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- fantasticFlan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+47Kansas does not support teaching creationism over evolution, we voted those people out of office. And this is really the wrong time and place to bring that up.
- sipsyrup, on 10/12/2007, -3/+45it looks like the total destruction of a sim city town.
creepy - ringey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Those people who live in tornado alley are the people who grow the wheat for your bread and the beef for your hamburgers. Somebody has to live there if you want to keep eating cheap food.
- airwalkery2k, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26What about "Don't live near the San Andreas fault" or "don't live in the path of hurricanes" or maybe "don't live where tsunamis can happen"? People have to live somewhere, and those big disasters almost never happen to them. Tornadoes are the same way. I've never personally seen a Tornado, but I've lived in 'Tornado Alley" all my life.
Tornadoes are destructive, but their destruction is very precisely concentrated, brief, and has a much smaller area of damage than other natural disasters. - retral, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24^ Correct.. f5 just means "*****, this thing is huge. Don't even bother running if it's heading your way"
- openyoureyes17, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21I heard 90% of the town was demolished like this. And btw, it WAS an F5.
- osfn8, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23There is no such thing as higher than an F5
- indyGuy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24Kansas farm-town emergency guidelines update: hide in the silos
- earlycj5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18We're not all ignorant ***** in Kansas.
I see there are some that do live outside of Kansas though. - keysersoze9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Damn, quit talking ***** on Kansas. Sure I could leave but I don't want to. I've been in almost every state west of the Mississippi. Lots of great places, lots of great people. People are pretty much the same everywhere you go. Kansas is beautiful and the people here are good people. I've got a great job, the wages are high and the cost of living is low. My house and big yard in the country would be worth millions in some other cities.
- saifatlast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Man, I know what you're saying and stuff, but 9 is a lot if you know any of them. ;(
- SonicAD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13The Fujita scale was upgraded earlier this year, so now they use the Enhance Fujita Scale. Thus, EF
- hbeierg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14@aliengoods
your a doushbag . . . nuff-said
I'm in high school in Kansas right now and all i have been taught is evolution. - openyoureyes17, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13or New Orleans, or New York, or you know..anywhere
- artifact, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12This was classified as an EF-5
- artifact, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11EF = Enhanced Fujita Scale
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/efscale/ - Vaynard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Those are some nice shots. On a side note, I work in a one-hour photo place in another town in Kansas, and we had a truck driver come drop off 270 pictures today. He actually was delivering equipment to the John Dealer there that night and weathered the storm in his Semi. All the pictures were of the devastation. From ones of his semi that looked like it had been used as one of those "Beat on the car with a bat for $5" vehicles, to piles of what used to be houses, on down. He had one of a car- on the roof of a building. One of a pile of storm stacked semis. Combines that were twisted and farm machinery overturned and torn into parts. A truck halfway through a brick building. Crazy stuff.
Needless to say, it's amazing the power these things hold. I am amazed that only 9 people died. That is still a tragedy, but considering how it tore up every building in the town it's remarkably low. - SmackMyMac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I was watching the radar as this tornado was forming. The hook on NEXRAD was massive.
Very powerful. - alabamasucks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Whats amazing is only 9 people died!
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SEVERE_WEATHER?SITE=ININS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT - cmost, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Instead of turning this into a religious or political debate, why not get your asses off the computer, take out your checkbooks, and figure out how much money you can donate to these poor bastards so they can get their lives back together!!!
- RooDoG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Here is a Radar-Image of the storm.... wow, that is impressive.
http://image.weather.com/web/multimedia/images/blog/Greensburg_full.png - octoquake, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10@reapzor
yes because everybody living in kansas is a hateful bastard as fred phelps and his family.
everybody in kansas is an ignorant buffoon.
everybody in kansas deserves death by tornado.
i live in kansas. im an atheist. im a good person. im not an ignorant jerk.
shutup - SmackMyMac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Link to radar image i took. Check out the massive hook on that cell.
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u296/jterranella/tornado.jpg - ahknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Quite happy with Austin. The only natural disasters we have here are political.
- openyoureyes17, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9you are an idiot.
- Qeveren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Well, the report I read said the tornado was between a mile and a mile-and-a-half wide. That's a real monster. oO
- 450bigblock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Because the little brats at digg don't like it if you have an opinion other than their usual liberal group think.
- gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I would have been laughing maniacally right now, but then I realized that it wasn't me that clicked the disaster menu.
