I have a facebook re: photos found in the debris of the Joplin Tornado. I have "liked" a lot of related pages, but when I have a update or info I need to post on other groups, I have to manually go to each page and post the link/info. Is there a way to post to pages I have liked or do I have to go to each one and copy/paste the link?

This takes SO much time, but has to be done!
Thanks!

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I hate to ask, but I have just been studying some youtube videos of the ocean crashing thru the streets, homes etc, and there is debris of all kinds, but I havent seen one single human being carried away along with it. Same with the Tornados in Joplin, so much footage, but no people. Are they only allowed to release footage without humans? Or do they edit out the humans?

…..dont get me wrong, so many people died and I dont want to see anyone getting hurt or killed, but I would just like to have an answer because people are always questioning it.

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If i go buy a sheet of plywood or OSB, and get it cut to fit the size of my tub, and attach handles w/ screws very securely on the side of the wood that we would facing us in the bathtub, so i could be pulling down on the wood topper if the tub went flying or debris falling on the tub………is this a good idea…it would just be a piece of wood otherwse and very easy to slide behind the door or somewhere accesible so i could store it away easily

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That was an amazing visual. They are stating that it may have been an F5.

The city was initially hit with a debris storm from the tornado BEFORE it hit them. Talk about intimidating.

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A tornado recently caused extensive damage in a town late at night. I complained about the NWS National Weather Service always wasting taxpayer money to drive around all day to tell us it was a tornado. Everyone knows it.

I’m in an argument with a fire fighter who claims, "the National Weather Service will write a report that will allow the homeowner to get paid by their insurance company. Without a verification from a trusted source (NWS), most insurance companies will not pay for damage (hail, wind, lightning, damage from debris)."

Is this true or false? Any source, like a homeowners insurance policy document, that you can provide?

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Recently in my town there was a tornado that did a lot of damage to my neighborhood. My garage was destroyed, and it and some other debris smashed my car entirely. It was the talk of the small town, and everyone was riding by taking pictures. The first night I was trying to get something out of my car and a reporter tried snapping photos of me. I asked him to not put my picture because I was still very upset about what had happened. He said that he wouldnt. Well, the next two days I made the front page of the paper with the picture he took. Is that illegal? I know there is freedom of press, but I specifically asked him not to…….

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I am not sure if I get the estimate first or find out how much my insurance will give me then find the contractor. I lost about 20 shingles in the front of my house. In the back of the house their is damage from debris. I think it cause a small leak. Anyway thanks in advance for the advice

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What do you think? CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta hit by tornado. There will be a rescue search that will take till Sunday for a nearby apartment.

Do you think CNN will have to merger with another news company and if not CBS who? How do you think their headquarters being hit by the tornado will affect them?

I’m worried about the apartment dwellers and if it’s going to take till Sunday to dig through the debris, I hope they survive. So far no deaths reported.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4456037

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If the tornado was on flat ground with no buildings or debris flying around and you were to wear tons of protective gear.. or be harnessed in a big secure bubble… with like a parachute or some type of safety landing mechanism….. then you were sucked up into a tornado, would you survive?

clearly i need to go back to bed, as its 6:32am, but i’m just wondering, it’d seem kinda fun haha.
(quite obviously, i don’t know much about tornadoes.. so bear with me here).

To be honest i’m kind of imagining someone just jumping inside one covered in bubble wrap.. this is how my brain works. good night/morning.

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If there’s a "God", why did those four nice old people on the news who were trying to PASS OUT BIBLES around the world get kidnapped by Somalian pirates and ultimately brutally killed (Feb. 22, 2011)? And what were they doing trying to give out Bibles around the world like that so close to Muslims and people of other cultures? Is this the Darwinian advance of one religion over another?

The way the world actually works mocks religious belief again and again yet people still have a primitive need to explain everything in terms of a warm fuzzy deity watching over us. Why did an Earthquake topple the city of "CHRISTCHURCH" in New Zealand (Feb. 22, 2011), including their church, killing or trapping hundreds of people. Couldn’t God step in an do anything, if not then, why not as they try to find survivors and take all the fallen debris away? We obviously have to rely on each other, not wait for God.

