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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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KEYWORDS: tornadoes; weather
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

We have just started having “roundabouts” in Omaha, NE in the past 10-15 years. We have had tornadoes pretty much FOREVER. So I fail to see the link, but at least he is not suggesting that they are due to global warming or climate change.


41 posted on 06/10/2019 8:14:58 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

bookmark


42 posted on 06/10/2019 8:17:07 AM PDT by DFG
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

ahh....the art of the crank call. And here I thought it had died with the advent of Caller ID technology.


43 posted on 06/10/2019 8:18:41 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Then maybe we should convert the roundabouts to two-way traffic... clockwise vehicles will cancel the disturbance caued by those traveling counter-clockwise. /s


44 posted on 06/10/2019 8:18:58 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Clearly interstates cause straight-line winds.

Traffic coming down from Canada causes hail and bad weather.

Traffic coming up from Mexico causes heat waves.

Traffic jams cause weather systems to stall.


45 posted on 06/10/2019 8:19:21 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This should be incorporated into the Green New Deal.


46 posted on 06/10/2019 8:21:38 AM PDT by Rocky
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

That can’t be. The real cause is Nascar!


47 posted on 06/10/2019 8:22:10 AM PDT by Free in Texas (Celebrate diversity. Own firearms of every caliber.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

And jughandles lead to drunk driving.


48 posted on 06/10/2019 8:22:11 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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To: Quick Shot

Pot holes increase marijuana usage.

Speed bumps cause Meth addictions


49 posted on 06/10/2019 8:22:42 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

so either reuse catheters or make them out of metal.


50 posted on 06/10/2019 8:24:58 AM PDT by DannyTN
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Agggh wrong thread. Cathers= Canadians banning single use plastics.


51 posted on 06/10/2019 8:25:32 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“I always knew those roundabouts would be nothing but trouble.”
They can add those to trailer parks as causes of tornadoes. All those long boxes lined up row after row cause a parabolic wing distortion event that results in unequal torsional wind flow in diametrically opposite directions. End result is quantum ridge dispersion of temperamental pressure inequality,
and bam, you have a tornado......


52 posted on 06/10/2019 8:46:58 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The obvious solution when a tornado is near is to take your car out to a traffic circle...and GO IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. This will stop all tornadoes within 10 miles. ALL LIBs should do this!


53 posted on 06/10/2019 8:50:33 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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I’d like to meet the designer of the “mini” traffic circles we have here in Atlanta, it’d be worth the time to ream his/her a$$ out for not understanding that putting in a traffic circle with a 10’ radius is a major pain in the arse!!!


54 posted on 06/10/2019 8:53:55 AM PDT by rhubarbk (WINNING, WINNING, WINNING . . . TRUMP 2020)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Is this guy related to that idiot from Georgia who thought that if the military assigned too many troops to Guam, that the island would flip upside down?

Cause it sure sounds like they're related.

55 posted on 06/10/2019 9:03:00 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: Quick Shot

‘Penny Lane’


56 posted on 06/10/2019 9:09:59 AM PDT by SMGFan ("God love ya! What am I talking about")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

In NJ we have jughandles, and fewer tornadoes.


57 posted on 06/10/2019 9:11:28 AM PDT by SMGFan ("God love ya! What am I talking about")
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The NJ jughandles definitely has an effect on the tornados as they can’t figure out how to make a left turn so they end up missing all the trailer parks.


58 posted on 06/10/2019 9:16:44 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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59 posted on 06/10/2019 9:59:29 AM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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Cause, on account of — you want to know why? When people go round and round in circles, it causes disturbance in the atmosphere, and...

That makes as much sense as man made global warming, there should be a gummint grant for this genius.

It's the round and round part that convinced me.

60 posted on 06/10/2019 10:11:57 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke all mooselimb terrorists, today.)
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