Al Gores HOMESTATE is being hit by a massive wave of TORNADOS! Geez, I hope our own "Chris's" hometown isn't on the path!
These storms are expected to continue off and on throughout this evening. I fear that due to GLOBAL WARMING our weather patterns have changed to the point of know return.

Once again.....AL GORE WAS CORRECT!!! :blink: :o


Take care Tenn..........Andrew :Y:

We are currently having hail the size of marbles outside our office, the radio reported softball size hail just west of Nashville in Cheatham County.

I'm happy to know AL GORE wasn't in his homestate, when these storms came.

Wow Uncle Joe :o I can't imagine "softball size" hail stones!!! :dripple: That alone could do some serious damage to a person. You take care of yourself down in Tenn.....ya hear?

I guess there are more on the way and my area is now under a Tornado Watch till 11:00 P.M.!!!

ERRRRRRRR :blink: :angry:

Peace to everyone.............Andrew :Y:

Uncle Joe and Freebird, please take care of yourselves!

Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore . . .

Earlier this afternoon in Nashville . . .



ZOWIE!

Damn! I just saw Ann Coulter or was that Katherine Harris? go flying through the air on her bicycle, :o , Y'all have a good weekend. :)

:lol:

I'll get you, my pretty . . .

Seriously, hope you guys are okay.

Ha Ha earthmother ;) Welcome to OZ!

Seriouslly, WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON WITH THE WEATHER!!!

I'm gonna hunker down for the night and keep my ears open cause we got our (bumped up) T watch until 1:00A.M. still! I can't believe it!

Over and out...........Andrew

Those same Tornados came out of Oklahoma yesterday Andrew...we also got hit here pretty bad as well as Arkansas...Pres Bill & Hillary better check on "old friends" I guess...I hope Mr. Gore isn't getting hit...Don't worry...Frist will do NOTHING about it(the GOP method...stick your head in the sand)....The Tennessee Volunteers would be seeing the Federal Government rushing in if Al Gore was President(or even still Senator)...but this is BU$H...if he does NOTHING for Hurricane victims then tornado victims don't have a "ghost of a chance"... :mad: :mad:

As far as Coulter or Harris is concerned I say tie them to a Cypress Tree when the next category 4 Hurricane rips through the south, and let them continue to say there is NO such thing as "global warming" :tongue:

But things are changing...and Chatty Kathy Harris is getting her GOP "reward" for "cheating" for Dubya in 2000...FLORIDA GOP WANTS HER TO STEP DOWN FROM THE SENATE RACE!...I GUESS THOSE DUBYA COATAILS ARE STRANGLING HER! :turtle:

My gosh I'd say Tornado Alley is in the "expansion mode" :dripple: :blink: :( by the way the east is getting hit lately! :o

Which state are you in Paraclete??? :?:

As far as "Chatty Kathy"? You know it's over when she decides NOT to spend her own fortune on her attempt. :rolleyes:

Peace....................Andrew :Y:

Afterthought: What a tragedy unfolding in Tenn!!! :dripple: These people got out of bed yesterday morning not even having a clue that their world would be turned UPSIDE down in the evening!!! :blink: :( :?:

Here's an INTERESTING TRUE FACT concerning GLOBAL WARMING and VIOLENT TORNADO'S.

To date:
452 TORNADO'S have allready been reported in 2006 compared to..........................96 reported for the same time in 2005 :dripple: :blink: :huh: :unsure: :( :?:

THINK ABOUT THAT!!!


Peace to all......................Andrew

Wow. That's scary. And I heard ten people died in TN from the most recent rash.

Hope you're all okay in those tornado-prone states.

It's astonishing that people are allready dying from the "severe" storms this early in the season. My state (WV) has a lot of hills so we usually don't get that much of this kind of weather. We got some wind and rain last nite and today but NOTHING like they had in Tenn and GA.

Ya' all take care.................Andrew

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/severe_storm;_y...zkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

Tornado Death Toll Hits 12 in Tennessee

By JOHN GEROME, Associated Press Writer

Residents labored Saturday to begin rebuilding a day after tornadoes killed 12 people in Tennessee, the second wave of violent weather to hit the state in less than a week.

"We'll get on our feet again," Bernard Tavers said as he surveyed the demolished homes and piles of rubble in his neighborhood.

Crews worked to clear away the wreckage and restore services, but some people could be without electricity for a week, officials said.

Police patrolled the wrecked neighborhoods Saturday but there had been no reports of looting. Bystanders were warned not to smoke because of leaking gas.

The tornado's path through the Gallatin area was 150 to 200 yards wide and at least 10 miles long, said Jimmy Templeton of the Sumner County Sheriff's Department.

Talmadge Woodall described the twister that destroyed his house Friday afternoon as "rolling, throwing debris hundreds of feet in the air." He lived in an upscale subdivision of Gallatin, about 24 miles northeast of Nashville.