Why all over the world are there tsunamis and earthquakes, hurricanes and so on that kill thousands of people and ruin the lives of thousands more? Remember the very bad one DURING CHRISTMAS in 2006. Do you think all those thousands of people got to feel warm fuzzy "Christmas" feelings?

I saw a "Nova" special on PBS about the disappearance of flight 447 over the South Atlantic. It was later found in pieces in the water, everyone dead of course. Many probably had a horrible death by drowning or being eaten by sharks etc., I’m sure many of them believed a "God" was looking out for them. Well, I guess there wasn’t. This same thing happens again and again around the world.

People will get all excited about seeing a randomly created image of "the Virgin Mary" in a potato chip or in a stain pattern in an old wooden chair and they will say how "God is with us". Such flawed reasoning! Would God choose to reveal himself in such superficial ways instead of where he is really needed? On some wooden panels above my bed I can see the images of a "grey" alien and a frog etc. It’s like children looking at clouds and seeing random patterns and images in them. That’s all it is. By pure chance you can get an image, more or less, of just about anything, given enough clouds or potato chips or stain patterns.

I find it ridiculous when, on the local News, people who survive their house burning down or who survive robbery attempts or tornadoes, etc., will say "oh God saved me! He’s watching over me! Thank God!". You mean he wasn’t watching over you so that your house didn’t burn down, that there never was a robbery attempt in the first place or a tornado didn’t level your town, along with taking those other people who died in it? Or was he only partially watching over you? And what about all those other people who, all over the world don’t survive these things? Would God be so petty as to pick and choose or, is it simply that, by chance some happen to survive and many more do not (more don’t)? What about all those people who have gone their whole life and never had their house burn down, who never had to be in a robbery attempt or a tornado? Are they even MORE watched over by God than you are? This is all very illogical.

Instead of denying the obvious with dismissive answers like "God works in mysterious ways" or "it’s OK because they get to go to Heaven" people need to stop clinging to unproven religious beliefs which just don’t hold up. The Universe is a cold, logical, awesome place that is not concerned with the concerns of such creatures as ourselves (and it is beyond any of our religious beliefs) that’s WHY there is so much suffering that all living things can experience. We are here as a result of the Universe’s natural processes and are as fleeting as anything else – and yet we are part of a great system of life. It is up to us to learn and evolve and help ourselves and our planet, not some fairy tale that there is a warm, fuzzy God to make us feel special. There is no definitive proof of any religion and their are many religions because they are just man made attempts to understand our origins and we really don’t "have all the answers" as religious people like to think they do.

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I had the most weirdest and craziest dream yesterday. I had a dream that my state had a severe tornado outbreak and tornado warnings were issued like crazy and tornadoes formed like crazy. I even dreamed that i was some sort of person in the community’s safety team and i drove around helping people from debris while tornadoes formed like crazy and i drove back and forth from the community’s public shelter. I even had a laptop with wireless internet access on the road in my car that provided me with tornado warnings & weather watches updates. What would this kind of dream mean to me ? I do honestly love weather especially weather like thunderstorms and stuff but I’m not studying meteorology I’m studying computer science. What did this dream mean at all to me ? My state in the next 2 days will have a chance of thunderstorms. Would it mean there would be a tornado outbreak ? I don’t understand because it was a very crazy dream.

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Why should any religious person believe there’s a "god" watching over us? If there’s a "God", why did those four nice old people on the news who were trying to PASS OUT BIBLES around the world get kidnapped by Somalian pirates and ultimately brutally killed (Feb. 22, 2011)? And what were they doing trying to give out Bibles around the world like that so close to Muslims and people of other cultures? Is this the Darwinian advance of one religion over another?

