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04-27-2014, 07:10 PM | #226 |
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There's a difference between the national media covering a huge tornado on the ground that's destroying towns, and local stations, while there's no tornado warning, interrupting programming an hour to cover scary looking clouds.
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04-27-2014, 07:20 PM | #227 |
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According to a friend that lives down there, there's a fatality involving that Little Rock tornado.
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04-27-2014, 07:26 PM | #228 |
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Come on, I'm not an idiot. I get that, but when there's a rotating storm that's just how it's going to be. It's amazing to me people who live in the middle of tornado alley don't understand it. Just look at the video of the Joplin tornado. It went from "scary looking clouds" to a mile wide in like a minute. Of course there will be times it doesn't turn into anything... but if it does and the local station goes back to Oprah, people will be outraged too. It's an impossible situation.
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04-27-2014, 07:29 PM | #229 |
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04-27-2014, 07:32 PM | #230 |
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We just got put back in a moderate risk? Why?
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04-27-2014, 07:37 PM | #231 |
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That Little Rock storm seems headed right for Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
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04-27-2014, 07:42 PM | #232 |
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Online feed of a tornado north/northeast of Little Rock.
http://www.kait8.com/story/20194883/...ws-live-online
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04-27-2014, 07:50 PM | #234 |
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That was one bad storm that hit near Appleton City. Damn. No desire to sit through that again. Thank God we didnt have a tornado like the folks in Ark. Lots of damage to farm buildings in the area but that can be repaired. Just a wow. Ugly day.
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04-27-2014, 08:00 PM | #235 |
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Yeah, they're operating off by their back-up radar, since the power apparently screwed em up.
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04-27-2014, 08:47 PM | #236 |
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Smacked the shit out of quapaw and Baxter though. Friends in Baxter are alright but house is shot. Daughter and grandbaby live in Sarcoxie so there were a few tense moments before (what I attribute to a miraculous answer to my prayers) it suddenly shifted due north on the west side of town.
Hopefully all you and yours are safe and sound. Maybe the Salvation Army can help those affected by releasing the other 3.8 million dollars collected for the Joplin tornado. |
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I'm glad that you didn't take that ride home and are safe. It's odd the little moments that make such a huge difference. For example, in the Joplin tornado I was sick. Wound up being an hour late for work and leaving 3 hours early. Had I been feeling good that day and all went as planned I would have been traveling the same roads at the exact same time as it hit. |
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Sixteen confirmed dead (and counting) on the "Little Rock" tornado. Vilonia and Mayflower, two towns within spitting distance of my hometown of Conway were both devastated.
Vilonia got leveled 3 years ago by a tornado. Mayflower was the town where the big oil spill happened a couple of years ago that destroyed Lake Conway. These folks can't catch a break. All my family members in the area are fine, but I haven't started hearing reports on names, yet. Will likely know some of the deceased and definitely a lot of the displaced.
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