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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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#252 |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: NYC
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I saw this on Twitter. Unbelievable.
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Little Rock, AR
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Wow. Speechless.
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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My goodness. Weather channel reporting some kids in school didn't make it. Horrible
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#256 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Whittier
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Why would anyone live in Oklahoma? This is crazy
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#257 |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Tampa, FL
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Man, that video is just too hard to watch...
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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The reports from one of the local stations about the death toll are ... heartbreaking is the only word I can think of.
Barring something in the realm of a miracle, I fear this may be very very bad.
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#259 |
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Here
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I'm sure the power will go out in Williamsburg for 30 minutes and media and celebrities will raise massive funds for those affected by the blackout within an out.
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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Location: Troy, Mo
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Dayton, OH
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Good job on the death toll reports last night, dipshits.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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Ya, it used to be that the initial confirmed death toll would be low and then it would slowly grow as more information came out. I remember very early on 9/11 a news report actually reporting "2 confirmed dead" (I guess people outside who were killed by debris.) Today, they would have estimated the number of people in the towers at the time and reported 40,000 dead. Same deal with the Boston Marathon, early death toll numbers quickly reduced. I guess its for web traffic reasons. Still sucks though of course, especially the kids and all the survivors who have lost their sense of security in their homes. |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Hard to ding the media on this one I think.
After all, the 51 figure was given to them by the state medical examiner's office, about as official as you're going to get in a situation like this. The miscount seems to have occurred with the officials (who double counted a lot of victims apparently), not sure how the media could have prevented that.
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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Some schools in the greater DFW area are closing early today, due to the threat of storms like the ones that hit OKC yesterday hitting the area this afternoon.
http://www.wfaa.com/news/education/N...208332441.html Here's what the risk area looks like (spoilered due to size):
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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That is awesome. But the reporter is a dipshit. First she asks the lady are you able to comprehended what happened and then does not even help the lady get the dog out from the debris.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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The other thing I saw cited was "communication problems" and the lack of consistent cell phone coverage. Which sounds like the kind of thing that, maybe if you wait a few hours, you can be accurate, if not first. |
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Little Rock, AR
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Closing schools are a really good idea. A few years ago, a tornado hit the school I went to. It was nothing like this, but the school system did let out early to get everyone out. People questioned it at the time, but everyone turned out grateful.
The bottom line is people are going to die in a storm like this. But get the kids out of the school so you don't have a bunch of them in one concentrated area.
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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But that waiting, in this case, should have then fallen on the state officials. What do you suggest, that the media simply ignore what they're told on the record by a high ranking state official who is one of the few people who should actually know the accurate number at that point? It's not like this came from the aide to the assistant to the chief of staff of the Lt. Governor or something, it was from the state chief medical examiner's office (who presumably outranks the local M.E. in some fashion).
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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CNN reported "91 confirmed dead" at one point last night. They went double over what the medical examiner (apparently) reported. Maybe the medical examiner counted everyone twice, and then CNN reported everyone twice again (or maybe the medical examiner counted every victim three times). The medical examiner obviously screwed up too, since they have a media function in an emergency situation. But today, they're just saying that communication was bad and it was "chaos". Which tells me that they weren't ready yet to "confirm" dead, but did anyway, for whatever reason. It's good news that the death toll is lower, of course. But people rely on this shit, they rely on accurate reporting, both before and after the tornado. When people are reckless like this, it ultimately becomes a part of conspiracy theories too, which are just a pain in the ass more than anything. "Confirmed dead" should be a pretty easy number to nail down, even if it takes a while. Maybe they should call them "speculated dead" if they're in such a hurry. Last edited by molson : 05-21-2013 at 12:52 PM. |
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Reuters & a lot of people had that same 91 figure. Here's the sourcing Quote:
And with a little help from The Blaze I even found the exact source Quote:
edit to add: As a reporter, I don't think I'd have thought anything amiss if that word came from the CAO, given the hour & all, rather than in a full blown press conference with the CME.
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#273 |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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The Weather Channel's website is just crawling today.
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Little Rock, AR
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I never visit TWC.com anymore. It has become to bloated with ads and stories that having nothing to do with weather.
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My God... The woman in this photo...
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#277 |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Somewhere I saw her referenced as a teacher at the school, dunno if that's accurate or not though.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Here and There
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[QUOTE[I[/i]=M GO BLUE!!!;2825136]My God... The woman in this photo...
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#279 |
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#280 |
General Manager
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Impressive stuff. Kid was smart enough to take a video with his cell phone out of a small opening in the storm shelter (unlike some of these idiots that are walking around taking video). Gives a pretty good idea of how quickly things go to hell, though they were at least lucky enough to be on the outer edge of the vortex.
Okla. men get video of deadly tornado overhead - Yahoo! News |
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Maybe it anchored her to the ground
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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Tornadoes are hitting Oklahoma again-the biggest one currently moving towards Oklahoma City, maybe Moore again which would just be horrible. One of the tornado chaser vehicles from the Weather Channel tried to outrun it and failed-got hit and tossed 200 feet or so-the meterologist Mike Bettes was slightly injured, others in the crew too.
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#283 |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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Tornado on the ground in South Oklahoma City it looks like
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#284 |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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Tornado moving into Moore
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#285 |
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: New Jersey
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Following it on Wunderground.... terrible stuff.
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#286 |
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Troy, Mo
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We just came upstairs.. tornado warnings just ended.
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#287 |
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Las Vegas
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Looks like St Louis is next
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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I just realized that the Women's College World Series is in OkC this weekend. Lady Vols had been hunkered down in a parking garage at the hotel, were cleared to go back to their rooms & then minutes later have been told to return to the garage. Knox News-Sentinel reporters is in a "bunker" at the Marriott across the street from the team.
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You St. Louis folks duck & cover for a bit, m'kay
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: St. Louis
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I've have never been a big basement person but with Moore a few weeks ago, a new baby, and a really screwed up sky I think we might be downstairs all night. Plus we have directv so we can't get any good coverage.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Flatlands of America
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Not only is the WCWS going on, but there are three huge girls fastpitch tournaments going on as well (ASA, USSSA, Triple Crown). By my estimations, there are probably no less than 500 teams down there. My daughter is texting like crazy to her friends and teammates that are down there.
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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Jesus , everybody hunker down and stay safe. A lot of my family lives in St. Louis.
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#293 |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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Here's some footage from one of the storm chasers that had a close encounter with the OKC tornado last night.
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Just a matter of maintaining a good signal in the right vehicle.
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: C-Town
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What the hell broke the windshield? Looks like a damn car that got picked up and thrown at the car driving!
Crazy kids...
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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A veteran storm chaser and his son were two of the victims of the El Reno tornado on Friday.
7NEWS - Colorado storm chaser Tim Samaras killed in Oklahoma tornado along with son, longtime partner - Local Story
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Dayton, Ohio
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That's sad. From what I recall from the show he was one of the more cautious guys out there and he was stormchasing for all the right reasons. |
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Germany as well as neighbouring countries (Czech Republic, Austria f.e.) is getting flooded btw from heavy rains and melt water making the rivers go to record levels, whole towns going essentially under water and doing their very own Venice impression
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