WKN Weer, Klimaat en Natuurrampen
Lees alles over het onstuimige weer op onze planeet, volg orkanen en tornado's, zie hoe vulkanen uitbarsten en hoe Moeder Aarde beeft bij een aardbeving. Alles over de verwoestende kracht van onze planeet en tal van andere natuurverschijnselen.
Kijkt u zelf:quote:Op zaterdag 5 mei 2007 20:26 schreef PizzaSalami het volgende:
Wat maken jullie je druk .
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Vaag topic.
Never in the entire history of calming down did anyone ever calm down after being told to calm down.
Waarom is dit nieuws? Er zijn een paar honderd tornado's per jaar daar, het is niet hier, wat is de nieuwswaarde?
Ja, ik mag weer :6
*O* 9-12-2009 @ Paul McCartney *O*
*O* 9-12-2009 @ Paul McCartney *O*
Uit Groot alarm voor naderende tornado in Arnold
Het plaatsje Greensburg, waar 90% van alle gebouwen, inclusief ziekenhuis, verwoest is.
Het plaatsje Greensburg, waar 90% van alle gebouwen, inclusief ziekenhuis, verwoest is.
Oh ben je er zo een Zolang het niet in mijn achtertuin gebeurt boeit het mij niet of er 100en doden vallen, dat is hun probleem....quote:Op zaterdag 5 mei 2007 20:52 schreef Sexy_Sadie het volgende:
Waarom is dit nieuws? Er zijn een paar honderd tornado's per jaar daar, het is niet hier, wat is de nieuwswaarde?
Zolang het niet in mijn achtertuin gebeurt boeit het mij niet of er 100en doden vallen, dat is hun probleem....
Ik lees nergens honderden doden, maar om toch serieus op je in te gaan: er zijn daar honderden tornado's per jaar, waarvan tientallen zeer groot. Wat is hier de nieuwswaarde van?quote:Op zaterdag 5 mei 2007 20:59 schreef Hi_flyer het volgende:
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Oh ben je er zo een Zolang het niet in mijn achtertuin gebeurt boeit het mij niet of er 100en doden vallen, dat is hun probleem....
Ja, ik mag weer :6
*O* 9-12-2009 @ Paul McCartney *O*
*O* 9-12-2009 @ Paul McCartney *O*
Blijkbaar genoeg, anders was het geen ''breaking news'' op cnn.quote:Op zaterdag 5 mei 2007 21:05 schreef Sexy_Sadie het volgende:
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Ik lees nergens honderden doden, maar om toch serieus op je in te gaan: er zijn daar honderden tornado's per jaar, waarvan tientallen zeer groot. Wat is hier de nieuwswaarde van?
Damn sta effe hiervan te kijken
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Dat was een pittig briesje.
Patience is not one of my virtues, neither is memory. Or patience for that matter.
Het zijn er nu 9, maar kan nog wel gaan oplopen.quote:Op zaterdag 5 mei 2007 21:41 schreef Fredo24 het volgende:
En toch nog 6 slachtoffers,als je naar die foto kijkt.
GREENSBURG, Kan. — Rescuers raced Saturday through the wreckage from a giant tornado that killed at least nine people and left little standing in this southwest Kansas town beyond the local pub.
Forecasters issued a fresh tornado warning Saturday evening in the region, where Friday's weather was blamed for nine deaths, a figure authorities feared could rise.
City Administrator Steve Hewitt estimated 95 percent of the town of 1,500 was destroyed and predicted rescue efforts could take days as survivors could be trapped in basements and under rubble.
Among the only structures that survived was the Bar H Tavern, the town's only bar. It was briefly converted into a morgue.
Survivors of the storm picked over the remnants of their homes and possessions, still dazed by the twister's strength and scope.
Jackie Robertson and her family spent Saturday afternoon collecting wedding photos, a wallet and other belongings from the debris that had been her home.
Robertson, her husband and a friend spent Friday night in a cellar when the storms struck the area.
"My heart just aches for everyone," she said. "It is so surreal. This is where I live."
The town, previously best known as the home of the world's largest hand-dug well — 32 feet in diameter, 109 feet deep when it was finished in 1888 — was a nightmare of splintered homes and smashed vehicles, the air redolent with the smell of sap from trees stripped of bark.
"We want everybody to know, and I plead to the American people as well as the people here in Kansas, this is a huge catastrophe that has happened to our small town," Hewitt said during a news conference. "All my downtown is gone. My home is gone. My staff's homes are gone. And we've got to find a way to get this to work and come to work every day and get this thing back on its feet. It's going to be tough."
Residents said they heard the tornado warning sirens — a common feature of towns in "Tornado Alley" — about 20 minutes before the storm hit.
National Weather Service meteorologist Larry Ruthi said the path of damage was 1.4 miles wide, estimating it would be classified a "upper F-4 or an F-5" tornado, the strongest possible.
"I'm in downtown Greensburg. There's really nothing left," Ruthi said.
