Weird. That's not an area that usually gets tornadoes is it?

Cythraul: It's Obama's fault.

Actually, I wonder how long it'll take a Fundie religious person to say it was God's punishment for his liberal ways.

Gay marriage.
666 =18=9. It's right there dude.

Cythraul: Sybarite: This is a map of four years worth of tornado activity. There's actually a bit of a cluster in that area.

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I wonder why there are so few out west.

We have EQ's, inactive volcanoes and freezing rain.

And that's probably more touchdowns than the Skins will see all season!

/try the veal, etc

Fark is the third letter of the alphabet now?

Actually as of this morning, they had confirmed 11.

/this is *SO* last Friday.
//Drove home 40 miles in between 4 or 5 cells with 6 active tornado warnings going on between 4 and 5:30...YOWZA!!!

Didn't a tornado destroy DC 100 years ago when the Brits were occupying it? I seem to recall hearing somewhere that was one of the reasons they didn't stay very long.

Seriously though, I'm going to be in the DC area about 2 1/2 weeks from now. I wonder if there'll be anything left to see??

It's not that unusual

Usually we have a handful of touchdowns in any storm that can produce them, the difference from the MidWest being we get a lot with 40-60MPH winds that are maybe a couple 100 feet in circumfrence as opposed to mile wide F5s.

So lots of downed trees/power lines and a couple buildings get farked up. Not losing a whole city/town

anywhere there are trailerparks there will be tornados, FACT.

It was really bad...here is a photo



/oblig

Actually it was pretty bad not in DC but in PG County and around Bal-more Hon.....here is a house in Towson that was almost cut in half with a 90 foot tree....this isn't the best photo..the news video was better....still looking..,.

Hmmm. A nice F5 could do that town some good.

Things won't get biblical until I see a nice flame twister roll through there.

BurnShrike: Fark is the third letter of the alphabet now?

And I thought... when my kids were singing, they were just mad at the letter D....


A.... B.... Fark... D...

pinchpoint: Didn't a tornado destroy DC 100 years ago when the Brits were occupying it? I seem to recall hearing somewhere that was one of the reasons they didn't stay very long.

You're thinking of the War of 1812. The British burned down half the city AND attacked us with a tornado. Stupid jerks.

When hot air rising from Congress meets cooler air from the ocean, such weather anomalies are to be expected.

Has Pat Robertson weighed in on this yet?

AbbeySomeone: Weird. That's not an area that usually gets tornadoes is it?

They get a few every year. Not with the same frequency or severity as, say, the Midwest, but they're a lot more common than earthquakes.

Little known fact....The Bilderberg 2012 conference was at the Westfields Marriott hotel in Chantilly, Virginia, practically
at the center of all this tornadic activity on Friday, but that particular area was left completely untouched.
Hmmmmmmmmmm
/be afraid, be very afraid

imontheinternet: Wow. Maybe prayer really does work.

Taken during Snowpocalypse:

Nine of these? Are we invading you guys?

As if the regular DC commute home was not bad emough, then you have to go and add tornadoes

College Park got hit in 2001. Killed two girls.

DARPA is going after DC, or is this just to throw off the scent?

bestsportnascar: DARPA is going after DC, or is this just to throw off the scent?

Their earthquake machine is in the shop.

AnthraxRipple: College Park got hit in 2001. Killed two girls.

Were they pretty white girls?

Southerners to start calling them Naders.

AnthraxRipple: College Park got hit in 2001. Killed two girls.

Tornado kills two, damages University of Maryland

" The most tragic event of the storm took place when a car containing two women was lifted off the ground and hurled over an eight-story dorm building (HOLY CRAP!). The car fell into the woods across University Boulevard, killing both women. The women were sisters and students of the University of Maryland.



I was less than a mile away when that happened and was on the other side of Route 1 at my gf's house

Most of the tornados that hit the area are over the water for some reason so you never hear much of it. Over the weekend me and the roomate had the bathroom ready as our "emergency shelter" the EAS came on and said that 3 tornados were reported.
People here at work are worried looking outside wanting to go home. That will be good kinda like the earthquake traffic last year.