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Do the conservatives still think it is Obama's fault?
"The conspiracy theory of the moment goes something like this: The Obama administration is being asked how much they knew about three apparent scandals — Benghazi, the IRS, the Justice Department's double leak investigations — and in order to make Americans think about something else, the administration manipulated the weather and created the mile-wide Moore tornado."
"Jones's theory is a little bit different. The left-leaning Media Matters has the segment of his show where Jones claims that if people in Oklahoma saw helicopters and aircrafts "in and around the clouds, spraying and doing things" that "if you saw that you better bet your bottom dollar they did this, but who knows if they did. You know, that's the thing, we don't know."
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/oklahoma-tornado-conspiracy-theories/314987/
"The conspiracy theory of the moment goes something like this: The Obama administration is being asked how much they knew about three apparent scandals — Benghazi, the IRS, the Justice Department's double leak investigations — and in order to make Americans think about something else, the administration manipulated the weather and created the mile-wide Moore tornado."
"Jones's theory is a little bit different. The left-leaning Media Matters has the segment of his show where Jones claims that if people in Oklahoma saw helicopters and aircrafts "in and around the clouds, spraying and doing things" that "if you saw that you better bet your bottom dollar they did this, but who knows if they did. You know, that's the thing, we don't know."
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/oklahoma-tornado-conspiracy-theories/314987/
Thousands of Florida residents evacuated their homes on Sunday as Subtropical Storm Alberto drove north through the Gulf of Mexico with forecasters saying it could bring “life-threatening inundation” to coastal states.
The storm was about 120 miles south of Apalachicola, Florida, on the Gulf of Mexico coast as of 4 p.m. EDT and was expected to make landfall along the Florida Panhandle on Monday, the National Hurricane Center said.
It will bring powerful winds and heavy rains as it moves into the Tennessee Valley on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The storm comes during the Memorial Day weekend and was expected to scramble transportation on Monday as many people return from holiday travel.
The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for an area that is home to millions of people.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-alberto-florida/thousands-evacuate-as-storm-alberto-churns-toward-florida-idUSKCN1IS0CP
The storm was about 120 miles south of Apalachicola, Florida, on the Gulf of Mexico coast as of 4 p.m. EDT and was expected to make landfall along the Florida Panhandle on Monday, the National Hurricane Center said.
It will bring powerful winds and heavy rains as it moves into the Tennessee Valley on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The storm comes during the Memorial Day weekend and was expected to scramble transportation on Monday as many people return from holiday travel.
The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for an area that is home to millions of people.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-alberto-florida/thousands-evacuate-as-storm-alberto-churns-toward-florida-idUSKCN1IS0CP
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
I'm about 20 minutes away from Ellicot City. It's actually in Balto. County, sort of upscale quaint neighborhood, steep rocky terrain, lots of trees and greenery, and narrow winding roads. The rain and wind was intense!
Glad you're OK, Bigdog. Flooding is nothing to be sneezed at.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
It's always the same areas that flood. EC Main St. was wiped out pretty good 2 years ago as the broadcaster noted.
Alberto has strengthened in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico as it continues to bring a threat of flash flooding, rip currents, gusty winds, coastal flooding and tornadoes to the United States this Memorial Day weekend, with the center of the storm likely making landfall on Memorial Day itself.
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-05-27-subtropical-tropical-storm-alberto-forecast-gulf-coast-florida
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-05-27-subtropical-tropical-storm-alberto-forecast-gulf-coast-florida
Irish Exit
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The Maryland flooding was insane. Some areas are just prone to it. There is a joke that every time someone in my city flushes the toilet, the town downstream from us floods it happens so often to them.
A South Carolina anchor and photographer died on Monday after a large tree fell on their SUV while they were covering Subtropical Storm Alberto.
WYFF news anchor Mike McCormick and photojournalist Aaron Smeltzer were covering “rain impact” in Polk County, North Carolina, when a tree fell on their SUV, killing both of them, their home station said Monday night.