Jose Peraza said he was driving his oil rig into town when he heard the siren and driving hail started pounding the area. He pulled over and hid with several other people in a convenience store freezer.
He said the storm ripped the side off the freezer, and when he came out he found the twister had thrown his truck — weighed down by 40,000 pounds of oil — "like nothing."
The dead included eight in Kiowa County, where Greensburg is located, and one in nearby Stafford County, said Sharon Watson, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Adjutant General's Department.
"We continue to find folks and this will go on for a good couple days — the rescue itself," Hewitt said. "I mean, the debris is just unbelievable. Even if you are in a basement, I mean your home is collapsed, and we've got to find a way to get to you."
State Rep. Dennis McKinney, the House minority leader and a Greensburg resident, said he hid in his basement with his daughter as the storm destroyed his house.
"It was very loud, but not as loud as I thought it would be," McKinney said. "It was over in a minute or two, the devastation was so fast."
He said he spent the evening and early morning conferring with emergency officials and helping search homes for survivors, although he noted "the inspections didn't take that long because in the western part of town, there weren't many homes left to inspect."
Residents said they heard the tornado warning sirens, a common feature of towns in "Tornado Alley," about 20 minutes before the storm hit.
"We had ample warning and that's why, with such huge devastation, that we're fortunate that we didn't have more fatalities than we had," McKinney said.
A mandatory evacuation was ordered, he said. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius declared a disaster emergency for Kiowa County, said her spokeswoman Nicole Corcoran. The state sent 40 National Guard soldiers to help.
The White House said President Bush was briefed on the situation. Federal Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Dawn Kinsey said FEMA was preparing to help once Kansas officials request assistance. "We've been in contact with them since the beginning," Kinsey said.
Scores of injured people were sent to hospitals as far away as Wichita, 110 miles away. More than 70 went to Pratt Regional Medical Center about 30 minutes away, with all but 14 treated and released, said hospital spokeswoman Kim Stivers.
Rescuers pulled about 30 people from the basement of a partially collapsed hospital early Saturday, but most of them had minor injuries, Watson said.
The twister was part of a storm front that spawned tornadoes along a line stretching northeast from Greensburg through central Kansas. Three small tornadoes touched down in rural southwestern Illinois, but no damage was reported. Two more struck in Oklahoma and another in South Dakota, damaging some structures, officials said.
Yet another twister struck Saturday in central Nebraska, damaging outbuildings and power lines, officials said.
No injuries were reported in any of those states.
Forecasters issued a fresh tornado warning Saturday evening in the region, where Friday's weather was blamed for nine deaths, a figure authorities feared could rise.
City Administrator Steve Hewitt estimated 95 percent of the town of 1,500 was destroyed and predicted rescue efforts could take days as survivors could be trapped in basements and under rubble.
Among the only structures that survived was the Bar H Tavern, the town's only bar. It was briefly converted into a morgue.
Survivors of the storm picked over the remnants of their homes and possessions, still dazed by the twister's strength and scope.
Jackie Robertson and her family spent Saturday afternoon collecting wedding photos, a wallet and other belongings from the debris that had been her home.
Robertson, her husband and a friend spent Friday night in a cellar when the storms struck the area.
"My heart just aches for everyone," she said. "It is so surreal. This is where I live."
The town, previously best known as the home of the world's largest hand-dug well — 32 feet in diameter, 109 feet deep when it was finished in 1888 — was a nightmare of splintered homes and smashed vehicles, the air redolent with the smell of sap from trees stripped of bark.
"We want everybody to know, and I plead to the American people as well as the people here in Kansas, this is a huge catastrophe that has happened to our small town," Hewitt said during a news conference. "All my downtown is gone. My home is gone. My staff's homes are gone. And we've got to find a way to get this to work and come to work every day and get this thing back on its feet. It's going to be tough."
Residents said they heard the tornado warning sirens — a common feature of towns in "Tornado Alley" — about 20 minutes before the storm hit.
National Weather Service meteorologist Larry Ruthi said the path of damage was 1.4 miles wide, estimating it would be classified a "upper F-4 or an F-5" tornado, the strongest possible.
"I'm in downtown Greensburg. There's really nothing left," Ruthi said.
Jose Peraza said he was driving his oil rig into town when he heard the siren and driving hail started pounding the area. He pulled over and hid with several other people in a convenience store freezer.
He said the storm ripped the side off the freezer, and when he came out he found the twister had thrown his truck — weighed down by 40,000 pounds of oil — "like nothing."
The dead included eight in Kiowa County, where Greensburg is located, and one in nearby Stafford County, said Sharon Watson, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Adjutant General's Department.
"We continue to find folks and this will go on for a good couple days — the rescue itself," Hewitt said. "I mean, the debris is just unbelievable. Even if you are in a basement, I mean your home is collapsed, and we've got to find a way to get to you."
State Rep. Dennis McKinney, the House minority leader and a Greensburg resident, said he hid in his basement with his daughter as the storm destroyed his house.
