When I drove to work on Wednesday night, I was buffeted by violent winds. I had left home early because the weather forecast called for tornadoes, and the in-motion radar images were ominous. The storm was headed for my path, but I arrived at my destination safely.
In the building where I work, dozens of people who lacked access to safe shelter spent the night huddled in the hallways. Back home, the rest of my little family spent the night in a closet while golf ball-sized hail bombarded the house and the booming sounds of exploding transformers could be heard in every direction.
When I made my way back home at daybreak, what I saw triggered a burst of expletives. The road was clear, but landscape was now barely recognizable. Guard rails were strewn around and crumpled like flimsy ribbons of aluminum foil. Homes and businesses had been reduced to piles of splinters and toothpicks. Cars where scattered along the side of the road like toys dropped from a toddler's clumsy hands. Several 18-wheelers had been pounded, mangled, and dumped in piles of their own contents.
In my home town, 95,000 EPB customers had lost power.
Hundreds of people across the South are now dead. Photographs cannot accurately capture the magnitude of the devastation. Fortunately for me, the lights are back on where I live, my home is in one piece, and all of my family members in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama are clean, dry and intact.
The roads where I live are now jam-packed with friends and strangers rushing in to help the victims and clean up the mess...
Meanwhile, the loathsome toads at Think Progress think they've drawn a clever connection between the weather's wrath and the political views of the victims:
Storms Kill Over 250 Americans In States Represented By Climate Pollution DeniersToday, news agencies are still tallying reports of deaths from the most devastating storm system in the United States in decades...The congressional delegations of these states — Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia, and Kentucky — overwhelmingly voted to reject the science that polluting the climate is dangerous. They are deliberately ignoring the warnings from scientists.
True to their grotesque form, left wing zealots are defending the indefensible in response to this unwashed tripe.
It's a new twist on the Pat Robertson model of Divine Justice... "Since the south has rejected the climate change hysteria, clearly they’re just asking for the wrath of Gaia, and should expect to be demolished."
Here's how you can help victims in need:
- Red Cross, or text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10 to relief efforts
- Samaritan’s Purse
- Text “Give” to 80888 to give $10 to Salvation Army relief efforts.
FLASHBACK:
“I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong — Mother Nature’s fist of fury, Gaia’s stern rebuke.”– James Wolcott, “An Ignoble Confession,” Sept. 2004
Hat tip: McCain
X-posted at LCR
Tornadoes whipped up by wind, not climate
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