Weather Thread

[Ryan Ruck]

Your dog looks like, "You seriously expect me to go out in that?"

[Ryan Ruck]

Well, it's getting to be that time of year...

Sixty Million at Risk for Severe Weather Thursday, Friday

February 18, 2014

Forty million people in the Central states and 20 million along the Atlantic coast will be at risk for severe weather later this week.

The air will become warm enough ahead of a late-week storm over the Missouri and Mississippi valleys, as well as portions of the East to bring not only thunderstorms, but also the potential for severe weather.

The main threats of the storms will be locally damaging wind gusts and flash flooding. A number of locations may also experience hail with the storms. A small number of the storms could also produce a tornado.



According to Severe Weather Expert Henry Margusity, "The greatest risk for a few tornadoes will be where the air is the warmest and most humid, which is most likely from western Tennessee to northwestern Mississippi on Thursday."



The potential for damaging thunderstorms by Thursday will reach from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, as well as the southern port of Lower Michigan.

Cities on Thursday that could be impacted by gusty strong to severe thunderstorms include St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.; Indianapolis; Cincinnati; Nashville and Memphis, Tenn.; Little Rock, Ark.; Louisville, Ky.; Jackson, Miss.; and Monroe, La.

Even in the absence of thunderstorms locally strong wind gusts can affect areas from the Midwest to upstate New York on Thursday.



On Friday, the potential for strong to severe storms will reach from Georgia to New Jersey.

[Ryan Ruck]

Movie trailer for "One Inch Of Snow". Based on actual events...

[American Patriot]

"One Inch of Snow"?

LOL

[Ryan Ruck]

You'll have to watch the video. The sheep really delivers it's role.

[Malsua]

Very funny video. The yeti was a nice touch.

By the way, there is a big storm brewing for next week, currently modeled to stay off shore. If not, it's another whopper.

[Phil Fiord]

I liked it. The goat scream in videos is a trend I am liking actually.

[Ryan Ruck]

Keeping an eye on Sunday/Monday.

Right now NWS in Wilmington, OH is saying 4-8" but there is a possibility of this system continuing a southern trend it has had and bringing 6-12".

This is likely to be the largest single snowfall this winter. Fingers crossed for a snow day!

[American Patriot]

LMAO!!!! I finally got to see it.

Movie trailer for "One Inch Of Snow". Based on actual events...

[Ryan Ruck]

Right now we're getting an ice glaze over everything.

Even with the event actually happening now, there's still disagreement between some models on snowfall amounts. One model shows a slot just north of me getting nothing while I get a coating, others show my area getting a regular couple inches, and others show me getting dumped on and getting close to or exceeding the 7" the NWS has forecast.

Guess I'm just going to have to wait and see. Fingers crossed for exceeding the 7"! Looking at radar, I'd imagine we should be changing over to snow soon.

[American Patriot]

Fingers crossed for exceeding the 7"!

That's what she said....lol

We have a frozen fog crap thing. It fogged badly last night, and this morning it's all stuck to the trees with a thick frost. It snowed on top of that. Apparently up around Denver yesterday starting about 11:00 an accident occurred which then became a 104 vehicle accident. Guess those assholes who came from CA to CO still can't drive. (No offense Phil... lol)

[Ryan Ruck]

Wow, 104 vehicles. Impressive.

[Malsua]

3 days ago we were 10-15+ inches of snow
2 days ago we were 8-12 inches of snow
Yesterday we were 2-4 inches of snow
Today we're looking at C-2
Reality is nothing is on the Radar, we're getting ZERO snow.

The Polar Vortex apparently is a 1600 pound gorilla driving it south and more south and even further south than that.

[American Patriot]

Apparently one died in that accident. I heard that this morning.

[Ryan Ruck]

We ended up with about 4-5 inches of snow in my area. It was very light snow prone to drifting with the winds that have since died off a bit.

If this storm had been about 50 miles north we would have ended up with a lot more.

[Phil Fiord]

This storm for me was freezing rain overnight of maybe 1/10 an inch, changing to a fine powder before daybreak. By mid morning, large 'dry' flakes were coming down. Net effect, about 6" here. I went out and cleared most of the 300' x 30' driveway monster i have with a shovel and some use of an electric snow blower.

This evening, my service made it and finished the widening and then salted for the ice underlayer.

Not really a big deal for me, save for all that snow moving. At least it was not wet heavy snow.

