Why is tornadoes always happening only in America?

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BQ what kind of national disaster does your state have? i live in california and we have earthquakes, i think i would rather sit threw a tornado then an earthqauke so i might move to the midwest

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It looks like President Obama found George Bush’s hurricane machine – you know, the one he used to send Katrina to hurt all those poor black people in New Orleans – and has now used it to send Hurricane Bill to hurt the white people in New England. Does it actually make the hurricanes or just attract them like a magnet? And if the latter why did President Obama take such a risk bringing it to Martha’s Vinyard himself?

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EF 5 Tornado, and a F5 Tornado. everyone is calling that tornado that hit KS was an EF5. but i thought that was the same thing as a F5. hmmmmmmm?

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Gas Price Whining Forces Rush to Explain Capitalism Yet Again

RUSH: I went to the MoveOn.org website today. You know what they’re all up in arms about today? High gas prices. They’re sending out an action e-mail to all of their members asking people to sign a petition to get Congress to do something about high gas prices, and Congress is going to do something about high gas prices. Have you heard this? They are going to sue OPEC! They are going to sue OPEC for high gas prices. Why aren’t they suing Big Oil, I wonder? The House voted yesterday to allow the government to sue OPEC over oil production quotas. They ought to sue themselves! They’re the ones standing in the way of our energy independence.

You know, high gasoline prices, high oil prices today are partially due to the fact that back in the Clinton administration and since the Democrats have prevented any drilling in, say, ANWR or anywhere else for our own supplies of oil. They have all this dramatic talk about alternative fuels and so forth, which is a pipe dream. There’s nothing down the road that’s anywhere near something that’s going to solve whatever problem we have. But I find it interesting they want to sue OPEC and not Big Oil. This is, again, something that will go nowhere.

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RUSH: "The jump in U.S. gasoline prices this year has so far drained consumers of an extra billion, or about 6 for each passenger car in the country, the Government Accountability Office told Congress on Tuesday." That’s also known as the GAO. "The national price for regular unleaded gasoline hit a record .22 a gallon this week, and is up .05 since the beginning of February, according to the Energy Department." Now, get this. "The added expense is taking money away from consumers to spend on other goods and services." Yes, it is. "Spending billions more on gasoline constrains consumers’ budgets, leaving less money available for other purchases." Why don’t you people think about this on tax cuts, for crying out loud? If you want to cut prices on gasoline, cut the taxes, the state, the city, the feds, whatever else. It adds up to 60 cents a gallon. It’s all profit. We’ve been over this I don’t know how many times. Mrs. Clinton said something about doing something to increase the supply, lower the price, I forget what it was, and I’m sitting there thinking, if you are Big Oil and you are a global concern, your market is the world, why in the world would you invest heavily in — I think this is about refineries, we need to be building more refines — who’s standing in the way of building more refineries? Environmentalist wackos. And who are they aligned with? They’re aligned with the Democrats and left. But if you’re Big Oil, why would you even consider investing gazillions of dollars in a country that is trying to ban your product? Somebody needs to ask that question besides me.

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RUSH: Mike in northern Wisconsin somewhere you’re next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.

CALLER: Hey, Rush, how’s it going?

RUSH: Fine, sir.

CALLER: I got a tanker up here, a gas tanker, and I’m not going to tell you who I drive for –

RUSH: Wait, wait, hold — time-out, time-out, I want to hear — you driving the tanker?

CALLER: Yes, I am right now. I’m going to get another load of that precious liquid gold.

RUSH: Yes.

CALLER: (Laughing.) Anyway, what I wanted to say was, I just delivered in a store here, and they were lined up at two stations, the one I was at and one across the street. The prices — for granted, let’s say they’re just high, okay, whatever.

RUSH: Right.

CALLER: We can’t keep gas in the ground, people are buying it as fast as we can put it in the ground. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. I’m just telling you it doesn’t seem — if the world is going you know where in a handbasket and everything is going bad, people seem to be buying gas and going on vacations up here and –

RUSH: We know this is true. Your little story here is anecdotal, but we know it’s true. There have been surveys. Something came out yesterday that driving went down for a while, on a percentage basis from the previous year. But from what you’re describing, people waiting in line for your truck to show up to refill the tanks at the station?