- storm8956, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@osfn8
Actually this is wrong. The F-scale goes all the way up to an F12. Dr. Ted Fujita designed the scale to connect the Beaufort scale to Mach 1. The thing is that the scale is not based on wind speed but damage. F5 damage is nearly the worst you can get (leveling a house to its foundation) so it would be near impossible for a tornado to be an F6+. However, the new EF (Enhanced Fujita) scale only goes to EF5 I believe. - merlinicorpus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Considering how massive that elevator is, and the fact that it is constructed out of reinforced concrete, I'm not terribly surprised its still standing. Sure, we could build concrete fortress towns, but when disasters like this happen once a year or so and are confined to relatively small areas (nothing like say, a hurricane) it makes way more sense to have a basement and decent insurance.
- adam84a, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8apparently you haven't read all of the comments yet
- hbeierg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7your a doushbag . . . nuff-said
and creationism is not taught in schools I'm in high school in Kansas and I am taught evolution in Bio class - hbeierg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@Sterango
they are called jobs, family and also money - octoquake, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@br0wn
what would you say to people not living in tornado alley that are devastated by tornadoes?
@indyguy
you realize that silos are so structurally sound because they hold tons and tons of grain inside of them. which would make for a very hard place to hide in. - artifact, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7i live here because i was born here, i like it here and see no reason to leave... why do you live where you are at??
Further evolution is taught in schools creationism is not, the politicians that allowed that to happen have since been voted out of office. every place has negatives associated with it. thanks for bringing those items up amidst the disaster.. - moofer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Tell that to the people that live there *****.
- moofer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6An entire town completely etch-a-scetched off the map in a matter of seconds. Completely unreal. Looks like it's time for another Red Cross donation here.
- moofer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6At least they could see Katrina coming.
- artifact, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://www.spc.noaa.gov/efscale/
but to answer your question this particular tornado was estimated to be at it strongest over one mile wide and with wind speeds over 200 mph - rblinne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5My in-laws live 18 miles south of Greensburg. I drove by the grain elevator in photo 7 all the time. Creepy. I am just guessing here but it could be that grain elevators need to be heavily reinforced against grain dust explosions. That and you won't find much of any steel-reinforced buildings there. The construction there was either wood frame or brick (and old).
- keysersoze9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@conna
Your a dick. Where is this magical place that has no natural disasters? Keep you money, we here in Kansas can take care of ourselves without your help. And while we're at it we'll grow food for you. You ignorant piece of *****. - 1021, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11"How about building houses with bricks, steel and concrete?"
Bricks, concrete, and steel won't even lower the damage too much against 200+ mph winds, instead, they increase casualties when compared to Wood, there is a reason why things are done the way they are.. genius. - TJENN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Very good pictures. Reminds me of the erie drive back up Highway 35 into Norman, Moore, and Oklahoma City after the May 1999 storms that produced the awesome F5 tornado that clocked in with 318MPH wind speed. Looked like a freaking war zone in most areas.
- Aeyar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Dunno who the crap dug you down, but I echo your sentiment wholeheartedly.
- sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I grew up living on one of the ends of tornado valley. At least once a week during the summer there would be sirens going off (aside from the weekly test).
While my house was never hit, nor anyone I knew, it was terrifying to me as a child. I'd watch the news and see pictures like these all the time.
Imagine, everything you own, GONE in just a few minutes, and generally insurance doesn't cover natural disasters.
Worst thing I get where I live now is ice storms, and that I can cope with. - CluelessTroll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5So, where are the pics of all the looters?
- galore, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10"Bricks, concrete, and steel won't even lower the damage too much against 200+ mph wind"
Of course construction matters.
All you who digged down the original post, care to explain picture #7?
The town looks like Hiroshima a day after the bomb but this one silo or whatever this concrete/steel building is, is still standing with barely a scratch even though it has a much larger surface exposed to the tornado. Sometimes digg group think is just creepy. - SonicAD, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8My keyboard goes to F12.
- openyoureyes17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4thats the torro scale, not the fujita scale..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_intensity_and_damage - merlinicorpus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4We had good warning on this one. One of the really nice things about a tornado this size is that it's really obvious on radar and anyone in its path. Most people had 20-30 minutes of warning and took the appropriate measures. Big tornadoes tend to do lots of property damage, but little deaths. Its small, fast forming tornadoes that kill people.
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