There is no global warming.

[Mutley]

It's totally normal that I know two different people, in two different locations, who were in tornados yesterday. In the mid-Atlantic. Totally normal.

Yeah.

[TZ]

1. I've lived in Maryland almost my entire life

And I really think that the amount of tornadic activity has gone way up here in the last 10 years or so..Back in 2002 the big La Plata Tornado was the strongest tornado in the US that year (F4- borderline F5)

[Mutley]

3. I lived in Maryland for 15 years

and live in Delaware now. It does seem like the weather is more severe than it used to be.

[stuntcat]

7. in VA, they said today on the radio:

I swear I heard them say about the last few days here that nothing like that had happened in like 20 or 40 years. It was background NPR that I was hardly listening to but that got my attention :scared:

We didn't have power for over 12 hours but our food's okay and the fishies made it without their pump!

In some ways all the rain has been good for the flowers I guess, but our gardening zone around here is officially shifting. And lately the ground's been so soggy I'm afraid sometimes to put new plants in.

And now we're fixing to be sweltering for the rest of the weekend I think.

[ZombieHorde]

9. Were they super scary?

Tornadoes seem very scary.

[TZ]

15. I was very scared sitting at the doctors office..

I only got one glimpse outside during the really bad part of the storm and it looked well..green and dark as night.

[ZombieHorde]

19. What was green?

[TZ]

21. The sky/clouds

Or greenish.

[ZombieHorde]

23. Crazy, I did not know that.

[FloridaJudy]

22. The sky turns a weird, sickly greenish hue

When the weather conditions favor tornadoes. I've been through two.

I'm sure there's a scientific explanation.

ETA: I found it http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-if-sky-is-green-run-for-cover-tornado-is-coming

[TZ]

2. dupe

[madinmaryland]

14. Stop duping, Snyder. I gotta headache!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. That's what a guy told me this week.

Told me that because it snows in Utah in the summertime, there is no global warming. And that Al Gore is in it for the money.

:banghead:


I guess he doesn't understand that it snows in Utah in the summertime at HIGH ALTITUDES! Too much subtlety there.

[TommyO]

5. One of the people that I work with in Virginia

had a tree go kerplunk on her house in the storms yesterday - not fun, and she's not a happy camper (she's working on finding a hotel where her family can live and she can work from as well).

[Swede]

6. That's why Russia,Canada,Denmark,Norway and the USA are carving up the arctic.

No move along.

[Mutley]

8. Um, the post was intended to be sarcastic.

I figured the part about all the tornadoes in the mid-Atlantic being normal would make that clear.

:shrug:

[Coyote_Bandit]

10. Storms headed this way again tonight

Lost my electricity for 30 hours during the storm that blew through earlier this week. There have been another 3 or 4 extended storm related power outages as well. All since the week long ice storm power outage in December. I'm thinking I am definitely going to buy a generator before winter this year.

And, yeah, I had somebody assault me with their "no such thing as global warning" bullshit earlier this week. Come to find out they've been listening to "expert" scientists on christian tv (I need to find out who they were so I can document their conflicts). And they are afraid they will have to pay carbon credits for their energy usage. :crazy:

[underpants]

11. Lightning storms at 3 am

normal


right?

[Midlodemocrat]

17. Seriously. What is up with that?

[underpants]

18. It was so humid in Staunton on Wednesday that the rain didn't evaporate off the streets

according to my brother.

the doorbell thing is freaky. It must have hit really close to their house.

[realisticphish]

12. Actually it was my bad

I was using my weather control device that THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT, and I spilled some beer on it

[MorningGlow]

13. My hubby is a denier (sigh)

But the tornado in SoCal, near my brother and his family, a couple of weeks ago got his attention. He tends to keep mum about the subject nowadays.

[Midlodemocrat]

16. One touched down in my neighborhood Tuesday.

Also tore through the baseball field at the High School.

Scary stuff.

[quip]

20. Anecdotal evidence aside, the debate isn't whether the earth is warming,

but what is the cause of it.

[Mutley]

24. Well, for some the debate is still whether the earth is warming.

When I posted this thread I'd just finished having a discussion with someone at work who doesn't even subscribe to the "earth is warming because that is its natural cycle" theory. He just doesn't believe that the earth is warming at all.