CALLER: There was people there waiting, and I pulled in, and I had to block the road just so I could get in and unload this thing, and we ran all weekend. We had trucks out all week running. Now, if the economy is so bad, how come people keep buying all this gas and the motorcycles and their motor homes and — somebody’s making money somewhere putting this gas in their tanks.

RUSH: You are really shrewd, I have to tell you, and plus you have the benefit of being an eyewitness to this. This notion the economy is in bad shape and that people are fretting over gasoline prices is simply manufactured news, manufactured news from the Democrat Party, and they’re trying to compare it to food prices, which it is a necessary. We all have to eat in this country. I had somebody ask me the other day, "Rush, let me ask you a question, you once said, and you’re right, that that you go to the grocery store and the profit markup in a grocery store on basic foodstuffs is 1%, grocery stores make their money selling the stuff at the checkout counter and the magazines and the candy and all this sort of stuff and the mops and the spic-and-span, whatever’s in there. But on basic foodstuffs, profit margin is 1%, because people have to eat." He said, "Well, why doesn’t Big Oil look at it that way. People have to drive to get to the grocery store to eat." I said, "Well, both prices, both profit markups, both businesses are constrained by the market forces in which they operate. People do need gasoline, and that’s why they’re driving." They’re not going to slow down and they’re not going to stop going to work and they’re not going to get on the light rail train.

We have some of the ugliest light rail trains I have ever seen in my life right down here in West Palm Beach. I don’t go over there much, but sometimes I have to get to the airport. You get stopped sometimes, when I come in late from a flight getting home, midnight or one o’clock, that seems to be when these things are moving, and nobody’s on them — wait, no, that’s the freight trains. Take it back. These are the transit, the rush hour, little all-day-long light train. They’re supposed to be painted to look like Florida blue with the palm trees. They don’t look like that. They look ugly. They look like they’re unfinished, looks like they bought used train cars and they haven’t done anything to them. But the thing I noticed, they’re always empty. I scour, I look in the windows, you might see one or two people on a three-car train. They’re empty. People don’t want to get on these things, and they don’t want to get on buses, outside of New York, where this is standard form of transportation, cabs and buses and subways and so forth. But around the rest of the country they want to drive their cars and they’re going to and they’re going to pay whatever it costs. They might complain but they’ll pay it.

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RUSH: Darren in Billings, Montana, I’m glad you waited as we get back to the phones. Welcome to the EIB Network.

CALLER: Hey, Rush, it’s great to talk with you. Mostly dittos from Montana.

RUSH: Thank you, sir. Never been there and would love to go.

CALLER: I’d say, we’d love to have you up here sometime.

RUSH: I’ll make it at some point.

CALLER: There we go. Hey, the problem with the analogy of the oil company and the grocery store is that the oil companies own the product from the raw stage to the retail stage. And the grocery store is actually the true showcase of the free market, where they’re buying products from different places and different manufacturers and wholesalers, whereas the oil companies are controlling it all.

RUSH: So?

CALLER: Well, this is the reason that gas is the price that it is. They’re the ones handling that. There is no free market in the oil business.

RUSH: Okay. There’s no free market in the oil business? The prices in the oil business are fixed? Democrats in Congress conducted an investigation, I think it was Senate Democrats might have conducted an investigation after Hurricane Katrina to find out if there was price fixing. The Democrats couldn’t find any evidence of it.

CALLER: No, I wouldn’t say that there’s price fixing.

RUSH: Well, if you –

CALLER: I simply don’t think that there is the true free market that we see in all the other industries. I don’t see any other industry that controls things from raw material to retail sale. I don’t think that the supply-demand –

RUSH: Well, then tell me how it is that the prices in this country are lower than they are anywhere else in the world?

CALLER: I don’t have an answer for you right off on that.

RUSH: Well, you know, I’ve got limited time –

CALLER: I don’t know how all the other countries are working.

