Welcome to Gaia! ::

treeSHADOWS//guild of the environmentally conscious

Back to Guilds

 

 

Reply treeSHADOWS//guild of the environmentally conscious
Woah, my hometown got wasted by a tornado

Quick Reply

Enter both words below, separated by a space:

Can't read the text? Click here

Submit

Do you think this string of tornados has something to do with articial climate change?
  Yes
  No
  Undecided
View Results

Screaming Wombat

PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:41 pm


So yeah, I'm not sure how many of you have watched the national news yet, but if you did you might've noticed that they mentioned a small little bit about a string of tornados wreaking havoc, with extensive damage in two towns called Clovis and Logan, both in New Mexico.

Well, turns out that the first city was actually my hometown, some shock that all was. Having lived there for most of my life I was rather attached to the dull town.

Biggest shock was seeing Smith RV & Marine, every time me and my parents visited to see my grandma (who's okay, thankfully) we would pass by the business. I didn't really think of the place until now, whenever I saw the damage

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

This is the place now, RV homes and boats got tossed everywhere, one of them landed on a car.

Most significant part about this all, the reason I'm bringing this here, is the fact that tornados would always spring up in the vicinity of Clovis, almost yearly really, but the thing is that once they touched down they went straight back up and never did any harm.

For the first time in forever, a tornado actually stayed down and messed up the city, no one living around the area would've actually expected a mess like this. Not only that, but it usually happens more midway into summer, March seems way too early.

Sure, it's a very rare thing for a city to get hit by a tornado, but it almost seems rarer for it to happen here, and especially rare for there to be a whole chain of tornados.. It's as if all these tornados are another verification that the climate is changing on us.
PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:58 pm


Well I wouldn't be so sure that it is climate change...I'd have to do some research about tornadoes first.

There are only some reasons that there's a connection between global warming and natural disasters. Hurricanes are stronger if they develop in warmer waters, and the melting ice caps might cause floods. But I don't know so much about tornadoes...

Hope you guys are doing okay with it! surprised

rikuHEART
Captain


Screaming Wombat

PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:28 pm


Yeah, that's true, I just figured it was something worth thinking over.

Like hurricanes, tornadoes are caused by a mix of warm and cool, in this case though it's just warm and cool air rather than warm waters.

Normally we get tornadoes around here in summer or late spring at least, this time they came early spring with the arrival of weather that's unusually hot when taking into account past spring seasons.

Perhaps the warmer weather that's being experienced means that the special moment where warm and cool are in the right balance to produce tornados is getting moved to an earlier.

If my thinking is correct, this will probably mean that there will be virtually no tornados in the late spring/summer, just in early/mid spring.

I don't know, just a thought.

EDIT: turns out that this month's tornados so far have hit 114, far above the usually month's average of 71, yet still below 180.

So it's not like it's a new record, but the number is higher than usual.
PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:44 am


Hm...Well then it looks like global warming might be a probable factor.

rikuHEART
Captain

Reply
treeSHADOWS//guild of the environmentally conscious

 
Manage Your Items
Other Stuff
Get GCash
Offers
Get Items
More Items
Where Everyone Hangs Out
Other Community Areas
Virtual Spaces
Fun Stuff
Gaia's Games
Mini-Games
Play with GCash
Play with Platinum