Well, now that the killer tornadoes have taken 70-some lives in Kentucky, I think the gol-dang Fedrul Gubmint should leave these fine people alone, and not come bustin' in with all their Fedrul mandates and Fedrul money!
Killer Tornadoes
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I am very lucky.. I pickup from down their ..
Last night I was in Storm Lake, IA and just had to suffer a blizzard, 80 mph winds and 1 foot of snow and ice..
Now I’m outside Chicago and it’s dam near 50F
Last night I was in Storm Lake, IA and just had to suffer a blizzard, 80 mph winds and 1 foot of snow and ice..
Now I’m outside Chicago and it’s dam near 50F
It’s climate change I tell ya, climate change 
… or El Nino or La Nina causing weird weather as far south as Australia..
www.theguardian.com
… or El Nino or La Nina causing weird weather as far south as Australia..
Bureau of meteorology warns of floods with double likelihood of La Niña predicted for Australia
Climatologist says northern and eastern states face and increased risk of severe weather events, with a 70% chance of higher rainfall
If your gubmint operates like ours, there will be no panic to keep the feds out.
Hasn't Gawd helped 'em enough? How much clearer does Gawd have to make it? Get the fuck out of Kentucky!
I've been there; used to go to Iowa for almost a month every year for something like 10 years. Honestly don't see why people don't like it, I thought Iowa was a nice little state. Not shocked by the weather there; winter's crazy.
Was watching a chaser last night going after this tornado. Night tornadoes are horrible.
I've been there; used to go to Iowa for almost a month every year for something like 10 years. Honestly don't see why people don't like it, I thought Iowa was a nice little state. Not shocked by the weather there; winter's crazy.
Was watching a chaser last night going after this tornado. Night tornadoes are horrible.
Well now I am in Battle Creek, MI
Never said I didn't like Iowa.. those farm girls are hot
You are disrespecting Davy Crockett and his Kentucky Riffles , oh right they left .
Night of devastating tornadoes likely kills more than 100 in Kentucky
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Interior view of tornado damage to Emmanuel Baptist Church in Mayfield, Ky., Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. Multiple tornadoes tore through parts of the lower Midwest late on Friday night, leaving a large path of destruction.
Interior view of tornado damage to Emmanuel Baptist Church in Mayfield, Ky., Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. Multiple tornadoes tore through parts of the lower Midwest late on Friday night, leaving a large path of destruction. Photo by Brett Carlsen /Getty Images
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MAYFIELD — At least 100 people were feared dead in Kentucky after a swarm of tornadoes tore a 200-mile path through the U.S. Midwest and South, demolishing homes, leveling businesses and setting off a scramble to find survivors beneath the rubble, officials said Saturday.
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The powerful twisters, which weather forecasters say are unusual in cooler months, destroyed a candle factory and the fire and police stations in a small town in Kentucky, ripped through a nursing home in neighboring Missouri, and killed at least two workers at an Amazon warehouse in Illinois.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said the collection of tornadoes was the most destructive in the state’s history. He said about 40 workers had been rescued at the candle factory in the city of Mayfield, which had about 110 people inside when it was reduced to a pile of rubble. It would be a “miracle” to find anyone else alive under the debris, Beshear said.
“The devastation is unlike anything I have seen in my life and I have trouble putting it into words,” Beshear said at a press conference. “It’s very likely going to be over 100 people lost here in Kentucky.”
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A general view of tornado-damaged businesses in Mayfield, Ky., Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021.
Beshear said 189 National Guard personnel have been deployed to assist with the recovery. The rescue efforts will focus in large part on Mayfield, home to some 10,000 people in the southwestern corner of the state where it converges with Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas.
Video and photos posted on social media showed brick buildings in downtown Mayfield flattened, with parked cars nearly buried under debris. The steeple on the historic Graves County courthouse was toppled and the nearby First United Methodist Church partially collapsed.
Mayfield Fire Chief Jeremy Creason, whose own station was destroyed, said the candle factory was diminished to a “pile of bent metal and steel and machinery” and that responders had to at times “crawl over casualties to get to live victims.”
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Paige Tingle said she drove four hours to the site in the hope of finding her 52-year-old mother, Jill Monroe, who was working at the factory and was last heard from at 9:30 p.m.
“We don’t know how to feel, we are just trying to find her,” she said. “It’s a disaster here.”
The genesis of the tornado outbreak was a series of overnight thunderstorms, including a super cell storm that formed in northeast Arkansas. That storm moved from Arkansas and Missouri and into Tennessee and Kentucky.
Unusually high temperatures and humidity created the environment for such an extreme weather event at this time of year, said Victor Gensini, a professor in geographic and atmospheric sciences at Northern Illinois University.
