1396: Man of the People

[Snarky]

I would also agree that the post from yesterday was a bit exaggerated. Sure, every year, we have a tornado season, but it's rare to have a tornado that kills more than 1 or two people. That Joplin tornado was, as the report noted, the worst since the 1950's. I've actually gone looking for tornadoes and have never seen one, although I'd like to. It's really hit and miss with tornadoes, because there is so much farmland. In my opinion, Oklahoma is one of the worst states for them. I've only been there two times, both times we experienced the worst weather I've ever been through. Huge hail, microbursts, running for cover in a Wal-mart, and then having the power go out. BUT on a side note, my sister was mugged in the west bottoms of KC. So, if anything, we have crime and tornadoes. Just keep those bed bugs the fuck outta here. (lolz punkn')

[Medium Brumski]

My high school science teacher was from Oklahoma, and he told us that nobody there had a basement cause the water table was to high, i.e. they would flood if you built one.

[Fourbid]

Originally Posted by Huggie

Regarding Chemda's point about New York City having dangerous neighborhoods like "Hell's Kitchen".

The Most Dangerous Cities in America

Apparantly, New York didn't make the list.

I had no idea how awesome my state was. We have #1 and #2.

More murders, more weed: Michigan.

[MrBrit]

I had to smile when Chemda was surprised about the African woman marrying one of her husband's brothers. There's actually a similar law in Jewish scripture - in the Old Testament, if a woman's husband died before she had a child, she was to be wed to her husband's brother:

Deuteronomy 25:5-10
5 “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family; her husband’s brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. 6 And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. 7 But if the man does not want to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.’ 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. But if he stands firm and says, ‘I do not want to take her,’ 9 then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brother’s house.’ 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal removed.’

[Keith]

In all fairness there's a lot of stuff written in that book, and it's 2011.

[DWarrior]

The pat dixon podcast is amazing, I just listened through all of them twice.

[DietCokeGeekGal]

I also lived in tornado alley grades 6-12. Things were not nearly as bad as they seem based on the news right now. I don't know if that's because things are getting worse or because the media is reporting these things more than usual for whatever reason.

I didn't have a basement while living there, and only once do I recall it really being a concern at my house in the 6 years I was there. We all hung out in a central, windowless room in our house for about 20 minutes. The fence across the street was ruined afterwards, but that was the extent of the property damage from that storm in my neighborhood. No one was hurt.

Yes, every year there are a variety of warnings. At school you'd have drills all the time. But as someone has said, tornadoes generally do not have the high death counts that you're seeing on the news now. I didn't know anyone or even hear of anyone who was hurt/died in a tornado while living there.

[Bucho]

No, thank YOU guys for the Match Game video.

Originally Posted by DWarrior

The pat dixon podcast is amazing, I just listened through all of them twice.

Fuckin' A right brother, I started listening after he brought it up last time he was on the show and it became instantly one of my favourites. Chemda's so right raving about how great that guy is.

[bonkrood]

Originally Posted by Fourbid

I hear absolutely nothing about Montana. So try there. I think it's just a big parking lot where nothing happens.

We get temperatures 30-60 below zero for sometimes 2 week stretches in the winter. And we're on a fault line -- the only earthquake I've ever experienced was a 5.8 right here in Montana. And we're in a drought so often that half the state can burn down at any moment in the summer. Every place has its thing(s).

[Keith]

I'm surprised they're even called fault lines and not normal lines. It's so normal.