Paweatherguy1

I just heard it. I'm not sure if I would have wanted to see it. I can replay the moment with perfect clarity in my head when I figured out that it was a tornado and not thunder though.

There's a lot of frustration when it comes to that. People want to know if their loved one is dead or alive. They are wondering what is taking so long and they think they can identify their loved ones by tattoos, etc. However, at least one person misidentified someone as being theirs.

I don't post on this forum often, but it is good to see you are OK....

I can't even begin to imagine what it was like to experience what you experienced. And you going into the closet was something we actually talked about, because there are some of us who would have been tempted to run outside and see the thing.

I know you were very close, but did your house sustain any damage at all, and I know it is early, but what is the recovery plan like there? What is the general feeling on rebuilding? I mean, even after Katrina, a lot of places were still salvageable, and could be repaired. Here, they are just gone, with nothing left...How does a city recover from this.

Oh, and btw, I hope you don't think we are a bunch of stalkers

We need to give him time...

JoMo, while I believe is most likely OK, has most certainly had someone very close to him impacted by this directly. There is no way that some close friend, family, someone he knows closely wasn't hit by the storm. He needs to concentrate on that right now.....I mean, think about it, while he may have been home, god forbid, if he has kids, they could have been at a friends house that WAS hit.

Bottom line, there is about a 99% chance he knew someone's house who got destroyed, someone that was seriously hurt, someone that was, heaven forbid, killed. He has a lot on his plate, I can imagine.

I think we need to break this safety discussion off somewhere, so it can stop crowding this thread up.

That's fine with me...

And I'm sorry, but I just had to interject there...I had just been observing but had to respond to blind stupidity.

We dare defend our liberty.

How the heck would having something be recquire in your house that would keep you safe infringe upon your liberty?

I'm all for liberty, but I'm not all for allowing people to be stupid.

Do you have kids? Would you put your liberty to not have a safe room or underground shelter above their safety?

because its my freaking house that's why. I own it and the ground..I don't need you or the government telling me if a need a freaking safe room in my own house becuase of some freak event. In you are talking about an apartment that you own and rent to other people..then perhaps

..earthqaukes are common in CA and affect a large area...

getting hit by an EF4+ tornado is very very low

This kind of stuff really irritates me...

this is all I am going to say in this thread about this matter....unless we have a spin off thread for it

It's people like you, who have ZERO common sense, and state that liberty is more important than safety, that make these sorts of laws necessary.

Why don't we go ahead and give you the option to not have a seat belt in your car, use lead gas again, liven in a house with NO building codes because you don't want someone to tell you how to live and let you carry a firearm with no safetyThen, when you get in a car wreck and fly through your window, get lead poisoning, your house collapses on you, or your kid kills himself with your gun, you can say your liberty killed you, and that you died for it.

As for me, I would just call you stupid.