Has anyone noticed Tornadoes are becoming to common?

Let me try to explain. First some history. In 2002 Hurricane Lilly was bearing down on South West Louisiana. Three days before it made land fall Cameron Parish was completly evacuated. Most of Calcasieu Parish (the parish just North of Cameron) was also evacuated. Now comes 2005 and Katrina was bearing down on New Orleans. The evacuation wasn't called for until less than 24 hours remained before land fall. If you watched the people lining up to shelter at the Superdome you would have seen them getting rained on. This was the outer bands of Katrina. A month later Hurricane Rita Hit SW LA. Again 3 days before it made land fall the evacuation was called for. I live in Calcasieu parish and we left town after the evacuation was called for on Thursday morning under the cover of a sunny day. The city of Houston also called for evacuation 3 days early. Rita hit Saturday and only 7 people died as a direct cause of Rita. We sat a full day in Central LA watching the whole thing unfold. So you ask why did people stand in the face of Katrina? The answer is... MONEY! Most of the 1.3 million people that live in the NO and the surrounding areas are poor. Most rely on public transportation to get around. When the mayor calls for the evacuation of said 1.3 million people less than 24 hours from land fall and they need public transportation to get them out of the city and surrounding areas they are what you call SOL. Why did he wait so long to call for the evacuation? Again money. He stated that he was afraid that if he called for the evac. that local hotels and buisnesses would lose valuable tourism dollars. He was afraid that said buisnesses would then sue the city for lost profits if the hurricane didn't hit NO. If three days before the storm hit they had started bussing people out of the city most of the deaths and looting wouldn't have happened.

 

We heard that the last 3 seasons since katrina and have had almost nothing. Katrina wasn't even the strongest hurricane it just hit in the wrong place. Andrew was just as bad and camile from 1968 i think was even worse.

 

Ladies and gentlemen for the last 30+ years there has been a massive attempt to end the life you live as you know it. To eliminate and compromise private property rights and to destroy or control huge portions of our nations economy.

There is no global warming the earth is not progressively getting warmer. The decades of the 50s and 70s were much colder than the norm that alone disproves this silly notion of a progressive warming. Scientists studying ocean currents see a cooling trend for the next 7 years or so. Already there is this huge PR campaign at damage control as scientists in the tank for global warming are telling us yeah things will get colder but after that watch out. WTF!

 

Cajuntitan not the biggest fan of the new orleans mayor.

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It was the movie twister that did everyone in... no one noticed the size/warning signs before then. Now everyone freaks out when the sky turns "green." And people don't take the precations they used to... how many people do you know that have storm cellars?

I love tornadoes, went hunting with a group of chasers one summer to try and get some great photographs. (i did not cause i found them to be too mesmerizing) It amazes me how many people freak out of a little cyclone that you could walk through yet stare straight ahead at the big burtha heading right towards them.

Its just another part of evolution.

 

The South and Midwest gets pounded the most, thats what it seems like.

 

You would be correct. In the Taboo forum there is a Bush-isms thread. There could be an equally impressive Nagin-ism thread.

 

It's tornado season. It's to be expected