Posted on 06/17/2005 7:33:53 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Actually, no, you're quite wrong. I'd rather it be left up to the home buyer, provided the rest of us don't end up paying for his hosptial bills. I feel the same way about seat belts--get rid of the "click it or ticket" lawa, but don't pay insurance for those who don't "click it."
it wasn't HUGE areas..and most of your "HUGE" areas were nothing but farmland anyway..when hurricane Andrew hot florida that was a HUGE populated area(actully they were luckly it moved south at the last minute and it was a relativly small hurricane..had it hit north 20 more miles the more popuated northern suburbs the damaged amount would of been far worse)
No, it's not the media. It's experience. Anyone living in tornado alley is an idiot if they don't have an underground place to go. (And it's not just tornados--last night we had 96 mph straight line winds with baseball-sized hail just up the road from us. Any idea what that would do to even a well-built house?)
"I think you should be forced to stop eating ice cream, at gunpoint if necessary."
Oh no, that would be "profiling," LOL.
I think you should engage your brain before typing on Free Republic--since we're talking about what we "think."
Actually, that's not the reason. The real reason is that it's anti-freedom and pro liberal.
But with "conservatives" proposing this nonsense, who can we look to to defend Americanism?
Yeah, and you had ample warning that it was coming and time to get out of its way if you so chose.
With a tornado, you're lucky if you get 20 minutes warning. Often, you get less. And the consequences of getting caught in the open, or in your car, or in a mobile home are pretty severe. So you need to be prepared.
Did you even bother to check where the tornados hit? May 3rd wasn't one of those F2, country-side, barn busting tornado outbreaks. Many--perhaps most--hit the cities: Moore, south Oklahoma City, Midwest City, even one in Norman. Try to avoid showing your ignorance.
"But with "conservatives" proposing this nonsense, who can we look to to defend Americanism?"
Libertarians.
Every bad idea starts with a thought. So it's highly relevant to debate your thoughts, if you choose to cast them into the forum, and see if they are good or bad ideas (I tend to agree with Protagoras, the desire to protect us from ourselves is the root of much government mischief).
Actually, YOU proposed a force based liberal law.
I'd rather it be left up to the home buyer, provided the rest of us don't end up paying for his hosptial bills.
That is pitiful. Shall we go through the boring exercize of pointing out all the things that someone could justify under such a preposterous theory?
I feel the same way about seat belts--get rid of the "click it or ticket" lawa, but don't pay insurance for those who don't "click it."
I feel the same way about you riding a bike, walking on uneven ground, riding in an aircraft, eating foods I deem fattening, smoking, being 10 lbs overweight, etc, etc, etc ad-nauseum.
Fine. If you don't want one, don't build one--but such people should also be banned from using their health and property insurance. Folks like you make my insurance rates go up.
LOL. Is the little caution-guy stick figure running for his life, or airborne, swirling the funnel?
They are reviled by many Freepers. Mostly by the ones who belong at DU.
no once again YOU are showing your ignorance...you don't want to get into this argument trust me YOU will loose...just because a torando is an F-5 doesn't mean a) the whole tornado was an f-5 and b) the tornado when an f-5 for its entire life....even in a mile wide f5...the areas of f-5 damage is only a small area near the center...atcually it will have many smaller vortexes rotating around near the center..only 3% of all tornadoes are f-4+ but again not all of an "f-4" tornado is F-4
I have to agree with Janet on that note..."Oh puhlease!"
"Folks like you make my insurance rates go up."
You're not going to make much headway with someone who can't see the authoritarian dystopia that will be created by such thinking, who still manages somehow to consider themselves conservative.
Not everyone that lives in tornado alley owns their own home. I've leased the home I live in since I moved to Ok. 4 years ago. I'd love to have a cellar in the backyard. Most of the homes in my town don't have basements or fraidy-holes.
The high school is the official go-to shelter but it's not always open as was the case earlier this month. We had some severe thunderstorms, lost power and the sirens went off. After it was all over it was determined our little town had 82 mph straight line winds, golf ball sized hail and 2 funnels about a mile out of town. I'm not sure it would have been a good idea to get in the car to drive to the high school since trees and large branches were falling in different areas of town. We take care of the trees on the property so we only had one large limb that was broken and dangling. If we hadn't done some major pruning on the apple tree in the front yard earlier this spring, our roof might have been wearing part of the tree.
Up until last July, if we had the time, we'd drive directly to a close friends house since he had an underground shelter. Last July he died after a long and happy life and his place was sold. Now we're left with the school if it's open or riding it out in a frame home.
Having a cellar or a tornado safe room in the house isn't going to protect the house, that's one reason people carry property insurance. Hopefully I'll never have to use the health insurance I pay for because I've been injured in a tornado.
I lived in Norman, and was picking my wife up in Edmond that day. Had I decided to head on home instead of wait out the storm (I had a Final the next day), we would have been right in the path. Took us 3 hours to cover a 30 minute trip because of all the debris and detours.
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