For the first time in many years, I decided to skip the shows in Billings, MT which start tomorrow.
That was our show venue.
Had it hit 24 hours later, the parking lot would have been filled with wall to wall RV’s and campers – including me.
For the first time in many years, I decided to skip the shows in Billings, MT which start tomorrow.
That was our show venue.
Had it hit 24 hours later, the parking lot would have been filled with wall to wall RV’s and campers – including me.
Good grief, Kate!
Severe weather throughout many parts of the US, over 30 tornadoes (a record) spotted in one day in Minnesota. Alberta, Sask, and Manitoba experiencing record rainfall. What more could the deniers want as evidence of climate instability and change. Oh wait, these weather patterns are all just “normal” so say the deniers.
T, I think there was a worse day day in 1162. Oh, wait. You mean you don’t have daily weather charts for Manitoba going back that far?
Tornadoes in the summer are normal T. I thought weather wasn’t climate? Or did the talking points change on that?
Thank God you’re safe, Kate.
The climate change alarmists have been predicting heat waves and droughts for years now. Not only has the earth not been warming for the past 10 years but we are seeing more rain not less. According to ‘T’s logic prior to 100 years ago the earth was a magical land populated with fairies and unicorns where there was no tornadoes, floods, hail, hurricanes, drought or other extreme weather. My guess is T has a liberal arts degree from an eastern university with no background or understanding in basic science.
The sun is the primary driver in our climate. The sooner we accept this the sooner we can focus our efforts on dealing with the effects not the imaginary cause. Man made climate change is junk science that has been thoroughly discredited. The ‘global consensus’ is not of scientists but politicians who need a new excuse to control us and tax our productive work and redistributing to failed individuals (social programs / buying votes) and business (unions / special interests).
The weather will get you my pretty, and your dog Toto, too.
Delise doesn’t have a magic tornado shield any more that Edmonton, Pine Lake or Barrie Ontario (been close by in all those tornados). I think the only good advice is to avoid trailer parks and flying monkeys.
It is the magnitude and extremes of weather that the entire world is experiencing that is disconcerting; hence climate instability and change. Further, if one does not think for a minute that this has significant effects on ecosystems then there is no hope that anything will be done to help reverse these trends, perhaps we are too late already to affect any change, however we should try, either voluntarily, as many do, or through legislation.
Ok, fess up. Who’s playing the part of “T”? Because nobody wishing to be taken seriously could possibly be this obtuse.
“It is the magnitude and extremes of weather that the entire world is experiencing that is disconcerting; hence climate instability and change”
Magnitude and extremes compared to what? What would you define as a stable climate T? What magical time in the past did it not change?
The tornado killed 28 people, injured hundreds, and left 2,500 people homeless. Around 500 buildings were destroyed or damaged. Regina 1912. Must have been the horse farts.
As an earth scientist, I have a pretty good idea of how nature works and, thanks to my speciality (economic geology) a good command of statistical theory. Random tornadoes don’t surprise me at all.
There’s an natural human tendency to
Re: Dan@ 10:52 AM
“My guess is T has a liberal arts degree from an eastern university with no background or understanding in basic science.”
Close but T is in grade 9 at a Toronto High School.
“Average” weather in Saskatchewan has always been a mathematical collection of extremes.
And of course T or the obtuser T is missing the whole point.
We have witnessed weather/climate changes.
We deny that it is anthropogenic.
(Evil gremlins intervened and messed up my post.)
As an earth scientist, I have a pretty good idea of how nature works and, thanks to my speciality (economic geology) a good command of statistics and probability theory. Random tornadoes don’t surprise me at all.
There’s a natural human tendency to try to explain natural phenomena as the result of human activity. Thus the many taboos and fears of primative societies (never walk through the shadow of an ogga booga tree) and the belief in certain major religions that natural disasters e.g. the “great flood” are supernatural retribution for human sin. We’ve been doin’ a lot of sinin’, burnin’ all that there fossil fuel, an’ the bill has come due. We’re all goin’ to diiiiieee for our evil ways.
Find a deep cave and crawl into it T. You’ll be safer there.
When T and obtuse are mentioned in the same breath I can’t help but picture Les Nesmond from WKRP in Cincinnati looking up the definition of obtuse and much to his horror discovering that it is not a compliment.
Syncro
You’re all giving “T” too much credit. It’s just a bot.
