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Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote:Nobody Cares™

War Wagon wrote: I was wondering which closet to hide in.

War Wagon wrote:I was wondering which closet to hide in.

Smackie Chan wrote:

War Wagon wrote:I was wondering which closet to hide in.

If I were insensitive, I'd suggest you ask your daughter. But I'm not, so I won't.

Diego in Seattle wrote:Why couldn't it have hit Clay Bennett's house instead?

Derron wrote:I listened to a lot of police, fire and ems traffic on radioreference.com yesterday. You get a pretty unfiltered picture of what is going on.

Pure terror in those voices sometimes.

Then again, I do not understand why people live in places where the weather can smite your ass to death. Just not getting that.

They cannot even catch a break today it looks like, and it is early.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tsa/

Jsc810 wrote:So sad to see that, heartbreaking.

Perhaps this disaster will change some thinking about funding for disaster relief as well as funding the National Weather Service.

Sudden Sam wrote:That SOB passed within a mile of an old friend's house. She's been out there thru all 3 of Moore's bad ones. She's finally had enough and is moving to Austin.

Left Seater wrote:Someone please help me understand exactly what makes up Federal Disaster Relief funds?

I understand if it includes search and rescue, infrastructure repair (water, sewer, power, etc), assistance in rebuilding schools, etc. But what exactly do individuals need federal funds for? Anyone with a mortgage has insurance or it will be forced placed on them. As such they are covered for loss of use up to 30% of the dwelling coverage, household goods are covered to 50%, and the homes will be rebuilt.

So what exactly do these folks need federal dollars for? The insurance companies will pay for the hotels starting tonight?

Please tell me what I am missing.

Mace wrote:
Where can you live to escape the tornado, hurricane, earthquake, volcano eruption, floods, or other natural disasters?

Mace wrote:What you're missing, Lefty, is that not everyone has insurance, or adequate insurance.
It's for the uninsured or under-insured and covers everything from temporary housing and home replacement to medical and funeral expenses.

Mace wrote:

Derron wrote:I listened to a lot of police, fire and ems traffic on radioreference.com yesterday. You get a pretty unfiltered picture of what is going on.

Pure terror in those voices sometimes.

Then again, I do not understand why people live in places where the weather can smite your ass to death. Just not getting that.

They cannot even catch a break today it looks like, and it is early.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tsa/

Where can you live to escape the tornado, hurricane, earthquake, volcano eruption, floods, or other natural disasters?

smackaholic wrote:

Mace wrote:What you're missing, Lefty, is that not everyone has insurance, or adequate insurance.
It's for the uninsured or under-insured and covers everything from temporary housing and home replacement to medical and funeral expenses.

If you own a home and do not have proper insurance on it, you are weapons grade stupid and I have zero sympathy for you. Homeowners insurance is cheap. If buying it means a few less 30 packs of beast light per month, so be it.

smackaholic wrote:

Mace wrote:What you're missing, Lefty, is that not everyone has insurance, or adequate insurance.
It's for the uninsured or under-insured and covers everything from temporary housing and home replacement to medical and funeral expenses.

If you own a home and do not have proper insurance on it, you are weapons grade stupid and I have zero sympathy for you. Homeowners insurance is cheap. If buying it means a few less 30 packs of beast light per month, so be it.

Toddowen wrote:What a bunch of stupid assholes the news reporters and media are.

As I went to bed early this morning the death toll was placed at around 90 by both CNN and BBC. And that was up from a widely reported 40+ earlier. And there was talk that the death toll was going to be a lot higher.

Now I wake up to find the number currently at 24...but expected to go higher. So for over twelve hours we're given the number of fatalities that is over three times less than the acurate one.


Naturally I'm relieved that there are fewer dead.


But these fucking media dunces cannot be trusted to print accurate facts even when there is no rhyme of reason to cover things up for the good of the party.



Jesus Christ Almighty...I actually read the commentary first on news items on my local papers website for a better assessment of a story. Usually the commentary is better written too.

Jsc810 wrote:Perhaps this disaster will change some thinking aboutfunding the National Weather Service.

Sophisticated Tornado Warning System Saved A Lot Of Lives In Oklahoma

When a devastating tornado touched down in Moore, Oklahoma on May 20, locals had 16 minutes to get to safety before the mile-wide EF4 hit.

Even that seemingly short warning system is enough to save a ton of lives.

The Oklahoma City siren system, a network of 181 emergency warning sirens, was state-of-the-art when it went online in April, 2002.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/oklahoma ... z2TynSuQiU

Mace wrote:What you're missing, Lefty, is that not everyone has insurance, or adequate insurance.

War Wagon wrote:She brought along her boyfriend...

Jsc810 wrote:But for some stupid reason, some Republicans want to cut funding

keep the agency’s budget flat

Diego in Seattle wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/25/ ... volcanoes/

The governor, a rising Republican star, questioned why "something called 'volcano monitoring' " was included in the nearly $800 billion economic stimulus bill Obama signed earlier this month.

Relying on inaccurate government reports can endanger lives. Last year the Service failed to predict major flooding in Nashville because it miscalculated the rate at which water was releasing from dams there. The NWS continued to rely on bad information, even after forecasters knew the data were inaccurate. The flooding resulted in 22 deaths.

Private weather services do exist, and unsurprisingly, they are better than the NWS. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, the National Weather Service was twelve hours behind AccuWeather in predicting that New Orleans would be affected. Unlike the NWS, AccuWeather provides precise hour-by-hour storm predictions, one of the reasons private industry supports them.

It is not just random mistakes in crises either. Forecast Watch has found that the National Weather Service predictions of snow and rain have an error rate 20 percent higher than their private alternatives. “All private forecasting companies did much better than the National Weather Service,” their report concludes. In 2008, they found that the NWS’s temperature predictions were worse than every private-sector competitor including the Weather Channel, Intellicast, and Weather Underground. Even NWS’s online ZIP code search for weather reports is in some cases totally inaccurate, giving reports for areas hundreds of miles away.

The $126 million in cuts would still have left the Service with a larger budget than it had a decade ago. The massive bloat in government should not get a pass just because it’s wrapped in good-of-the-community clothing. NWS services can and are better provided by the private sector. Americans will invest in weather forecasting because if there is one thing we can be certain of, people will want to protect their property and their lives.