Discussion for article #244117
Not to be unpleasant about the people who were killed or dispossessed by this freakish weather (people in shorts on the street in NYC on Xmas Day, snow in Florida!) but isn’t the roaring silence from those who said that Sandy was the wrath of God on NY for our depravity interesting? Is their God trying to tell them something?
Or is it that the hoaxers selling global warming are in cahoots with the weather gods? All those fat research contracts need to be renewed, I guess.
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A one degree rise in temperature does not sound like a lot, but it is in fact a lot more potential energy lingering out there in the air,and in the oceans just waiting for the right conditions to come together. Extreme weather is the result.
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Kansas is west of the tornadic weather and we’re expecting rain followed by freezing rain tonight, ice pellets and then 5-8 inches of snow on top of that tomorrow and Monday with 50+ mph winds. Flooding rains in eastern Kansas and Missouri too. Not looking forward to any of this shit at all.
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Precisely. When it happens to them, no one says anything, particularly about how they are being punished for [insert alleged sin here].
Trouble is, if someone were to say that out loud, that person would be excoriated for being “insensitive” or what not. (See under: hypocrisy).
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Honestly, who cares what the tiny fraction of people who attribute weather to God’s wrath on X for Y believe?
This clearly is God’s rath for the support of Trump that is pervasive throughout the South. Unless they repent and change their politics I am sure God will strike again. 
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See, I viewed it as God’s Wrath™ for Alabaman’s allowing Ted Cruz to demagogue about the state’s DMV voter suppression actions on Christmas Eve.
I’m OK with either view I suppose.
One as likely as the other.
jw1
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It’s disgusting to pile on victims of natural disasters by basically saying they deserved it, and which apparently only applies in areas with Progressive views. But it does let me know who isn’t a man of God and whose views I can safely reject going forward.
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It’s also problematic to pile on victims of natural disasters by pretending that those victims are the same people saying that other victims of natural disasters deserved it. The victims in Birmingham were working-class black people, so probably not Trump/Cruz supporters or the people attributing other disasters to God’s wrath on liberalism.
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A NYT story two days ago describes the devastation in Mississippi. A man whose home and family suffered a lot of damage said he didn’t have “home insurance” so it was going to be difficult. Maybe MS has no requirement that its citizens must have home insurance as a condition of getting a mortgage , but that’s the case in California (only place I’ve owned property).
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I’d agree that it’s not fair to wish harm to the citizens of MS, AL AK and TN just because they have unthinking governors whose policies differ from progressives. At the same, these governors will probably turn to the Federal government for aid to repair the damage, and that’s the Federal government and the Democratic administration they disparage and fail to cooperate with on most matters whenever they can.
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Very true. And it’s especially galling when a fertilizer plant blows up with minimal liability insurance (West, TX) while causing significant damage to surrounding schools, apartments, and nursing homes; and the Governor decides he wants the Feds to pay for it…but refuses to change state laws that allow these companies to continue their negligent ways.
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Don’t forget the OK tornado of a few years ago. No Googling involved so this may be imprecise, but the governor immediately turned to the Feds for financial because the state’s emergency budget was woefully underfunded,something like $6 million or so was in it
Hope you’re okay! (And everyone else, of course.) Stay safe…
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Thermodynamics is well over the wingnuts’ heads.
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A snowstorm in January is “proof” that global warming is a hoax.
Record breaking December heat is totally ignored.
You must be referring to the 72 degree weather in NY where people are walking around in shorts and not going skating in Central Park and other places as they usually do in December because the ice is too thin.
In a small town in MS called Marks a man who’d lost his house said
“I’m putting it in God’s hands,” Mr. McClelland said on Thursday. “God, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, thank you for saving me.”
Me, I’d be on be on the phone to Kemper ASAP
Who’s hand sent the tornado?
What a comforting superstition belief.
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