[American Patriot]

50s today here. So things are looking up for you East guys. The warmer weather is moving your way, though we do have a chance for snow tonight, but it shouldn't amount to much and will move out quickly.

[American Patriot]

Tempest Stela of Ahmose: World’s Oldest Weather Report

Apr 3, 2014 by Sci-News.com

« PREVIOUS
| NEXT »

A new translation of a 40-line inscription on a 3,500-year-old stone block from Egypt called the Tempest Stela describes rain, darkness and the ‘sky being in storm without cessation, louder than the cries of the masses.’



The Tempest Stela of Ahmose. Reconstruction of the face. Image credit: Malcolm H. Wiener and James P. Allen, 1998.



The Tempest Stela dates back to the reign of the pharaoh Ahmose, the first pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty. His rule marked the beginning of the New Kingdom, a time when Egypt’s power reached its height.


Broken pieces of the stela were found in the third pylon of the temple of Karnak at Thebes, modern Luxor, between 1947 and 1951 by French archaeologists.


The stela consists of a single text in horizontal lines, copied on both sides of a calcite block that once stood over 1.8 m tall.


The side of the stela termed the ‘face’ or ‘front side’ had horizontal lines painted red, with incised hieroglyphs highlighted in blue pigment. The reverse face, or back, was unpainted.


Linguists Dr Robert Ritner and Dr Nadine Moeller from the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute believe the unusual weather patterns described on the Tempest Stela were the result of a massive volcano explosion at Thera – the present-day island of Santorini in the Mediterranean Sea. Because volcano eruptions can have a widespread impact on weather, the Thera explosion likely would have caused significant disruptions in Egypt.


The new translation suggests the Egyptian pharaoh Ahmose ruled at a time closer to the Thera eruption than previously thought – a finding that could change scholars’ understanding of a critical juncture in human history as Bronze Age empires realigned.


If the stela does describe the aftermath of the Thera catastrophe, the correct dating of the stela itself and Ahmose’s reign, currently thought to be about 1550 BC, could actually be 30 to 50 years earlier.
“This is important to scholars of the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, generally because the chronology that archaeologists use is based on the lists of Egyptian pharaohs, and this new information could adjust those dates,” Dr Moeller said.


In 2006, radiocarbon testing of an olive tree buried under volcanic residue placed the date of the Thera eruption at 1621-1605 B.C.


Until now, the archeological evidence for the date of the Thera eruption seemed at odds with the radiocarbon dating. However, if the date of Ahmose’s reign is earlier than previously believed, the resulting shift in chronology might solve the whole problem.


The revised dating of Ahmose’s reign could mean the dates of other events in the ancient Near East fit together more logically.


For example, it realigns the dates of important events such as the fall of the power of the Canaanites and the collapse of the Babylonian Empire.


This new information would provide a better understanding of the role of the environment in the development and destruction of empires in the ancient Middle East.


For example, the new chronology helps to explain how Ahmose rose to power and supplanted the Canaanite rulers of Egypt – the Hyksos.


The Thera eruption and resulting tsunami would have destroyed the Hyksos’ ports and significantly weakened their sea power.


In addition, the disruption to trade and agriculture caused by the eruption would have undermined the power of the Babylonian Empire and could explain why the Babylonians were unable to fend off an invasion of the Hittites, another ancient culture that flourished in what is now Turkey.


Some researchers consider the text on the Tempest Stela to be a metaphorical document that described the impact of the Hyksos invasion.


The Tempest Stela of Ahmose. Reconstruction of the back. Image credit: Malcolm H. Wiener and James P. Allen, 1998.



However, the new translation, published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, shows that the text was more likely a description of weather events consistent with the disruption caused by the massive Thera explosion.


Dr Ritner said: “the text reports that Ahmose witnessed the disaster – the description of events in the stela text is frightening.”


The stela’s text describes the ‘sky being in storm’ with ‘a tempest of rain’ for a period of days; the passages also describe bodies floating down the Nile like ‘skiffs of papyrus;’ importantly, the text refers to events affecting both the delta region and the area of Egypt further south along the Nile:


Long live (?) the Horus “Great of Manifestations,” He of the] Two Ladies “Pleasing of Birth,” the golden Horus “Who binds the Two Lands,” King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Neb-pehty-Ra, son of Ra, Ahmose, living forever.