"It was very loud, but not as loud as I thought it would be," McKinney said. "It was over in a minute or two, the devastation was so fast."
He said he spent the evening and early morning conferring with emergency officials and helping search homes for survivors, although he noted "the inspections didn't take that long because in the western part of town, there weren't many homes left to inspect."
Residents said they heard the tornado warning sirens, a common feature of towns in "Tornado Alley," about 20 minutes before the storm hit.
"We had ample warning and that's why, with such huge devastation, that we're fortunate that we didn't have more fatalities than we had," McKinney said.
A mandatory evacuation was ordered, he said. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius declared a disaster emergency for Kiowa County, said her spokeswoman Nicole Corcoran. The state sent 40 National Guard soldiers to help.
The White House said President Bush was briefed on the situation. Federal Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Dawn Kinsey said FEMA was preparing to help once Kansas officials request assistance. "We've been in contact with them since the beginning," Kinsey said.
Scores of injured people were sent to hospitals as far away as Wichita, 110 miles away. More than 70 went to Pratt Regional Medical Center about 30 minutes away, with all but 14 treated and released, said hospital spokeswoman Kim Stivers.
Rescuers pulled about 30 people from the basement of a partially collapsed hospital early Saturday, but most of them had minor injuries, Watson said.
The twister was part of a storm front that spawned tornadoes along a line stretching northeast from Greensburg through central Kansas. Three small tornadoes touched down in rural southwestern Illinois, but no damage was reported. Two more struck in Oklahoma and another in South Dakota, damaging some structures, officials said.
Yet another twister struck Saturday in central Nebraska, damaging outbuildings and power lines, officials said.
No injuries were reported in any of those states.
Waar blijft die tornado van TS nou?quote:VS weer getroffen door tornado's
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` Het midden van de Verenigde Staten is
opnieuw getroffen door tornado's.De
wervelwinden waren in de staten Kansas,
South Dakota en Oklahoma.In Kansas
raakten elf mensen gewond toen twee
restaurants werden getroffen.
Een precies overzicht van de schade en
het aantal slachtoffers is er nog niet.
De communicatie met het getroffen
gebied verloopt moeizaam.
Vrijdagnacht werd het stadje Greensburg
in Kansas bijna helemaal verwoest door
een tornado.Er vielen negen doden,maar
onder het puin liggen mogelijk nog meer
slachtoffers.Het reddingswerk wordt
door de nieuwe tornado's bemoeilijkt
Never in the entire history of calming down did anyone ever calm down after being told to calm down.
Oh damn,wat zou ik graag in die auto willen zitten!quote:Op zondag 6 mei 2007 12:09 schreef ItaloDancer het volgende:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNL7ASvl4k4 (als ie nog niet gepost is)
Tornado komt wel erg dichtbij trouwens.
En check die laatste foto,
alleen dat flatgebouw(of wat het mag zijn) staat nog overeind.
Gaat lekker daar in de US . Gisteren was bij 't NOS Journaal ook even een beeld van die tornado te zien. Uitzonderlijk breed ook. Indrukwekkend. Je zult 't op je af zien komen .
. Gisteren was bij 't NOS Journaal ook even een beeld van die tornado te zien. Uitzonderlijk breed ook. Indrukwekkend. Je zult 't op je af zien komen
Tering .quote:Op zondag 6 mei 2007 12:09 schreef ItaloDancer het volgende:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNL7ASvl4k4 (als ie nog niet gepost is)
Hier een filmpje na die tornado.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NE9LJ9rNTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NE9LJ9rNTU
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Tornado Destroys Kansas Town, Kills 9 (ABC)
The eerie beeping of battery-operated fire alarms buried beneath mounds of debris punctured the silence that fell over this community as hundreds of rescue workers pulled out of town. News of another approaching storm brought an uneasy quiet Saturday night as emergency crews called off the search for more victims of a tornado that killed at least eight people and devastated this southwest Kansas farming town a day earlier.
The National Weather Service said it had received reports "well into the double digits" of twisters touching down in six southwest Kansas counties. Numerous tornadoes were reported from South Dakota south into Oklahoma as forecasters scrambled to keep issuing warnings.
President Bush declared parts of Kansas a disaster area, freeing up federal money to aid in recovery.
"We need support," said Greensburg Administrator Steve Hewitt. "We want everybody to know this is a huge catastrophe."
At least eight people have died in the Greensburg area. Friday's weather was blamed for nine deaths in the region, a number authorities feared could rise even before the latest twisters. All its residents have been evacuated.
Among the few structures that survived was the Bar H Tavern. It was briefly converted into a morgue. Command operations for rescue efforts were moved into the town's stately courthouse, damaged but also still standing.
All the churches have been destroyed. Every business along the town's main street has been demolished for most, all that remains are steel girders, tattered insulation, splintered wood. The towns fire engines were crushed. Other crumpled vehicles were tossed into the melee.
