Thread: Weird twisters?

Yes, let everyone go ahead and get killed and blame the government for it! Yes, let the government pay for all those damages and rip the rest of the world off for money to rebuild for you who just have to live there instead of spending that money on making the country a better place. Getting rid of criminality, giving the homeless people a place to live. Making a social system where the government pays for schools, hospitals, etc, etc.

Missouri? Think you're safe there? Think again. It has suffered earthquakes powerful enough to erase islands from the middle of the Mississippi river, and was felt in Washington DC. Evacuate!

You'd have to evacuate the entire Midwest as well because of the New Madrid fault. There is more pressure on this fault than has ever been on the San Andreas. Last time it caused a quake it re-routed a river and put an entire town under water.

The key is to be aware of your area and the natural events that can affect it. If you are prepared then most likely living through these things, while scary during the event, is possible in all but the rarest cases. Quakes are different b/c they give little warning but weather gives you plenty of warning with the technology we have now.

Yes, let the government pay for all those damages and rip the rest of the world off for money to rebuild for you who just have to live there instead of spending that money on making the country a better place

You surely understand this either puts you in the 9 years old scale of things or, on the other hand you are desperate and instead of admitting you are wrong (it's ok. We all are sometimes) you prefer resorting to arguments that people even have an hard time replying to.

Yes, it exists to serve them, not damn them which is what they're doing when they let people live in the dangerous areas. They help people get killed. They help people get poor. They help screwing off other people to help those who were hurt by tornadoes or such, which could be avoided if people just didn't live there! And considering the milliards of dollars that could be saved, I really dare imagine what they could be used for. USA has so many problems, and yet they spend all their money on friggin' military and building up destroyed areas after tornadoes!

Well, let's have the government wake up. Don't just rebuild blindly in the area. Evacuate what was destroyed into other areas as much as possible as think of other ideas or persuasion to get people out of there.
It's stupid to live there in the first place, seeing as we don't have the technology to stop natural disaster to occur.
Prioritize big disaster areas first, then the smaller ones. It will make wonders to the country, you'll see.

Originally Posted by Mario F.

You surely understand this either puts you in the 9 years old scale of things or, on the other hand you are desperate and instead of admitting you are wrong (it's ok. We all are sometimes) you prefer resorting to arguments that people even have an hard time replying to.

It is true to an extent what I state. The last time there was a big tornado, they messed up big time on predicting the size of it and it caused devastation for milliards of dollars. The big might states o' mightiness even had to ask for help from other countries to finance reconstruction and help affected people.
None of which might have happened if they didn't live there in the first place.
Believe it or not, but I'm not ignorant of how the world works. No, we're probably never going to move out of those areas because we're too stubborn. That's just the way it works.
And that's what's annoying me too. People can be so stupid. It's like if they're not even trying to get away from the areas. Instead they put resources into trying to prevent the natural disasters from occurring, when they could evacuate big disaster areas to avoid it altogether.
It seems like they can't do disaster prevention right nor evacuation right, so what's to do? They lose lots of money that could be spent elsewhere on these silly matters and lives are lost in the process. Aren't lives what is important?

These ordeals annoy me to no end. That's all.

Just in case you were misinformed we actually profit quite well from natural disasters. They are a boost to the economy as a whole. This is not to say they are not a tragedy or minimize the death toll and its impact on the people involved, but usually the only ones who really suffer financially are the insurance companies and the uninsured. The people who rebuild the area usually make a small fortune. Sad but true.

You cannot stick your head in the sand and refuse to live anywhere something bad might happen. Tornado alley encompasses Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and on up north to Minnesota. That's a helluva lot of real estate to just ignore. So you wanna evacuate Dallas, TX eh and just sorta tell everyone to live elsewhere?

Sorry Elysia I just don't agree with you on this one.

As I told you, and dwks illustrated you would send USA into a recession.

The US economy is already in recession .

No it's not.

Trust me, you will know for sure when it is.

Meanwhile, technically what happened is that the economy slowed down. There is still hope the recent packages (involving not only domestic economy, but also the UE and asia countries) will avoid the recession.

Yes back on twisters... sorry...

Following up on the evacuation theme, we are talking only about the US here. What about Turkey earthquakes, Sourthern Asia typhons (heck here alone you would have to evacuate all of the philipines, indonesia and surrounding islands), Japan earthquakes and vulcanoes (the whole country had to be evacuated. There is no such thing as a safe place in Japan)...