RUSH: You’re a great guy, you’re a nice guy. There’s no free market in gasoline. Propaganda works on this every time the price starts going up, and I don’t get it. I just don’t.

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RUSH: When you get otherwise intelligent people saying there’s no free market in the price of gasoline, after all of the countless years of detailed attention paid to the subject, the painstaking research, the patient presentation of facts by me, I often throw up my hands. Let me try, because I know that the gas price is one of these things that when it comes up, it goes up, people think that there’s some suspicious or conspiratorial reason behind it, they just cannot accept the fact that the free market works in gasoline. So let me ask a question. Or let me ask many questions. Let us speak of many answers. How many oil companies are there that sell gasoline in the United States of America? How many are there? Take a wild guess. I don’t even know the answer, but it doesn’t matter because there’s more than one. If you don’t think they are competing with each other, then you don’t know the world. ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, and whoever the others are, they compete with one another. That’s number one. I realize that some of you might think they all get together and set the price and so forth.

Second thing is, how many companies are there selling gasoline in this country that are not American? Citgo is one, there’s Hugo Chavez. British Petroleum. Do you think that ExxonMobil and BP and the rest are getting together with Hugo to set prices in the United States? Remember, now, these people are the world market. Now, where does this oil come from? Gasoline is oil first and there are a bunch of different places it comes from. All over the world. Comes from Canada. In fact, that’s the number one country we get oil from. That’s our number one importer. Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Russia. The oil companies do not own this oil as it is. I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but Hugo Chavez just kicked the oil companies out of Venezuela. He’s nationalizing everything. He’s taken it, screw you, if you want to stay here and run the wells and so forth we can work out a little production deal, but, ha-ha-ha-ha, this stuff belongs to Venezuela because the oil is ours. Same thing happened in Saudi Arabia and Rockefeller got his change before that happened, but same thing happened there, basically. "We don’t need you anymore."

So tell me how it is that oil, which starts the whole price timeline, coming from so many different places in the world, ends up as refined gasoline with no free market determining the price in this country. I want to know how this is possible. I want to know how it is that BP, ExxonMobil, Citgo, name other companies, the size that are out there — hell, I don’t know — Conoco’s merged with somebody. I want to know how they’re getting together with the Russians and with the Saudis and coordinating this. Then I want you to tell me, the guys playing the futures market in oil on the commodities market, I want you to tell me how they are involved in this so that the price is set by one person from the time it comes out of the ground ’til it gets to your car as gasoline, the idea that that’s true is false. All these companies compete with one another at the retail level, they are competing with each other to find oil all over the world. We have to buy oil from all these different countries, and we have to refine it here. All of these aspects have market circumstances that rein in the desire for people to charge more than what they can get for it. Then you’ve got the stockholders of these publicly traded companies who are demanding profits as big as they can be. They’re publicly traded companies and if the managers of these companies don’t get as big a profit as they could or if they get too little a profit, there’s going to be hell to pay from the shareholders.

Now, I want to know how in the world anybody can genuinely think that the oil companies, who are citizens of the world, own every bit of oil that comes out of the ground and then every bit of the processing before it becomes gasoline, then it becomes gasoline and goes into your tank, I want to know how this happens. This is news to me. And why is it that the Democrats in the Congress are suing OPEC in order to do something about the rising gas prices. Why aren’t they suing Big Oil? And how is it that OPEC isn’t Big Oil and how is it that Hugo Chavez isn’t Big Oil and how is it that Russia isn’t Big Oil, and how is it that British Petroleum and ExxonMobil and Conoco or whoever else, how come they are? I’m sitting here mystified by all this. This is not to say that I’m insensitive to the price, but the idea here — oh, and one more question. Have you heard of a country called China? I’m sure many of you have. We refer to them here lovingly and affectionately as the ChiComs. Well, despite their best efforts over there, they are having an expanding economy. There are now multimillionaires in China and more and more people have access to automobiles that use gasoline, and they are putting a lot of pressure on the worldwide supply of gasoline, and in this country, your friends, the Democrats, are standing in the way of this country finding any more oil on our property; be it Alaska; be it off one of the coasts, they won’t let it happen, while at the same time they’re talking about energy independence.

