Maybe this is becoming too much of a habit, but I've got more videos to share.
The first is the most dramatic. It shows people frantically trying to get off a boat in a severe storm. Suddenly the entire marina next to them goes flying as an apparent tornado hits. It looks like the debris somehow missed the people in this surveillance video:
The first part of this video is pretty impressive. It shows a supercell thunderstorm moving into Charleston, West Virginia on Monday. That wall of rain and wind is impressive. This storm did produce at least one tornado.
I'm sure the store manager in this video is having a bad day. A storm and flood caused roof damage at a Tesco Supermarket in Scotland a few days ago. Here's the scene inside the store:
Finally, lots more drama. Dash cam video from a guy in a car caught in a tornado that hit the Dayton, Ohio area a couple weeks ago. Surprised he wasn't hurt, with the trees flying and the roof of the nearby house appearing to disintegrate:
Showing posts with label West Virginia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West Virginia. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Saturday, June 25, 2016
Deadly Floods, Deadly Fire, And A Scary Combination Of The Two
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| This mobile home washed away and slammed into trees during West Virginia's deadly flash flood on Thursday. i |
A well-advertised severe weather outbreak got going Wednesday, but didn't cause as much damage as we thought it would.
Just as we were breathing a sigh of relief, the tail end of that severe weather unleashed the most deadly flash flood in the United States in recent memory, this time striking West Virginia.
Meanwhile, the heat and wildfires seemed to be temporarily subsiding a bit out west, when all of a sudden California faced a wildfire that crews battling it said they've never seen the likes of before.
It literally exploded and raced through neighborhoods in an instant, destroying......
WEST VIRGINIA:
At last check Saturday morning, the death toll had risen to 23 in West Virginia after up to 10 inches of rain fell in just a few hours in parrs of the state Thursday afternoon,
Such rains are even more dangerous in mountainous West Virginia than in flatter country because the masses of water rush off the hillsides with incredible force.
Such was the case in West Virginia Thursday, as people had little or no time to get out of the way of the fast rushing water and rocks and debris. Two boys, ages eight and four were swept away even as adults tried valiantly to pull them from the water.
The nation was shown the spectacle of a video, seen at the bottom of this post of a house on fire being swept down a raging river, then slamming into a bridge.
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| Greenbriar Sporting Club in West Virginia. Bottom photo si what the golf courses looked like before the flood. Top photo is during the storm Thursday. |
Parts of the famed Greenbrier Sporting Club in West Virginia and its golf courses were under many feet of water Thursday as the resort scrambled to get guests out of harm's way.
Greenbrier is supposed to host its annual PGA Tour event beginning on July 7, notes the New York TImes, but with greens washed away and debris everywhere, that idea is in doubt at the moment.
As of Friday, at least 60 roads in West Virginia were washed out and close to 70,000 people had no electricity.
It's going to take a lot of time for West Virginia to recover from this terrible tragedy.
CALIFORNIA
At the very moment the huge flash floods were terrorizing West Virginia Thursday, a wildfire broke out in Kern County, in a drought-wracked area in south central California.
Firefighters said they'd never seen anything like it.
Fed by hot, dry weather and strong winds, the fire went from practically nothing to an enormous inferno is seemingly no time. The fire tore through rough terrain and into neighborhoods so quickly that firefighters couldn't even keep pace with the racing fire.
The fire covered 11 miles in 13 hours - an unheard of pace for a wildfire, says the Los Angeles Times. It has killed at least two people and destroyed up to 100 homes.
As of late Friday, the fire was just 5 percent contained. Hot temperatures, gusty winds as high as 50 mph and humidity as low as 8 percent are forecast in the fire area today.
It's going to be long, hot, dangerous fire season in much of the southwest this year.
Here's the video of the house on fire going down the river:
Somebody got up on the roof of a building in a West Virginia town and gave us this sad video flood tour:
The Kern County California Fire Department shot this video of the destruction during California's wildfire:
Friday, August 1, 2014
W. Va. Congressman At It Again: Tries To Block Federal Agencies From Factoring in Climate Change
David McKinley is at it again.
He's the U.S. Representative from West Virginia who proposed a measure that would stop the Department of Defense from considering climate change while making its strategic plans.
After all, if climate change ultimately causes conflicts, refugee crises and unstable governments, why should the Department of Defense be ready for it? Who cares if such things threaten U.S. security?
As a March Pentagon report states, "poverty, environmental degradation, political instability and social tensions ... can enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence."
I guess if we pretend climate change doesn't exist, and that it would never cause any problems, we can just ignore it, right?