Now, His Majesty dwelt in the town of Sedjefatawy (“Provisioner of the Two Lands”) [in the district just to] the south of Dendera.
Now then, A[mon-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands,] was in Heliopolis of Upper Egypt (= Thebes).
It was His Majesty who went south (“upstream”) in order to [give to him bread, beer and everything good and] pure. Now after the offering, [. . .] their(?) [. . .]. Then attention was given in33 [. . .] this [dis]trict. Now then, the cult image [of this god . . .] [. . .] as his body was installed in (lit. “united with”) this temple
while his limbs were in joy.
[. . . Now then,] this great god desired [. . .] His Majesty [. . .] while the gods complained of their discontent. [Then] the gods [caused] that the sky come in a tempest of r[ain], with [dark]ness in the condition of the West, and the sky being in storm without [cessation, louder than] the cries [lit., “voices”] of the masses, more powerful [than . . .], [while the rain howled] on the mountains louder than the sound of the underground source of the Nile that is in Elephantine.
Then every house, every quarter that they (scil. the storm and rain) reached [. . . their corpses(?)] floating on the water like skiffs of papyrus outside the palace audience chamber for a period of [. . .] days [. . .] while no torch could be lit in the Two Lands.
Then His Majesty said: ‘How much greater this is than the wrath of the great god, [than] the plans of the gods!’ His Majesty then descended to his boat, with his council following him, while the crowds [on] the East and West had hidden faces, having no clothing on them after the manifestation of the wrath of the god. His Majesty then reached the interior of Thebes, with gold confronting gold of this cult image, so that he received what he desired.
Then His Majesty began to reestablish the Two Lands, to give guidance (or “a conduit”) for the flooded territories. He did not f [ail] in providing them with silver, with gold, with copper, with oil and cloth comprising every bolt that could be desired. His Majesty then made himself comfortable (= seated himself) within the palace (life! prosperity! health!).
Then His Majesty was informed that the mortuary concessions had been entered: the tomb chambers collapsed, the funerary mansions undermined, and the pyramids fallen – what had been made rendered non-existent (lit., “what had not been made”).
Then His Majesty commanded to restore the temples that had fallen into ruin in this entire land: to refurbish the monuments of the gods, to erect their enclosure walls, to provide the sacred objects in the noble chamber, to mask the secret places, to introduce into their shrines the cult images which were cast to the ground, to set up the braziers, to erect the altars, to establish their bread offerings, to double the income of the personnel, to put the land into its former state. Then it was done in accordance with all that His Majesty had commanded.
“This was clearly a major storm, and different from the kinds of heavy rains that Egypt periodically receives,” Dr Ritner said.
“In addition to the Tempest Stela, a text known as the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus from the reign of Ahmose also makes a special point of mentioning thunder and rain, which is further proof that the scholars under Ahmose paid close and particular attention to matters of weather,” Dr Ritner said.
Dr Marina Baldi from the Institute of Biometeorology of the National Research Council in Italy, has analyzed the information on the stela along with her colleagues and compared it to known weather patterns in Egypt.
A dominant weather pattern in the area is a system called the Red Sea Trough, which brings hot, dry air to the area from East Africa. When disrupted, that system can bring severe weather, heavy precipitation and flash flooding, similar to what is reported on the Tempest Stela.
“A modification in the atmospheric circulation after the eruption could have driven a change in the precipitation regime of the region. Therefore the episode in the Tempest Stela could be a consequence of these climatological changes,” Dr Baldi said.

[Ryan Ruck]

Trail Of Dead Cows Lays Bare The Destruction Of Southern Tornadoes As Another 11 Die In Powerful Alabama, Mississippi And Tennessee Twisters

April 28, 2014

The destruction being wreaked by a series of tornadoes across the south was laid bare on Monday by images of a horrifying trail of dead and injured farm animals tossed aside by twisters.

The images emerged from Arkansas as another series of tornadoes hit Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee on Monday night, part of a powerful storm system that has threatened large areas of the South with more twisters, severe thunderstorms, damaging hail and flash floods, authorities said.

As the storm swept across a large part of the U.S., the overall death toll was at least 28, with 11 killed in the South on Monday and 17 in the central region on Sunday.

On Tuesday morning, many woke to sirens, tornado warnings, damaged property and downed trees. Forecasts showed Georgia as the next likely target, with 89 counties under a tornado watch until 11 a.m. Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee were hit with the brunt of the storm Monday.

