Please keep the Southeast in your thoughts/prayers.

Even as I write this, a massive outbreak of tornadoes has swept a devastating path of destruction and death starting in Texas and Arkansas and plowed  through Mississippi and all the way towards the Carolinas.  The total number of fatalities is already over 140 and it is continuing to rise. In Tuscaloosa, Al alone there's up to 37 fatalities and they've hardly begun rescue/cleanup operations.  Please keep us in your thoughts/prayers.

Even as I write this, a massive outbreak of tornadoes has swept a devastating path of destruction and death starting in Texas and Arkansas and plowed  through Mississippi and all the way towards the Carolinas.  The total number of fatalities is already over 140 and it is continuing to rise. In Tuscaloosa, Al alone there's up to 37 fatalities and they've hardly begun rescue/cleanup operations.  Please keep us in your thoughts/prayers.

Yep, here comes another load. I'm lucky...protected by the Appalachian Mountains.

fatalities?

Also, yeah, I hope my friends down there are alright.

Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.   

Fuck, people just can't catch a break this year. Stay safe, duder.

There were some Tornados by school the past few days, no one seemed to mind. I guess they're common in north Texas.

" Yep, here comes another load. I'm lucky...protected by the Appalachian Mountains. "

Hillbilly country.

Ever squealed Claude?

Amen. And down here we like prayers. :)

Goddammit Bill Paxton get in there!

Fuck.  Didn't know about this.  Any news links I can check out?

I am in East Tennessee, and my car was just destroyed by golf ball sized hail. My wind shield is shattered and both of my tail lights are busted out. My entire car is covered in large dents like a football team went at it with sledge hammers. I have a $500 deductible on my insurance. So there's that money down the drain, plus the question of whether or not my insurance will rise because of the claim. I had to make a large claim two years ago when a deer jumped into the side of my car while I was going 50 mph. I was in a gym at the time, and the sound on the roof was like a freight train. We are quite sure that a tornado was REALLY close for a few minutes. Shit was fucking creepy during the lull in the storm when I drove home. A weird foggy mist was blowing across the ground and the leaves from the trees were turned into mulch, covering everything. The big chunks of ice piled in pools of water made a strange contrast of cold on my feet (i was wearing sandals) and warm, muggy air in my face. The streets were mostly deserted except for the few sirens you could here all around, and many blocks were out of power. Flash floods had hit and I drove through six inches of water running across the road more than once. One was so deep I wasn't sure if my little car was going to make it through, but luckily it did. It was very surreal and dangerous feeling. Like the end of the world.

" Fuck.  Didn't know about this.  Any news links I can check out? "

"@Claude said:

" Yep, here comes another load. I'm lucky...protected by the Appalachian Mountains. "

Hillbilly country.

Ever squealed Claude?

"

" @JJOR64 said:

" Fuck.  Didn't know about this.  Any news links I can check out? "

The Weather Channel "

This has been a rough few years for everybody in terms of natural disasters. My thoughts are with them.

" @JJOR64:  couldn't get any links but just go to weather.com and they'll be on the main page.  The tornado that went through Tuscaloosa was over half mile wide and tore through the middle of the city and went all the way to Birmingham.  My parents live in north-central Alabama, and somebody found a checkbook stub from a guy who lives in Mississippi. "

" @FourWude said:

"@Claude said:

" Yep, here comes another load. I'm lucky...protected by the Appalachian Mountains. "

Hillbilly country.

Ever squealed Claude?

"

That is some bigot-hearted pile of donkey turd. Let me know where you are from so I can throw some derogatory terms your way. The Apps are a  great place and the people that live there are no less people than anyone else. Oh wait, you were only joking. In that case, screw freaking nothern jerks who can't drive and have no sense of courtesy and cornfed midwesterners who are all built like houses (even the women). "

All I could hear was, "squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeal".

It's all good though. Hillbilly's are nice people. I used to watch the Beverly Hillbillies.

Shouldn't you guys be in a basement or something?

I'm in Georgia and while not as bad as what passed through Alabama, there's definitely some scary shit passing through. I live in a part that isn't getting directly nailed by the middle of the supercell, but there's definitely a precedent for more destruction.

:o i didn't know there is a tornado around. well, that sucks for people. i think it's been a crazy year for natural disasters because japan just had a earthquake that turned into a tsunami for other places.

http://www.weather.com/outlook/videos/incredible-tuscaloosa-tornado-20459?from=video_email    

God damn, my prayers go out to the south. So many people have died in the crazy thing  , lets hope the rest of the season is quiet.

" @FourWude said:

"@Claude said:

" Yep, here comes another load. I'm lucky...protected by the Appalachian Mountains. "

Hillbilly country.

Ever squealed Claude?

"

That is some bigot-hearted pile of donkey turd. Let me know where you are from so I can throw some derogatory terms your way. The Apps are a  great place and the people that live there are no less people than anyone else. Oh wait, you were only joking. In that case, screw freaking nothern jerks who can't drive and have no sense of courtesy and cornfed midwesterners who are all built like houses (even the women). "

" Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.    "

It's really fucked up, and it's worse that the American media is more on the wedding but hey.  

I'm not the type to pray, but I will be hopeful.  Things work out at the end, kid.  So smile. 

I don't smile, so I can't make one of those stupid emotocons.

" It's really fucked up, and it's worse that the American media is more on the wedding but hey.  I'm not the type to pray, but I will be hopeful.  Things work out at the end, kid.  So smile. I don't smile, so I can't make one of those stupid emotocons. "

yeah its some bad shit i live in oxford al luckly the worst of the storm missed us. I still had a tree fall next to my house took out the power lines.  I have no clue when they'll be able to fix it.

I saw this on the news earlier. Sucks.

@ArchScabby:
Can he do it without Helen Hunt?

-- Ok, sorry for the jokes.