SS109 wrote: And so many of those southern homes have no basement to hide in. The devastation shots are amazing, whole police departments down to the foundation.
Everybody in the South has cellars, or access to a cellar. My grandparents on both sides always refused to go to the cellar. To them it was demeaning to be afraid of nature and the world. If they got blown away then it was the natural scheme of things and the natural end of their life. Hiding in a hole was cowardly and they felt that they would have cheated nature for a few more years of dishonorable life.
I do not know that I am in agreement with that opinion.
SS109 wrote: And so many of those southern homes have no basement to hide in. The devastation shots are amazing, whole police departments down to the foundation.
Basements are a thing of the northern states. In the South people have cellars, mostly separate from the house. Full of spiders and snakes.
outdoor338 wrote: This is going to be a long summer..fires out west, storms in the mid-west..floods and winds..
Yeeaaahhhhh, and no one pays any attention to the scientists who have said for years that these events will be increasing due to global warming, and surprise! are!
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There are part of the south where the water table is to low to have cellars....for instance, eastern parts of North Carolina - no cellars or basements. South Texas....no cellars or basements. You might find the occasional root cellar.
I can't wait to hear about how global warming and the terrorist Mother Earth caused these tornadoes. In the 1930's, Alabama only had a population of 2.3 million with 1.8 million living rural. Today the population has doubled... 4.8 million live in Alabama. I have no numbers on the percentage living rural...but I can sure that a majority of the population lives in the urban corridors of Alabama.
So it's misleading to say this storm is the worse since the great depression. In terms of the number of deaths, it's second worse outbreak ...but weigh per capita by the population of this year...it's very low. Interesting...some of the worse tornado deaths were in the late 1800's and early 1900's? I wonder how many tornadoes went unrecorded prior to 1950's...with the lack of radar, satellites, news gathering agencies, and the lack of eyeballs near the storms? Today, we have technology up the ying yang ...and we can record almost any aspect of a storm.
I am always amazed when I hear a weather man say, "this is the worse outbreak of storms in recent memory?" duh....duh...duh... Sustainability of Stupidity continues.... The evolution crowd crows about how old the earth....yet they measure their agenda by recent memory. LOL LOL
