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OT Oklahoma Tornadoes

KharmaKharma Posts: 3,214
in The Commons

Just saw on the news here in Sask Canada the devastating tornadoes ripping through Oklahoma...I hope any of you that are in that area are safe from the destruction.  It seems there is a tragedy happening everywhere crying

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  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,274

    April-October is tornado season for the South and Midwest United States. July-September is peak time for hurricanes on the East Coat. Having lived in all these places it can be scary to say the least but you can set you watch to it.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,924

    I just wish the Weather Channel would stop encouraging the storm chasers to get dramatic footage. They showed a newlywed couple going out on a "chase" and they were maybe all of twenty two years old, if that. They weren't scientists, just kids wanting in the limelight. Hopefully people who are used to the tornado activity will still be on their toes. So many people interviewed afterwards said they get used to it and don't take it seriously. (One teen said they were disappointed their sport practice was cancelled and they went for ice cream instead of being smart and going home. That place got hit bad.) 

    Stay safe everyone! And glad to hear Canada is getting a bit of a break in the fire-fighting weather. We're thinking of you here in the States.

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,274
    Novica said:

    I just wish the Weather Channel would stop encouraging the storm chasers to get dramatic footage. They showed a newlywed couple going out on a "chase" and they were maybe all of twenty two years old, if that. They weren't scientists, just kids wanting in the limelight. Hopefully people who are used to the tornado activity will still be on their toes. So many people interviewed afterwards said they get used to it and don't take it seriously. (One teen said they were disappointed their sport practice was cancelled and they went for ice cream instead of being smart and going home. That place got hit bad.) 

    Stay safe everyone! And glad to hear Canada is getting a bit of a break in the fire-fighting weather. We're thinking of you here in the States.

    it's the video to have when there is no bear around to take a seflie I suppose. 

     

  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,605
    edited May 2016

    I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if Storm Chasing is included in Holiday packages... (just checked, it is)

    Storm chasing holidays. I swear some humans think they're invincible... or stupid... or stupidly invincible.

    As a kid, I was amazed by tornadoes, so I'd love to go storm chasing, but I'm in the UK, so that won't happen anytime soon.

    It's all fun until someone gets hurt.

    You don't mess with mother nature 

     

    I hope anyone and everyone caught up in the Tornadoes and Wildfires are safe and well.

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,103
    edited May 2016
    Novica said:
     
    StratDragon said:
    Novica said:

    I just wish the Weather Channel would stop encouraging the storm chasers to get dramatic footage. They showed a newlywed couple going out on a "chase" and they were maybe all of twenty two years old, if that. They weren't scientists, just kids wanting in the limelight. Hopefully people who are used to the tornado activity will still be on their toes. So many people interviewed afterwards said they get used to it and don't take it seriously. (One teen said they were disappointed their sport practice was cancelled and they went for ice cream instead of being smart and going home. That place got hit bad.) 

    Stay safe everyone! And glad to hear Canada is getting a bit of a break in the fire-fighting weather. We're thinking of you here in the States.

    it's the video to have when there is no bear around to take a seflie I suppose. 

    Perhaps they're competing for a prize in the Darwin awards? http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/

     

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  • GlennFGlennF Posts: 143

    April Thur June is considered Tornado season here in Arkansas but I have seen them in Februay and March.Our worst one that I remember was March 1st 1997.In 1999 we had something like 39 tarnados spotted in one day.

  • GlennFGlennF Posts: 143
    GlennF said:

    April Thur June is considered Tornado season here in Arkansas but I have seen them in Februay and March.Our worst one that I remember was March 1st 1997.In 1999 we had something like 39 tarnados spotted in one day.

    I mean't February

  • shadowhawk1shadowhawk1 Posts: 2,206

    I blame reality TV shows like Storm Chasers that glorify the stupidity of chasing tornado's 

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,274

    @LeatherGryphon

    thats immediately what I thought when I read that article with the Colorado state park closing because of the bear seflies.

     

    @shadowhawk1

    I blame ABC's Wide World of Sports for a host of emergency room visits I made trying to be Evil Kenevil. 

  • shadowhawk1shadowhawk1 Posts: 2,206
    StratDragon said:

    @LeatherGryphon

    thats immediately what I thought when I read that article with the Colorado state park closing because of the bear seflies.

     

    @shadowhawk1

    I blame ABC's Wide World of Sports for a host of emergency room visits I made trying to be Evil Kenevil. 

    You too? laugh My parents thought it was funny until my first concussion from running into the brick retaining wall when I misjudged the amount of space I would need coming off a ramp. 

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,274
    shadowhawk1 said:
    StratDragon said:

    @LeatherGryphon

    thats immediately what I thought when I read that article with the Colorado state park closing because of the bear seflies.

     

    @shadowhawk1

    I blame ABC's Wide World of Sports for a host of emergency room visits I made trying to be Evil Kenevil. 

    You too? laugh My parents thought it was funny until my first concussion from running into the brick retaining wall when I misjudged the amount of space I would need coming off a ramp. 

    Landing ramps were for sissies, or so we decided after crashing directly through them instead of actually landing on them

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