"These were at least half-million-dollar homes or better," said Woodall, 81. "Now there's nothing left. I didn't even have a shingle off my house."

Later Friday and early Saturday, another line of severe thunderstorms rolled through Alabama and Georgia. Homes and businesses were damaged in the Atlanta suburbs, but the National Weather Service had not confirmed whether the area was hit by tornadoes.

"Several businesses are totally destroyed. Trees literally are sitting inside of houses," Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine said.

Several people were injured in Alabama, two by falling trees, but no deaths were reported, officials said Saturday. A store was destroyed in Ohatchee, near Anniston, and homes and apartments were damage in the Birmingham area.

The storms also pounded southern West Virginia, blacking out more than 16,000 customers, utilities said.

Weather officials said tornadoes were spotted Friday in about 10 Tennessee counties, but the worst damage appeared to be in the suburbs northeast of Nashville.

The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center said it had 47 preliminary reports suggesting tornadoes across the South on Friday.

Seven people were killed in Tennessee's Sumner County and three were killed in Warren County, about 65 miles southeast of Nashville. Two more died during the night in a Gallatin hospital, state Emergency Management Agency spokesman Randy Harris said Saturday. Hospitals admitted at least 60 people with storm-related injuries.

Last weekend, violent weather including tornadoes killed 24 people in western Tennessee and four others in Missouri and Illinois.

Nashville Electrical Service reported hundreds of electrical lines down and power outages for up to 16,000 customers, mostly in Goodlettsville. The number of customers blacked out was down to 1,100 early Saturday, officials said. Some people might have to wait a week for their power lines to be rebuilt, NES spokeswoman Laurie Parker said Saturday.

The number of tornadoes in the United States is up dramatically this year compared with the past few years, which were unusually mild, according to the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.

Through the end of March, an estimated 286 tornadoes had hit the United States, compared with an average of 70 for the same three-month period in each of the past three years. The number of tornado-related deaths was 38 before Friday's storms, compared to an average of 45 a year from 2003 to 2005, the center said.

Now, I wonder if Pat Robertson will come out and say that these folks sinned against the Lord, and that's why they are being punished?

Funny how these "God" people even cherry pick their holier-than-thou judgements against ordinary citizens, based on whether it's a Red or Blue state catastrophe.

:mad:

I really feel for all these folks out in Tornado Alley and Hurricane country, etc. Is it possible that all this tragedy, repeated from last year's weather catastrophes will be like a new sunburn on top of a still healing sunburn - i.e., too much fresh pain on still fresh pain?

Will these (nature-made but human-amplified) tragedies help to get even people in the "Red States" - henceforth to be known as "the Underwater States" - to see Al Gore's film, to "own" that the crisis is here?

The film and the book are opening just in time for hurricane season.

Isn't there a saying that "there ain't an ill wind that don't blow somebody some good"?

Friends down in the storm zone, please take very good care of yourselves.

:lol: Ha Ha whybaby :lol: I have not heard P.R. "blabber" on this subject yet but I did hear some preacher claim this was the WRATH OF GOD coming down on Tenn. Hmmm? Maybe they need to come back bigtime with support for the DEMOCRATS and AL GORE FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008 :clap: :clap: :clap:


Happy Sunday..................Andrew :Y:

Pat Robertson???? That is one disgusting hypocrite of the worst kind. I can't believe some of the garbage he has spewed out over the past year. But what do you expect from a conservative???

:clap: Thank the lord I'm a LIBERAL!!! :clap: :good:

Happy Sunday.................Andrew

I hear that and proud of it. :D

Wowza people :o what a TORNADIC EVENT this was.....over the weekend :dripple:

My prayers go out to all those folks who have had their lives turned upside down by these monsters.

On that note...........I just came across this from our TRUE LEADER........President Al Gore:

Al Gore predicts the END IS NEAR!

I have to AGREE with Al Gore on this one :blink: :(


Happy Monday to all................Andrew :Y:

I've read that article yesterday and it's about time everyone wake up and start listening to PRESIDENT AL GORE if they are not already doing so.

Hey, so I found this appropriate old thread to post this jewel on. Note: all the above posts were added not quite 2 years ago, when my cousin's house was destroyed.

This most recent rash of tornadoes killed many more in TN than in 2006. Someone sent me an email today that had many photos that were taken of Union University in Jackson, TN. I knew it was bad, but I had no idea how bad until I saw those. I graduated from Union awhile back. I'll try to post them but I don't think I've quite figured out how to do that.

Meanwhile, check this out. These trailers aren't good enough for Katrina victims, so send 'em to the working poor in TN. That makes a hell of a lot of sense. Aside from the toxic fumes, sending cheap trailers to TN during the onset of tornado season for people whose brick homes were just leveled is simply asinine!! Whose bright idea was this one?? :?: :wtf:

As my #2 hero, Jimmy Buffett, says: "Mobile homes are smothering the Keys, I hate those bastards so much. I wish a summer squall would blow them all way up to 'Fantasyland'. Yeah, they're ugly and square, they don't belong here, they looked a lot better as beer cans."