The way the world actually works mocks religious belief again and again yet people still have a primitive need to explain everything in terms of a warm fuzzy deity watching over us. Why did an Earthquake topple the city of "CHRISTCHURCH" in New Zealand (Feb. 22, 2011), including their church, killing or trapping hundreds of people. Couldn’t God step in an do anything, if not then, why not as they try to find survivors and take all the fallen debris away? We obviously have to rely on each other, not wait for God.

Why all over the world are there tsunamis and earthquakes, hurricanes and so on that kill thousands of people and ruin the lives of thousands more? Remember the very bad one DURING CHRISTMAS in 2006. Do you think all those thousands of people got to feel warm fuzzy "Christmas" feelings?

I saw a "Nova" special on PBS about the disappearance of flight 447 over the South Atlantic. It was later found in pieces in the water, everyone dead of course. Many probably had a horrible death by drowning or being eaten by sharks etc., I’m sure many of them believed a "God" was looking out for them. Well, I guess there wasn’t. This same thing happens again and again around the world.

People will get all excited about seeing a randomly created image of "the Virgin Mary" in a potato chip or in a stain pattern in an old wooden chair and they will say how "God is with us". Such flawed reasoning! Would God choose to reveal himself in such superficial ways instead of where he is really needed? On some wooden panels above my bed I can see the images of a "grey" alien and a frog etc. It’s like children looking at clouds and seeing random patterns and images in them. That’s all it is. By pure chance you can get an image, more or less, of just about anything, given enough clouds or potato chips or stain patterns.

I find it ridiculous when, on the local News, people who survive their house burning down or who survive robbery attempts or tornadoes, etc., will say "oh God saved me! He’s watching over me! Thank God!". You mean he wasn’t watching over you so that your house didn’t burn down, that there never was a robbery attempt in the first place or a tornado didn’t level your town, along with taking those other people who died in it? Or was he only partially watching over you? And what about all those other people who, all over the world don’t survive these things? Would God be so petty as to pick and choose or, is it simply that, by chance some happen to survive and many more do not (more don’t)? What about all those people who have gone their whole life and never had their house burn down, who never had to be in a robbery attempt or a tornado? Are they even MORE watched over by God than you are? This is all very illogical.

Instead of denying the obvious with dismissive answers like "God works in mysterious ways" or "it’s OK because they get to go to Heaven" people need to stop clinging to unproven religious beliefs which just don’t hold up. The Universe is a cold, logical, awesome place that is not concerned with the concerns of such creatures as ourselves (and it is beyond any of our religious beliefs) that’s WHY there is so much suffering that all living things can experience. We are here as a result of the Universe’s natural processes and are as fleeting as anything else – and yet we are part of a great system of life. It is up to us to learn and evolve and help ourselves and our planet, not some
fairy tale that there is a warm, fuzzy God to make us feel special. There is no definitive proof of any religion and there are many religions because they are just man made attempts to understand our origins and we really don’t "know all the answers" as religious people like to think they do.

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1x tytannial, princess of camellias
2x light and darkness dragon
1x gorz the emissary of darkness
3x caius the shadow monarch
1x super-nimble mega hamster
2x debris dragon
3x quickdraw synchron
2x lonefire blossom
1x spore
1x card trooper
2x dandylion
1x night assailant
3x ryko, lightsworn hunter

2x book of moon
1x brain controle
1x charge of the light brigade
1x foolish burial
1x heavy storm
1x mst
2x pot of avarice

2x bottomless trap hole
1x call of the haunted
2x dimensional prison
2x dust tornado
1x mirror force
1x solemn judgment
1x starlight road
1x torrential tribute
1x trap dusthoot

extra deck:

1x red dragon archfiend
1x gaia knight, the force of earth
1x colosal fighter
1x nitro warrior
1x stardust dragon
1x turbo warrior
1x drill warrior
1x black rose dragon

I know i need to get some more syncheros, i don’t wanna hear it from you, i want to know what you think about my main deck, what do i need in main deck, or what i dont need, or it is good

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What does this mean for CNN?

CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta hit by tornado. There will be a rescue search that may take till Sunday for a nearby apartment.

Do you think CNN will have to merger with another news company and who? How do you think their headquarters being hit by the tornado will affect them?

