For those that can't WAIT for OKC

pfft... a single tornado?? try a storm that gives birth to hundreds while having the same windspeed itself as the tornados in OKC.

youve never seen a storm till youve seen katrina.:panic:
 
NW expressway and Rockwell. Had the expressway closed down for a while. Or so my wife says.

I would be a lot more sympathetic of people in hurricanes if they only had like 5 minutes of warning. Can't really complain of being caught unawares when you had days of warning leading up to it. Kind of hard for us to evacuate, and board up the house in time when the siren starts going off.
 
poser765 said:
NW expressway and Rockwell. Had the expressway closed down for a while. Or so my wife says.

I would be a lot more sympathetic of people in hurricanes if they only had like 5 minutes of warning. Can't really complain of being caught unawares when you had days of warning leading up to it. Kind of hard for us to evacuate, and board up the house in time when the siren starts going off.
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heh. a tornado has maybe a 4th of a mile of destruction in maybe a mile path usually dishing out no more than 1 million in damage. getting hit by a nasty one is like hitting jackpot on a slot machine.

Katrina had a 3 state wide path of destruction, dealt over 80 billion in damage, and had winds as strong as the hundreds of tornados it produced. needless to say the house i boarded up wasnt there when i returned.

on top of that, saying that you have a 5 day warning for a hurricane shows that youve never lived on the gulf coast let alone tracked a hurricane. hurricanes, like tornados, have only speculation on where it will end up in 48 hours let alone 5 days so evacuating 3 or 4 times a year everytime theres a hurricane on its way is just dumb.

rant over.:bandit:
 
plz here in florida we get tornados and bad weather all through the summer heck we get huricanes. your tornados dont scare me.
 
Seems like the Gulf coast gets hit by huge hurricanes every year and it is just a matter of time before a really big one hits. Yet, they are rebuilding in the same place. Genius.
 
HonuPineapple said:
No kidding? That would be great. It's one long shallow dent that is a little over a foot long on the roof. It would be fantastic if it evens out! My poor car.
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Yeah, Honu. Park it in the sun (It only gets to a daytime high of about six million degrees in Oklahoma), and then stick an ice-cube on the dent. Works every time.

Honestly, I just made this thread to scare you and watch the reaction :)
 
ferret123 said:
heh. a tornado has maybe a 4th of a mile of destruction in maybe a mile path usually dishing out no more than 1 million in damage. getting hit by a nasty one is like hitting jackpot on a slot machine.

Katrina had a 3 state wide path of destruction, dealt over 80 billion in damage, and had winds as strong as the hundreds of tornados it produced. needless to say the house i boarded up wasnt there when i returned.

on top of that, saying that you have a 5 day warning for a hurricane shows that youve never lived on the gulf coast let alone tracked a hurricane. hurricanes, like tornados, have only speculation on where it will end up in 48 hours let alone 5 days so evacuating 3 or 4 times a year everytime theres a hurricane on its way is just dumb.

rant over.:bandit:
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Our instructor right now is from the National Weather Service. We were actually talking about this yesterday. Katrina landed exactly where the NWS predicted it would land 3 days prior.
 
poser765 said:
NW expressway and Rockwell. Had the expressway closed down for a while. Or so my wife says.

I would be a lot more sympathetic of people in hurricanes if they only had like 5 minutes of warning. Can't really complain of being caught unawares when you had days of warning leading up to it. Kind of hard for us to evacuate, and board up the house in time when the siren starts going off.
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Both are bad...but I agree...the unpredictability of tornadoes has to make it worse.
 
nathanw said:
Our instructor right now is from the National Weather Service. We were actually talking about this yesterday. Katrina landed exactly where the NWS predicted it would land 3 days prior.
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and 2 days prior the eye was predicted to land in houston,tx.
and one day prior it was predicted to land in gulfport, ms.

im not trying to challenge yours or your instructors knowledge on hurricanes, but the fact of the matter is, if you dont live down here, you have no idea how unpredictable something that big is.

and for the guy making fun of people rebuilding, if a tornado destroyed your house that youve had your entire life, would you move away or rebuild to make it withstand a tornado?
 
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i'm really not trying to start a pissing match over who's severe weather is worse...that would be, well silly. All i was trying to say is katrina didn't wake anyone up in the middle of the night anawares.

And not to get shtuff rolling hard and heavy but i do recall days leading up to "impact" the talking heads saying "if you are in or near new orleons you need to evacuate."
 
poser765 said:
i'm really not trying to start a pissing match over who's severe weather is worse...that would be, well silly. All i was trying to say is katrina didn't wake anyone up in the middle of the night anawares.

And not to get shtuff rolling hard and heavy but i do recall days leading up to "impact" the talking heads saying "if you are in or near new orleons you need to evacuate."
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actually the storm hit sunday night. friday morning it was a cat 1 that passed over florida and should have dissipated. no one knew it would explode into a cat4 by mid-day saturday. so literally speaking, it did wake people up in the middle of the night unaware.

but anyway there was a mandatory evacuation of new orleans. and the people that stayed there werent the sharpest tools around. but then most of the damage to NO were the levees that broke days later not the actual storm itself... *shrug* most of those people live in houston now:buck:
 
Or you could have NO warning and live in California and have a HUGE earthquake suddenly shake you awake (although usually small they do have the occassional large one that causes mass destruction). Or even better...you could be from Utah where earthquakes are always "forewarned" but the day it comes, we will all be screwed cause most think "the big quake" won't happen in their lifetime and the big huge homes are being built on the fault line and in the sink zones.

You could live in Tsunami country and have NO warning other than the water sinking back (at which point, if you are watching it, you are screwed).

Oh wait...you could live near an active volcano and be told it won't explode to only have it explode like 2 days later.

It is called a Natural Disaster cause in all reality we can't control mother nature or WHAT she wants to throw at us...we are at her mercy! I don't think one is always worse than another. They all can cause death and they all can be scarry!
 
I'm not really worried about tornadoes, I'm used to some pretty kick-ass wind. What I will be more concerned about (and with my luck this will be exactly the time i'm in OKC..assuming I get hired, haha) are the ice storms I keep hearing about. I hate ice.
 
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