“This is an historic, if not generational event,” Gensini said.
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Saying the disaster was likely one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history, President Joe Biden on Saturday approved an emergency declaration for Kentucky.
He told reporters he would be asking the Environmental Protection Agency to examine what role climate change may have played in fueling the storms, and he raised questions about the tornado warning systems.
“What warning was there? And was it strong enough and was it heeded?” Biden said.
About 130 miles east of Mayfield in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Justin Shepherd said his coffee shop was spared the worst of the storm, which struck other businesses hard on the busy commercial strip just off the bypass to U.S. Highway 31 West.
“We’ve got some siding and roof damage here, but just across the road there’s a brewery that half of it is gone. It’s just totally gone, like a big bomb exploded or something.”
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One person was killed and five seriously injured when a tornado tore through a nursing home with 90 beds in Monette, Arkansas, a small community near the border with Missouri, according to Craighead County Judge Marvin Day.
“We were very blessed that more people weren’t killed or injured in that. It could have been a whole lot worse,” Day told Reuters.
A few miles away in Leachville, Arkansas, a tornado destroyed a Dollar General Store, killing one person, and laid waste to much of the city’s downtown, said Lt. Chuck Brown of the Mississippi County Sheriff’s Office in Arkansas.
“It really sounded like a train roaring through town.”
In Illinois, at least two workers were confirmed killed after an Amazon.com Inc warehouse collapsed in the town of Edwardsville, with the roof appearing to have been peeled back off the metal skeleton of the building.
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In Tennessee, the severe weather killed at least three people, said Dean Flener, spokesperson for the state’s Emergency Management Agency.
The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center said it received 36 reports of tornadoes touching down in Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippi.
The weather forecast was broadly clear for Saturday night, but temperatures were expected to drop and thousands of residents lack power and water after the storm. As of Saturday afternoon, nearly 99,000 customers in Kentucky and more than 71,000 in Tennessee were without power, according to PowerOutage.US, a website tracking power outages.
Kentucky officials called on residents to stay off the roads and to donate blood, as responders rushed to rescue survivors and account for people in communities that had lost communications.
“We’ve got Guardsmen who are out doing door knocks and checking up on folks because there’s no other communication with some of these people,” said Brigadier General Haldane Lamberton of the Kentucky National Guard.
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Interior view of tornado damage to Emmanuel Baptist Church in Mayfield, Ky., Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. Multiple tornadoes tore through parts of the lower Midwest late on Friday night, leaving a large path of destruction.
Interior view of tornado damage to Emmanuel Baptist Church in Mayfield, Ky., Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. Multiple tornadoes tore through parts of the lower Midwest late on Friday night, leaving a large path of destruction. Photo by Brett Carlsen /Getty Images
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MAYFIELD — At least 100 people were feared dead in Kentucky after a swarm of tornadoes tore a 200-mile path through the U.S. Midwest and South, demolishing homes, leveling businesses and setting off a scramble to find survivors beneath the rubble, officials said Saturday.
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The powerful twisters, which weather forecasters say are unusual in cooler months, destroyed a candle factory and the fire and police stations in a small town in Kentucky, ripped through a nursing home in neighboring Missouri, and killed at least two workers at an Amazon warehouse in Illinois.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said the collection of tornadoes was the most destructive in the state’s history. He said about 40 workers had been rescued at the candle factory in the city of Mayfield, which had about 110 people inside when it was reduced to a pile of rubble. It would be a “miracle” to find anyone else alive under the debris, Beshear said.
“The devastation is unlike anything I have seen in my life and I have trouble putting it into words,” Beshear said at a press conference. “It’s very likely going to be over 100 people lost here in Kentucky.”
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A general view of tornado-damaged businesses in Mayfield, Ky., Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021.
Beshear said 189 National Guard personnel have been deployed to assist with the recovery. The rescue efforts will focus in large part on Mayfield, home to some 10,000 people in the southwestern corner of the state where it converges with Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas.
Video and photos posted on social media showed brick buildings in downtown Mayfield flattened, with parked cars nearly buried under debris. The steeple on the historic Graves County courthouse was toppled and the nearby First United Methodist Church partially collapsed.
Mayfield Fire Chief Jeremy Creason, whose own station was destroyed, said the candle factory was diminished to a “pile of bent metal and steel and machinery” and that responders had to at times “crawl over casualties to get to live victims.”
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Paige Tingle said she drove four hours to the site in the hope of finding her 52-year-old mother, Jill Monroe, who was working at the factory and was last heard from at 9:30 p.m.
“We don’t know how to feel, we are just trying to find her,” she said. “It’s a disaster here.”
