June 26th, 2008
Tornado Part 4: Manhattan Kansas
1. Twister is a board game where everybody wins.
2. What’s worse than a tornado? A Titty Twister!
3. Without weather, what would most people talk about?
Photos of Manhattan Tornado Damage (Surface & Surface Photography)
More Photos of Manhattan Damage (The Manhattan Mercury)
June 26th, 2008 at 9:46 am
i really like the images and the “udder disaster” words made me smile.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:37 am
So I was thinking if I live somewhere that has 172 Tornados so far, I would invest in building underground or just moving elsewhere.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:25 am
I’m not likely to move to Kansas anytime soon… I’ll stick to blizzard, thank you very much.
“Without weather, what would most people talk about?”
That is very true for Canada: people would be lost!
June 26th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
that´s reallly sad…
a kiss
June 26th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I guess most conversations do start off with the topic of the weather. Or the crops.
The thought that you survived a tornado is just so surreal. I’m really glad you’re ok.
June 26th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
I agree with Ras!!
Our US-American society is totally dysfunctional. Why do you build structures that can not compete with local weather conditions? The pioneers did not know about “tornado alley” and build quick woodframe houses. Now 200 years later we should know better. But now, we still do the same settler 1-4-19 trick and construct things that are only supposed to last until we move west to harvest a new gold rush.
I would label this method: Futile teenage sweat. Our nation seems to be in a perpetual mode of puberty resurection.
While other countries bury their electrical wires underground, we still believe in wooden post sticking up like abused toothpicks above the ground. The get kicked or blow away by a tornado, or a winter storm in the north-east, just to be mounted again by the “saving-crew”.
It is really pretty ridiculous.
I was thinking about New Orleans the other day, when the levies broke…
What’s up with that?
There is a country in Europe who has lived for hundreds of years below the see level, a country - not a town. For good reason that country is called “Netherlands”, or Holland. The levies there never broke. Are we just lazy and therefore shit happens?
Same thing in Florida and up the coast there. A hurricane comes in and Home Depot and other stores make 300% profit on plywood of the people whodesperately try to barricade their dwellings.
Poor design, poor forethought.
If I had to build in “tornado alley” (Kansas) or Florida, I would build something that would withstand the elements. It wouldn’t be much more expensive than the regular housing at all…
Enough lament.
Be back in one piece, that’s all I care for right now.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Agreeing with Ras and Zee. Weathering the weather depends on whether you have sense of how the wind blows.