Glad you didn’t go, Kate. I was in Edmonton at the end of July ’87, and that was enough tornado activity for me to last a lifetime. ‘Course, we do live at the northern end of “Tornado Alley,” a geographically-unique area of the world that produces approximately 75% of the world’s tornadoes. They’re simply to be expected here.
The only reason Calgary hasn’t been hit by one yet? Random chance.
“”Average” weather in Saskatchewan has always been a mathematical collection of extremes.”
Ain’t that right. I’ve experienced all four seasons in a 24 hour period in Cypress Hills once.
It’s quite doubtful that weather is even any less predictable or more extreme than even thirty years ago. Current weather variations *always* seem more extreme than remembered variations, and we now have the youtube, so we can now watch video of every incident of even vaguely remarkable weather almost immediately.
Lucky? Luck’s got nothing to do with it heretic of the plains. Clearly you’ve made a pact with the Devil of Denial. In exchange for what passes as the soul of your corporeal carbon maker, you have clearly been given the powers of prognostication and the wit of self-‘right’eous one linerism.
Fortunately, the Climate Cleric of Canada, Father T, is ever vigilant, standing guard against Sacrilegious Dead Animals, always ready to administer the Five Fingered Talking Point Death Blow, passed onto him after years of rigourous basement training by the Monk of Meme.
The legacy and clima-weather capital of High Priestess Gore are safe under his watchful eye.
Glad you didn’t go!! I can’t imagine what that videographer was thinking…I’d be cowering in a nearby basement, not standing across the road from it with a video camera!!
The unusually cold and snowy 2009-10 winter in the eastern US was immediately seized upon as yet more evidence for “global warming” by the same group who always previously admonished us that weather is not the same thing as climate. They also conveniently overlooked the fact that the eastern Pacific was in an El Nino state, a phenomenon known of for centuries (liberals: that means before fossil fuels), which is known to cause western North America to be warmer and eastern North America to be colder. Remember the Winter Olympics and the snow drought? Meanwhile it was snowing in Florida and south Texas. El Nino.
As for that video, wouldn’t you think all those cars driving past would have seen all the crap flying through the air?
Oh well used up all your luck. No point in getting a lottery ticket now….
The Monroe County fairgrounds in Monroe, Michigan was slightly damaged by the tornado that chewed up Dundee Michigan a couple weeks ago. You should be safe for that show now…
“”Average” weather in Saskatchewan has always been a mathematical collection of extremes.”
The only good thing about Saskatchewan weather is you can usually see it before it gets there.
That’s one of those “Twilight Zone” moments eh?
I remember the day I moved in at Marshall Minnesota, the tornado siren went off. I thought it was air raid practice or something, until the neighbor guy mentioned it might be a good idea to head down to the basement.
doo doo DOOO doo!
Unstable weather?!
Almost as chuckle-worthy as that phrase we often hear in investment adverts: “for these uncertain times”.
“Who’s playing the part of “T”? Because nobody wishing to be taken seriously could possibly be this obtuse.” A. Cooper at 11:30 AM
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You can’t make this stuff up, A. Not even with the wildest immagination.
I suppose T can be excused though. Living in mommy’s basement, he hasn’t experienced much in the way of weather extremes.
I remember the one in Edmonton. We where cutting grass on the Sherwood park freeway. When you see three columns headed your way, than the day goes to night light switch wise. Pray your wearing brown pants. Fortunately for me my boss showed up. His house fluked out. The ones both beside him where reduced to lumber. Your a blessed Women Kate.
JMO
We where cutting grass on the Sherwood park freeway. When you see three columns headed your way…
What year are you talking about? It could have been the Canadian Airborne Regiment.
I’m glad you weren’t killed in a twister, Kate.
T – don’t give up on that brain. You just have to have faith in yourself!!! (or something. Never actually saw that movie).
“Find a deep cave and crawl into it T. You’ll be safer there.”
Well, except for the rabid bats and the, er, bear.
No, Black Mamba, sorry to say, that brain is too far gone! I too, had hoped for a modicum of redemption, but alas, ’tis futile to hope beyond hope.
However, I think it appropriate to wish T a F O and fare-thee-well,…from all of us.
There’s a natural human tendency to try to explain natural phenomena as the result of human activity.
~Zog
Yup.
The Indians don’t have a rain dance for nothing.
Of course Indians have their lives so in sync with the environment that every time they do that dance it rains…somewhere.
(not necessarily within a thousand miles of the dancers, though)