Geo-TH,In

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Is it me or the news? After a tornado, it seems to me the news likes to show pics of twisted metal. Metal roofing and siding. Damaged pole barns. Damaged mobile homes. Occasionally a damaged stick building.

Is the news biased when it comes to tornadoes?
 
"CONFLICT MAKES NEWS". Always look for a conflict. This is what journalism students are taught from day one. What makes a conflict? Always, always, "Man against something or something against Man." Tornadoes are usually spectacular, unless they occur out in the middle of nowhere with no one around.
 
Here in Columbus a few weeks ago the news was harping about a wind storm, they could only find one broken branch along a street and they showed it over and over trying to make a big deal out of it..Every one must have majored in "Drama"...
 
They always seem to focus on the areas that are the worst hit so yes they focus on pole barns and mobile homes since they are what gets the most damage
 
Many years ago we had one go through Flint, Michigan and it killed one hundred and sixteen people. I will never forget that sight. I think that the warning systems that we now have in place have saved thousands and they are taken very seriously by many. Showing what a tornado can do should remind people to be respective of it's potential. When you see a semi tractor trailer rig on the roof of a bowling alley it gets my attention.
 
So if pole barns are easily damaged, why would you want to turn one into a house and endanger your family?
 
I'm not turning one into a house I am just covering it so as to stop roof problems. Where I sit I am also out of the way for getting hit due to the hills I have and the placement of the house
 
It's the news, I used to have the kitchen TV on while I was getting ready for work, same Rockford Ill. station every day. One morning the weather guy was standing in an intersection in 2 inches of snow dressed like he was in Siberia preaching gloom and doom. I'm 25 miles west in the same 2 inches of snow and that's all we got. Every thing on that station is "you won't see this on any other station or you seen it here first" I don't watch it anymore.
I never used to pay any attention to storms coming though, it never happened to me, until a Sunday afternoon in 1999, wife was working, I was baby sitting for the kids eight and eleven. I was out in my shop doing something and my daughter comes in and says I ought go out and look at the sky, don't look right. She was right and we took a run for the house, told the kids to hit the basement and ran upstairs to close windows, I came out of our bedroom and ran about 3 steps down stairs when part of a cattle shed roof came through the upstairs, made it to the basement and hung on. Plaster dust was hard to breath down there. That was close, I'm pretty gun shy since when the sky clouds up. Only wall in the house that wasn't damaged was a bathroom, upstairs was destroyed, roof lifted, every tree in the yard had tin stuck in it or the top blown off, south side of house had sheets of tin just riveted in to the wall. The tin and purlins that didn't hit the house were either stuck in the highway bank or on the road or in the neighbors corn field, was a laminated round truss about 10x4 inches on the roof, the rest of them were down in the pasture. Don't want to do that again, glad my daughter was paying attention. Only thing remotely funny about it was my wife used to buy ear rings all the time and she kept them on the little shelves on each side of the dresser mirror plus the top of dresser, you couldn't take a step in any direction around the house with out finding an earring after the storm.
 
What I keep waiting for is the line that all the severe weather is due to golbull warming, and it's all our fault. They never quite go that far, close though. Severe weather in Tornado Alley is hardly a new phenomenon.
 
(quoted from post at 04:32:27 04/27/16) Is it me or the news? After a tornado, it seems to me the news likes to show pics of twisted metal. Metal roofing and siding. Damaged pole barns. Damaged mobile homes. Occasionally a damaged stick building.

Is the news biased when it comes to tornadoes?
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With all of the damage they do and all of the stuff they suck up, why do they keep missing my ex????????
 
What does a tornado and a divorce have in common? Some one will lose a pole barn or a mobile home.
 

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