The town's claim to fame is the world's biggest hand dug well. Its condition is unknown because it is buried under a mountain of debris. The attraction's gift store has disappeared.
For decades, meteorite hunters from throughout the world have been drawn here to hunt for space rocks in the rich soil near here. The town's extensive meteorite collection, including its famed 1,000-pound pallasite meteorite, is casualty of the storm.
percent of the town of 1,500 was destroyed and predicted rescue efforts could take days as survivors could be trapped in basements and under rubble.
Hewitt, who lost his home in the storm, was somber as he told reporters he was concerned what will happen to his community once all the volunteers and searchers ultimately go home.
"This is one of the most devastating tornadoes we have had in Kansas," said U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran.
U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius will tour the storm-damaged area Sunday.
But at the shelter in neighboring Haviland, resident Cheryll Behm was skeptical. Her own storm-damaged house is probably repairable, but she said there is no town left. She is a nurse's aide who worked at the local hospital.
"I am concerned Greensburg never will be built," she said. "There is no place to go back to work to. All of Main Street is gone."
Scores of injured people were sent to hospitals as far away as Wichita, 110 miles away. More than 70 went to Pratt Regional Medical Center about 30 minutes away, with all but 14 treated and released, said hospital spokeswoman Kim Stivers.
Rescuers pulled about 30 people from the basement of a partially collapsed hospital early Saturday, but most of them had minor injuries, said Sharon Watson, spokeswoman for the Kansas Adjutant General's Department.
The twister was part of a storm front that spawned tornadoes along a line stretching northeast from Greensburg through central Kansas. At least seven more tornadoes were reported late Friday and Saturday in Illinois, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Nebraska, though damage was minimal, officials said.
In Oklahoma, a tornado tore through the small town of Sweetwater, causing at least one injury and damaging the town's high school and other structures, authorities said.
Television footage showed a large twister hitting the Erick-Sweetwater High School and storm spotters reported damage to nearby residences in the far western Oklahoma town of about 100 that straddles the Beckham-Roger Mills county line
The eerie beeping of battery-operated fire alarms buried beneath mounds of debris punctured the silence that fell over this community as hundreds of rescue workers pulled out of town. News of another approaching storm brought an uneasy quiet Saturday night as emergency crews called off the search for more victims of a tornado that killed at least eight people and devastated this southwest Kansas farming town a day earlier.
The National Weather Service said it had received reports "well into the double digits" of twisters touching down in six southwest Kansas counties. Numerous tornadoes were reported from South Dakota south into Oklahoma as forecasters scrambled to keep issuing warnings.
President Bush declared parts of Kansas a disaster area, freeing up federal money to aid in recovery.
"We need support," said Greensburg Administrator Steve Hewitt. "We want everybody to know this is a huge catastrophe."
At least eight people have died in the Greensburg area. Friday's weather was blamed for nine deaths in the region, a number authorities feared could rise even before the latest twisters. All its residents have been evacuated.
Among the few structures that survived was the Bar H Tavern. It was briefly converted into a morgue. Command operations for rescue efforts were moved into the town's stately courthouse, damaged but also still standing.
All the churches have been destroyed. Every business along the town's main street has been demolished for most, all that remains are steel girders, tattered insulation, splintered wood. The towns fire engines were crushed. Other crumpled vehicles were tossed into the melee.
The town's claim to fame is the world's biggest hand dug well. Its condition is unknown because it is buried under a mountain of debris. The attraction's gift store has disappeared.
For decades, meteorite hunters from throughout the world have been drawn here to hunt for space rocks in the rich soil near here. The town's extensive meteorite collection, including its famed 1,000-pound pallasite meteorite, is casualty of the storm.
percent of the town of 1,500 was destroyed and predicted rescue efforts could take days as survivors could be trapped in basements and under rubble.
Hewitt, who lost his home in the storm, was somber as he told reporters he was concerned what will happen to his community once all the volunteers and searchers ultimately go home.
"This is one of the most devastating tornadoes we have had in Kansas," said U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran.
U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius will tour the storm-damaged area Sunday.
But at the shelter in neighboring Haviland, resident Cheryll Behm was skeptical. Her own storm-damaged house is probably repairable, but she said there is no town left. She is a nurse's aide who worked at the local hospital.
"I am concerned Greensburg never will be built," she said. "There is no place to go back to work to. All of Main Street is gone."
Scores of injured people were sent to hospitals as far away as Wichita, 110 miles away. More than 70 went to Pratt Regional Medical Center about 30 minutes away, with all but 14 treated and released, said hospital spokeswoman Kim Stivers.
Rescuers pulled about 30 people from the basement of a partially collapsed hospital early Saturday, but most of them had minor injuries, said Sharon Watson, spokeswoman for the Kansas Adjutant General's Department.
The twister was part of a storm front that spawned tornadoes along a line stretching northeast from Greensburg through central Kansas. At least seven more tornadoes were reported late Friday and Saturday in Illinois, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Nebraska, though damage was minimal, officials said.