So I want to know how it is, at that Big Oil, which earns 30% of its income from operations in the United States, I want to know how it is that Big Oil and all these companies competing with one another somehow control the product around the world from the moment it comes out of the ground. I want to know how they own Saudi Arabia. I want to know how they own Russia. I want to know how they own Iran. I want to know how they own Venezuela. Niger, Big Oil — there’s oil coming out of the ground everywhere but here. I want to know this. If you can answer these questions, with all the pressure on the supply, the worldwide supply that the rising Chinese economy is put — and the Indian economy, by the way, they’re going bonkers as well, if you can tell me how Big Oil controls every drop from the time it comes out of the ground until tends up as gasoline in your tank, then I can maybe accept your — but you can’t tell me because it’s not possible, because it isn’t true, because it doesn’t happen.

If you want a shocking statistic, I’ve forgotten the actual numbers here. Going to have to go back to my website tonight to the archives, I gotta remember the date and find this. Maybe Koko can search for it real quick when he hears what I’m talking about here. I was playing golf with a guy who had just had a conversation with an energy expert and he was passing the story on, secondhand. I didn’t hear it from the horse’s mouth, but the numbers of people in the world who don’t have electricity would stun you. Who don’t have running water, stun you. Don’t drive, don’t have automobile, would stun you. It’s a vast, vast majority. If those people ever got — by the way, you people like flipping on the light switch at home. You like when the air-conditioner works? Where do you think that comes from? They won’t let us do nuke power, so it’s coal and it’s oil. I haven’t even scratched the surface of the oil industry here. I haven’t even begun to scratch the surface, the costs in finding it, drilling it, bringing it up, transporting it as crude across the oceans and pipelines and so forth.

I literally am amazed that somehow the truth and the facts of the oil business, economics of the oil business, escape people when the economics of most other things are never questioned. Well, I’m not totally mystified. You’ve got the Democrat Party and the Drive-By Media routinely telling people they’re being gouged, and you’ve got Democrats talk windfall profits taxes and so forth and so on. I’m blue in the face trying to describe to you how much every gallon you buy goes to your state, local, and federal government as total profit. Nobody ever complains and they’re talking about raising those taxes, by the way, in the midst of all this, yeah, because, you know what, as the price goes up, some people are buying fewer gallons of gas, and that’s less tax money. So the roads may not be repaired, bridges may not be prepared and so forth. So all these people out there wanting you driving these little windmill hybrids. I’ll tell you what, if everybody did that, and the consumption of gasoline went down big time, you think the taxes wouldn’t go up to make up the loss to the government? It would. This market is so complex, it’s like the climate, although it’s not nearly as complex as the climate, it is profoundly complex, and to try to control it and corner it is impossible.

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RUSH: I have a little chart from the year 2001 from the Wall Street Journal. The source of this chart is Energy Intelligence Group. It’s a chart of oil companies by size of crude production. The largest oil company in the world: Saudi ARAMCO is the number one oil company in the world in 2001, producing 8.3 million barrels of oil a day. Next is the National Iranian Oil Company, NIOC, at 3.77 million barrels of crude a day. The third largest oil company is PEMEX, that’s Mexico, 3.56 million barrels, and they just announced a huge find in the in the Gulf of Mexico off of their shores. The fourth largest oil company by crude production — and this is going to be a small number now given what’s recently happened there — is Venezuela. The company is PDVSA, three million barrels of crude a day, but they’ve just nationalized a bunch of oil down there, they claim, so they’re going to be higher than that. Number five is ExxonMobil at 2.54 million barrels of crude a day. So you got Saudi Arabia at 8.3 million barrels a day. There’s ExxonMobil at 2.54. ExxonMobil’s market share of the world oil market is 3%. Don’t anybody call here again and tell me about Big Oil engaging in price fixing and controlling every bit of the oil from the ground to your tank as gasoline.

