“Bag of assholes with the good ones picked out” was a recent description here, IIRC.
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Whoever said that, I think they’ve managed to win the thread in absentia.
Here in California we frequently hear things like “Too bad about the earthquake/wildfire but seriously, if you are going to live there…”. Then again most people think everyone in California lives on a hillside mansion, is in show business or high-tech and eats granola, so y’know…the masses are pretty much idiots.
Yay, I win!
If you’re going to read the comments, at least learn the difference between heartfelt opinions and obvious trolling.
It can be hard to tell the difference. A lot of the really extreme positions are quite heartfelt and happy to have found a soapbox to express them, nothing like trolling intended. Those are the sad ones - “I am as ignorant as a box of rocks and biased 90 degrees out of reality, but here’s what I think…”
A Fire Strike Twister Earthquake Flood Plague of Locusts would be way cooler.
Which means that 100% of the Oklahomans are guilty? Even the children?
Of course CNN comments are nuts; 95% of the sites out there make this place look like the Algonquin Roundtable.
The Houston Press has an article on What It’s Like To Live in Tornado Alley. It explains a lot; I’m still glad I live in the Hurricane Section of Texas–not the Tornado Section. But every area has a potential for problematic events…
Slight nitpick, but is this accurate? I’ve lived in PA my whole life and have never experienced a tornado, massive flood, earthquake, hurricane, or anything remotely close to a natural disaster. The worst that happens around here is a blizzard.
panaccione, you must live in an isolated part of PA because I lived there too and experienced tornados, earthquakes, and hurricanes.
Oh yes, and there was the Johnstown flood, which was considered to be a massive flood.
Poe Slaw.
And I’ve lived in the Midwest either in or very near Tornado Alley for most of my life, and have never experienced a tornado, either - or anything worse than a blizzard. But I did live in PA for about 16 years (in Hershey), and experienced Hurricane Fran - and within a year of my moving back to the Midwest, an F3 tornado leveled Campbelletown PA, just 3 miles down the road from my old house.
There really isn’t any place in the continental US that’s free of disasters. But you wouldn’t know that from the way the readers of most websites blather in the aftermath of one.
I’m still trying to figure out why close to everything online these days even has to be in video format. What happened to text?
Not everyone has unlimited high-speed net connectivity, after all. I’m sure I saw something recently about how a significant percentage of Internet users are still on dial-up.
They’re looked upon like the people who live in modest homes in Tornado Alley: they’re assumed not going to buy what the sponsors are selling anyway. Because of course they should be paying for Hi-Speed just like they should be building hardened homes, why aren’t they :rolleyes:
Oh yeah. I knew that. :smack:
Agreed. A new low for WB and CNN.
This is true for anonymous posters, people with the courage to post with their real name and city of residence available tend to add to the conversation in my opinion, whether or not I actually agree with them.
Can we extend this pitting to the obnoxious assholes who go on Facebook to tell everyone that the tornado was a sign that the nation needs to return to God? :rolleyes:
I really, really wish I weren’t related to these people…
And even better, the tornado of fire has Biblical precedent too! (Exodus 13:21-22, where God accompanied the Israelites fleeing Egypt, in a pillar of fire.)