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Pennsylvania man says traffic circles causing increase in tornadoes
WPXI ^ | June 10, 2019

Posted on 06/10/2019 7:38:31 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

Pennsylvania has seen more tornadoes than usual in 2019, with the state already hitting the yearly average.

One Pennsylvania man thinks he may know the cause of the increase: traffic circles.

According to our news partners at the Trib, WNEP-TV in Scranton has a segment called "TalkBack," which allows viewers to call and leave their opinions, and then the station airs them.

“We didn’t have tornadoes here until we started putting in the traffic circles. Cause, on account of — you want to know why? When people go round and round in circles, it causes disturbance in the atmosphere, and causes tornadoes," one man said about the recent uptick in tornadoes.

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To: rightwingintelligentsia

According to gun-control nuts, correlation is causation. So, he may just be onto something. Or, he may just be nutso as well. And it is also possible that he was pulling someone’s chain.


21 posted on 06/10/2019 7:50:04 AM PDT by Purdue77 (Okay, I'm too cheap to afford a tag line.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

After visiting Italy years ago and watching their cars navigate around traffic circles I’m surprised that it took that long to come up with that conclusion.


22 posted on 06/10/2019 7:50:53 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (yawn)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
> Finally, competition for Florida Man!!

I suspect that this "Pennsylvania Man" is actually a transplant from Florida!

23 posted on 06/10/2019 7:51:20 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: Eddie01

“Yes - Roundabout”

Proof the climate is Fragile.


24 posted on 06/10/2019 7:52:22 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
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To: libertylover

Biden is from Scranton. ‘Nuff said.


25 posted on 06/10/2019 7:52:34 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Another case of life imitating "The Simpsons".


26 posted on 06/10/2019 7:54:28 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

My mental health break of the day!


27 posted on 06/10/2019 7:55:13 AM PDT by elcid1970 (No matter how bad things get, it can only be worse in New Jersey!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Another AOC spokesman?


28 posted on 06/10/2019 7:55:58 AM PDT by maddog55 (Apparent member of the Aryan Brotherhood becuse I'm white!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Easily taken care of - you just put up signs that direct traffic clockwise around the circle on even-numbered days, and counter-clockwise on odd-numbered days (except in Australia, where you’d have to do it the other way around to account for the coriolis force).

(and before someone jumps all over me, no I’m not serious).


29 posted on 06/10/2019 7:57:26 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“We didn’t have tornadoes here until we started putting in the traffic circles. Cause, on account of — you want to know why? When people go round and round in circles, it causes disturbance in the atmosphere, and causes tornadoes,” one man said about the recent uptick in tornadoes.

Is this guy running for the Democrat nomination? The level of intellect is there.


30 posted on 06/10/2019 8:00:05 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

New Hampshire ought to be tornado alley.


31 posted on 06/10/2019 8:05:12 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Yo-Yo

As kids we’d walk the perimeter of the swimming pool over and over to cause a whirlpool effect. I can’t tell you how many flying birds were caught in our childish vortex.


32 posted on 06/10/2019 8:07:01 AM PDT by Scarpetta (The election of Donald Trump is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This makes about as much sense as most other “theories” put forth in regards to “anthropogenic global climate change”. Just this one factor alone may contribute more than all the carbon dioxide humanity is supposed to be dumping in the atmosphere.

Which isn’t much at all, and has no significant impact whatsoever.


33 posted on 06/10/2019 8:07:29 AM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between real life and fiction? Fiction has to make sense and follow some logic.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Another Democrat? Fits well with the idiot in Guam that thinks more people there will cause the island to tip over. Guess doesn’t matter since we have only about 11.5 years left anyway.


34 posted on 06/10/2019 8:09:00 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Quick Shot

Dumbledore returns to Wogfarts to try to find out which nasty little student wizard put the hex on the Pennsylvania traffic circles.


35 posted on 06/10/2019 8:10:10 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: CrazyIvan

This makes sense. I’ve noticed the same effect down
at Coriolis Corner.


36 posted on 06/10/2019 8:10:24 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: CrazyIvan

What you did . . . I see it!


37 posted on 06/10/2019 8:10:36 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Modern Democrat Party: America's largest hate group.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

” traffic circles causing increase in tornadoes”

Circular logic?


38 posted on 06/10/2019 8:11:29 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution - Judge Jeanie Pirro)
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To: Quick Shot

Oh, for the good ol’ days, when Art Bell soaked up such “theorists”.

OTOH, I once saw a documentary on tornadoes, and iirc, combined, the UK and France get around 30, maybe 60, per year.


39 posted on 06/10/2019 8:14:05 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: libertylover

“WNEP-TV has been played with and they don’t even know it.”

Yep...trolled big time! It cracks me up when this stuff makes it to air. There are so many hands and eyes it must pass through first. “Captain, Sum Ting Wong...”


40 posted on 06/10/2019 8:14:36 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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