Major storms hitting Kansas - major damage in Greensburg, Kan.

Reports said four or five soldiers from Fort Riley - there on their own will - were arrested for looting cigarettes and booze from a grocery store in Greensburg.

I hope those heartless fuckers enjoy prison.

 

OK, that's pathetic.

 

Aren't wind speeds a little lower with the new Fujita scale? Perhaps it would've been an F5 two years ago...

I look at the pics and, as a born-and-raised east-coaster, it's all really incomprehensible to me. I just can't wrap my mind around the fact that a town is, essentially, gone in 45 seconds. It's been a few days, but it's still unreal.

I still don't know how that silo survived - seems like things that big would fall fast and hard.

And on that one shot from the Hutchinson paper, the goalposts on the football field are still standing. I'm not sure how that happened, either.

 

Like Hustle, devestation like that is unheard of. We've a few damaging tornadoes in CT and just from seeing the tree damage is stunning. I can't even begin to imagine seeing this type of devestation up close.

I also can't imagine the horror of living through a storm like this, especially when it strikes at night.

I'll echo everyone else with my thoughts & prayers.

 

Two more victims in Greensburg found today, according to CNN.

Amazingly, someone was found alive today, too.

 

And, of course, the inevitable, from the AP:

"The governor said the state's response was limited by the shifting of emergency equipment, such as tents, trucks and semitrailers, to the war in Iraq.
Not having the National Guard equipment, which used to be positioned in various parts of the state, to bring in immediately is really going to handicap this effort to rebuild,' Sebelius said."

 

Of course, it's all Busch's fault. Why didn't I think of that?

What a dumbass. If the equipment had been positioned around there it would have been destroyed anyway.

 

Busch? What does a racecar driver have to do with any of this?

 

LOL I've avoided joining any conversations pertaining to Bush for so long that my normal typing of Busch just got the better of me. At least our president doesn't do "snow" angels on hot pavement or criticize something that he just scored a win with. (I'm kidding, I like both Busch's)

 

It didn't say it was positioned "around there," that being Greensburg. It was positioned in different parts across the state, Manhattan area probably being one of them with Fort Riley.

 

Could we please not turn this into another endless fucking political argument? Fuck, there's hundreds of people homeless in this town, lives totally shattered, some dead. And don't blame F_B. He never mentioned Bush. Just mentioned a quote from Gov. Sebelius.

 

FEMA should be able to handle 2,000 homeless a lot easier than 500,000 homeless. If FEMA can't, it's in a real world of shit.