I’m worried about the apartment dwellers and if it’s going to take till Sunday to dig through the debris, I hope they survive. So far no deaths reported.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4456037

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I noticed, from looking at the video clips of the tornadoes that hit Dallas last Wednesday, that many of them do not have a VISIBLE funnel cloud that extends down to the ground. The funnel cloud at the bottom is mostly just invisible wind, and the only way to tell for sure that it is a tornado is to look at the ground and see the destruction and stirring up of debris that happening on the ground. Is this usually the case with tornadoes. Do most of them NOT have a dark visible funnel cloud that extends all the way down to the ground?

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My house was damaged by a tornado (severely). State farm offers an hour for cleanup and repairs the customer makes on the house.

My total was 0.
Is there a cap on how much you can earn?
There are other people who earned money too. So is the cap only per person? Or does it go for everyone?
And I’m not doing repairs, I’m just cleaning up debris. And by my house I meant my parents house. I’m 13. Apparently there is no age limit.

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This is a plant deck i have been working on, it’s doing surprisingly good, but i feel like there are some changes i could make, i just don’t know what..

Monsters- 19
Dandylion x2
Lonefire blossom x2
Twilight rose knight x2
Tytannial, Princess of Camellias x1
Gigaplant x2
Botanical Girl x3
Botanical Lion x2
Debris Dragon x1
Morphing Jar x1
Lord Poison x1
Arcane Archer of the forest x1

Magics -7
Heavy storm
Giant trunade
MST
Cold wave
Enemy Controller
Brain control

Traps- 14
Call of the haunted
Dust Tornado x1
Wall of thorns x2
Compulsory evacuation Device x2
Bottomless Trap hole x2
Pollinosis x2
Torrential tribute
Mirror Force
Dark bribe x1
Solemn Judgement

Ill give a little info on how the deck works out, Debris dragon is strictly for syncho’ing blackrose dragon, Use Sangan and botanical girls to get out lonefire, use lonefire to get out gigaplant, have gigaplant revive lonefire for another Gigaplant or Tytannial, Ultimate offering is in here for gigaplant support and all around extra summons, Dark bribe is here for extra protection against starlight road and anything else.

I feel like there are still improvements i could make, Any suggestions will be GREATLY appreciated!! :D Thanks!
Edit – I already have a complete side deck and extra deck, thanks though

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This is a plant deck i have been working on, it’s doing surprisingly good, but i feel like there are some changes i could make, i just don’t know what..

Monsters- 19
Dandylion x2
Lonefire blossom x2
Twilight rose knight x2
Tytannial, Princess of Camellias x1
Gigaplant x2
Botanical Girl x3
Botanical Lion x3
Debris Dragon x1
Morphing Jar x1
Lord Poison x1

Magics -7
Heavy storm
Giant trunade
MST
Cold wave
Enemy Controller
Brain control

Traps- 14
Call of the haunted
Dust Tornado x1
Wall of thorns x2
Compulsory evacuation Device x2
Bottomless Trap hole x2
Pollinosis x2
Torrential tribute
Trap dustshoot
Seven tools of the bandit x1
Ultimate offering x1

Ill give a little info on how the deck works out, Debris dragon is strictly for syncho’ing blackrose dragon, Use Sangan and botanical girls to get out lonefire, use lonefire to get out gigaplant, have gigaplant revive lonefire for another Gigaplant or Tytannial, Ultimate offering is in here for gigaplant support and all around extra summons, Seven tools is here for extra protection against starlight road, bottomless etc,

I feel like there are still improvements i could make, Any suggestions will be GREATLY appreciated!! :D Thanks!

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Since there is a lot of unrest in the world, our economy is in some trouble and I live in an area plagued by hurricanes… I want the ability to generate my own electricity to run my home. What I am searching for is not intended to be used under normal conditions, but as an emergency source of power that could do things like heat water for a shower, keep a house (or part of a house) warm or cool during the night…. stuff like that, not a full scale, every day, all day electricity source…. emergency.

