Bad wind

[sigma7]

While flipping channels aimlessly last night, I happened onto a station showing a Doppler radar image of Greensburg, Kansas, and noticed one of the more profound "hook" signals I think I'd ever seen on radar. Worse, it was directly over the town of about 1,500. Come the morning and news that 75 to 90 percent of the town is destroyed, wiped off the map by a half-mile-wide tornado. At least seven people dead, but fortunately, my older friends' family is okay, according to a very welcome update from daethkow.

The forecast for today and tonight: more of the same, from Texas into the Dakotas. Swell.

And if anyone advises you to park under and overpass and run underneath it when a tornado is approaching, don't listen to them.

Comments

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

I just heard about it from my friend across the hallway. We're also under a tornado watch for the night and my desktop Weather Bug described it as a "particularly dangerous situation." Eesh.

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, we've been to Greensburg a bunch of times, stopping to see the World's Largest Hand-Dug Well and all. It's about 200 miles east of Holly, Colorado, which got smacked by that huge (maybe F4) twister a month ago.

The wind is 30-40 mph here right now. Kind of alarming.

[kateshort.livejournal.com]

YIKES re the tornado stuff.

re: the Post-Chronicle. Is that supposed to be an actual paper? 'Cause I read the article there, then looked at their "Tittle-Tattle Too" page. (c'mon! with that name, who wouldn't look at it?)

The content of the page in this case is fubar'd royally, with the column of articles waaaaay over in a skinny column to the right. Then there's this lovely disclaimer at the bottom, where they basically say they're using copyrighted stuff without permission 'cause they believe in free speech and consider it 'fair use.'

Bwuh?

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's not an impressive publication, is it? I don't think it has a print component. I'm not even sure it has a real online component. And the sad thing is, it's not the worst "newspaper" website I've seen this week. But the combination of "appropriated" content and questionable design does make it a pretty toxic link choice, doesn't it? Sorry. I blame Google News.

[erica-roo.livejournal.com]

One of my best friend's brothers lives... um lived in Greensburg. He and his wife and daughter are ok, but their house is, of course, gone. Another friend whose family lives in Pratt took in a family of evacuees. (I know that's spelled wrong, but I've been partying since 3...) Anyway, they didn't have anything with them. No clothes. Nothing left. Devastating.