You can KEEP your crappy trailers FEMA!!! We'll take care of our OWN!!!!



FEMA Plans Trailer Exodus Over Chemical
Published: 2/14/08, 10:05 PM EDT
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - After downplaying the risks for months, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday it will rush to move Gulf Coast hurricane victims out of roughly 35,000 government-issued trailers because tests found dangerous levels of formaldehyde fumes.

FEMA Administrator R. David Paulison said the agency hopes to get everyone out and into hotels, motels, apartments and other temporary housing by the summer, when the heat and stuffy air could worsen the problem inside the trailers.

"The real issue is not what it will cost but how fast we can move people out," he said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said fumes from 519 tested trailers and mobile homes in Louisiana and Mississippi were, on average, about five times what people are exposed to in most modern homes. Formaldehyde, a preservative commonly used in construction materials, can lead to breathing problems and is also believed to cause cancer.

The findings stirred worry and anger across the Gulf Coast, where FEMA is already a dirty word and housing has been scarce since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck in 2005.

"Am I angry at FEMA? Of course I am. They should have started moving people out of these trailers once they first started finding problems," said Lynette Hooks, 48. She said that since she began living in her trailer outside her damaged New Orleans home in October 2006, she has suffered headaches and sinus problems, in addition to the asthma she had before.
The CDC findings could also have disturbing implications for the safety of other trailers and mobile homes across the country, Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff said on Capitol Hill on Thursday. But the CDC study did not look beyond the FEMA housing.

Paulison vowed that the agency will never again use the flimsy, cramped travel trailers to shelter victims of disasters. Mobile homes are generally roomier than trailers and considered less susceptible to buildups of fumes.

FEMA will press ahead with plans to supply leftover, never-used mobile homes from the twin disasters to victims of last week's tornadoes in the South, Paulison said. But the mobile homes will opened up, aired out and tested first, he said.

The formaldehyde levels in some trailers were found to be high enough to cause breathing problems for children, the elderly or people who already have respiratory problems, CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding said. About 5 percent had levels high enough to cause breathing problems even in people who do not ordinarily have respiratory trouble, she said.

Gerberding said that the tests could not draw a direct link between formaldehyde levels and the wide range of ailments reported by trailer occupants. But the CDC urged people to move out as quickly as possible.

As early as 2006, trailer occupants began reporting headaches, nosebleeds and difficulty breathing.

But as recently as last spring, a FEMA spokesman said the agency said no reason to question the safety of its trailers. Just last month, congressional investigators accused FEMA of suppressing and manipulating scientific research to play down the danger - an accusation the agency denied.

"I don't understand why FEMA bought trailers in the first place that were dangerous," said Henry Alexander, 60, who has been living in a trailer since February 2006. "You would hope they would test them for formaldehyde before. I'm very angry that another agency had to step forward and say they were a health risk."

Chertoff said at a Senate committee hearing that the government has trying since last summer to prod people to move out of the trailers, but it has been difficult to get them to do so because the housing shortage means they might have to move far away, and because they are being allowed to live in the trailers rent-free.

Louisiana has 25,162 occupied FEMA trailers and mobile homes, while Mississippi has 10,362, according to FEMA. Other states also have hundreds of trailers. At one point, FEMA had placed victims of the 2005 hurricanes in more than 144,000 trailers and mobile homes.

Paulison had no estimate of how much it would cost to put people in hotels, apartments and other housing.

Formaldehyde has been classified as a carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and a probable carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Fumes can cause burning of the eyes and nose, shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing and tightness in the chest.

The CDC examined only FEMA housing and cannot draw any conclusions about the safety of prefab homes elsewhere, Gerberding said. But "I think we're going to learn a lot more in the next year or two," she said after a news conference at FEMA offices in New Orleans.

"It seems like I have had more respiratory problems since I have been in the trailer," Roger Sheldon, 60, said in Pascagoula, Miss. But he was not ready to blame formaldehyde "You know you can walk into any new trailer, or house for that matter, and things like new carpet can cause irritation."

"To be honest, I'm thankful to the government," he added. "I don't like the trailer, but it beats the alternative for now."

With housing still in short supply - 80 percent of New Orleans was flooded, the pace of rebuilding has been slow, and rents are out of reach for many - Ernest Penns of the devastated Lower Ninth Ward said he, too, was grateful for his trailer: "I got nowhere else to go."
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Associated Press writers John Moreno Gonzales in New Orleans, Kathy Hanrahan and Emily Wagster-Pettus in Jackson, Miss., Eileen Sullivan in Washington and Mike Stobbe in Atlanta contributed to this story.