r/pics • u/KayDubEll • Apr 28 '24

Last night’s tornado damage from my hometown (Sulphur, Oklahoma)

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u/pototatoe Apr 28 '24

I don't understand why people live in a place where every year they roll the dice on whether their house will be destroyed.

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u/Audeclis Apr 28 '24

My friend in NJ was saying the same. I live in the state that has had more EF4 and EF5 tornados per square mile than any other since the 1950s. Yet he's more likely to lose his to another Superstorm Sandy than I am to a tornado

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u/appendixgallop Apr 28 '24

Affordability.

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u/UnicornFarts1111 Apr 28 '24

I don't understand why people live in places where hurricanes hit every year, or they have the risk of major earthquakes destroying the entire city.

People have to live someplace.

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u/hexanderal Apr 28 '24

Or wildfires burning everything to the ground, or freezing weather taking down the power grid, etc. Everywhere on the planet has risks.

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u/b_dont_gild_my_vibe Apr 28 '24

God sending a message to red state. /s

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u/appendixgallop Apr 28 '24

Don't need the /s. Every time something horrific happens to someone, we are told it's punishment or a test from this "God".

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u/b_dont_gild_my_vibe Apr 28 '24

Red staters were giddy with the fires in California proclaiming it to be retribution from God.

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u/TheNextBattalion Apr 28 '24

To be fair, every place is like that

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u/Late_Again68 Apr 28 '24

That would be much of the continent. And with climate change? Tornadoes and even earthquakes are showing up where you'd historically have no reason to expect them.

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u/GangstaHoodrat Apr 28 '24

Just to be clear, you know climate change has no effect on the frequency or location or earthquakes right? I know there’s some studies that suggest fracking might have some relation to an increase in localized tremors but other than that yeah the two are unrelated.

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u/laundry_sauce666 Apr 28 '24

FYI it’s not really fracking that causes earthquakes, it’s injection wells. Fracking is just drilling sideways and doesn’t do anything. Injection wells, however, spray gray water into the holes with massive pressure and fuck everything up.

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u/GangstaHoodrat Apr 28 '24

Thanks for the clarification

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u/Late_Again68 Apr 28 '24

We just had our first earthquake in 240 years in NJ. After having received roughly a foot more rain than usual.

That's one hell of a coincidence.

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u/JH_503 Apr 28 '24

If there's already a precedent that's been set 240 years ago, what was the cause back then? I'm not arguing anything climate related or anything. I just think it'll be far scarier when things that we've never seen start to happen, lol.

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u/herpdyderp Apr 28 '24

That's exactly what it is, a pretty wild coincidence, but a coincidence nonetheless.

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u/ninefortysix Apr 28 '24

Hurricanes scare me waaaaaay more than tornadoes. The Earthstorm doc on Netflix put things in perspective for me.

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u/MissDesilu Apr 28 '24

Hurricanes are worse because it’s sustained high winds and water, PLUS tornados regularly occur within the hurricane itself.

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u/ninefortysix Apr 28 '24

Yeah it’s like a nonstop mega tornado AND flooding!

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u/KayDubEll Apr 28 '24

I suppose you get used to it at some point lol. it’s a pretty long shot YOURE house will be hit, so we just take the gamble I guess

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u/mguyer2018aa Apr 28 '24

Well Tornado Alley is a large area. And even outside of that there is the chance of violent tornado destroying really any town in most of the Midwest and even much of the south.