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these places that are in tornado alley should be built to a higher standard… a start would be to build them of reniforced concrete not wood. 95 percent of the town was leveled because of a f5 twister.. thank god that not many people died but more has to be done ..like shelters for the people.. real shelters made just for that reason. god bless them all.
funny but true tom haha.. its like people who build there summer houses on fire island, the sand gets washed away and they have to call the army core of enginners to put more sand in the beachs at taxpayer cost, its not right
love you patrick and thank you for being there for us and me..but maybe the goverment can help
yeah but richard i know .. but what happens when the insurance companys gotta pay these people when storms come and blow away there homes.. we all pay.lets fix the problem for once and for all.
yeah gub but some thing has to be done to help these poor people.

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They both stand up and yell "JESUS CHRIST!!!"

What do the Lions and possums have in common?

Both play dead at home, and both get killed on the road.

What do you call a Detroit Lion with a Super Ring?

A theif

How do the Detroit Lions do math?

0-1, 0-2, 0-3, 0-4, 0-5, 0-16

What’s the first sound the Lions fans hear after a victory?

Their alarm clocks

Where is the safest place in a tornado?

The Lions endzone at Ford Field… Why? THEY NEVER SCORE A TOUCHDOWN!

What do you call the Detroit Lions at the Super Bowl?

Spectators

I think you get the picture! lol.

What do you call 47 people watching the playoffs every year?

The Detroit Lions
What’s the difference between a Taliban and the Detroit Lions?

At least the Taliban has a running game!

What’s the difference between the Detroit Lions and a dollar bill?

At least you can get 4 quarters out of a dollar bill!

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ok the one in denver laramie and cheyenne. i was in the city of all of them. ok this is wat happened. we went to denver in the afternoon to shop. went to my aunts, then the tornado hit! we went to her basssment. then soon as that one cleared up we were going home we
had to drive threw laramie then one hit there! so we went to my cousins house fast! and went to her bassment. then we went to our home cheyenne one hit there! omg big big day! the next day tornado hit in cheyenne when we were in school! my mom picked me up. our house was close by so we were scared. my stupid dad watched all of them exept the colorado one. so anyways who heard of these tornados?! o and these were the best videos i could find.

o and there was more but we had tornados going all night long so boring and scary! but some were lame!

this one is our siren wasnt working so well at first

this one happened in the middle of the night at 11:30 pm

none of laramie but it hit wal-mart

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The numbers below show the number of tornadoes reported in the United States from 1980 – 1990.Find the mean, median, and mode for the number of tornadoes.

Number of Tornadoes: 866, 783, 1046, 931, 907, 684, 764, 656, 702, 858, 1132

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So I just got finished reading this article on the front page of CNN.com about the hurricane Katrina victims. FEMA gave away some million in supplies meant for the victims to other states and various government organizations including the military. Why is it that America, the world’s most powerful nation (at least, for now), cant even take care of its own people??
There are still just under 100 people living in TENTS under a bridge in New Orleans. Two years later!!
I’m just absolutely outraged at FEMA’s blatent disreguard for the victims of hurricane Katrina.
So please, someone, explain.
Here’s the article:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/11/fema.giveaway/index.html

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i have to write a report on what causes tornadoes to be born but when ever i search it up it always gives me stuff on Myspace, and others unrelated to it. so if anyone would be so kind >< please gimme so info or sites that actually has the right info ><

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Here is the website as follows:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/21/mass…

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Title: Gaining Access Into His Home

