Go to Loosely Speaking
- Add a comment
- Go to The storms are coming
ciel
you got me laughing on the last line. good post and you are right, we ignore these things until it is in our face......what does scarlet say at the end of gone with the wind, something like, i'll think about it tomorrow.
posted by
jeansaw
on May 23, 2013 at 9:38 PM
| link to this | reply
Re: naut,
I've heard that the ground under Oklahoma City is clay and bedrock. It costs several thousand dollars to put in an underground shelter for a family. I think the Federal Gummint could pay for at least some of that, for community shelters, and in schools, hospitals, particularly. There are around 1000 small shelters that were put in since the 1999 EF 5 tornado.
I do well understand that climate and weather are not the same, and also that over the past several years, there have been extraordinary storms and extreme weather shifts that could be connected with the overall climate change that has been underway for a couple of decades now. Climate change is by no means sudden. But we paid no attention for quite some time, denied for another span of time, and now, we are seeing what will be the norm for generations to come. Whether these tornadoes are the result of global climate change, or not, they will happen again. We should be ready. We can be. We just have to dig in... literally.
posted by
Ciel
on May 21, 2013 at 1:24 PM
| link to this | reply
Ciel
This planet of ours and its environment change at time scales rather different from our own, LOL...About the sad situation in Oklahoma: It struck me that few if any houses there have basements, something virtually unheard of in these parts. I wonder if that's a 'cultural' thing or whether it has to do with the geology - does the entire substratum consist of solid rock? 
posted by
Nautikos
on May 21, 2013 at 1:13 PM
| link to this | reply
Re: CCT,
Where I live now is not as tornado-prone as the Midwest. What few I've heard of were out on the plains, not near the mountains. I have, however, already considered where would be the safest places in my house, if there is not time to get to better shelter. The lower floor of the house is half underground, and the back room has only a single window which a bed could be leaned up against. The outside of that window is somewhat protected, as well, by the porch and steps over it. I will be looking around when I get back, to see where really underground areas are on campus, not far from my house.
The people in the midwest would have to move quite a ways from home to find a more secure place. I think they'd do better to build underground shelters, and the Government should help them. Especially in communities like mobile home parks, and for schools.
posted by
Ciel
on May 21, 2013 at 8:08 AM
| link to this | reply
Ciel would it not be easier to move to a more secure area? You have plenty of space. if it going to happen again and again it would probably be more economical in the long run and save lives.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 21, 2013 at 12:18 AM
| link to this | reply
Ciel
ÝSimilarly to Dorothy’s houses do really twitch out there love. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on May 20, 2013 at 7:07 PM
| link to this | reply
Fabulous post, it is always nice to read someone and agree entirely with
what that person is writing.
posted by
Kabu
on May 20, 2013 at 4:45 PM
| link to this | reply
Yes, it's the Earth doing "its thing," but from everything I've heard and read, these storms will increase in number and intensity over the next few years because of Global Warming! We had a taste here in Jersey last year with Sandy, and I am not looking forward to any more . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on May 20, 2013 at 2:20 PM
| link to this | reply
I like to think there is a reason we have lasted this long....
posted by
Annicita
on May 20, 2013 at 2:00 PM
| link to this | reply