SOUTHERN NIGHTMARE … Deadly Tornadoes Rip Apart the South Killing 194 & 128 in Alabama

Please say a prayer for the folks in the South that were devastated by tornadoes yesterday. The pictures coming out of the devastation from the Southeast are beyond words.

Massive and deadly tornadoes and thunderstorms tore through the South killing a reported 178 194 people and 128 in Alabama alone. The state of Tennessee is reporting that 15 people have died and in Virginia 8 people died as a result of the horrible and relentless weather. The rain and wind kept coming and would not stop. The tornadoes that hit Alabama stayed on the ground for a reported 2 hours, 1.5 miles wide and laid waste to every thing in its path.

More reports and pictures of the devastation from Georgia.

It can only be described as a complete and total catastrophe. There were a reported 164 tornado sightings and this has unofficially the deadliest tornado day in the United States since 310 people lost their lives on April 3, 1974.

The AP has reported that a total of 194 have died in 5 Southern states.

Dozens of tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system wiped out entire towns across a wide swath of the South, killing at least 194 people, and officials said Thursday they expect the death toll to rise.

Alabama’s state emergency management agency said it had confirmed 128 deaths, while there were 32 in Mississippi, 15 in Tennessee, 11 in Georgia and eight in Virginia.

The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said it received 137 tornado reports around the regions into Wednesday night.

Tornadoes in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

More VIDEO from Tuscaloosa and you can hear the fear of the individual taking it. Words cannot even describe the size and devastation that these storms caused. More pics can be found at CNN. A State of Emergency has been declared by the Governor of Alabama.

UPDATE I: Nuclear power plants had to be shut down.

Sadly so many have died and the death toll is only going to rise as searches sift the the ruins. Please say a prayer and help the victims of this deadly storm.

More VIDEO of the deadly Twisters.

More Global Warming in the South … Snow, Freezing Rain & Cold Temps from Arkansas to Georgia

It has snowed again in South Town … more global warming.

The South, including the deep South South, has been struck by a massive Winter storm including  snow, ice and cold temps. The governors of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee declared states of emergencies. Even Al Gore’s home has been made a Winter Wonderland. (VIDEO). Unlike in the North, many area of the South have little to no provisions for snow removal. Hartsfield Airport in ATL literally paralyzed.

Several inches of snow and freezing rain were expected to make the Monday morning commute for those forced to venture out nearly impossible in parts of the South, including Atlanta, where countless cars were stuck on impassable highways and roads while the world’s busiest airport canceled thousands of flights.

The winter blast rolled across the South on Sunday, coating bridges and roads with snow, sleet and freezing rain and causing at least one death in Louisiana. The governors of Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee declared emergencies and schools and colleges called off classes. Snow and ice had blanketed several cities, including up to 3 inches in parts of Atlanta, which rarely gets so much.

“We don’t have weather events like this,” Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said in an on-air interview with CNN. “I think the amount of snow we’re getting is probably a 10-year event for the city of Atlanta.”

Despite officials imploring people to stay off the roads, interstates around Atlanta were clogged with cars early Monday.

 Ice, Snow Immobilizing the South

A winter storm bore down on the South on Sunday with ice and snow that made travel dangerous, downed tree limbs and left some without power. Today, the storm is targeting Georgia and the Carolinas.

Snow will blanket a swath from Virginia through northern Georgia westward into Tennessee and Kentucky through tonight. During this time, the heaviest snow will target the southern Appalachians, northern Georgia, northwestern South Carolina and western North Carolina, where snowfall totals could reach half a foot.

NYC Dept of Sanitation Snow Job, If They Weren’t Drinking, They Were Calling Out Sick

SNOW JOB, NYC Dept of Sanitation Style …

No wonder there was such an issue getting snow removed after the last blizzard in NYC. First it was said that there was a purposeful Union ordered slow down, then we learn that the instead of plowing some were getting plowed and then there were other workers who simply called out sick. What a disgrace, talk about irresponsibility. Is it any wonder why people were stranded, roads were not cleared and people died?

Instead of plowing, they got plowed.

A group of on-duty Sanitation supervisors is under investigation for allegedly buying booze and chilling in their cozy department car for hours Monday night after the blizzard stranded a bus and three snowplows blocks away.

The city Department of Investigation is probing the incident after witnesses said four snow blowers blew off their duties to get blitzed, buying two six-packs of beer from a Brooklyn bodega. The workers then walked five blocks to their car, which was in 20 inches of snow in the middle of 18th at McDonald avenues near the F train entrance, passing the stuck bus and idle plows on 18th Avenue between Third and Fourth streets.

Isn’t this special, some 660 to 720 Sanitation workers called in sick for the cleanup of last week’s blizzard. That represents 11-12% of the Sanitation Departments work force. To make matters more suspect, that’s double the usual rate of absenteeism.