In Oklahoma, a tornado tore through the small town of Sweetwater, causing at least one injury and damaging the town's high school and other structures, authorities said.
Television footage showed a large twister hitting the Erick-Sweetwater High School and storm spotters reported damage to nearby residences in the far western Oklahoma town of about 100 that straddles the Beckham-Roger Mills county line
Nieuwe golf van tornado's treft Kansas
WICHITA/TOPEKA - Een nieuwe golf van tornado's heeft zaterdagavond het middenwesten van de Verenigde Staten getroffen. Van het noorden van Texas, door Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska tot aan South Dakota kregen mensen het advies extra waakzaam te zijn op zware wervelstormen.
De Amerikaanse nationale meteorologische dienst telde tientallen zogenoemde twisters, meldden lokale media zondag.
Berichten over doden zijn er niet, wel raakten minstens elf mensen gewond toen verscheidene restaurants werden getroffen in Osborne, Kansas. Uit het westen van Oklahoma kwamen ook berichten van gewonden nadat een tornado gebouwen had getroffen in de plaats Sweetwater.
Doden
Het noodweer bemoeilijkt de reddingswerkzaamheden in de plaats Greensburg ernstig. Het 1500 zielen tellende plaatsje in Kansas kreeg vrijdag de volle laag en is nagenoeg volledig weggevaagd. De autoriteiten hebben er tot nog toe negen doden geteld, maar dat aantal kan makkelijk oplopen.
"We hebben berichten van lokale zieknhuizen dat er circa zestien mensen in kritieke toestand verkeren en dat een vijftigtal anderen wordt behandeld", aldus een woordvoerster van de statelijke autoriteiten.
Vermist
Tal van mensen worden nog vermist. Ze zitten mogelijk nog gevangen in schuilkelders onder hun kompleet verwoeste huizen. Van de gebouwen in Greensburg staat nog geen 5 procent nog overeind. Het kan dagen duren voordat iedereen is bevrijd van onder zijn huis, zeggen lokale bestuurders.
WICHITA/TOPEKA - Een nieuwe golf van tornado's heeft zaterdagavond het middenwesten van de Verenigde Staten getroffen. Van het noorden van Texas, door Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska tot aan South Dakota kregen mensen het advies extra waakzaam te zijn op zware wervelstormen.
De Amerikaanse nationale meteorologische dienst telde tientallen zogenoemde twisters, meldden lokale media zondag.
Berichten over doden zijn er niet, wel raakten minstens elf mensen gewond toen verscheidene restaurants werden getroffen in Osborne, Kansas. Uit het westen van Oklahoma kwamen ook berichten van gewonden nadat een tornado gebouwen had getroffen in de plaats Sweetwater.
Doden
Het noodweer bemoeilijkt de reddingswerkzaamheden in de plaats Greensburg ernstig. Het 1500 zielen tellende plaatsje in Kansas kreeg vrijdag de volle laag en is nagenoeg volledig weggevaagd. De autoriteiten hebben er tot nog toe negen doden geteld, maar dat aantal kan makkelijk oplopen.
"We hebben berichten van lokale zieknhuizen dat er circa zestien mensen in kritieke toestand verkeren en dat een vijftigtal anderen wordt behandeld", aldus een woordvoerster van de statelijke autoriteiten.
Vermist
Tal van mensen worden nog vermist. Ze zitten mogelijk nog gevangen in schuilkelders onder hun kompleet verwoeste huizen. Van de gebouwen in Greensburg staat nog geen 5 procent nog overeind. Het kan dagen duren voordat iedereen is bevrijd van onder zijn huis, zeggen lokale bestuurders.
Wow die foto, echt erg.
Offtopic: waarom staat er niet gewoon '9 doden' ipv in 't Engels?
Opm DH : Aangepast.
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Offtopic: waarom staat er niet gewoon '9 doden' ipv in 't Engels?
Opm DH : Aangepast.
[ Bericht 7% gewijzigd door Drugshond op 06-05-2007 16:24:16 ]
Ter vergelijking.
De onderste foto is van hiroshima net na WO-II.
quote:Op zondag 6 mei 2007 13:35 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
De onderste foto is van hiroshima net na WO-II.
Heet lijkt inderdaad wel of er een grote bom is gevallen.
Patience is not one of my virtues, neither is memory. Or patience for that matter.
Inderdaad ja, alsof er een atoombom gevallen is.quote:Op zondag 6 mei 2007 16:22 schreef Drugshond het volgende:
Ter vergelijking.
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De onderste foto is van hiroshima net na WO-II.
Deze week nog wel meer tornado's, denk ik.
Kaartje van dinsdag
Omdat de rest van de titel ook in het engels was... maar goed... ik zie het al...quote:Op zondag 6 mei 2007 15:45 schreef Eveli het volgende:
Wow die foto, echt erg.
