Well, thanks to Bon the Geek for letting me hang out with her in Missouri for a bit. It was fun...even if I never quite got up on time early enough to write StupidiNews more than one or twice last week. Got to see the storms that caused the Joplin tornado close up, folks. It wasn't pretty. Keep in mind the death toll could have been much, much higher. Improved tornado and severe storm forecasting gave the people of Joplin several additional minutes to find shelter that even ten years ago they would not have had, and that went double for the Oklahoma tornado outbreak on Tuesday.
PS: Republicans voted across the board to cut NOAA funding (including tornado and severe storm forecasting) and FEMA disaster relief in order to give more tax cuts to the wealthy. Government sure is useless until an EF4 or EF5 tornado shows up on the government-funded radar headed for your hometown, right?
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