As stated by Jammie Wearing Fool,  New York’s new Governor, Andrew Cuomo, should be to launch an investigation into the outrageous behavior of the New York City sanitation workers. Let’s see Mayor Bloomberg defend this.

GLOBAL WARMING? Britain’s Winter is the Coldest in 1000 Years … Since 1683

Coldest Winter Since 1683 …

More evidence of of global warming, UK witnessing the coldest Winter in 1000 years. What say you Al Gore? I thought the Earth had a fever? Looks more like the UK has a cold. 2011 could end up being the coldest winter in Great Britain of the last millennium. Other outbreaks of global warming, snow in Phoenix.

BRITAIN’S winter is the coldest since 1683 and close to being the chilliest in nearly 1,000 years.

Latest figures reveal that the average temperature since December 1 has been a perishing -1C.

That makes it the second coldest since records began in 1659.

The chilliest on record was 1683/84, when the average was -1.17C and the River Thames froze over for two months.

But with January and February to come, experts believe we could suffer the most freezing cold winter in the last 1,000 years.

But of course as stated by The Other McCain, the snow, the white Christmas in South Town, the frigid cold temperatures will be blamed on “global warming” by the Libs.

Mr White Christmas is Going to win out over Heat Miser This Year … Predicted Snow in South Town

It looks like Mr. White Christmas is going to win out of Heat Miser this year in South Town.  Many are predicting a weekend snow storm from the South all the way up the eastern seaboard. Because of a more southern track and push of cold air raises the “possibility” of some snow for Southern cities such as Birmingham, Atlanta and Charlotte.

The new, slower storm idea, now being adopted by AccuWeather.com, would still have disruptive snow pushing across the northern Plains and mid-Mississippi Valley into Christmas Eve, then during the nighttime hours farther east over part of the Ohio and Tennessee valleys.

The possibility of snow in part of the South comes more on Christmas Day.

According to meteorologist and Southern weather veteran Mark Mancuso, “A number of features have to come together for accumulating snow in the South.”

I’m Mr. White Christmas, I’m Mr. Snow … I’m Mr. icicle, I’m Mr. 10 below.
Friends call me snow miser, whatever I touch, turns to snow in my clutch. I’m too much 

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Calls 60% in US and 9-11 Families Un-American, Again

Why is it that every one has to be tolerant except Liberals and Muslims?

How many times will NYC Mayor call 60% of Americans, including families who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001 UN-AMERICAN? There are probably more NY’ers than not who wish Bloombergwas “un”employed these days. Simply amazing that these LEFTist tool politicians call others Un-American when they are just expressing their First Amendment rights of Freedom of Speech. I guess we can now understand why Leftists like Bloomberg are in lockstep with the ridged, without compassion, unbending and unrelenting planners of the Ground Zero mosque, they have all too much in common. But Bloomberg says, the hell with the people and what they say … build it no matter what. What tolerance and compassion for the families and victims of 9-11.

Pic Hat Tip: Weasel Zippers

In a rousing address before a predominantly Muslim audience Tuesday night, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reaffirmed his commitment to the controversial Islamic cultural center near the former site of the World Trade Center.

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Dr. James Hansimian Can Predict Hurricanes Better than NOAA

Well I’ll be a Monkey’s uncle … Dr James Hansimian Ph.D can predict hurricanes better than NOAA. He can also just as well predict global warming as well as Al Gore.

Speaking of the Goracle, did you hear these perils of wisdom on global warming as Gore provides one of the most depressing speeches ever. So much for the upbeat … graduates you have your whole lives ahead of you …

Dr. Hansimian, author of the book,  “The Banana Curve” … ha, ha, ha … no sarcasm here.

Severe Flooding in Middle Tennessee, 5 Dead, Nashville Highways Underwater … National Guard Called In for Help

Middle Tennessee is underwater and looks like a disaster zone after Saturday’s severe weather, torrential rain and tornado warnings. Vehicles were trapped on major interstate highways in Nashville, TN like I-40 which was closed. Sections of I-24 were closed as well.

Check out the VIDEO, it is unreal how high the water is … This is an interstate folks.

On Sunday, Dickson, Tenn. Emergency Management Agency said that Interstate 40 was shut down near mile marker 180(Dickson/Fairview exit). A tractor-trailer overturned, the trucker was trapped, but he was rescued.

Interstate 40 East near Tennessee State University was also closed due to flooding. At 8:30 a.m., more than 22,000 Nashville Electric Service customers were without power. Thirty streets or roads were closed in Davidson County Sunday morning.

Check out all the pics from The Tennessean, have to see to believe.

From Memphis, TN to Nashville, TN … all is underwater. (VIDEO)

Numerous individuals that found themselves trapped in their cars on secondary roads.  Secondary roads are nearly impassable as any low lying area, area near a river or creek is impassable. Davidson County Road Closures, 9 AM.

The National Weather Service also said 33 of 75 counties in Arkansas are under a tornado warning, and 25 counties in Tennessee are under a tornado watch.