The Lord knows what has occurred here and it will not continue to happen for long. Remember the WORLD is watching and that’s why America is still in turmoil. They’ve seen how their fellow dark people are continuing to suffer the inequality and straight out racism. People are getting tired of this and it will not be tolerated. If we are ALL going to get along on this ONE planet, called, Earth, we as a people will need to respect all colors, creeds, genders and nationalities. God made us ALL in his image NOT just one form of people. Thus, it’s a disgrace that people still can’t obtain the knowledge that the Lord wants us here for. That’s why the Earth is fighting back. We are making ALL these catastrophic disasters, by destroying the ozone layer, polluting our water supplies, making heaps of garbage, which are incubated underground. This is emerging into our Earth’s crust and causing the planet not to function well. The tsunamis, typhoons, tornadoes, animal wildlife is the key reminder that we have to act now before it’s too late. We are going through perilous times and still we are wondering about a person’s skin color. What we’ve been taught from our parents is to hate people that are different from us and to categorize and to cast judgment. This is ungodly and is WRONG to make these types of assumptions about human beings. The pollution is destroying our air supply and the glaciers that are rapidly melting. This causes our planet to be exposed to extreme radiation that is leaving our planet defenseless. Think about what would happen if you were gaining entrance into your HOME and somebody called the police on YOU. How would you react? Would you go politely like Mary Poppins and cheerfully go willingly with the police. I think not. From what was told in the news, Professor Gates was said to be tumultuous and being disruptive. This is a stereotypical phrase to exemplify in their terms how a minority person is supposed to act. Why do various cultures of people have to be secondary to White people? We as minorities are not in competition with them. We asked to be treated as human beings. Plus when Professor Gates came to his home, the front and back doors were jammed. They needed to investigate where the robber is located and arrest that individual. Quite naturally, he would check his home before going into his residence. Let me reiterate again, Professor Gates was on his property and minding his business. The officer asked him for identification, which Professor Gates did hand to the officer. The officer was in disbelief and still wanted to arrest Professor Gates. Was it wrong, ABSOLUTELY! Is Professor Gates owed an apology? Most Certainly! The people in the neighborhood knew of Professor Gates and knew of his occupation and chose to say nothing. They are cowards and just as wrong as wrong can be. I would be scared to make accusations about people and to think that the Lord is not watching my every move. If you let law officials get away with this, they will come and do this to YOU.

To finish out my response to all of this,
"Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned, forgive, and ye shall be forgiven." ~Luke 6:37~
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
-John 8:7 -

First of all, I have not misinterpreted anything. It speaks volumes for itself, as this could happen to anyone of any culture. Listening to President Obama’s response to this was a disgrace. How are we going to have international relationships with different ethnic groups, from other countries around the world? If this continues to occur here on our own soil, we will be a failure. What if this happened to Sgt. James Crowley and his family? Would he show signs of malicious, cantankerous, tumultuous, angry, pissed and agitated behavior? We all need to be unified in this melting pot called LIFE. Sgt. James Crowley and others like him believe that the Lord is not watching. I speak for all nationalities and creeds when I say, it’s truly shameful that we have not arrived as a civilization. All the bureaucracy will not last long, since we are made of flesh. One simple apology from Sgt. Crowley would suffice. This kind of treacherous behavior, shouldn’t happen to anyone.

Oh! Let me just let you know this – Just because President Barack Obama’s in office, doesn’t mean that racism has instantaneously ended. I still give him props, because he is still working with the health care situation, but the people in Congress are stalling. At least when things occur, he responds. Whereas President George W. Bush could give a rat’s *** about America’s current status.

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We have a 90% chance of tornados tomorrow here in Oklahoma

I know some seem easy but I would like to be certain.
Any help is appreciated.

1. Which one of the following is NOT necessary for thunderstorm development?

a) lifting action
b) sufficient moisture in the atmosphere for cloud development
c) high wind speeds
d) unstable air

2. Which of the following statements is FALSE?

a) Warm air is less dense than cold air.
b) The cumulus stage of a thunderstorm usually features heavy rains.
c) The first stage of a thunderstorm’s development is the cumulus stage.

