The UK or Canada would have killed my Grandpa. He got special experimental cancer treatment approved for his agent orange cancer.
Yeah, it's insane how quickly it happens. I was rushing home from work (in an unspecified Midwestern state), speeding on the highway because I didn't like the weather that'd formed while I was getting gas in my old truck. It was maybe 5:00pm but getting unusually dark behind me (out the back window), so I was easily doing 85+MPH on a 55MPH highway out on the plains.
I floored it and kept going. That old beater had no hope of keeping up with a Crown Vic, but the fucker gave it a good college try anyway. After he passed me, I looked in the rear mirror one last time and just saw nothing but total darkness. I quit looking back and just concentrated on "GO FORWARD GO FAST DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF THE COP." Didn't stop until the sun came out again.
Grandpa kept a "weather stick" hanging from the tree.
That’s usually due to demand vs the amount of available doctors to be seen
"Totally a Centrist" finally talks about situation several days later and tacked onto the end of another topic.
This is correct. Tornado-producing storm systems can easily travel at 80+MPH. General wisdom is to abandon the vehicle if physically able (because the storm can catch up to you and the vehicle could easily be picked up and thrown around; if you're inside it, you're probably going to die) and get as low to the ground (ideally in a ditch construct of some kind, simply because it can partially surround you on the sides to protect you from sideways-flying debris) to minimize your exposure to flying debris.
. If you're out in the open plains on a highway with no geographic features nearby and all you've got is a car and your feet, and a tornado's close enough to you to pose a threat, you are Mother Nature's bitch. Whether you live or die depends on her whims and nothing else.Thank the AMA for that! It's deliberate! They explicitly limit how many licenses they grant to new doctors every year to "keep medical salaries up." Because fuck quality health care, we've got doctors' fees to think about here.
I also learned the other day that when the sky is yellow, It's because there's hail in the atmosphere. like always, It's yellow because the millions of tiny hail are reflecting light
Green too for sure with that. Seen that many times.
For me it's Derechos, those fuckers are terrifying. While they're less destructive than a tornado they're pretty much impossible to avoid if you get stuck in a bad place. Worse still I feel like they're creeping in to other parts of the Midwest where they really shouldn't be.Yeah, it's insane how quickly it happens. I was rushing home from work (in an unspecified Midwestern state), speeding on the highway because I didn't like the weather that'd formed while I was getting gas in my old truck. It was maybe 5:00pm but getting unusually dark behind me (out the back window), so I was easily doing 85+MPH on a 55MPH highway out on the plains.
I looked back and suddenly saw the red & blues and alternating headlights of a police cruiser, and knew I was cooked (there was no hiding or denying my speeding). I was preparing myself for an arrest for reckless driving and already had my signal on to indicate I was pulling over ... when I realized he was easily doing 100+MPH and running like hell himself. Blew right past me, gesturing (I think) to me to get a move on.
Found out the next day the two of us had narrowly avoided a fatal encounter with an F4 that crossed the highway right about the same spot where he passed me. If he'd actually pulled me over for speeding, we'd have almost certainly both been killed.
Thanks, btw, Mr. Random Based Police Officer for not being a dick to a teenager trying to outrun a tornado in an old pickup truck.
Bro I've had Derechos out here in central Arizona. last monsoon season one ripped my barn's roof clean off.
Looking deeper into this matter, apparently he wasn't drunk when he was doing this but was making the comparison on a speaking tour:
+1 for straight line winds. Where i live we don't get tornadoes much because of the mountains but in 2020 we had a "gravity wave" out of nowhere in the middle of the night the storm blew in with hurricane force winds. ripped roofs right of houses, destroyed barns, killed and fell thousands of trees. and took down damn near every power line in this part of the state. it really did sound like a passing train like people say. Scary as shit. then two years later we got a 1,000 year flood and lots of people died. it was as bad as the N.C floods in 24.
Revitiligo cure will be a reality soon enough.
If AI takes all the jobs, no one will have money to buy AI products. government money is the only way to keep the grift going.
Fucking all we had to do was NOT let women vote.