Don’t worry Alabama, the Blue Donor states will pay for reconstruction, while you call for rugged individualism and states rights and complain how all our tax money goes to lazy welfare recipients…
Radar and video evidence showed what looked like a large tornado crossing the area near Beauregard shortly after 2 p.m. on Sunday, said meteorologist Meredith Wyatt with the Birmingham office of the National Weather Service.
Don’t go out on a limb there Sparky. Got to interview both sides. It might have been a fire breathing dragon.
Now’s not the time for such remarks. Let’s be better than this.
It could be God’s punishment, just saying…
You’re right…Be Best…
Do remember Alabama elected Doug Jones, a Democrat, to the Senate. Expect the state to get half of the FEMA funds it needs.
A half-mile-wide tornado on the ground for a mile, that’s nuts. So scary.
Drones flying overheard equipped with heat-seeking devices had scanned the area for survivors
Great use for drones, and hopefully some lives will be saved because of it.
WOW! I know that place! I used to live in Lee County. Beaureguard isn’t much of a place, but i remember it because their fire department was a BFD. One thing, though, about most of Alabama: no basements. Lots of mobile homes. Easy pickings for tornadoes.
Wake up America this is the new normal and repeat after me there is no such thing as climate change…
m,you are correct in your assessment but with this going on all you can do is say wtf?.
"President Donald Trump tweeted late Sunday, “To the great people of
Alabama and surrounding areas: Please be careful and safe. … To the
families and friends of the victims, and to the injured, God bless you
all!”
"Trump administration proposes 8 percent budget cut at National Weather Service, reduction in staff
Meanwhile, here in Tornado Alley, schools have been cancelled today because of the cold. Wind chills are expected to be so low that it will be dangerous for kids to be out waiting for buses. This is the first time I can remember having school closings for cold.
When is? We’re not supposed to criticize guns after mass shootings-- too soon! We’re not supposed to highlight the important role of government in recovery from natural disasters-- too insensitive!
It’s always the right time to highlight issues. Preferably dripping with sarcasm as we bail out another Red State for the umpteenth time, as they continue to kick their rescuers in the teeth.
This is the new norm. Kids today will not have those stories to tell their kids and grand kids about having to walk 4 miles to school in the snow, up hill both ways, in bitter cold, forced to hold that baked potato in their hands to keep their fingers from freezing off.
Kids today also have air conditioning in their classrooms.
And they even get a spring break, now.
Not at all like when we were kids.
Kids today, i tell ya…
Right? Remember Hurricane Sandy? Hit NY & NJ and some southern congressmen against funding the response despite being regular recipients of such aid?
Also, get off my lawn!
Pfaw. At least you had a baked potato. Lord it over the rest of us, why dontcha.
It might have also been nice if they had their facts correct. An EF-3 tornado has wind speeds of 136-165 mph, not 158-206 mph. In fact, the enhanced Fujita scale doesn’t even have a scale in that range. I assume AP has fact checkers. Perhaps they could use them on their own facts, too?
As many as TPM has copy editors.