3. The name we give to the cloud associated with the mature stage of a thunderstorm is:

a) cumulus
b) towering cumulus
c) cumulonimbus
d) fog

4. We use __________ to measure the heat in the air.

5. Which of the following geographic regions would be the best absorber of heat energy?

a) The smooth sandy beaches of Virginia
b) Rough, icy snow packs of Alaska
c) The dark plowed Kansas corn fields
d) The green forests of the Smokey Mountains
e) Rough, transparent water of California beaches

6. The measure of the weight of air above us is called air __________.

7. When a cold front meets a warm front, we may experience __________.

a) rain
b) precipitation
c) snow
d) All of the above

8. Cold, dry air masses __________ and __________ air masses.

a) rise; are replaced by warm, moist
b) rise; flow toward warm, more moist
c) sink; flow toward warmer, more moist
d) sink; are replaced by warm, moist
e) None of the above

9. Wind is the movement of __________.

a) sand
b) tides
c) clouds
d) air

10. Which of the following is the MOST destructive force associated with tornadoes?

a) Heavy rains.
b) The explosive pressure difference between the inside of a home and the lower pressure outside due to the tornado.
c) The destructive pressure of the high winds associated with the tornado.
d) The flying debris or "missiles" that travel with the tornado.

11. True or False?
When the National Weather Service issues a Tornado Watch, it means that a tornado has been sighted.

12. Fog forms whenever there is a loss of heat from the earth through __________.

a) radiation
b) evaporation
c) condensation
d) frost
e) strong winds

13. Relative humidity is a ratio of __________.

a) moist air to dry air
b) how much water vapor is in the air compared to how much the air can hold at that temperature
c) how much heat air can hold with a given moisture
d) how much water air can hold at a given temperature
e) warm air to dry air

14. A large body of water affects the climate by keeping places near it __________ in winter and __________ in summer.

a) warmer…cooler
b) cooler…warmer

15. Changes in the earth’s atmosphere over a short period of time are referred to as __________.

a) meteorology
b) climate
c) weather
d) geography
e) climatology

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How does a cold front produce a super cell thunderstorm? And how does a super cell thunderstorm create a tornado? Please be specific.

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I was just randomly bored and decided to look up what the highest wind speed ever recorded was and found that it was from an F5 tornado. The only thing is, whats 301 ± 20 mph? I mean, how fast is that?

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There’s a hurricane coming, headed right up my state. We’ve been being warned for days to get ready, and to evacuate if we live on the coast.

Well, I didn’t do it. I didn’t buy any supplies, and my car is almost out of gas. The storm is going to hit tomorrow and I’m not ready.

I’m going to wait until it’s all over, them I’m going to jump in front of the news cameras and start screaming for FEMA to help me.

Will you feel sorry for me? Will you send food, money, and supplies?

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“Oh, Hannah, don’t worry. Mermaids are only in fairytales! They aren’t real!” Shelby McDowell soothed her 4-year-old sister Hannah.
“Yeah Hannah,” Brendan said matter-of-factly.
Shelby looked over at him, with his green eyes wide and serious. She couldn’t help laughing at how old he looked and tried to act when he was really only 4, the same age as Hannah. In fact, Brendan and Hannah were twins.
The family had just finished watching a television show about a mermaid who crashed a ship at sea and killed all the people in it. Now Hannah was scared out of her wits about going to the beach the next day with her family.
“It’s okay, honey. I promise!” Shelby reassured her.
She turned out the lights and walked out of her sister’s purple princess room, with Brendan right on her heels. She sighed and walked down the hallway to her brother’s green room, muttering under her breath, “Not real. Not real. Not real.” Shelby had been scared by the program on television too. Not that she would ever admit it. She kissed Brendan goodnight and flicked out his lights.
Shelby walked into her own turquoise room, decorated with ocean things. Shelby had been obsessed with the ocean ever since she visited it for the first time years ago. She looked forward to every summer when her family spent 2 weeks in their beach house.
Shelby loved running through the white sand and darting through the rolling waves searching for marine mammals or plants. She could snorkel for hours and would never tire as long as she was at the place she loved.
Now, as Shelby looked at pictures of her family on the wide-open beach, all anxiety was replaced by excitement. She flicked off the lights in her own room, laid her head on her blue pillow, and drifted off to dreams of dolphins, sand, and waves.