The genesis of the tornado outbreak was a series of overnight thunderstorms, including a super cell storm that formed in northeast Arkansas. That storm moved from Arkansas and Missouri and into Tennessee and Kentucky.
Unusually high temperatures and humidity created the environment for such an extreme weather event at this time of year, said Victor Gensini, a professor in geographic and atmospheric sciences at Northern Illinois University.
“This is an historic, if not generational event,” Gensini said.
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Story continues below
Article content
Saying the disaster was likely one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history, President Joe Biden on Saturday approved an emergency declaration for Kentucky.
He told reporters he would be asking the Environmental Protection Agency to examine what role climate change may have played in fueling the storms, and he raised questions about the tornado warning systems.
“What warning was there? And was it strong enough and was it heeded?” Biden said.
About 130 miles east of Mayfield in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Justin Shepherd said his coffee shop was spared the worst of the storm, which struck other businesses hard on the busy commercial strip just off the bypass to U.S. Highway 31 West.
“We’ve got some siding and roof damage here, but just across the road there’s a brewery that half of it is gone. It’s just totally gone, like a big bomb exploded or something.”
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One person was killed and five seriously injured when a tornado tore through a nursing home with 90 beds in Monette, Arkansas, a small community near the border with Missouri, according to Craighead County Judge Marvin Day.
“We were very blessed that more people weren’t killed or injured in that. It could have been a whole lot worse,” Day told Reuters.
A few miles away in Leachville, Arkansas, a tornado destroyed a Dollar General Store, killing one person, and laid waste to much of the city’s downtown, said Lt. Chuck Brown of the Mississippi County Sheriff’s Office in Arkansas.
“It really sounded like a train roaring through town.”
In Illinois, at least two workers were confirmed killed after an Amazon.com Inc warehouse collapsed in the town of Edwardsville, with the roof appearing to have been peeled back off the metal skeleton of the building.
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In Tennessee, the severe weather killed at least three people, said Dean Flener, spokesperson for the state’s Emergency Management Agency.
The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center said it received 36 reports of tornadoes touching down in Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippi.
The weather forecast was broadly clear for Saturday night, but temperatures were expected to drop and thousands of residents lack power and water after the storm. As of Saturday afternoon, nearly 99,000 customers in Kentucky and more than 71,000 in Tennessee were without power, according to PowerOutage.US, a website tracking power outages.
Kentucky officials called on residents to stay off the roads and to donate blood, as responders rushed to rescue survivors and account for people in communities that had lost communications.
“We’ve got Guardsmen who are out doing door knocks and checking up on folks because there’s no other communication with some of these people,” said Brigadier General Haldane Lamberton of the Kentucky National Guard.
Night of devastating tornadoes likely kills more than 100 in Kentucky
MAYFIELD — At least 100 people were feared dead in Kentucky after a swarm of tornadoes tore a 200-mile path through the U.S. Midwest and South, demolishing homes, l…
Six dead, no hope of more survivors after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse
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Richa Naidu
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Dec 11, 2021 • 5 hours ago • 2 minute read •
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The site of a roof collapse at an Amazon.com distribution centre a day after a series of tornadoes dealt a blow to several U.S. states, in Edwardsville, Illinois, December 11, 2021
The site of a roof collapse at an Amazon.com distribution centre a day after a series of tornadoes dealt a blow to several U.S. states, in Edwardsville, Illinois, December 11, 2021 Photo by Drone Base /REUTERS
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EDWARDSVILLE — Six Amazon.com Inc workers were confirmed dead on Saturday after a series of tornadoes roared through a warehouse near St Louis, ripping off its roof and causing 11-inch thick concrete walls longer than football fields to collapse on themselves.
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At least 45 Amazon employees made it out safely from the rubble of the 500,000-square-foot Edwardsville, Illinois facility, fire chief James Whiteford said. Authorities had given up hope of finding more survivors as they shifted from rescue to recovery efforts that were expected to last days.
Tornadoes ripped through six U.S. states Friday night, leaving a trail of death and destruction at homes and businesses that stretched more than 200 miles.
The Amazon plant was hit about 8:38 p.m. central time, Whiteford said. The force of the winds was so severe the roof was ripped off and the building collapsed on itself.
Witnesses said workers in the plant were caught by surprise and forced to take shelter anywhere they could find.
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“I had a coworker that was sending me pictures when they were taking shelter in the bathroom, basically anywhere they could hide,” said Alexander Bird, who works at the warehouse across the street.
“People had to think on their feet quick.”
Amazon said all employees were normally notified and directed to move to a designated marked shelter-in-place location when a site was made aware of a tornado warning in the area.
Emergency response training is provided to new employees and reinforced throughout the year, the company said.