Tryon Fire Chief Geoffrey Tennant said in a press conference that at about 2:30 P.M., the station received a call that there was a tree down on a vehicle with people trapped inside. When local authorities arrived, they saw a tree on the SUV in what Tennant estimated to be around “three feet in diameter.”
He also said that the vehicle appeared to be in motion when it was struck because the engine was running and the transmission was in drive when rescue teams approached.
“All of us at WYFF News 4 are grieving. We are a family and we thank you, our extended family, for your comfort as we mourn and as we seek to comfort the families of Mike and Aaron,” the station said.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/28/south-carolina-anchor-photographer-killed-covering-alberto-as-storm-makes-landfall.html
WYFF news anchor Mike McCormick and photojournalist Aaron Smeltzer were covering “rain impact” in Polk County, North Carolina, when a tree fell on their SUV, killing both of them, their home station said Monday night.
Tryon Fire Chief Geoffrey Tennant said in a press conference that at about 2:30 P.M., the station received a call that there was a tree down on a vehicle with people trapped inside. When local authorities arrived, they saw a tree on the SUV in what Tennant estimated to be around “three feet in diameter.”
He also said that the vehicle appeared to be in motion when it was struck because the engine was running and the transmission was in drive when rescue teams approached.
“All of us at WYFF News 4 are grieving. We are a family and we thank you, our extended family, for your comfort as we mourn and as we seek to comfort the families of Mike and Aaron,” the station said.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/28/south-carolina-anchor-photographer-killed-covering-alberto-as-storm-makes-landfall.html
Rescuers are searching for a 39-year-old National Guard member Monday who was reported missing a day after he was swept away by fast-moving floodwaters in Maryland’s Ellicott City while attempting to rescue people during devastating floods, family and officials said.
Eddison Hermond, of Severn, was reported missing around 12:30 a.m. Monday, hours after sudden, violent floodwaters destroyed businesses, submerged vehicles and left some flipped and in pieces, Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman said. Friends and relatives on Facebook said Hermond, a National Guard member, was rescuing people after 4 p.m. Sunday when he was swept away by floodwaters.
Officials said he was holding a door to a restaurant closed until he and others left to assist a woman whose cat had gone missing. Witnesses said they saw Hermond go under water, officials said Monday.
“We’re continuing to search for the missing gentleman. Nothing is off the table,” Howard County Fire Chief John Butler told reporters Monday afternoon, adding that rescuers aren’t yet making “assumptions.”
By Monday, the storm had calmed but residents of the city, about 13 miles west of Baltimore, were left attempting to sort through the damage. At least 300 people in “hazardous areas” were assisted and at least two dozen were stranded or rescued from waters, Butler said.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/28/ellicott-city-maryland-flash-floods-leave-1-missing-devastate-town-recovering-from-2016-deluge.html
Eddison Hermond, of Severn, was reported missing around 12:30 a.m. Monday, hours after sudden, violent floodwaters destroyed businesses, submerged vehicles and left some flipped and in pieces, Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman said. Friends and relatives on Facebook said Hermond, a National Guard member, was rescuing people after 4 p.m. Sunday when he was swept away by floodwaters.
Officials said he was holding a door to a restaurant closed until he and others left to assist a woman whose cat had gone missing. Witnesses said they saw Hermond go under water, officials said Monday.
“We’re continuing to search for the missing gentleman. Nothing is off the table,” Howard County Fire Chief John Butler told reporters Monday afternoon, adding that rescuers aren’t yet making “assumptions.”
By Monday, the storm had calmed but residents of the city, about 13 miles west of Baltimore, were left attempting to sort through the damage. At least 300 people in “hazardous areas” were assisted and at least two dozen were stranded or rescued from waters, Butler said.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/28/ellicott-city-maryland-flash-floods-leave-1-missing-devastate-town-recovering-from-2016-deluge.html