The next morning was a whirlwind of activities. There were the shovels, pails, and all the other toys to pack. Also, food and suitcases. As soon as the McDowell’s were ready to go, the twins wailed and screamed that they had left their beloved stuffed animals, Sukie the bear and Poncho the grasshopper on their beds. Mr. and Mrs. McDowell sighed and unbuckled the twins. When Sukie and Poncho had been safely put in place between Brendan and Hannah’s car seats, the car was rolling. Shelby sat in the very back seat, away from all the noise, listening to her iPod and thumbing through an old Seventeen magazine.
The drive to the beach took 3 long, agonizing hours of listening to the twins complain of having to go to the bathroom, being hungry, being bored, and everything else they could think of, but Shelby knew it was worth it when they turned the last corner and the beach was in view.
The twins were suddenly quiet and gasped in surprise. Shelby turned off her iPod, put away her magazine and put her forehead to the cool glass window. She looked and looked at the beach, sucking in every detail.
The waves lolled quietly back and forth. The sand blew in the wind, forming miniature tornadoes. Seagulls darted in and out of the water, hunting for lunch.
When the McDowell’s pulled up to their little yellow beach house shortly later, Shelby hopped out of the car, took the key from her father and stepped inside the house. She was always the first one to go into the house. It was a kind of tradition for the McDowell’s.
Shelby stood in the warm entryway and looked around her. The hallway was smothered in pictures of the McDowell family. Frames of all shapes and colors and sizes hung on the walls, holding memories of the fun moments at the beach. Shelby walked up the hallway and to the right.
There was the kitchen, the same as they had left it: the stainless steel sink cleaned thoroughly, the refrigerator ready to be turned back on, the microwave anxious to be warmed up again. Shelby sighed and kept walking forward.
She was now in the living room. The couches and beanbags looked so comforting and ready to be sat upon. The plasma screen television shiny as ever; its remote sitting pleasantly on top of it.
She continued until she found the 2 bedrooms. One was painted an orangish color, which was where the twins would sleep. The other room was no other color but turquoise. Shelby didn’t know if she would ever stop loving the color turquoise. For as long as she could remember, she had loved the color.
On the other side of the house was another bedroom, which was her parents, and 2 bathrooms. At the very back of the place was a deck and boardwalk leading to the beach.
Shelby crept slowly to the back door and burst out onto the deck, leaving the door wide open behind her. She breathed in the salty air and felt the mist along her neck. She couldn’t believe she was actually here again.
Mr. McDowell shouted from the front door, “Shelby, you ready for us to come in? We need to get some things unloaded and get settled.”
Shelby breathed in one last lungful of saltiness and then shouted back, “Um, yah Dad, come on! I’ll be right there to help!”

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I have tons of shampoo, conditioner, soap, lots of personal items, that I would like to donate somewhere in the US. I have donated to a woman’s crisis center before, locally, but I want to feel I am really helping someone in NEED. my dad when he’s a pilot and stays in hotels, he gets little bottles of soap, shampoo, lotion, etc, personal items, and I have collected a lot of them, and want to find a good place to give them.
Aside from Katrina, not that that isn’t an option, I’m just wondering what other disasters have occured in the US that need help like this?

I can think of the tornadoes, and there were fires in California a few years back.. but where would find out more?
Just want to help.
Thanks

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I dream that I am rushing around to find shelter becase a tornado (or many tornodoes are coming). I hvae never lived in a place that has tornadoes. I have another dream where I am trapped in a weird, distorted theme park and have to ride all these bizzare rides and can’t find the exit anywhere.

Anyone have a recurring nightmare to share too?

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i need to know doing project on tornado and snow for science

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I’m 15 so not too hard of stuff(:
I love stuff about the planets, space and all that for some reason.
Are there other planets besides the ones in our galaxy? I know, that was probably a stupid question but i don’t know.
I think its amazing how we have pictures of like how Mars is all rocky. That’s probably stupid to you but I think its cool.
All the stuff like black holes, how they could rip you up and all the bright color stars and other stuff make and how the stars are like billions of years old by the time we get to see them.

This is like the only thing that gets my attention besides like the weather (rain, tornados, ect.)
i’m like one of those girls who are really stupid. But a little smarter and less slutty. >.>
Ohhh I knew that!
It’s hard to imagine. I like how its an ongoing storm. forever and ever

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