It was unclear how many workers were still missing as Amazon did not have an exact count of the number of people working in the sorting and delivery center at the time the tornadoes hit, Whiteford said.
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Colleagues and family members desperate for news about loved ones gathered outside the mess of concrete and steel.
Amazon truck driver Emily Epperson, 23, said she was anxiously waiting for information on the whereabouts of her workmate Austin McEwan late Saturday afternoon to relay to his girlfriend and parents.
“We’re so worried because we believe that, you know, he would have been found by now,” she told Reuters.
One mother told a St Louis Fox news station that her son Clayton Cope, a 29-year-old maintenance worker, was dead. Police were yet to officially release the names of the dead.
“Everyone assumes they will be safe at work,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. “We don’t think that they will never come home.”
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Pritzker said he had been in contact with Amazon executives, who pledged financial support for the community.
Earlier, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy posted on Twitter that the company was “heartbroken over the loss” of its staff members and would continue to work closely with the local authorities on the rescue efforts.
“It gives me shivers,” Kathie Burnett, 67, said. She was a delivery driver at Amazon until two weeks ago when she quit because of health reasons.
“I would have been standing right in the middle of that track,” she said pointing to what remained of the facility. “There would have been 100 trucks in there last night and you didn’t see one this morning, did you?”
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The site of a roof collapse at an Amazon.com distribution centre a day after a series of tornadoes dealt a blow to several U.S. states, in Edwardsville, Illinois, December 11, 2021
The site of a roof collapse at an Amazon.com distribution centre a day after a series of tornadoes dealt a blow to several U.S. states, in Edwardsville, Illinois, December 11, 2021 Photo by Drone Base /REUTERS
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EDWARDSVILLE — Six Amazon.com Inc workers were confirmed dead on Saturday after a series of tornadoes roared through a warehouse near St Louis, ripping off its roof and causing 11-inch thick concrete walls longer than football fields to collapse on themselves.
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At least 45 Amazon employees made it out safely from the rubble of the 500,000-square-foot Edwardsville, Illinois facility, fire chief James Whiteford said. Authorities had given up hope of finding more survivors as they shifted from rescue to recovery efforts that were expected to last days.
Tornadoes ripped through six U.S. states Friday night, leaving a trail of death and destruction at homes and businesses that stretched more than 200 miles.
The Amazon plant was hit about 8:38 p.m. central time, Whiteford said. The force of the winds was so severe the roof was ripped off and the building collapsed on itself.
Witnesses said workers in the plant were caught by surprise and forced to take shelter anywhere they could find.
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“I had a coworker that was sending me pictures when they were taking shelter in the bathroom, basically anywhere they could hide,” said Alexander Bird, who works at the warehouse across the street.
“People had to think on their feet quick.”
Amazon said all employees were normally notified and directed to move to a designated marked shelter-in-place location when a site was made aware of a tornado warning in the area.
Emergency response training is provided to new employees and reinforced throughout the year, the company said.
It was unclear how many workers were still missing as Amazon did not have an exact count of the number of people working in the sorting and delivery center at the time the tornadoes hit, Whiteford said.
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Story continues below
Article content
Colleagues and family members desperate for news about loved ones gathered outside the mess of concrete and steel.
Amazon truck driver Emily Epperson, 23, said she was anxiously waiting for information on the whereabouts of her workmate Austin McEwan late Saturday afternoon to relay to his girlfriend and parents.
“We’re so worried because we believe that, you know, he would have been found by now,” she told Reuters.
One mother told a St Louis Fox news station that her son Clayton Cope, a 29-year-old maintenance worker, was dead. Police were yet to officially release the names of the dead.
“Everyone assumes they will be safe at work,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. “We don’t think that they will never come home.”
Advertisement
Story continues below
Article content
Pritzker said he had been in contact with Amazon executives, who pledged financial support for the community.
Earlier, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy posted on Twitter that the company was “heartbroken over the loss” of its staff members and would continue to work closely with the local authorities on the rescue efforts.
“It gives me shivers,” Kathie Burnett, 67, said. She was a delivery driver at Amazon until two weeks ago when she quit because of health reasons.
“I would have been standing right in the middle of that track,” she said pointing to what remained of the facility. “There would have been 100 trucks in there last night and you didn’t see one this morning, did you?”
Six dead, no hope of more survivors after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse
EDWARDSVILLE — Six Amazon.com Inc workers were confirmed dead on Saturday after a series of tornadoes roared through a warehouse near St Louis, ripping off its roof…
Well now I am in Battle Creek, MI
Never said I didn't like Iowa.. those farm girls are hot
Never said you didn't; a lot of people like to make Iowa the butt of jokes because flat land and cornfields.
Of all the times I went there, I didn't see many hot farm girls, sorry. Wish I had.