In Mississippi, Republican state Sen. Giles Ward huddled in a bathroom with his wife, four other family members and their dog Monday as a tornado destroyed his two-story brick house and flipped his son-in-law's SUV upside down onto the patio in Louisville.

'For about 30 seconds, it was unbelievable,' Ward said. 'It's about as awful as anything we've gone through.'

The dangerous weather jangled nerves a day after the three-year anniversary of a historic outbreak of more than 60 tornadoes that killed more than 250 people across Alabama on April 27, 2011.

Weather satellites showed tumultuous clouds arcing across much of the South over the course of the day Monday.

The system is the latest onslaught of severe weather a day after a half-mile-wide tornado carved an 80-mile path of destruction through the suburbs of Little Rock, Arkansas, killing at least 15. Tornadoes or severe storms also killed one person each in Oklahoma and Iowa on Sunday.

One victim was a woman who died in the day care centre she owned in Louisville, county Coroner Scott Gregory told The Associated Press late Monday. Authorities were returning to the centre Tuesday.

One seriously injured child was evacuated, said state Rep. Michael Evans, who said authorities don't think any other children were in the centre during the storm.

It was unclear if any children were in the day care centre at the time, said William McCully, acting spokesman for the Winston County Emergency Management Agency.

Earlier Monday, emergency officials attending a news conference with Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said seven people had been killed statewide. State Director of Health Protection Jim Craig said officials were working with coroners to confirm the total. It was unclear if the deaths in Winston County were included in that tally.

In southern Tennessee, two people were killed in a home when a suspected tornado hit Monday night, Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Mike Hall said. The winds destroyed several other homes as well as a middle school in the county that borders Alabama, Hall said.

Along Mississippi Highway 397 on the eastern edge of Louisville early Tuesday, firefighters could be seen picking through the remains of an unidentified number of pulverized mobile homes. Lt. Brian Arnett of the Starkville Fire Department said they were searching for three people who were unaccounted for.

In Kimberly, Alabama, a suspected tornado hit before midnight Monday, tearing the A-shaped roof off a church. On Tuesday morning, the roof sat in a solid piece beside the red brick church.

Across the street, the cinderblock walls from an old fishing supply store were scattered around the gravel parking lot. The building's metal frame remained. Down the road, the fire department was flattened.

Tim Armstrong picked up pieces of splintered trees in his backyard. Armstrong, his wife and their two young daughters were home when the storm struck. He said they were listening to weather reports on television and heard an all-clear for their area.

'Three minutes later my mother-in-law calls, says there's a tornado in Morris,' a nearby town, Armstrong said. 'The power went out, and we went running to the middle of the house.'
They heard the wind roaring and glass shattering as a tree flew through their front door. 'Once I heard that, I knew something was pretty wrong. It was fast. It was so fast.'
The whole thing was over a minute later, he said.

About 100 yards away, 20 firefighters linked hands and waded through an area where woodframe homes had been heavily damaged.

Trees in Louisville had been snapped in half and stripped of their branches, while sheet metal had twisted itself around road signs and tree trunks. Rescue workers stepped gingerly over downed power lines.

The tornado in Louisville also caused water damage and carved holes in the roof of the Winston Medical Center, according to an Associated Press reporter at the centre.

There were about 15 patients in hospital rooms and eight or nine in the emergency room, where evacuations were underway.

'We thought we were going to be OK then a guy came in and said, "It's here right now",' said Dr. Michael Henry, head of the emergency room. 'Then boom ... it blew through.'

One of the deaths in Mississippi involved a woman who was killed when her car either hydroplaned or was blown off a road during the storm in Verona, south of Tupelo, said Lee County Coroner Carolyn Gillentine Green.

In northern Alabama, the coroner's office confirmed two deaths Monday in a twister that caused extensive damage west of the city of Athens, said Limestone County Emergency Director Rita White. White said more victims could be trapped in the wreckage of damaged buildings, but rescuers could not reach some areas because of downed power lines.

Separately, Limestone Commissioner Bill Latimer said he received reports of four deaths in the county from one of his workers. Neither the governor's office nor state emergency officials could immediately confirm those deaths.

Numerous watches and warnings were still active in Alabama, with forecasters warning the severe weather could continue all night.