Offtopic: waarom staat er niet gewoon '9 doden' ipv in 't Engels?
Opm DH : Aangepast.
En jij dacht dat Nederland zo'n tornado overleeft? Sukkel. Heb je enig idee van de vernietiging die een F4 of F5 tornado achterlaat? Je weet dat dat winden zijn van 450km per uur? Jullie janken al bij een Noordwesterstormpje van 60km per uur.quote:Op zaterdag 5 mei 2007 20:25 schreef DikkeSmikkel het volgende:
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Dat krijg je als je zo'n beetje alles van hout maakt he...
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Blijft maar doorgaan met die tornado's
National Weather Service
quote:Kansas maakt zich klaar voor derde tornadoserie
In het zuiden van Kansas is zondag alweer een tornado waargenomen. Het is mogelijk de eerste tornado van een nieuwe serie. Voor de derde achtereenvolgende dag ontstaan vooral 's avonds zware buien met tornado's langs een koufront. Op 5 kilometer hoogte staat een orkaanachtige zuidwestelijke stroming die de zware buien extra stimuleert.
Zowel op 4 als op 5 mei mei werd hetzelfde gebied getroffen met op 4 mei 9 doden tot gevolg. Op 5 mei was met 92 tornadowaarnemingen sprake van een van de grootste tornado-uitbraken van de afgelopen jaren.
National Weather Service
Het is iig wel opvallend dat mensen opgevangen werden in een Rode Kruis-gebouw van steen.quote:Op zondag 6 mei 2007 22:44 schreef StefanP het volgende:
En jij dacht dat Nederland zo'n tornado overleeft? Sukkel. Heb je enig idee van de vernietiging die een F4 of F5 tornado achterlaat? Je weet dat dat winden zijn van 450km per uur? Jullie janken al bij een Noordwesterstormpje van 60km per uur.
Never in the entire history of calming down did anyone ever calm down after being told to calm down.
Kijk dat vind ik nou eens een nuttige opmerkingquote:Op zondag 6 mei 2007 22:44 schreef StefanP het volgende:
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En jij dacht dat Nederland zo'n tornado overleeft? Sukkel. Heb je enig idee van de vernietiging die een F4 of F5 tornado achterlaat? Je weet dat dat winden zijn van 450km per uur? Jullie janken al bij een Noordwesterstormpje van 60km per uur.
450km/u is idd wel knetterhard.
Never in the entire history of calming down did anyone ever calm down after being told to calm down.
Leuk hoe je het omkeert zodat het over Nederland gaatquote:Op zondag 6 mei 2007 22:44 schreef StefanP het volgende:
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En jij dacht dat Nederland zo'n tornado overleeft? Sukkel. Heb je enig idee van de vernietiging die een F4 of F5 tornado achterlaat? Je weet dat dat winden zijn van 450km per uur? Jullie janken al bij een Noordwesterstormpje van 60km per uur.
Maar even serieus: er zijn genoeg Amerikanen die zelf toegeven dat het best dom is om zoveel met hout te bouwen, en dat stenen huizen tegen veel meer natuurgeweld bestand zijn.
Maarja, hout is goedkoper hè...? En makkelijker in elkaar te zetten
Enne, het is zuidwester storm, en de snelheden zijn bij een storm meer dan 100 km/u. En dan niet lokaal, maar bijvoorbeeld langs de hele kust of in het halve land... Als je Nederlanders wilt kleineren, doe het dan wel goed.
Ja, ik mag weer :6
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Weet je uberhaupt wel waar je het over hebt? Een noordwesterstorm is veel erger dan een zuidwesterstorm. Over self-defeatism gesproken.quote:Op zondag 6 mei 2007 23:27 schreef Sexy_Sadie het volgende:
Enne, het is zuidwester storm, en de snelheden zijn bij een storm meer dan 100 km/u. En dan niet lokaal, maar bijvoorbeeld langs de hele kust of in het halve land... Als je Nederlanders wilt kleineren, doe het dan wel goed.
"Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness."
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Hangt er van af, op sommige plekken is het zelfs verstandiger om van hout te bouwen o.a. in gebieden met aardbevingsgevaar. Een stenen huis geeft niks mee.quote:Op zondag 6 mei 2007 23:27 schreef Sexy_Sadie het volgende:
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Leuk hoe je het omkeert zodat het over Nederland gaat
Maar even serieus: er zijn genoeg Amerikanen die zelf toegeven dat het best dom is om zoveel met hout te bouwen, en dat stenen huizen tegen veel meer natuurgeweld bestand zijn.
Maarja, hout is goedkoper hè...? En makkelijker in elkaar te zetten
Ze zouden juist in NL meer met hout en beton moeten doen, dat maakt de huizen misschien wat beter betaalbaar.
Patience is not one of my virtues, neither is memory. Or patience for that matter.
