Tornado reported on the ground in Moore, OK

[Stinky The Clown]

MSNBC has been live on this outbreak for at least the last hour. They just reported that Moore is being hit again. It is the strongest of four tornadoes right now on the ground. There have been others earlier and they are predicting more later tonight.

[Glimmer of Hope]

1. Damn. This is horrible.

[AverageJoe90]

2. Yeah, seconded. n/t

[upi402]

3. Mother Nature's schooling the Republican South

Sadly their willful ignorance will take us all down eventually

[Niceguy1]

4. okay...

and I bet you think good progressive don't you? sounds like something I would read at free republic

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. Pat Robertson would say something like that.

Stay strong people of OK.

[cordelia]

7. That's about as disgusting as anything I've read on this site,

and I've seen some real horseshit lately.

You should be ashamed, provided you even have the capacity.

[Behind the Aegis]

8. Tallk about "willful ignorance."

I am one of those getting "schooled" right now, along with SEVERAL other GOOD DU'ERS and THEIR LOVED ONES!

Your comment is disgusting and ugly, so much so, it isn't even something that reptile Pat Buchanan would utter. Congrats!

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. Please be safe... you were the first person I thought of.

[Behind the Aegis]

16. I will sweetie. We are getting slammed currently, but it is off and on...a bit annoying.

We have been VERY lucky again! No hail, no minor damage, and the tornados are about 15 miles south of us.

I hope you are well. I have been thinking of you.

[Ms. Toad]

20. Unfortunately -

There must be quite a few similarly willfully ignorant people populating the board tonight. The post was adjudicated before I got to it - and no one thought it should be hidden.

I guess the up side is the willful ignorance is still hanging about for everyone to see - and I don't see anyone else chiming in with an "atta-boy."

[Behind the Aegis]

24. That is beyond sad.

Right now there are hundreds of DU'ers who are either directly involved (and now it is in St. Louis and across Missouri, as well as still affecting OK), or who have loved ones in the affected areas and we see such disdain and a chance to score some cheap "Rethugs are bad" points. But, like you say, it is refreshing to see people respond in a way that reminds us there are many who do care.

[madaboutharry]

27. Stay safe.

[Behind the Aegis]

28. You know it! Tornado closet is ready!

[a la izquierda]

9. Thanks buddy.

My good, staunch progressive friends in Norman appreciate your cynicism.

[Ms. Toad]

15. Please remove this hurtful post.

Your behavior is no better than that of the Westboro Baptist Church when they picket funerals with their "God Hates Fags" signs to send the message that whatever tragedy is being mourned happened because God is punishing all of us because the liberals are being sinful. The only differences are that you believe a different group is "sinning" by their willful ignorance, and you call God "Mother Nature."

[bvar22]

18. You would be doing yourself a favor...

..if you removed your post.
It is shameful, embarrassing, self-absorbed, and ignorant.

8 years at DU,
over 16,000 posts,
and THAT is what your are thinking about the people in Oklahoma tonight?
You wasted YOUR time here.

[Stinky The Clown]

22. A jury just voted 6-0 to leave it.

[bvar22]

29. I'm not surprised.

Bigotry, Ignorance, Callousness, and Abuse are the New Normal for DU3.

I might have left it up too.
Let that poster Wear It Around His/Her Neck for everybody to see.

[Ms. Toad]

32. Actualy I tried well over an hour ago

And I was already too late by about 10 minutes.

I almost didn't even try - because of the idiocy a week ago, and how many juries rejected alerts 0-6, 1-5. I finally decided it was worth risking not being able to alert for 24 hours just to make a point to the admins, if nothing else, and got the immediate reply that the jury had already decided to leave it.

[awoke_in_2003]

37. The jury system is a joke. mt

[Marrah_G]

35. That is a really fucking sick thing to say right now

You should delete this.

[Ms. Toad]

36. Unfortunately, this poster seems to have posted and gone to bed.

No posts after this one. I'd live to see the poster wake up, come back and try to defend that sick post.

[rightsideout]

40. I agree . . . kind of

I would say it's punishment for the willful ignorance for Republicans letting CO2 get out of control. As we know most Conservatives don't believe in human contributions to climate change. So this is their punishment. Too bad the tornados can't sweep up just the deniers.

Yea, it's bad to say that but I don't care anymore. Deniers are like smokers who have aggravated my asthma over the years. They deny or ignore smoking is harmful and seem blissfully unaware their habits harm others.

