TORNADO from the parking lot of a local Kentucky Fried Chicken by a cook at the restaurant.

[kpete]

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[WCGreen]

1. WOW!

[BlueStreak]

2. "Dear God, please keep these people safe"

Who do you think created that tornado, anyway?

You really can't have it both ways. You can't believe praying to a god will stop the tornado without also believing that same god is responsible for the tornado.

The state of humanity in 2013 is appalling.

[drynberg]

3. Not "somebody", but Global Climate Change" is responsible for magnifying this Tornado many times...

400Parts Per Million of CO2 into our atmosphere is where we are, whereas 350PPM is the boundary where sustainability is possible...we have exceeded this years ago and the margin is getting larger everyday. Action is absolutely needed all over America if we want to continue living in the natural world. Survival is what I'm saying.

[BlueStreak]

4. Living in the midwest, I've been around tornadoes my whole life

I sure don't remember any tornadoes in Massachusetts and other strange places as there have been the past couple of years. And I most certainly have never heard of a tornado a mile wide. Our world is changing rapidly.

[AtheistCrusader]

6. Tornadoes can occur anywhere in the US.

Even in Seattle. Global warming is real, but for this issue, it is just altering probabilities, and it is difficult to say in which direction. Up to the 19th of May this year, we were almost at the historic low for total tornadoes, nationwide, when just two years prior we got our asses kicked. Are they trending up or down, and why? Hard to say at the moment.

For historical perspective, from Alabama to Ohio, 1974 was a VERY shitty year. 2011 was pretty bad too.

[BlueStreak]

12. Altering BOTH probabilities AND magnitudes

There are Atlantic storms every year. You don't see a Hurricane Sandy every day.

Again, I have never heard of a tornado that is a mile wide and stays on the ground 30 minutes.

[AtheistCrusader]

13. I agree on both points.

Hurricane sandy type events are rare. They actually still ARE rare. We had a couple VERY quiet years between Katrina and Sandy.
We certainly have had similar tornadoes in the US. Couple years back we had one that chewed up the land in TN for a hundred and thirty miles...

That's just staggering...

[BlueStreak]

14. I don't disagree with you

There was one in Indiana about 20 years ago that you could trace for about 60 miles of destruction. But it was a swath abut 100 yards wide at the widest, I don't know that there is any precedent for a tornado a mile wide that stayed on the ground for 30 minutes.

[grahampuba]

9. the bumper sticker.

Nature Bats Last..

saw that one when I was a kid and it took a moment to register,.. now I think of it frequently.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

15. Worcester, MA had one of the worst tornados in 1953

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Worcester_tornado

They are rare and not as strong as the midwest ones, but for some reason Western Mass/Northern CT breeds them. Especially those strong late day summer tstorms that float down from upstate NY east....once they get towards the coast, the tornado threat lessens but we occasionally get a few in RI.

[Plucketeer]

5. Yup

And the dead will have been "called home" by God. If "he" created the heavens and earth, were incidents like this, design flaws - a show of how mighty his powers are - or a result of his being distracted for a moment???

[another_liberal]

7. The lesson fundamentalist Christians will take away from this.

You had better pray more and put more money in the collection plate on Sunday, or this could happen to you as well. (sigh)

[Demo_Chris]

10. Yep. Their lesson is we need more imaginary friends and less science. nt

[zebonaut]

11. Frankly this tornado creating god is an asshole

And this is not his first tornado......

Hey maybe its just the laws of atmospheric physics doing its normal thing; and we are just in the way....

When we are a Type 1 or Type 2 civilization; we'll be able to control these perturbations perhaps with microwave energy beams; or solar powered beams from space that heat up critical areas of a storm system.

[PatrynXX]

8. basehunters probably helped out there

gotta love storm chasers. they really do help and in some cases are first responders . likely very aware where the twister is going. which helps to have more than 1 head there...