In the tornadoes last week, several Arkansas towns took severe damage and a few were oblitereated altogether. Only one made the national news, as far as I know...and that was Atkins...cuz that's where the Atkins pickles came from.
Actually Ron, the real reason why the Alabama tornadoes were the ONLY ones covered, is because the Weather Channel is taking kickbacks from the Alabama legislature to give 'Bama tornadoes _exclusive_ coverage. And apparently the Arkansas legislature wasn't willing to do that.
Gotta grease them palms, dude.
Sshhhhh, .... don't tell anyone you heard it here.
I didn't know anything about that, Garth. During the storms, I lost my electricity, so I had no way of watching news until the next night (and I had to drive to Marshall to do that). I switched back and forth from CNN to Fox to Headline News and I saw a lot of coverage of Tennessee, a little on Atkins, Arkansas and a little on Alabama....none whatsoever on Kentucky, although I understand they got hit, too.
I'm between two towns that got torn up pretty badly...Mountain View and Clinton. The storm in Mt. View had particularly spectacular photo ops since there was a Chevy dealership across from the hospital, and the cars were all tossed like cordwood into the emergency room and onto the roof of the hospital. It looked like it had rained new Chevy's on the hospital. Fortunately, no one was hurt in that, but in another part of town, there was one fatality.
At about 11:30 PM that night, we heard what sounded like a 747 rumbling over our house and changing to a high pitched scream. Evidently one went directly over my house, but never touched down.
Did you have any excitement where you live in 'Bama?
I dunno about everyone else, but I'm ready for summer. It's raining ice outside, right now.
Well a couple of tornadoes went through NW of here in a NE direction. Not much damage in Huntsville proper, but the outer northern areas were hit intermittently, and there was this one area N-NE of here that got it pretty bad.
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In the tornadoes last week, several Arkansas towns took severe damage and a few were oblitereated altogether. Only one made the national news, as far as I know...and that was Atkins...cuz that's where the Atkins pickles came from.
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atkins pickles?????? what are those?
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Actually Ron, the real reason why the Alabama tornadoes were the ONLY ones covered, is because the Weather Channel is taking kickbacks from the Alabama legislature to give 'Bama tornadoes _exclusive_ coverage. And apparently the Arkansas legislature wasn't willing to do that.
Gotta grease them palms, dude.
Sshhhhh, .... don't tell anyone you heard it here.
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I didn't know anything about that, Garth. During the storms, I lost my electricity, so I had no way of watching news until the next night (and I had to drive to Marshall to do that). I switched back and forth from CNN to Fox to Headline News and I saw a lot of coverage of Tennessee, a little on Atkins, Arkansas and a little on Alabama....none whatsoever on Kentucky, although I understand they got hit, too.
I'm between two towns that got torn up pretty badly...Mountain View and Clinton. The storm in Mt. View had particularly spectacular photo ops since there was a Chevy dealership across from the hospital, and the cars were all tossed like cordwood into the emergency room and onto the roof of the hospital. It looked like it had rained new Chevy's on the hospital. Fortunately, no one was hurt in that, but in another part of town, there was one fatality.
At about 11:30 PM that night, we heard what sounded like a 747 rumbling over our house and changing to a high pitched scream. Evidently one went directly over my house, but never touched down.
Did you have any excitement where you live in 'Bama?
I dunno about everyone else, but I'm ready for summer. It's raining ice outside, right now.
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Well a couple of tornadoes went through NW of here in a NE direction. Not much damage in Huntsville proper, but the outer northern areas were hit intermittently, and there was this one area N-NE of here that got it pretty bad.
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