Now, McKinley has promoted a bill that would block two key U.S. government agencies from factoring climate change into their decisions, according to the Charleston, (W.Va) Gazette.
He seems to think that if he blocks U.S. agencies from gathering the facts about issues like climate change, the problem will go away.
McKinley's latest masterpiece would prohibit the U.S. Department of Energy and the Army Corps of Engineers from using funds to "design, implement, administer or carry out specified assessments regarding climate change."
He's continuing his rich tack of using fact-free political ideology to say government agencies shouldn't plan for climate change because that very idea is political ideology.
Don't believe me? I'll quote McKinley: "With all the unrest around the (world) why should Congress divert funds from the mssion of our military and national security to support a political ideology?"
Yeah, like the sea level is rising a bit and the weather is getting more erratic because Mother Nature is a flaming liberal who wants to stick it to conservative Republicans.
Some conservatives say they're not scientists, so they won't try to understand what climate scientists are saying. I'm not a scientist, either, but when I don't know about something and need to find out, I go to the experts.
When I had a recent illness, I went to a doctor who specializes in the problem I had, and I'm much better now. Had I pretended the illness didn't exist, I would have gotten sicker and sicker until my ailment was harder if not impossible to treat.
In other words, I consultant an expert. And no, there's not some grand conspiracy among climate scientists hoaxing us on climate change. If there were such a hoax, some loudmouth would have spilled the beans right now. (And, no offense to you scientists, but there's plenty of loudmouth scientists out there.)
Luckily, the Senate, at least in its current configuration, would never pass McKinley's measures so tey wil die.
And that's good, since the Department of Energy is heavily involved in dealing with climate change, says the Charleston Gazette article.
I'm sure much of McKinley's motivation is to protect the coal industry in West Virginia. I don't like to see coal miners lose their jobs, either. But maybe it's time to spend government time and energy re-training them for better, safer jobs and stop just making things up to suit your political viewpoint on climate change.
Of course, maybe if McKinley stops blowing hot air, global warming might slow a bit.
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| David McKinley seems to think if we pretend something doesn't exist then, POOF! it's gone. |
He's the U.S. Representative from West Virginia who proposed a measure that would stop the Department of Defense from considering climate change while making its strategic plans.
After all, if climate change ultimately causes conflicts, refugee crises and unstable governments, why should the Department of Defense be ready for it? Who cares if such things threaten U.S. security?
As a March Pentagon report states, "poverty, environmental degradation, political instability and social tensions ... can enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence."
I guess if we pretend climate change doesn't exist, and that it would never cause any problems, we can just ignore it, right?
Now, McKinley has promoted a bill that would block two key U.S. government agencies from factoring climate change into their decisions, according to the Charleston, (W.Va) Gazette.
He seems to think that if he blocks U.S. agencies from gathering the facts about issues like climate change, the problem will go away.
McKinley's latest masterpiece would prohibit the U.S. Department of Energy and the Army Corps of Engineers from using funds to "design, implement, administer or carry out specified assessments regarding climate change."
He's continuing his rich tack of using fact-free political ideology to say government agencies shouldn't plan for climate change because that very idea is political ideology.
Don't believe me? I'll quote McKinley: "With all the unrest around the (world) why should Congress divert funds from the mssion of our military and national security to support a political ideology?"
Yeah, like the sea level is rising a bit and the weather is getting more erratic because Mother Nature is a flaming liberal who wants to stick it to conservative Republicans.
Some conservatives say they're not scientists, so they won't try to understand what climate scientists are saying. I'm not a scientist, either, but when I don't know about something and need to find out, I go to the experts.
When I had a recent illness, I went to a doctor who specializes in the problem I had, and I'm much better now. Had I pretended the illness didn't exist, I would have gotten sicker and sicker until my ailment was harder if not impossible to treat.
In other words, I consultant an expert. And no, there's not some grand conspiracy among climate scientists hoaxing us on climate change. If there were such a hoax, some loudmouth would have spilled the beans right now. (And, no offense to you scientists, but there's plenty of loudmouth scientists out there.)
Luckily, the Senate, at least in its current configuration, would never pass McKinley's measures so tey wil die.
And that's good, since the Department of Energy is heavily involved in dealing with climate change, says the Charleston Gazette article.
I'm sure much of McKinley's motivation is to protect the coal industry in West Virginia. I don't like to see coal miners lose their jobs, either. But maybe it's time to spend government time and energy re-training them for better, safer jobs and stop just making things up to suit your political viewpoint on climate change.
Of course, maybe if McKinley stops blowing hot air, global warming might slow a bit.
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