In Tupelo, Mississippi., a community of about 35,000 in northeastern Mississippi, every building in a two-block area south of U.S. Highway 78 suffered damage, officials told a reporter on the scene.

Some buildings had their roofs sheared off, while power lines had been knocked down completely or bent at 45-degree angles. Road crews were using heavy machinery to clear off other streets.

The Northeast Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo had received 30 patients as of Monday night, four of whom were being admitted with non-life-threatening injuries, said centre spokeswoman Deborah Pugh. Pugh said the other 26 patients were treated for minor injuries and released.

Bryant declared a state of emergency Monday in advance of the storms, which sent emergency officials rushing to put plans in place.

With the wind howling outside and rain blowing sideways, Monica Foster rode out a tornado warning with her two daughters, ages 10 and 12, inside a gas station near Fayette, Ala. One of the girls cried as the three huddled with a station employee in a storage area beside a walk-in cooler.

Foster, who was returning home to Lynn on rural roads after a funeral in Tuscaloosa, said she typically would have kept driving through the deluge.

'I wouldn't have pulled in if I didn't have the two girls,' she said.

In Memphis, Tennessee, officials declared a state of emergency in a county southwest of Nashville because of flash flooding.

Authorities urged people there to seek higher ground after several homes and some business were flooded in Maury County and officials reported worries some school buses couldn't get schoolchildren home over swamped roads.

'If it's unsafe certainly the drivers are not going to chance it,' said a Maury County emergency official, Mark Blackwood, said of the school buses.

The same storm system was heading from Mississippi toward the Alabama line late on Monday.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for most of north Alabama, and the entire state was under a flash flood watch. Tornado warnings began popping up on weather maps in Alabama as soon as storms crossed the Mississippi state line on Monday afternoon.

More than 50 school systems shut down early in Alabama's northern half as a precaution against having children and workers on the road in buses and cars when the storms arrived. Several cities closed municipal offices early.


Horrifying: dead and injured cattle lay in a field near Vilonia, Arkansas on Monday in the wake of a Sunday tornado. At least 28 people have now been killed by the storm system sweeping the U.S.


Awe-inspiring: A funnel cloud is seen crossing the town of Louisville, Mississippi, yesterday


Witness: Storm chaser video photographer Brad Mac films rotating clouds from a tornado storm in Louisville, Mississippi


Fury: Lighting strikes from a TVS (tornadic vortex signature) storm in Tuscaloosa, Alabama


Torrent: A sheet of water cascades down the front of a building in Tuscaloosa, Alabama


A demolished car sits on North Gloster Street across from what remains of a shell gas station in Tupelo, Mississippi, after a tornado touched down on Monday


Devastation: Residents go through the rubble of their home, one day after it was destroyed by a tornado near Vilonia, Arkansas, on Monday


A newly built school was destroyed by one of Sunday's tornados in this aerial photograph near Vilonia, Arkansas


Constance Lambert embraces her dog after finding it alive when returning to her destroyed home in Tupelo, Mississippi, on Monday


Tornados flattened homes and businesses, flipped trucks over on highways and injured numerous people in Mississippi and Alabama on Monday as a massive, dangerous storm system passed over several states in the South


Arc: Lighting strikes from a storm in Columbus, Mississippi


Aftermath: William Higgins sits on a stump outside his grandfather's house after it was destroyed by a tornado yesterday


People walk down Green Street to the corner of North Gloster Street after a tornado went through Tupelo, Mississippi


Gutted: The living room of a house destroyed by a tornado that tore through Mayflower, Arkansas


An 18-wheeler and numerous strips of sheet metal block the southbound lanes of U.S. 49 in Richland, Mississippi


Looming: A massive wedge tornado bears down on the city of Tupelo


Carnage: A man surveys the damage to South Lincoln Elementary School after strong winds ripped through the area


Asunder: A large tornado jumped Mississippi Highway 25 south of Louisville, Mississippi, causing this scene of carnage before hitting the city of Louisville


Grim task: Emergency personnel search the remains of several mobile homes for survivors in Louisville, Mississippi


Continuing fears: Many severe weather warnings remain in place across the South


Collapse: A motel, left, and a restaurant both show damage sustained from a tornado in Tupelo


Ripped up: Uprooted trees are pictured from above after a tornado hit Vilonia, Arkansas


An American flag is mounted on mobile home debris as a searcher looks through the remains of several mobile homes in Louisville, Mississippi


