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

What the hell is wrong with you? We're having a discussion about an entire town being destroyed in a tornado, and you turn this political? An entire town is destroyed. I have relatives who have lost everything in Greensburg. Take this bullshit to another place.

 

I think it's been in a real world of shit since it was merged with HS, but either way, it's going to take some time. They have to first find a place to set up 2,000 trailers. Then they have to get water and power to that area restored and hooked up to the trailers before anyone moves in, which will require work on the city's part too.

 

My original comment was sarcasm due to the fact that the governor has already brought up the fact that rebuilding will take longer because the tents, trucks and semitrailers, were sent to Iraq.

I've lost everything before too and not once did I blame a choice made by the government for the amount of time it took for me to rebuild both materially and emotionally.

 

Do me a favor.......take a long, long look at these..........and clear the lump out of your throat, and then proceed to tell me how you can turn this political.


http://www.kansas.com/static/slides/050507tornadoaerials/

 

I've been seeing those which is why I had made the sarcastic remark about the governor bringing up the war as the reason it will take so long to rebuild in the first place.

Whether we are at war or not, this will take years to recover from.

(Credit:Jaime Oppenheimer/The Wichita Eagle)

Obviously I should not have blurted out my sarcasm against the governors remarks but I did and I cannot take it back now. I'd go back and delete the posts, but it's been quoted so much that I'd look like even more of an ass if I deleted them.

I've explained twice now how I wasn't trying to turn this into a political thread, rather I was just giving my eyeroll comment and now have admitted how stupid it was of me to do. The more time we spend posting back and forth about it, the more space we are wasting in this thread.

 

Chef, how you doing these days? I know a volleyball player who is from Greensburg, but haven't had the chance to talk to her. I know she wasn't home, but her sister's house was destroyed.

 

I am doing fine.

As I mentioned, my cousin's house over there was blown away, and my aunt has been trying to go over there and help them find some of their things, but it has been a huge mess.

 

http://www.kansas.com/static/slides/050507tornado/

Look at the very first picture.

That......kids........is an F5.

 

I agree that this isn't the sort of tragedy that needs any political spin (few do, but you get what I mean).

But this ...

... is a pretty loaded quote to make, isn't it? EVERYONE by now knows where the National Guard is, and everyone knows his view of the war. Subtle, yet political all the same.

 

At the risk of being, you know, political, the governor of Maryland's nervous, too.
http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070508/NEWS01/70508001/1002

Look, sooner or later, a badly planned war has a domestic impact. This one's is uniquely immediate because of the misuse and destructive employment of the National Guard on endless missions overseas -- largely because of the, you know, political decisions that we didn't need that many soldiers there to do the job. One of the domestic impacts is that, when catastrophe strikes, the NatGuard isn't there to help because it's in Baghdad. The relief agencies ont he scene are without help they'd ordinarily rely on and, therefore, become overtaxed. Help therefore does not arrive on time or in the capacity needed.
I realize "politics" to some people is a voodoo word, but it's how the country operates. If the politics are operated badly, the country is operated badly.

Tony Snow disagrees. WH blameless, again.
http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/white-house-defends-response-to-tornado/20070508114509990001

 

I'm not going to read through all the pages of this thread, so I don't know if this is posted yet.

It's only 1:31 long and when it gets to :43, hit the pause button and stare in awe at this destructive monster.

 

Wow. That was one huge fucking tornado. I heard it was nearly two miles wide. My drive every morning to my daughter's school isn't even two miles.