Really, it's all of our punishment. If we keep pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere storms will get stronger. Warmer air produces more moisture. More moisture produces stronger storms. Hot air, like today in OK, gives storms more energy. The 90 degree OK heat gave the storm a huge amount of energy which spawned 2 super cells and several tornados. We're also going to see tornados going further north than before.

So I would probably rephrase it to say, "It's Mother Nature's schooling the Republican Climate Change Deniers." That's probably safer to say.

[Ms. Toad]

41. How about just not saying anything.

If you had a family member in danger, as may DU members do - or are in danger yourself, would seeing your kinder, gentler, blame the red state post be comforting?

[cordelia]

43. You have some pretty inhumane views yourself.

I like the idea of keeping them to yourself.

[Skip Intro]

44. Did you type willful ignorance with a straight face? n/t

[Earth_First]

45. Sounds like something Fred Phelps would dredge up...

Or Robertson.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

[LiberalEsto]

6. Goddess protect them

They're suffered far too much already

[sheshe2]

10. Oh no, Stinky

Not Moore again!

Please be safe everyone!

[Major Hogwash]

11. The system is in St Louis now.

It's been going on all afternoon.
This system is huge!!

[bvar22]

21. Yeah. We got it in Arkansas yesterday afternoon,

...and headed for us again tonight.

Welcome to The NEW Normal.

[roamer65]

12. If we keep pumping CO2 into the atmosphere...

...we are going to have to get used to weather events like this. Sad to see and yet true.

400 PPM and rising.

[Behind the Aegis]

13. NE OK (Tulsa) is getting slammed now.

Really bad wind, no hail as for now.

[MuseRider]

17. Glad to see you are safe.

After the last episode I left reading storm posts. I am glad I came back and find you well although sick and tired of this. We all have next week to look forward to, I hear it will be a repeat. Hang tough, you have been catching it all.

[Behind the Aegis]

19. I have lived in OK before, but this is just odd.

I have never seen so many strong storms so closely timed together. My puppies are very unhappy because they can't go outside because of the weather. We open the door, and they look at us like, "oh hell NO!" We have been very fortunate because we haven't had any damage, hail, or really bad wind. **knocking on wood**

[MuseRider]

30. Same here.

All the bad stuff (nothing like you have had) in Kansas has been around us, all around us.

I hope we both stay this safe. Like you I also think this odd. Been here my whole long life and have been in an F5 like last weeks but to see so many like this is creepy and very worrisome. We have had major storm training this time. One after another in the same area and we even had a wedge that was moving at 5 miles an hour that some weather spotters said went backwards. Odd stuff.

Stay safe.

[Behind the Aegis]

31. You stay safe too!

Just had a huge peel of thunder, made me jump and I scared the baby (dog). Seems we got another round on the way..DAMN IT! This has really been an odd season. I know SE KS is getting slammed right now (I am about 30 miles south). We are only having minor flooding in this area, nothing like OKC.

Happy thoughts!

[LeftInTX]

42. I was wondering about that myself

It seems the storms are very closely timed and in the same location.
Stay safe.

[LittleBlue]

23. Mother and her baby confirmed dead

Mother and her baby died in the tornado- per MSNBC just now

[burnodo]

25. 10:29EDT tornado vortex signature near Norman

nt

[cascadiance]

33. Hopefully Barack doesn't confuse it with the "Monroe Republic" from the Revolution series again...

... At least I've seen a number of right wingers go after him for saying Monroe instead of Moore...

Well, at least we shouldn't probably respond back to ask why God hates Oklahoma so much as they probably would do if SF got hit by multiple earthquakes.

Man that's tough for them. Hope that there finally at least builds some consciousness of the need to deal with Climate Change as one good thing to come of this crap they're dealing with.

And it wasn't that long ago that nearby Joplin got hit hard earlier by similar devastating twisters. Had an uncle that lived near by there, but he passed away about a month ago from other age related ailments. I guess I'm glad he's at least not had to suffer through this onslaught if he were still alive now.

[tavalon]

34. Fuck. I know life is unfair, but really, this is beyond the pale

Not okay, sky daddy, not okay at all.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

38. Saw the reports.

I feel so much for them. I remember when the sirens went off a few days after Joplin's. We were in a tent. I truly thought that was it.

For Joplin it was due to the strong strait line winds picking up derby. But we had no idea why. As I said we were in a tent, we had no communication.

[Arugula Latte]

39. Unbelievable.

Damn.