Showing posts with label Weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weather. Show all posts

Thursday, June 11, 2009

2009 Tornado

In case you haven't heard, my town was hit by a tornado last night before I went in to work. Apparently, from what I have heard from a couple of reports, the tornado pretty much touched down at the intersection where my apartment complex lies. From what I have seen driving through my town, our apartment complex seems to have gotten pretty much the worst of it. In fact, my coworker & I were watching the news this morning & I looked up to see that my apartment complex was on the screen & they were talking about all the damage. I was quite lucky. I did not sustain any damage. Even my car came out unscathed despite the metal covering pealing away during the storm. The next town over also seems to have had quite a bit of damage but I haven't driven through it yet. The streets aren't exactly safe right now with downed power lines, debris everywhere, & clean up crews driving huge trucks.

Here are some pictures I took this morning of the damage. I can hear chain saws just outside my door as I write this. I've very glad I don't have to go into work tonight. :)



Apparently, these storms, or at least the rain, is supposed to last all day today & part of tomorrow. Yep...here it is now...raining again. Granted, I do love the rain, so I am enjoying this but I do feel quite bad for those who have holes in the roofs & those crews that are out there trying to clean up the mess. Pray for the safety of those out there cleaning up all this & pray for those who have suffered damage.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Climate change or Earth doing business as usual?

clipped from www.geocraft.com

Historically, glacial cycles of about 100,000 years are interupted by
brief warm interglacial periods-- like the one we enjoy today. Changes
in both temperatures and CO2 are considerable and generally
synchronized, according to data analysis from ice and air samples collected
over the last half century from permanent glaciers in Antarctica and other
places. Interglacial periods of 15,000- 20,000 years provide a brief respite
from the normal state of our natural world-- an Ice Age Climate. Our present
interglacial vacation from the last Ice Age began about 18,000 years ago.

Do rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations cause increasing global temperatures,
or could it be the other way around? This is one of the questions being
debated today. One thing is certain-- earth's climate has been warming
and cooling on it's own for at least the last 400,000 years, as the data
below show.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

"A tough 12 months for global warming theorists"

A tough 12 months for global warming theorists

NOAA provides a map showing US average temperatures from Feb 2008 to Jan 2009. Read it and weep, Al Gore.
national temp
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