Oklahoma tornado

[Aussie]

Not sure whether a brick shit house would have weathered that thing.

[Super Nova]

Why do so many of the US states get more than their fair share of disasters? Is it because they've raped and pillaged the land to such an extent, there is no natural (native) resistance left?

I think it is probably God's wrath ...



or....

The United States has the most tornadoes of any country, nearly four times more than estimated in all of Europe, excluding waterspouts.[62] This is mostly due to the unique geography of the continent. North America is a large continent that extends from the tropics north into arctic areas, and has no major east-west mountain range to block air flow between these two areas. In the middle latitudes, where most tornadoes of the world occur, the Rocky Mountains block moisture and buckle the atmospheric flow, forcing drier air at mid-levels of the troposphere due to downsloped winds, and causing the formation of a low pressure area downwind to the east of the mountains. Increased westerly flow off the Rockies force the formation of a dry line when the flow aloft is strong,[63] while the Gulf of Mexico fuels abundant low-level moisture in the southerly flow to its east. This unique topography allows for frequent collisions of warm and cold air, the conditions that breed strong, long-lived storms throughout the year. A large portion of these tornadoes form in an area of the central United States known as Tornado Alley.[6] This area extends into Canada, particularly Ontario and the Prairie Provinces, although southeast Quebec, the interior of British Columbia, and western New Brunswick are also tornado-prone.[64] Tornadoes also occur across northeastern Mexico.[4]

The United States averages about 1,200 tornadoes per year. The Netherlands has the highest average number of recorded tornadoes per area of any country (more than 20, or 0.0013 per sq mi (0.00048 per km2), annually), followed by the UK (around 33, or 0.00035 per sq mi (0.00013 per km2), per year),[65][66] but most are small and cause minor damage. In absolute number of events, ignoring area, the UK experiences more tornadoes than any other European country, excluding waterspouts.[62]

Tornadoes kill an average of 179 people per year in Bangladesh, the most in the world.[citation needed] This is due to high population density, poor quality of construction and lack of tornado safety knowledge, as well as other factors.[67][68] Other areas of the world that have frequent tornadoes include South Africa, parts of Argentina, Paraguay, and southern Brazil, as well as portions of Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and far eastern Asia.[7][69]

Tornadoes are most common in spring and least common in winter, but tornadoes can occur any time of year that favorable conditions occur.[20] Spring and fall experience peaks of activity as those are the seasons when stronger winds, wind shear, and atmospheric instability are present.[70] Tornadoes are focused in the right front quadrant of landfalling tropical cyclones, which tend to occur in the late summer and autumn. Tornadoes can also be spawned as a result of eyewall mesovortices, which persist until landfall.[71]

Tornado occurrence is highly dependent on the time of day, because of solar heating.[72] Worldwide, most tornadoes occur in the late afternoon, between 3 pm and 7 pm local time, with a peak near 5 pm.[73][74][75][76][77] Destructive tornadoes can occur at any time of day. The Gainesville Tornado of 1936, one of the deadliest tornadoes in history, occurred at 8:30 am local time.[20]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado

[Super Nova]

Not sure whether a brick shit house would have weathered that thing.

It was pretty bloody scary. The power of nature. The only safe place would be a brick underground bunker with a steel door. Bomb shelter like.

[Super Nova]

In all seriousness.

This is a terrible tragedy. All those school kids lost.

One thing American's show, is resilience and they seem from the outside to really pull together in these sort of circumstances.

What sort of support can they expect from the state and federal government. Will they help get them back on their feet even if they are not insured?

[Aussie]

None, if AiA was in control. His attitude ^^^^ is pretty piss poor.

[Neferti]

The USA has an area called Tornado Alley, or something. The East Coast has its Hurricanes. The West Coast has earthquakes, bushfires etc. It is NOT an annual event, anywhere. It happens and no praying to god will change anything.

Most people who lose their homes and "everything" are those who live in what they call over there, mobile homes. Check out what America calls building specs too ... most of the houses are built from anything but brick and mortar.

Sad, yes, of course it is, any disaster when life is lost is sad. However, it is NOT The Government's fault. Or Global Warming!

People should be free to make their own decisions about where the live ... and they do ... the Trailer lot had made their home and I am sad that they have lost everything if "everything" means their family .. if it is just "stuff" they need to remember that LIFE is important and stuff is replaceable.

[Aussie]

You are a total fuckwit Nappy. Check out the 'trailer' community..............

[Black Orchid]

Tragic thing. Very sad.

I have a friend in Kansas, along the Tornado Alley, and from what he tells me they all seem to have basement/bunkers built to withstand most tornadoes.

[Jovial_Monk]

Naffy just has NFI about America!

[annielaurie]

The USA has an area called Tornado Alley, or something. The East Coast has its Hurricanes. The West Coast has earthquakes, bushfires etc. It is NOT an annual event, anywhere. It happens and no praying to god will change anything.

Most people who lose their homes and "everything" are those who live in what they call over there, mobile homes. Check out what America calls building specs too ... most of the houses are built from anything but brick and mortar.

Sad, yes, of course it is, any disaster when life is lost is sad. However, it is NOT The Government's fault. Or Global Warming!

People should be free to make their own decisions about where the live ... and they do ... the Trailer lot had made their home and I am sad that they have lost everything if "everything" means their family .. if it is just "stuff" they need to remember that LIFE is important and stuff is replaceable.

Actually, most of what Nef is saying in this post is true, but too generalized.

Yes, there are a lot of trailer park communities in the American midwest, and Oklahoma is known to have them. But many folks also live in communities of normal homes, such as two-storey frame farm houses, or single-storey ranch style bungalows. Folks live in all kinds of houses in the country out there. In fact there are many areas that look identical to some of your own suburbs down there in Australia.

We don't live much differently than you all live downunder. But the mindset is different.

And yeah, the Bible belt is in the midwest USA and people think it's the wrath of GOD and they are Bible believing creationists and fundamentalist evangelicals. Most don't believe in modern science, and don't believe in global warming. They believe Christ is coming back soon, and the world will be transformed, the devil cast into a lake of fire, and the dead shall be raised and the new Kingdom of GOD will reign on a "new earth" for a thousand years.

A thousand years was pretty much the longest span of time the bronze age religious writers of the books of the Bible were able to imagine. They had no concept of millions or billions.