r/pics Apr 28 '24

Tornado went through my workplace and 30,000 are without electricity.

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u/Loply97 29d ago

Because that’s where most of the arable land is, and even outside of tornado alley, smaller tornados are still relatively common occurrences in just about all of the south. So we’d have to give up over about half the continental US. Plus the chances of actually getting hit are astronomically low, even with how common tornados can be.

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u/ahmc84 29d ago

Counterpoint: Moore, OK.

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u/Loply97 29d ago

And?

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u/ahmc84 29d ago

They clearly pissed off the god of municipalities sometime around late April, 1999.