F-5 tornado wipes out 95% of Greensburg, KS (Dem. Gov. blames cleanup effort on Bush & Iraq)

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/may/07/f5_tornado_wipes_out_95_greensburg_kansas/?breaking_news ^

[fieldmarshaldj]

Surprisingly, Greensburg/Kiowa County has had a rodent member in the state House of Reps, Dennis McKinney, since 1992 (he’s being interviewed on the Today Show by Al Roker as I type). I wonder how that happened given the almost 6-to-1 GOP lean.

[tumblindice]

Know why Gov. Kathy (D) shuns underpants?*

[metmom]

I will wait and see, the general sense I get from meteorologists is that they aren’t the global warming alarmists that other groups are.

No, they aren't. I did work with the NWS for a time and if you really wanted to raise some blood pressure, just bring up the topic. Real meteorologists know better. They understand how weather works and what drives it.

[Red Badger]

* No, And I’m not sure I wanna......

[subterfuge]

Has the Dem Gov started crying yet?

[subterfuge]

the main purpose of the national guard is defense, not picking up after natural disasters.

True! But the Dem gov and Senator are okay with being short on "stuff" and a few deaths of innocents---if it gives them a chance to Bash Bush and get on the boob tube a bit more. Then they can write a book!

[Muzzle_em]

also named Kathleen

[tumblindice]

Very sad thing when a pol tries to make`political hay’ out of her own constituents’ suffering.
I heard the tavern was the only building that wasn’t flattened, and they were using it as a morgue.

[American Quilter]

Be nice to her. She hasn’t been the same since that house fell on her sister.

LOL!

[ssaftler]

Would that be the president who sent Kyoto to the Senate, only to have it “barely” defeated, 95-0?

[American Quilter]

Why has she not subcontrated out the cleanup to private companies who could be their now working???

Excellent point. That's exactly what she should have done. The private sector is always more efficient than the public sector.

[ssaftler]

She said the state has a shortage of heavy equipment transport trailers,

Gee, you don't suppose that any of their neighboring states that WEREN'T affected by this Bush-caused disaster could send some help, do you?

Nah, gotta blame the Federal Government for EVERYTHING!

[MuttTheHoople]

Sebelius must be “in no ways tahhrrred”.

[American Quilter]

Thanks for that photo. It’s hard to comprehend the level of destruction.

[MuttTheHoople]

No kidding. Haley Barbour really has it going here in Mississippi. New Orleans only gets a little backwater from Lake Pontchartrain while the MS Gulf coast gets hit with the equivalent of several atomic blasts, yet Miss. is re-building while New Orleans is slowly dying.

Here in Jackson, Katrina was still Cat-2, and most of the people afterwards simply cleaned up, put the debris out in the front of the house, and let the city take it to the dump. In N.O., there are still dead neighborhoods. On the coast, there's still lots of rebuilding, but we're getting the Hwy. 90 bridges to Ocean springs and Bay St. Louis back up and going.

[Psycho_Bunny]

lol....Not everything is a Global Warming Conspiracy.  Idiots will probably try but that has nothing to do with the actual scale itself.

Frankly, the new scale works against Warmingists.  This tornado was an EF5 partly because it was around 1.4 miles wide.  Had it been .4 miles wide, it would likely have been categorized an EF4.

Under the old Fujita scale, it would have probably been a 5 either way.

[xzins]

If it is a statement of fact, that they are missing equipment, then I have no problem with it.

If it is not true, then it is an attempt at Bush-bashing.

[kcvl]

She should stop bitching and start asking neighboring states to assist. But, OH NO, that wouldn’t make the ‘news’.

Doesn't seem to bother her to dress up for a photo-op.

[300magnum]

Under the old Fujita scale, it would have probably been a 5 either way.

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Here is the comparison I made in post 40.

Yeah, on the old scale a F3 tornado has winds of 158–206 mph. On the old scale a F5 tornado has winds of 261–318 mph. The new scale ranks a F5 tornado as having wind speeds of >200 mph.

So this was basicaly a F3 last year and a F5 this year.

[aft_lizard]

I can actually call BS on that. Having served in both the KSNG and Reserves in Dodge City, the National Guard in Kansas has almost always had to contract out equipment movement, usually from the reserves. I spent a week doing just that in 2001 just before and during 9/11. Also if you go on Google Earth you will notice that both Dodge City and Great Bends NG units have equipment there(don’t know how current the images are) also in Dodge(also both Dodge and Great Bend’s Reserve units have HET’s sitting in their yards according to Google Earth), Garden City, and many other fairly nearby towns the KDOT has equipment yards for heavy equipment and trailers for highway repair.

Let’s not forget that Greensburg is not that big of a town and doesnt require that much heavy equipment. Too much equipment would not only become a hindrance but a safaety hazard there.