Sobering map of tornado tracks

[n2doc]

[LunaSea]

1. Link to larger version

http://tinyurl.com/k9qvpxh

Check out the right angle turn of the one in AZ when it hit the mountain range.

[kentauros]

7. Is there an IKEA store there?

I'm curious about that short yet wide and bright one in NW Wyoming. It appears to be right in the middle of the mountains. WTF?

[sheshe2]

2. It's both sobering and frightening!

Good find n2doc.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. What's interesting is that most of them

travel at an angle from SW to NE, east of the Rockies.

[DCKit]

4. It's them damm Mexikans! nt

[darkangel218]

5. I see a thick white line right over where i live

[progressoid]

6. Wow.

[VWolf]

8. I can see the tourism posters already:

Come to West Virginia. We don't have tornados.

[a la izquierda]

10. Ah, wonderful.

Lived in OK for 8 years and am moving to WV. I'm tired of tornados.

[athenasatanjesus]

12. How does WV avoid them?

[Curmudgeoness]

14. If you notice the map,

the area of the Appalachian mountains has few tornados. WV is very mountainous. Tornados have trouble forming in mountain terrain.

I know what you were thinking----all those trailer parks in WV, how could they not attract tornados! Oops, that was what I was thinking.

[Curmudgeoness]

13. My favorite vacation getaway spot is in WV

and I have not been there yet this year (if I do go), but Holly River State Park was terribly damaged by Hurricane Sandy. It is in the mountains, and is old growth forest, and they say they lost over 1000 trees.

It's one thing, or it's another

[sofa king]

9. It's almost as if something/someone is wrathful....

Wrathful and visiting its anger upon those who chose to worship false idols and deny the existence of the wrathful entity.

Perhaps we shouldn't have ignored Science. Now we're fucked.

[Yooperman]

11. Tell me

again why ALL schools in "Tornado Alley" aren't required to have tornado proof shelters for the students? Let me tell you... because 1% of the population has more money than 90% of the populace. So the 90% can't afford it..... or can it be that our priorities are wrong? We have spent over $1,000,000,000,000.00 over the last ten years fighting wars..... or can it be we care about building sports stadiums with tax payer money instead of shelters for our children.... it's time to get things right.

[sakabatou]

15. Almost all of them are east of the CO plateau

[King_Klonopin]

16. East of the Great Divide

where hot air collides with cold air -- violently.

[oldandhappy]

17. wow

I am so used to people getting after me for living in CA -- earthquakes don't you know. And yes, we have them. But nothing on the scale of the tornadoes. The painful horrific events in recent weeks/months makes me grateful to be where I am. I really find it hard to understand why people in places where tornadoes are frequent do not have good shelter. When I look at this map, I think every home east of the continental divide should be required to have reinforced shelter.