At least 3 dead, 10 injured in North Carolina tornado

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A tornado ripped through North Carolina’s Brunswick County, killing at least three people and injuring 10 others in its trail of destruction, authorities said.

The tornado hit just after midnight Tuesday in southeastern Brunswick County near Grissettown in the Ocean Ridge Plantation Community, destroying homes, downing powerlines that left thousands without electricity and snapping trees in half, news outlets reported.

“It’s something like I have never seen before. A lot of destruction. It’s going to be a long recovery process,” Brunswick County Sheriff John Ingram said at a press conference early Tuesday.

Brunswick County Emergency Management said people were trapped in homes.


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/us-news-weather-wilmington-north-carolina-ef3ff3d05eb1f5566caffbd177406358

[pwb]

1. Climate denier states are getting hit hard

by unusual climate. Yet they won't believe their own eyes and ears.

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. These are the same people

who tried to legislate the ocean so that it would not indicate how bad climate change is getting. You expect my home state to understand that this is connected to the damage to the environment? They elected Jesse Helms for decades... brain power is not exactly at a premium... which is amazing when you remember that Research Triangle Park is there, among other things. But, as a friend once stated about the people who work there, "They must not be from around here!"

[hadEnuf]

9. Maybe there should be a TV opt out for weather alerts.

Why keep trying to save violent, complete assholes from themselves?

[vercetti2021]

2. 2021 is telling 2020 to hold its beer

Texas where I live at least gets weather like this all the time because the Panhandle is closer to the rocky mountains. So we can get blizzards and ice storms. But its unprecedented in the further south areas. Our electric grid is gonna fail because it is not a national grid. Turbines are failing because they aren't winterized.

Hopefully this will change some minds about climate. But I doubt it.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. I'm also thinking in terms of all the water main and home/business water pipe breaks

that will inevitably happen. It's bad enough here in Philly when we have water main breaks of older pipes when you have those temp swings but down your way, much of the water infrastructure is either exposed or not as deep below the ground level because ground freezes below a relatively shallow depth, are not common.

[ananda]

5. It's very bad here in Austin.

Many people have gone without power for long
periods of time, and still are.

Hotels are price gouging and emergency services
are, let's say as an understatement, very busy.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. this article seems quite apt

https://slate.com/technology/2021/02/meteorologists-southern-living-retraction-warnings.html

our culture has lost their collective minds.

[OldBaldy1701E]

10. Anonymity has created this

when you give people a platform and they can say anything while not be held physically accountable for it, you get this behavior.

[NRaleighLiberal]

11. totally agree. no personal responsibility is accepted.

[llashram]

7. early

[littlemissmartypants]

8. I got that alert on my phone. Every time I get one my heart sinks.

Condolences to the families.



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