Oklahoma twister

[JLC]

The discussion about WBC has been split off and sent to the Quarantine Room:
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...BC-discussion)

This thread is for prayers, healing thoughts, and compassion for those involved in this tragedy. Hateful discussions about hateful people can be carried on in QT if folks feel so inclined.

If anyone does not have access to the Quarantine Room, and wishes to have it, they need only contact an admin (those of us with red names) via PM and we will open the room for you.

[MarkS]

I don't know if anyone else knows this, but if you want to make a quick donation to the red cross to help with the Oklahoma disaster, you can text the word REDCROSS to the number 90999 from your cell phone and it will donate $10.00 to the Red Cross. The donation shows up on your phone bill.

[Neal]

I have family in Moore, Norman & Noble Oklahoma. They're all fine and alive. One of my cousins has some damage to her house, but she's lucky because other people on her street don't have a home anymore.

[UltraViolet]

Aaaaand the inevitable argument over whether the tornados were caused by atheists, gays, or global warming rages on...

Can we get back to the thread? Has everyone from OK checked in? Is everyone ok, and their people and stuff intact? Anyone we haven't heard from?

[MarkS]

I have family in Moore, Norman & Noble Oklahoma. They're all fine and alive. One of my cousins has some damage to her house, but she's lucky because other people on her street don't have a home anymore.

I'm glad to hear your family is okay.

[xFenrir]

Tornadoes are a fact of life around there. Even still, it's still awful that people lost their lives. Everyone did the best they could, from trying to predict the storm to taking cover. It's the same risk with earthquakes, hurricanes or blizzards. What I hated seeing most was reporters running around, shoving microphones and cameras in peoples' faces while asking them "how does it feel to have lost everything?" and "what is it like knowing you'll never see _____ again?"

Report on the tragedy, by all means. But at least give people some space to grieve and come to terms with their losses. I feel for the people affected by the tornadoes; I can't imagine going through something like this.

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A little bit of happiness though in the middle of a tragedy:
http://www.wimp.com/survivestornado/

[Raptor]

Tornadoes are a fact of life around there. Even still, it's still awful that people lost their lives. Everyone did the best they could, from trying to predict the storm to taking cover. It's the same risk with earthquakes, hurricanes or blizzards. What I hated seeing most was reporters running around, shoving microphones and cameras in peoples' faces while asking them "how does it feel to have lost everything?" and "what is it like knowing you'll never see _____ again?"

Report on the tragedy, by all means. But at least give people some space to grieve and come to terms with their losses. I feel for the people affected by the tornadoes; I can't imagine going through something like this.

Try living in Oklahoma. For the first two days after it, that's all there was on tv.

[dr del]

I have removed some of the off topic chatter to its own thread.

It can be found here if anyone feels the need.


dr del

[NormanSnake]

We've got severe storms coming through again for the next three days. everyone be safe!

[MrLang]

I have done a fair amount of academic studying on climate change. This wasn't some conspiracy theory nonsense, it was scientific analysis of real data. The cause was not the emphasis, only the effect. People need to throw away what they have come to be told about 'global warming' in the 90s and focus on the changing world we live in.

Unpredictable, volatile weather with a huge increase in frequency over the next 20 years compared to the previous 20 years is one of the main effects we can expect.

Sorry to everyone who experienced damage or losses, even by proxy. There is strong scientific evidence supporting the claim that there are more events like this in our future.