Kansas twister death toll rises to 12
GREENSBURG, Kansas (CNN) -- The death toll from the weekend's tornado-packing storms in Kansas rose to 12 Monday when authorities found the bodies of two more victims in Greensburg.
Previously, officials had said eight people died in Greensburg; that total rose to 10, said City Administrator Steve Hewitt.
Another victim died Friday night in Stafford County to the northeast, and one died Saturday night in a separate tornado in Ottawa, Kansas.
Authorities also found a survivor buried beneath the rubble in Greensburg.
"Last night, late evening, we did recover someone alive," said Ronald Knoefel with the Kansas Highway Patrol. "So we are very very happy with that. ... The search and rescue continues because we still have optimism that we're going to find more people alive."
Hewitt said search and rescue efforts in the town were continuing after Friday's mile-wide twister with winds of 205 mph. (Watch treetops sheared off amid a flying American flag )
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius told CNN the rubble was so deep in some places that even trained dogs might be unable to pick up the scent of people who may be buried beneath.
Word of the rescue came as residents returned to the town of 1,500, to inspect what was left of their homes. But visiting privileges were suspended for about half of the town after an ammonia leak from a railroad tank car prompted authorities to evacuate the area as a precaution.
Authorities said the tanker containing about 14,000 gallons of ammonia had overturned in the storm, and the leak began when workers tried to right it.
http://www.knack.be/nieuw(...)n26-article3439.htmlquote:Bush belooft Greensburg hulp na zware tornado
07/05/2007 14:53
De Amerikaanse president George W. Bush heeft gisteren de stad Greensburg in de staat Kansas uitgeroepen tot noodgebied, zo melden verscheidene Amerikaanse media. Hierdoor komt de plaats in aanmerking voor federale hulp. Die hulp wordt echter belemmerd door de oorlog in Irak.
In Greensburg is 90 procent van de gebouwen vernietigd of zwaar beschadigd door de tornado, die in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag plaatshad. Een groot deel van de ongeveer 1.600 inwoners is zijn huis kwijtgeraakt. 'Het gaat lang duren voordat de gemeenschap er weer bovenop is,' zei Bush tijdens een gedenkdienst in Washington D.C. 'Maar ik ben ervan overtuigd dat de stad weer wordt opgebouwd. We zullen daarbij zoveel mogelijk helpen.'
De wervelstorm heeft aan zeker negen mensen het leven gekost. Ook vielen er tientallen gewonden door het natuurgeweld. Reddingswerkers zijn nog op zoek naar overlevenden in het puin.
Ook andere delen van Kansas en de staten South Dakota en Oklahoma zijn getroffen door tientallen tornado's. Enkele honderden kilometers ten noordoosten van Greensburg is één man omgekomen in het noodweer. In de plaats Osborne zijn elf gewonden gevallen. Bush heeft zijn medeleven betuigd aan de nabestaanden van Amerikanen die zijn omgekomen bij de stormen.
De bergingswerken worden nu belemmerd door de Irakoorlog. Niet alleen bevindt meer dan 40 procent van de nationale garde uit Kansas zich momenteel in Irak, maar ook de helft van alle vrachtwagens. Dat zei de gouverneur van Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius, maandag op de nieuwszender CNN. Er ontbreekt allerhande materiaal. Daarom kwam de eerste hulp van de nationale garde slechts traag op gang. Kansas heeft nu andere staten om hulp gevraagd.
(Elsevier/Belga)
Misschien omdat het niet veel voorkomt dat een heel dorp wordt weggevaagdquote:Op zaterdag 5 mei 2007 21:05 schreef Sexy_Sadie het volgende:
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Ik lees nergens honderden doden, maar om toch serieus op je in te gaan: er zijn daar honderden tornado's per jaar, waarvan tientallen zeer groot. Wat is hier de nieuwswaarde van?
Gaat flink tekeer daar. Heb zin in de zomer
Hier is een filmpje van die tornado in Greensburg.
Goed kijken, want het was wel nacht natuurlijk. Af en toe is ie zichtbaar, door het weerlicht.
Goed kijken, want het was wel nacht natuurlijk. Af en toe is ie zichtbaar, door het weerlicht.
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Kansas towns flee as floodwaters rise
HUTCHINSON, Kansas (AP) -- Torrential rainfall hit parts of the Plains and Midwest, flooding towns in Kansas on Thursday, toppling trees and power lines and pelting the countryside with hail.
Some central Kansas towns recorded as much as 7 inches of rain -- in some places up to 2 inches per hour -- starting Wednesday.
The deluge closed dozens of roads, some flooded for the second time in three weeks, said Dean Speaks, deputy emergency management director for Saline County. (Watch cars struggle through water )
"It's taken out the roads that we fixed (after the first flooding)," Speaks said. Numerous government facilities, homes and businesses in the Salina area were flooded.
Everyone in the Saline County towns of Bavaria and Hedville -- about 80 people -- evacuated their homes overnight. Fifty homes in Ogden, near Fort Riley, were being voluntarily evacuated as area creeks rose.
