Sunday, March 16, 2025

Monster Storm Across U.S.

At least 32 people have been killed after a huge storm tore through several states spawning fires, dangerous high winds, dust storms, tornados and blizzard warnings.

Posted by lamplighter at 07:49 AM | 19 COMMENTS | permalink

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At least 32 dead as monster storm system sweeps across US south with multiple tornadoes[image or embed]

" The Guardian (@theguardian.com) March 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM

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... The most fatalities as of Saturday morning were in Missouri, authorities said, which was lashed by twisters overnight that resulted in at least 11 deaths. The Missouri State Highway Patrol also reported that multiple people were injured.

The deaths included a man who was killed after a tornado ripped apart his home.

"It was unrecognizable as a home. Just a debris field," said Coroner Jim Akers of Butler County, describing the scene that confronted rescuers when they arrived. "The floor was upside down. We were walking on walls."

Rescuers managed to save a woman in the home, Akers said.

Officials in Arkansas said on Saturday morning that three people died in Independence County and 29 others were injured across eight counties as storms passed through the state overnight.

"We have teams out surveying the damage from last night's tornadoes and have first responders on the ground to assist," Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on X.

She and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp declared states of emergency in their respective states. Kemp said he was making the declaration in anticipation of severe weather moving toward the state later Saturday.

On Friday, meanwhile, authorities said three people were killed in car crashes during a dust storm in Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-15 02:17 PM

Once the NOAA is absorbed by SpaceX this will no longer be a problem.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-15 02:22 PM

Like clockwork the orange pedo is golfing again today.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-15 02:51 PM

Once the NOAA is absorbed by SpaceX this will no longer be a problem.

#2 | POSTED BY REDIAL

I know you're being flippant, but my wife and I were talking about this just today because one of these tornados passed within a few miles of where we live.

Even with the current foresight and warnings, it was a very damaging system. I don't even want to imagine the outcome of this being a surprise to most/many because free, quality info is no longer available.

I'm one of those curious idiots who stands in their porch/patio until the very last second they think it's safe. It was terrifying how quickly conditions turned with these storms, and that was with me knowing what was coming.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-16 04:28 AM

I don't think REIN was being flippant; I think he was commenting on the fact that an unelected billionaire who earns billions through contracts with the Federal Government is worming himself into many importanr agencies of the government and purposely disabling them or completely destroying them; NOAA being just one of them. His motive? It's not cost savings as he claimed earlier. It has become obvious to many that many or most of his slashing isn't saving any money. It ttruly is, as if, Trump and Musk are both working for Putin to purposely destroy the American government. They need to be stopped and it is past the stage that this is a political argument.

#5 | Posted by danni at 2025-03-16 08:29 AM

Let's make the storms go to mar-largo.

#6 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-03-16 09:18 AM

Trump and his Sharpie will direct the storms away from his voters. Musk will take a break from doodling rocket ships and tweet about how much fraud his incel pirates have found in NOAA and FEMA. All is well.

#7 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-03-16 09:38 AM

Maybe after Elmo gets done decimating NOAA maybe he will get around to rescuing those two stranded astronauts in space.

"I have just asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX to 'go get' the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration," the president wrote months ago on his social media platform Truth Social.

"Terrible that the Biden administration has left them there so long," Musk posted the same day on his social media platform X.

But Elmo is very busy right now decimating NASA and NOAA.

Maybe next month.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-16 11:52 AM

I know you're being flippant

I'm not so sure. I can easily see NOAA and NASA being handed off to SpaceX. There would be a huge saving from "privatizing" those organizations.

The money saved could then be given to SpaceX to provide the same services. SpaceX could then fire most of the employees and use the cash to buy more crypto.

I have just asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX to 'go get' the 2 brave astronauts

So why didn't he? The capsule they will be coming back on next week has been docked at the ISS since last September... they could have come back any time since then.

The actual reason is there was no pressing need for them to come back, and they had work to do. So they just waited for the normal ISS crew rotation, which is what is happening now.

#9 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-16 01:53 PM

The 25 Deadliest U.S. Tornadoes

www.spc.noaa.gov

[Note the timeframes]

#10 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-03-16 03:36 PM

Yep. Here in Okiehomie we set a record for windiest day ever on Friday March 14. As for those homes that burned, including that of our governor, please don't ask for federal money. All is needed for tax breaks for the Uber wealthy. And don't ask again ...

#11 | Posted by catdog at 2025-03-16 05:14 PM

Re 10

Wonder how long we will have access to that data. And how long it will actually be reliable after unelected co-president Elmo gets his grubby fingers on it.

The NWS was created on February 9, 1870 by President Ulysses S Grant.

What I noticed immediately is that we went from 695 deaths to less than a hundred as we got better at predicting tornadoes and getting the warnings out (and of course better zoning regulations).

Your government of the people did that.

#12 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-16 05:30 PM

Who cares about the 36 lives that were lost? The important thing is the demented orange pedo won another golf championship.

www.newsweek.com

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-16 06:26 PM

won another golf championship.

He uses the foot wedge so much they call him "Pele".

#14 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-16 06:32 PM

Who cares about the 36 lives that were lost?

36? That's nothing. Trumpy can eliminate a million Americans while he is tripping on the stairs of AF1.

Seriously wtf tho.. those people living in tornado alley should be required to have a tornado shelter on or under or near their homes. It would save lives.

But that would require a new regulation. And we would have to get rid of ten old ones to implement one new regulation.. so forget it Jake from State Farm.

It ain't happening on Trumpy's watch.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-16 07:30 PM

So, if we eat bugs, switch to EV's and ban gas stoves we will never see this again?

#16 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-03-16 07:44 PM

The only good MAGAT is a dead MAGAT

#17 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-16 10:29 PM

"Seriously wtf tho.. those people living in tornado alley should be required to have a tornado shelter on or under or near their homes. It would save lives."

Maybe, but each year tornados kill 80 people. Meanwhile 12000 die falling down the stairs. So we would be better served eliminating stairs, but if we eliminate stairs how do we get into the tornado shelter?

#18 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2025-03-16 11:35 PM

So we would be better served eliminating stairs, but if we eliminate stairs how do we get into the tornado shelter?

#18 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2025-03-16 11:35 PM | Reply PPPPPFFFFTTTTT

False equivalence. Stairs are a more plentiful and consistent presence, whereas tornadoes are random and less common than stairs. In fact, stairs exist where tornadoes don't. Good try though... there might be a future for you in the Trumpanzee administration.

#19 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-03-17 02:58 AM

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