Tornado warnings are rampant in ATlanta. One has touched down.

[mfcorey1]

Remnants of tropical storm Lee. Injury and damages. More touch downs.

update: multiple touch downs, many homes damaged, cherokee county holly springs area, one person transported to hospital after home collapsed

[aquart]

1. God protect them all.

[MineralMan]

2. Well, just in case God doesn't show up, I advise seeking shelter

as soon as they issue the warning. Deities are notoriously undependable.

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=tornado+destroys+church

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[MineralMan]

4. No. Atheist.

Seeking shelter is far more practical as protection against tornadoes.

[Broderick]

9. Some will wait for it to hit

with spoken prayer. My prayers are with their ignorance. Just saying.

[immoderate]

5. I'd advise the shelter too. I can take the abuse.

After all, we're about saving lives. :)


--imm

[MineralMan]

6. Here's a pertinent Google search:

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=tornado+destroys+church

[immoderate]

10. Now that's funny...

As well as a feature for the next atheist newsletter. Thanks.


--imm

[MineralMan]

11. It's not really funny. Natural disasters don't seem to skip over

churches, though. They never have. Lightning, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes - all destroy houses of worship just as readily as anything else. It's just evidence that human structures are not under any protection from whatever deities might be around. It's foolishness to think that such buildings or the people who frequent them are somehow less vulnerable to natural events than anything or anyone else.

It's sort of like having both high school football teams praying for victory. That trick never seems to work out.

[immoderate]

14. They should pray for each other's victory! It would sound more Christian...

without changing anything.

OK, maybe not "really funny" -- but funny. :hi:


--imm

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[snooper2]

22. ROFL

:rofl:

[Broderick]

8. Let's leave God out of it

and hope that people take necessary steps to protect themselves, family and their belongings.

[aquart]

20. Let's not.

I'm pretty easy going about religion but I'm finding this atheist pushiness offensive. You don't like prayer, don't pray.

But don't you dare give orders about what can be said or felt by anyone else in a life or death situation. Or any other, come to think of it.

[Broderick]

21. point taken.

[Donnachaidh]

12. yup. tornado warnings literally every 5 minutes for my county and surrounding counties

Gonna be a really interesting evening. The yahoos are out - one dumbass hydroplaned so fast on the 41 he managed to put his right front tire OVER the guardrail!

We've decided to stay home :rofl:

[MineralMan]

13. Get to proper cover if you hear a siren or warning for your

immediate area. I don't know if they have basements where you are, but they're the safest place.

[RubyDuby in GA]

17. It is 3 hours later and my weather radio is still going crazy.

Um, not cool Mother Nature. Not cool.

[Donnachaidh]

18. it's quieted down some here for now

but dh has to go to work later, and I'm worried if we're going to get more in the middle of the night.

[3waygeek]

15. Light rain now here in Gwinnett

Just drove back from SW Florida. Hit some heavy rain between Macon and McDonough, with only occasional sprinkles north of McDonough.

[Davis_X_Machina]

16. I don't wish anyone hurt...

...but it was funny, back in the eighties, pre-Google Earth, when one went through north of town, and the assessors got hold of all the chopper footage from the tv stations...and they could see what improvements had mysteriously appeared.

"Hey, we didn't know about that pool! When did that addition go in?"

You could hear the howls all the way to Dothan when the tax bills went out.

[cwydro]

19. Same in NC

but really that is normal during thunderstorms around here...it was that way growing up and it's that way as I totter into middle age...