In Hutchinson, many motorists had to be helped from their cars as water flooded streets.
"In some places, there are people with water up to their porches," Hutchinson Fire Chief Kim Forbes said. Fire trucks were used to help move people to higher ground or to shelters.
The storms also spawned tornadoes and funnel clouds, but no significant tornado damage was reported. Toppled trees and power lines were reported in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The National Weather Service posted a flood warning for the Big Nemaha River in southeastern Nebraska. It was expected to crest 3 feet over flood stage late Thursday evening or night, and rain was forecast through mid-afternoon.
HUTCHINSON, Kansas (AP) -- Torrential rainfall hit parts of the Plains and Midwest, flooding towns in Kansas on Thursday, toppling trees and power lines and pelting the countryside with hail.
Some central Kansas towns recorded as much as 7 inches of rain -- in some places up to 2 inches per hour -- starting Wednesday.
The deluge closed dozens of roads, some flooded for the second time in three weeks, said Dean Speaks, deputy emergency management director for Saline County. (Watch cars struggle through water )
"It's taken out the roads that we fixed (after the first flooding)," Speaks said. Numerous government facilities, homes and businesses in the Salina area were flooded.
Everyone in the Saline County towns of Bavaria and Hedville -- about 80 people -- evacuated their homes overnight. Fifty homes in Ogden, near Fort Riley, were being voluntarily evacuated as area creeks rose.
In Hutchinson, many motorists had to be helped from their cars as water flooded streets.
"In some places, there are people with water up to their porches," Hutchinson Fire Chief Kim Forbes said. Fire trucks were used to help move people to higher ground or to shelters.
The storms also spawned tornadoes and funnel clouds, but no significant tornado damage was reported. Toppled trees and power lines were reported in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The National Weather Service posted a flood warning for the Big Nemaha River in southeastern Nebraska. It was expected to crest 3 feet over flood stage late Thursday evening or night, and rain was forecast through mid-afternoon.
Freak Hail Storms in Denver
DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- Grape-size hail pummeled the city on Tuesday, blanketing downtown streets, startling drivers and pedestrians, and piling up 4 inches deep at an amusement park.
Motorists scurried under bridges or into garages and pedestrians scrambled for cover to avoid being pelted.
Brazil Redd, 21, was outside when the rain and hail began, her car being towed after a hit-and-run collision.
"It hurt. I probably got bruises. It was huge," she said. "I got soaked."
At Elitch Gardens amusement park, the hail broke lights and toppled small trees, prompting the park to close several hours early, spokeswoman Brooke Gabbert said.
Visitors were led to shelters and then moved out of the park after the storm passed.
"With the severe hail, we have to recheck all the rides. It would've been a while before we would have been able to reopen," Gabbert said.
Drivers were caught in up to 3 feet of water in some intersections, but no serious injuries were reported, Denver Fire Department spokesman Phil Champagne said.
Marty Thrall plodded through a half-inch of hail in a short-sleeved T-shirt, shorts and sandals.
"I didn't know it was going to be this icy," he said.
Heavy rain soaked the Plains states from Colorado up to Minnesota Tuesday, causing minor flooding in some places.
The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for Elbert County, 60 miles southeast of Denver, and for Lincoln County in southwestern Nebraska.
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WTF!!! Grapefruit Hagel? Je zult het maar op je harses krijgen
Ow.. Grape zal wel Druif zijn Das beter voor te stellen
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DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- Grape-size hail pummeled the city on Tuesday, blanketing downtown streets, startling drivers and pedestrians, and piling up 4 inches deep at an amusement park.
Motorists scurried under bridges or into garages and pedestrians scrambled for cover to avoid being pelted.
Brazil Redd, 21, was outside when the rain and hail began, her car being towed after a hit-and-run collision.
"It hurt. I probably got bruises. It was huge," she said. "I got soaked."
At Elitch Gardens amusement park, the hail broke lights and toppled small trees, prompting the park to close several hours early, spokeswoman Brooke Gabbert said.
Visitors were led to shelters and then moved out of the park after the storm passed.
"With the severe hail, we have to recheck all the rides. It would've been a while before we would have been able to reopen," Gabbert said.
Drivers were caught in up to 3 feet of water in some intersections, but no serious injuries were reported, Denver Fire Department spokesman Phil Champagne said.
Marty Thrall plodded through a half-inch of hail in a short-sleeved T-shirt, shorts and sandals.
"I didn't know it was going to be this icy," he said.
Heavy rain soaked the Plains states from Colorado up to Minnesota Tuesday, causing minor flooding in some places.
The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for Elbert County, 60 miles southeast of Denver, and for Lincoln County in southwestern Nebraska.
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WTF!!! Grapefruit Hagel? Je zult het maar op je harses krijgen
Ow.. Grape zal wel Druif zijn Das beter voor te stellen
[ Bericht 3% gewijzigd door Frutsel op 31-05-2007 17:21:41 ]
