem a 2' tall cinder block foundation and crawl space qualify as a "basement". That, or a slab.

Which may be better than 'holics 'foundation', come to think of it. I'm surprised nobody has posted a pic of that yet. In his case, he could strap himself to one of those 8x8 deck posts and probably ride the storm out safe and sound while the house flew off into the North Atlantic.

[smackaholic]

Dude, my basement and severly overbuilt deck would withstand the worst twister, but as lefty says, they make insurance for the rest. And if the spaghetti monster decides he wants to blow it all into Mass or long island sound or wherethefukkever, I am good with it. just let me get CB, lil' miss 'holic and the dog out, I am OK with it. hell, if he has the time, he could even spare the OL.

BTW, I do not have flood insurance as I am about 500 ft above the 500 year flood plain. If I am underwater, the shit has gone seriously sideways and the unsurance company, which is prolly in hartford (pretty much on the river) won't be around anyway.

[Goober McTuber]

I wish Goobs would get hurt in a doughnut accident.

Go choke on a hindquarter, tubby.

[Goober McTuber]

Goobs, I'm sorry to disappoint you by having survived last night's onslaught.

I was joking, Sam. I didn't really want you to die. I just wanted the tornado to take your keyboard.

[Moving Sale]

Goobs, I'm sorry to disappoint you by having survived last night's onslaught.

I was joking, Sam. I didn't really want you to die. I just wanted the tornado to take your keyboard.

Or at the very least his camera.

[Dinsdale]

It's slightly windy today... due to the offshore flow that has it heading for 85 degrees this afternoon.

Maybe I should head for the basement.

[Moving Sale]

Yea totally earthquake weather here in SLO. 90 and dead still calm.

[Goober McTuber]

Goobs, I'm sorry to disappoint you by having survived last night's onslaught.

I was joking, Sam. I didn't really want you to die. I just wanted the tornado to take your keyboard.

Or at the very least his camera.

Are you fucking retarded? He's good with his camera.

[Dinsdale]

Yea totally earthquake weather here in SLO. 90 and dead still calm.

While most geologists dismiss "earthquake weather" as myth, the Californians sure swear by it.

The way it was explained to me was that the high temps coupled with no wind heats the ground up more than usual, but along the coastline (where the faults are), it still cools dramatically at night, which causes greater than usual expansion and contraction of the upper layer of the crust.

Seems to make sense, despite the geologists saying it's hooey.

[Mikey]

Yea totally earthquake weather here in SLO. 90 and dead still calm.

While most geologists dismiss "earthquake weather" as myth, the Californians sure swear by it.

The way it was explained to me was that the high temps coupled with no wind heats the ground up more than usual, but along the coastline (where the faults are), it still cools dramatically at night, which causes greater than usual expansion and contraction of the upper layer of the crust.

Seems to make sense, despite the geologists saying it's hooey.

Maybe the upper upper upper layer of the crust (i.e., dirt).

Dig down a few feet, or bore into some bedrock, and you'll see little if any temperature variation. Seasonally maybe a few degrees variation but from one day to the next pretty much none.
That's why ground source heat pumps work and why it's almost always cool in a cave.

That being said, it's definitely earthquake...err...fire weather around here today. Upper 90s and howling winds where I was this morning in Norco and Chino.

[Dinsdale]

It's fire weather here, too... except that it rained to make Noah run for cover for much of the week prior.

[Carson]

I was joking, Sam. I didn't really want you to die. I just wanted the tornado to take your keyboard.

Or at the very least his camera.

Are you fucking retarded? He's good with his camera.

But all the chicks he photographs are tall enough to ride a motorcycle, so it's sour grapes for Mooing Runt.