# Now is Not The Time to Make New Regulations About Tornado Safety **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 21, 2013, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918 "2013-05-21T12:11:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/1 "2013-05-21T12:11:01Z")
I especially hope that the parents of the children killed will not be exploited and trotted out to testify on tornado safety. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/2 "2013-05-21T12:12:29Z")
Tis bbq has no sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/3 "2013-05-21T12:17:19Z")
I hear that the Obama administration is in a conspiracy to get rid of mobile homes by buying up all existing stock. Just last week I tried to buy enough mobile homes to last me for a couple years and there were none to be found for less than $40,000. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/4 "2013-05-21T12:22:20Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I hear that the Obama administration is in a conspiracy to get rid of mobile homes by buying up all existing stock. Just last week I tried to buy enough mobile homes to last me for a couple years and there were none to be found for less than $40,000. Thay can have my mobile home when they pry it from my cold dead fingers ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/5 "2013-05-21T12:27:44Z")
The only way to stop a bad tornado is with a good tornado. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/6 "2013-05-21T12:29:04Z")
It really kind of does suck that we get tornadoes so frequently down here. If the sky didn’t try to kill you periodically, it’d be a nice place to live in a mobile home. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/7 "2013-05-21T12:45:14Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > It really kind of does suck that we get tornadoes so frequently down here. If the sky didn’t try to kill you periodically, it’d be a nice place to live in a mobile home. Yeah, we get all four seasons here. Sometimes in one day. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/8 "2013-05-21T12:54:07Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > Tis bbq has no sauce. I think it has a certain tang I have come to enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/9 "2013-05-21T13:07:58Z")
It is every American’s right to live in a house, or work in a building that may not be built to code. We don’t need our emotions about the tragedy In Oklahoma to cloud our judgement. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/10 "2013-05-21T13:27:00Z")
This is inappropriate and callous. Clever, though. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/11 "2013-05-21T13:28:15Z")
This is not the time for the Blame Game. (On a separate note, how long until the conspiracy theorist decide the Obama has a magic tornado machine he used to wipe out a swath of Moore just to take the spotlight off of Benghazi/IRS/subpoenas to find the Yemen leak/Michele’s bangs?) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/12 "2013-05-21T13:42:04Z")
If only there were another tornado there going the opposite way to cancel out the first tornado, all those people’s lives would have been spared. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/13 "2013-05-21T13:42:09Z")
Tornados don’t kill people, crushed structures and flying debris kill people. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/14 "2013-05-21T13:46:19Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Clever, though. No it isn’t. Remember kids, school shooters are an Act of God. You know, Nature’s way of thinning the herd. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/15 "2013-05-21T14:29:35Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > This is not the time for the Blame Game. Yeah, let’s play Hungry Hungry Hippo. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/16 "2013-05-21T14:33:02Z")
The OP is crap. The obvious solution is to ban the really big tornadoes and to limit the number of times a tornado can touch down. If now is not the time to do that, when is? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/17 "2013-05-21T14:35:13Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > (On a separate note, how long until the conspiracy theorist decide the Obama has a magic tornado machine he used to wipe out a swath of Moore just to take the spotlight off of Benghazi/IRS/subpoenas to find the Yemen leak/Michele’s bangs?) Wanna see something [sillier](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/28/980224/-Joseph-Farah-Joplin-tornado-was-caused-by-Obama-speech-on-Middle-East)? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/18 "2013-05-21T14:35:13Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > This is not the time for the Blame Game. > > (On a separate note, how long until the conspiracy theorist decide the Obama has a magic tornado machine he used to wipe out a swath of Moore just to take the spotlight off of Benghazi/IRS/subpoenas to find the Yemen leak/Michele’s bangs?) Why won’t Obama call it a “Deadly Tornado?” What’s he trying to protect? ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/19 "2013-05-21T14:45:48Z")
Since this is the pit and I am in a really shitty mood, I will chime in to say that the people who would rather murder their own grandmothers than allow poor people the building regulations which would protect them, who want to deny disaster relief to those who need it, who deny all of us the right to be protected from gun violence, who will fight to the death for the right to destroy the climate of our whole planet, are all the same people and should all burn in hell. Except they are going to create that burning hell on earth, and make everyone burn with them. Today I hate the fucking human race. Oh, I meant to say, gosh, climate change. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918/20 "2013-05-21T15:10:30Z")
I’m pretty sure American freedoms are the most important issue here. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-make-new-regulations-about-tornado-safety/658918.md?page=2)