Defiance: A U.S. flag sticks out the window of a damaged hot rod car in a suburban area after a tornado near Vilonia, Arkansas


Pride: Justin Shaw, left, helps Nick Conway erect a make-shift flag pole at his home that was destroyed in Vilonia


Friends and family sift through debris at the home of Daniel Wassom after his house was destroyed by a tornado yesterday. He died trying to shield a family member


The path of a tornado is seen in this aerial image near Vilonia, Arkansas: A ferocious storm system caused a twister in Mississippi and threatened tens of millions of people across the U.S. Southeast on Monday, a day after it spawned tornadoes that killed 16 people and tossed cars like toys in Arkansas and other states


Esmeralda, left and Craig Stanford help a friend clean up his North Gloster Street Texaco gas station and quick stop in Tupelo, Miss, on Monday


Waking up to wreckage: Seventeen year-old Deanna Locke and her siblings including, from left, Charlotte, 13; Drew, 9; and Trinity, 11; examine a downed tree across the street from their home in Tupelo, Mississippi on April 28


Severe damage: destroyed wood can be seen on piled-up Tupelo cars in this photograph


Tossed up: A van was seen on top of other cars in the wake of tornado damage in Tupelo


Several injuries were reported along with extensive damage in the northern Mississippi city of Tupelo, pictured


Responding: Tupelo police are picured in the city responding to the storm's damage. It is not clear how many people had been injured because relief efforts are still underway


Emotional: Sherry Lee, left, and her daughter-in-law Amanda Lee react on April 28 after finding family photos among the ruins of Sherry Lee's Vilonia home in the wake of the twister


Wreckage: Piles of debris are seen in all that's left to homes located off Cemetery Street in Vilonia, Arkansas after the tornado struck down


Disaster: Dino McLaughlin crawls over a pile of debris which is all that's left of his friends storage unit in Vilonia


No fatalities so far have been reported in Tupelo, though there have been others in Arkansas and Oklahoma


Chaos: A travel trailer sits inn the rubble of a house in Mayflower, Arkansas on April 28


Damage shows the path of a tornado through Quapaw, Oklahoma on April 28


Residents and friends sift through debris after a tornado struck the area on Monday in Vilonia, Arkansas


Wreckage: Books are stacked on a water heater after a strong tornado went through the area on April 27 for the second time in three years on April 28, 2014 in Vilonia, Arkansas


Devastation: Tornado damage inside the Mayflower R.V. Park is seen the day after a tornado struck in Mayflower, Arkansas, USA. At least 15 people have been killed in the outbreak of tornados in Arkansas and Oklahoma, according to authorities


Piles of mangled cars and destroyed homes sit along Aspen Creek Drive in the Parkwood Neighborhood off Naylor Road in Vilonia, Arkansas on April 28


Flattened: A row of lightly damages houses, top, face destroyed homes in a Vilonia, Arkansas, neighborhood on April 28


Lost: Bob Van Byssum walks through his home in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Monday April 28


Search: Mayflower RV employee Andrea Jones crouches inside the crushed remains of an RV that belonged to two of her friends searching for anything she might save for them after a tornado destroyed the RV park in Mayflower, Arkansas, on Monday April 28


Clean up: volunteers begin clean up following yesterday's tornado in Quapaw, Oklahoma on Monday, April 28


Hope: Rescue workers and volunteers stand amid debris of homes, one day after they were destroyed by a tornado in Vilonia, Arkansas on April 28


Spoiled: Bottles of condiments lie inside a refrigerator door on the grounds of a destroyed house a day after a tornado hit the town of Vilonia, Arkansas on April 28


Recovery: Justin Shaw, left, helps Nick Conway erect a flag pole at his home that was destroyed by a tornado on April 28 in Vilonia, Arkansas


Embrace: Residents and friends sift through debris after a tornado struck the area on April 28 in Vilonia, Arkansas


Starting over: Homes and businesses are wrecked in downtown Vilonia, Arkansas. The most powerful twister this year carved an 80-mile path of destruction through suburbs north of the state capital of Little Rock, killing at least 16 people


Residents survey the damage in a residential neighborhood in Quapaw, Okla., after it was struck by a tornado on Sunday evening


Messed up: A trail of debris, bottom, leads along the path of a tornado-devastated neighborhood in Vilonia, Arkansas

[Malsua]

Tornadoes are insane, good luck to those people.