As some may know my history with violent storms....Pray for the people back home....Joplin has been hit hard and hearing the story of Will Norton is heartbreaking.....Rescuers are still searching for a 3 year old near el reno, oklahoma....May is always a Violent month for those of us for the midwest...
so anyone else concerned about the rapidly increasing number of devastating natural disasters??? seems to me that more and more deadly and violent weather and climate issues are occurring every year. Maybe mother nature is kicking back at us for abusing her all these years??? or maybe for those that are believers in a supreme being as creator he/she is pissed off at the human race... either way its alarming to me
I grew up in the midwest. Tornadoes can destroy and decimate and in seconds it's gone. When I was younger it might scare the shit out of me. My ass was the first one down the basement. As I got a lil older, dumber, and more curious, I didn't even go to the basement at all. I just tried to watch as much of the storm as I could. It took on a certain fascination.
I have a good number of family members who live in Joplin. had a cousin who's house was right near St Marys (the hospital that's been all over the news). All of my family is safe, a few were harmed, one cousin and his wife were driving and their car got flipped) but all of their homes are destroyed. I've been seeing pics roll in on Facebook and it's been truly heart breaking. Just have to be thankful they all still have their lifes. I also have a good friend who's house and car got destroyed in tuscaloosa a few weeks ago. It's been a scary year for weather, and the worst has just begun.
Yeah, I have an aunt that moved to Joplin and started a huge family. IIRC I have something like 8-9 cousins and 30+ extended family members there. It was scary, but thanks to social media I knew all were safe within hours. Mother nature is PISSED. With hurricane season a week away..... Shit is gonna be scary.
Our town got hit with them last month,so Prayers go out for the folks who just delt with this. Very sad........
Yahoo had a headline story on it: Some of the blame for the wild tornado streak lies with La Niña, a cyclical system of trade winds that cools the waters of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. (El Niño is La Niña's warm-water counterpart.) Although we were in the grip of one of the most powerful La Niñas on record this last year, La Niña made a sudden exit about three months ago. La Niña has a stabilizing effect on the jet stream, and pushes it to higher latitudes. Without La Niña around, the jet stream has gone rogue and has the chance to violently mix cool, dry northern air with warm, moist southern air.
Im extremely concerned about it. Ive said for years that when Mother Earth gets good and tired of having WAY too many human lice crawling around on Her, she would shake us off. I just kinda hoped it would be AFTER my natural death.Now Im wondering if any of us has batter than a fifty/fifty of getting a "matural" death. I think this weather weirdness does not bode well for Humankind. Folks are pretty resiliant, but when the planet herself turns against us....we wont win. Between the fucked global economy, the fucked up global politics and now the fucked up global weather.....the dominoes are falling over. We're already broke...where's the money gonna come from to re-build whole towns leveled by Nature? I anticipate insurence companies going bankrupt--thousand of claims on completely destroyed properties hitting them all at once....they'll say, "fuck it" and fold before they'll pay out the millions to devastated homeowners. By Fall or early winter, I expect we'll see the effect of the choice to flood the farmlands. Less food produced plus gas prices going up.....food is gonna get real pricy. And, Hurricaine Season is just starting, too. It's gonna be a helluva summer. I think we're fucked and just dont know it yet. Dix
Yep. What's terrible is these blatant signs keep popping up and people say "I don't believe in it". Cracks me up. People who know NOTHING about a subject and just discount the life's works of some of the more intelligent people in the world. It's that ignorance that will eventually cost us dearly. The worst part is we're doing it to our own children and grandchildren.
Global warming? The earth has gone through extreme cycles for the life of the planet. It warms, it freezes, it warms and it freezes again. The gases that escape from mother nature through ponds, lakes and volcanos will continue to change the earth through all these cycles. I suppose Al Gore is your hero.
The formulas used to calculate the numbers used in global warming studies are the same ones used for your daily weather forecast. I am not saying the earth isn't changing, but those "intelligent" people can't even tell me if it is going to rain today, let alone 30-200 years from now.
The place is heating up. More energy the more violet the weather. Could be global warming or a natural cycle, but its happening.
I'm still waiting for western Cali to fall into the ocean, the Population Bomb to explode (anybody remember that one?) or global cooling (yep that was a trumped up fear in my lifetime also) to freeze us all into an ice age.
The earth changes. whoopity shit. I'm kinda with Dix, I kinda think Mother Earth says occasionally, fuck y'all, and throws some wacky shit at us. That's the closest I will believe of anything outside of pure science. And that's really just moreso fun to say. No, really, was reading the same article I think blitz read on Yahoo, and they brought up a very good point. It seems like there's more shit going on now than before, but I don't think there is. Two reasons for this: 1. There's a shit ton more people now, and where there's more people, more are likely to get hit by randomness. 2. Technology these days allows anyone with a cell phone to capture storms and whatnot, compared to years ago, where it was a special camera crew chasing around storms and whatnot. so, from a media perspective, it looks like a lot more is happening, what is really going on is all the unnoticed shit is finally getting recorded by every dumbshit joe with a phone. IDK. Cycles of the earth. It happens. Who fucking cares. Roll with it, or it will roll over your ass. GTWT :XXhippylove: PS Not saying I don't feel for the folks this happened to, I happen to have a co-worker from Joplin who's home got torn in half. (family is okay) My own family almost went underwater from the Ohio swelling a couple of weeks ago. I don't mean this in a mean way. What I mean is all the global warming, mother nature, diety is pissed, basically people trying to explain it away and change it - that's just dumb. Earth's forces are so much more than man's, even a nuclear blast. Mankind has to just ride the tide, and quit fucking bitching about every little change.
I'm all for everyone having their own opinion.....but for all you that just discounted it have you actually researched it yourself?? Or have you based your opinion on the couple articles you may have read on a news site here and there or what you heard from a friend. I'm gonna guess most of you haven't spent an hour reading material on the subject.
I would agree 100%, but then there's RR (can't remember who all replied). It's frustrating when intelligent ppl discard 'Global Warming'. I agree in 'cycles', but if you look at the big picture, things are noted as getting worse. Plain-and-Simpl: If we put more CO2 out than O2 in, we're in trouble. Believe what you want.
The Earth is going through cycles. It has for it's entire existence. Human's as a race have already lived through an Ice Age and many long devastating droughts with famine and disease outbreaks. That was all when the Earth's population was at a much more stable number. I believe the Earth has cycles, and will go through those cycles, with or without us. However, I do believe that we could be accelerating the process. At no other time in Human history have there been this many people alive on the Earth nor have we ever before in history burned as many fossil fuels or cut down forests at the rate at which we are doing it now. We don't really know how many tornadoes hit the midwest 300 or 400 years ago even. Maybe it was far worse than now. There was no recorded data on weather patterns in the midwest United States back then. It's all educated speculation as to what the Earth's cycles are. I would be much more worried about an all out World War in our lifetimes. Personally I believe that we will live to see the beginning of a severe cycle of weather patterns that could lead to a new era of Human history in which our species will struggle to survive. When the cycle is over (Maybe hundreds or even thousands of years from now) the Earths population will be back down to a healthy level. Get ready for a rough ride and some trying times, especially the younger generations. All this is not to mention the possibility that we as a species have the power to change the face of the planet for all life for eons to come. The Earth will do it's thing..... It's what the Human race is doing that I'm worried about.