I looked at generators, but when there is trouble, there is almost always a lack of gasoline. If supplies are cut off, it could be months to resupply and one can only keep so much gas around, and it is a fire/explosion hazard.

I want to create some sort of wood burning electricity generator. I was thinking a steam engine type setup. I could burn wood and debris to power it.

Are these available? Could I build one on my own? Maybe an oil drum, some pipes and a modified generator?
In addition, how much does it cost to rent an arc welder? How difficult are they to use?

And, where can I find an old oil drum…. to use as a boiler?

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We have an under the stairs tornado shelter( I am poking my parents into getting a under ground one in the house). We also have a carrier that they can both fit into. Only I am worried about debris(heaven forbid!) and mostly about being down stairs for so long. I don’t want to stress them out, but I want them to be safe. How can I do this? I have a large-ish basket with a locking lid and handles they could fit in to. Would this help since it would be bigger than their carrier?

Though the warnings are in AR, i still want to be prepared. Even if we do not get it, I still want to have a plan in place for them.

May the heaven forbid something like the Super Tuesday tornado happen again.

This is their 1st set of tornado producing storms(Well not actually first first, but first enough to cause my concern. We had a 4th of July tornado but that was of no concern to us as it was headed into the next county). Every one west of my county is under a tornado watch. Though we most certainly can get it.

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I decided to go put my paycheck in the bank but got caught in a tornado warning. I pulled into a McDonalds where everyone was forced to take shelter in the bathrooms. The wind was pretty bad, it got up near 90 mph in Springfield, MO. It almost blew my car off the road several times. Their was a lot of debris all over the road. Anyway, I wanted to see if anyone has had a morning more interesting start to their day than mine. :-)

Here’s a pic of a tree that fell that blocked the street I live on

Storm Damage – 5/8/2009

Sorry, that last sentence makes no sense. It should be, "Anyway, I wanted to see if anyone has had a more interesting start to their day than mine. :-)

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Which of the following is an appropriate action if you are caught outside in a thunderstorm? (Points: 1)
Lie face down in a ditch.
Seek shelter under a highway overpass.
Squat down low and cover your head.
Put up your umbrella.

2. How much water should you have in a severe weather emergency supply kit? (Points: 1)
1 gallon
a couple of bottles
10 gallons per person per day
1 gallon per person per day

3. What are the signs of a tornado? (Points: 1)
rain and flying debris
dark skies, flying debris, and a freight train noise
flying debris only
a visible funnel cloud only

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A frantic weather reporter is reporting on a live tornado. The reporter exclaims, “Wood, metal, and all kinds of debris are being thrown directly outward from the edge of the funnel.” In light of your understanding of circular motion, comment on the accuracy of the reporter’s statement.

The tire on your car is almost flat and, therefore, a large portion of the tire’s surface is in contact with the street. When you pump it up, less of the tire’s surface is in contact with the street. Explain why a change in tire pressure changes the amount of tire surface in contact with the street.

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Which of the following is an appropriate action if you are caught outside in a thunderstorm?

Lie face down in a ditch.
Seek shelter under a highway overpass.
Squat down low and cover your head.
Put up your umbrella.

How much water should you have in a severe weather emergency supply kit?

1 gallon
a couple of bottles
10 gallons per person per day
1 gallon per person per day

What are the signs of a tornado?

rain and flying debris
dark skies, flying debris, and a freight train noise
flying debris only
a visible funnel cloud only

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I’ve always wanted to get a good chance to talk to a Muslim American and ask them a million questions.

Like is it hard being a Muslim in America?

Are people as half as shameless about their bigotry in the real world as they are online toward you?

What is good about America for Muslims to live in it?

What did you feel when you watch the Twin Towers fall?

What do you feel about groups like Al Qaida? Do you want to see them hunted down or reformed?

The only experience I think I ever had with Muslims was when a hurricane knocked out the utilities a Muslim temple came by and provided hot meals, hot showers, baby supplies, light repairs to homes to prevent further damage, and help clear debris from the road…

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