Two people were killed Saturday when floodwaters swept them away as they tried to seek safety on the roof of their SUV about 80 miles northwest of Nashville, Stewart County emergency management spokesman Clint Mathis said.

Three more people were reported dead in counties near Nashville, Tennessee Emergency Management spokesman Jeremy Heidt told CNN.

Between 6 and 10 inches of rain has fallen in 12 hours in the area, causing “extremely dangerous” flooding, the National Weather Service said.

UPDATE I: The Tennessee National Guard has been activated to help with the massive flooding.

Tennessee officials have activated National Guard units and requested Federal Emergency Management Agency representatives to assist in emergency response and assessment amid the state’s widespread flooding.

The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency had activated the 1176 Transport Company and 212th Engineering Company by 6 a.m. to provide high water vehicles and 79 guardsmen, said spokesman Jeremy Heidt. The units are stationed in Maury, Gibson and Rutherford counties, central locations to quickly reach areas in need of their assistance.

Current Weather Advisories from NOAA for Tennessee.

• Flood warnings
• Hazardous weather
• Civil Emergency Message
  

RED CROSS to the rescue.

Unreal, Check out the VIDEO of building floating in flood waters on I-24 smashing into tracker trailer.

More pics.

Go to Nashville TV stations for the most current news and closings.

• News Channel 5 – VIDEO LIVE
• WSMV Channel 4
• WJJB Channel 7

Memphis, TN:

• WMC-TV – Action News 5

TDOT - Tennessee Department of Transportation.

UPDATE II: The rain continued Sunday and the water in many rivers continues to rise. Some  more updates from a blogger who lives in Montgomery County, Tenn., which borders Kentucky northwest of Nashville. More from QandO as well. Some reports have the areas outside of Nashville, TN have received 20 inches of rain.

Tornadoes Hit Mississippi & Southeast, 9 Killed & Many Injured in Yazoo City, MS

All day Saturday weather forecasters put people on notice in the Southeast of severe weather and the potential for dangerous rail, hail and tornadoes. A tornado touched down in Yazoo City, MS, about 40 miles north of Jackson that caused much damage, destruction, death and injury.

Sadly this morning officials are raising the death toll to 9, including 2-3 children.

Mississippi official say the death toll has risen to nine from a devastating tornado that flattened homes and businesses in the state. More than a dozen others have been injured.

Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn said five people were killed in Choctaw County, 3 in Yazoo County and 1 in Holmes County. No names have been released and details are not available.

Two of those dead in Choctaw county are children.

Gov. Haley Barbour told The Associated Press there was “utter obliteration” in parts of Yazoo County, an area where he is from. More than 15 other counties were also damaged.

Rescue workers dig through the rubble and devastation left in the path of the tornadoes that hit Mississippi on Saturday. Reports now state that there are up to 10 people dead.

The tornado struck at least 13 counties, destroying scores of homes and trapping people inside, damaging businesses, blocking highways and knocking out power to thousands, said the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.

Five people died in Choctaw County, four in Yazoo County and one in Holmes County, said Greg Flynn, spokesman at the agency.

Governor Haley Barbour declared a state of emergency after the first major U.S. tornado of the year.

“It has done huge damage around Yazoo City,” Barbour, who grew up in the city, told CBS television.

“We have fatalities, a number of people that we’re still trying to rescue who are trapped in buildings. But it is a major, significant tornado … and it did some huge damage and perhaps some fatalities north of here,” Barbour said.

More Global Warming, Lake Erie Frozen Over, First Time in 14 Years … More People Cast Doubt on Man Made Global Warming

According to the most recent Rasmussen poll, 47% of Americans now blame Global Warming on planetary trends and not man. Only 35% believe that it is caused by man’s activity. What does this mean, the science is much in question that has blamed man for the earth’s fever.

There’s nothing political about global warming now is there?

Belief that human activity is the primary cause of global warming has declined significantly. In April 2008, the numbers were nearly the mirror image of the current numbers. At that time, 47% blamed human activity and only 34% named long term planetary trends as the reason for climate change.

Since July, the number who believe long-term planetary trends are the chief culprit have ranged from 47% to 50%. Those who blame human activity have ranged from 34% to 42% in the same period.

Is it any wonder that people are not casting doubt on man made global warming in the wake of the scandals from the global warming scientist crowd?

Even global warming expert Professor Phil Jones admitted this weekend that there has been no significant global warming in the last 15 years.

Looks an awful lot like they have some major global warming going on at the Great Lakes.  For the first time in 14 years Lake Erie is frozen over. No wonder the Al Gore’s and other global waring agendists want to change the name to “climate change“. The global warming crowd would say that a frozen lake has nothing to do with global warming. Of course if it had no ice on it what-so-ever, that would be indicative of global warming.

With only 35% of people still believing that man is the cause of global warming, Obama finds himself once again on the wrong side of an issue as he still looks to push his climate change agenda of Cap & Tax that will further harm the US economy.