The core problem is the homeowners/existing landlords constantly vote to restrict additional housing, this is what makes it so landlords can keep increasing rent and makes housing unaffordable.

The comment is controversial because it is looking at a side effect and pretending it’s the root cause

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As a gun owner I think we need federal gun reform. I just traded /sold a old pickup for 1 handgun 1 rifle and some cash. Even private party sales should have to go thru a background check.

And the ocean! Lots of guns come from their lax gun laws.

She's looking at the pearly gates like "White before Memorial Day?!"

This is beautiful, thank you for sharing it!

The problem is that those warnings are SO common that they are highly disruptive if people were to just drop everything and "seek shelter." It's not like, "Oh, I guess I won't go shopping today, I can stay in cuz I have basement." There's nowhere to go, so to properly plan, you're looking at literally packing up and checking into a hotel. Ain't nobody got the time or money for that.

These tornados always hit at night, too. You can't exactly find an excuse to suddenly go to Walmart at 2am, because Walmart isn't even open anymore.

I've driven 20 miles to wait out a particularly nasty-sounding warning before and the only place I could find was a hospital, and they chewed me out for trying to stay there when I didn't have anything medically wrong with me. The only reason they let us stay there for a few hours was because I had a kid with me who already had PTSD from these tornados and the MOMENT he overheard the ER lady telling us we couldn't stay he started hyperventilating and having a complete breakdown right there in the hallway.

I did, I purposely left it out maybe I’m wrong but I feel like Wisconsin is probably responsible for the least amount of guns entering the state compared to the other 4 I named but maybe I’m incorrect

They can in Morocco and Iran too. What's your point?

You forgot Wisconsin

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We need a combination of both laws and grants being made available.

The federal government offers a piddly community grant that a township can apply for, but as we know, rural towns are spread out so even if they built one, it wouldn't be sufficient when it takes you 10-15 minutes to get to it on a good day.

But there is NOTHING for homeowners, which needs to change. That is where stormshelters are needed -- family sized ones at the home, where they can actually be useful.

And we need firm laws stating that every trailer park and HOA community needs a shelter within 5 minutes on foot of every home.

Definitely an apropos coincidence.

Drag brunches are awesome. There’s one here in in SF. Super funny and the buffet is incredible.

Oh, wow! 90s Portland memories.

Screaming winds and pouring rain? You're safe.

Hard rain followed suddenly by silence? You better be looking for a ditch, immediately.

Whether it was designed to or not, it still does. I'd like to see it outlawed.

Yep. I used to LOVE storms. Now they scare they fuck out of me because every single storm that isn't a light daylight drizzle is a tornado threat. WTF?

Most of the time I pay respects to people lost I admired by doing something that we did together, going somewhere were frequented, a more private introverted approach to grief, I don't like publicly grieving. This time though, I'm going to drive the few hours to attend the group public memorial, support the community full on. The loss to the drag community is profound, and they need our support and love more than ever. What an icon of joy and love, celebrating and comfort she was to so many, aside from being a stellar performer.

I live in Arkansas and there have been weeks where there was a tornado touching down in my county EVERY NIGHT for a week. We try to be careful, but you can't just stay up to watch the weather closely for that long. And even if we were about to get hit, we really have nowhere to go. By the time the sirens are going off, you're too late to drive to a shelter.

I agree with this. I'm in north Louisiana and for the first 30+ years of my life, we never had a tornado actually touch down in this area. You might hear of one hitting the interstate once every 2-3 years, but nothing major.

In the last 3 years, I've seen 2-3 a year and they are not turdy little do-nothing tornados.

What's bad is that there doesn't seem to be any kind of response to this -- not from FEMA, other departments of the federal government, or the states. These areas are filled with trailer homes, most structures do not have a basement, and I don't know a single community with a tornado shelter, and businesses are not obligated to allow anyone in to take shelter even when there's one on the ground. The schools do not even have accessible shelters.

I looked for a grant to install a storm shelter because there's nowhere to go in the event of a storm, but there isn't one. There's community grants, but nobody apparently uses them and they probably aren't enough for a multi-family or community-sized shelter.

As of about 1 PM pacific, this article has more info than the one linked: https://www.kcra.com/article/highway-50-closed-near-hard-rock-hotel-and-casino-in-south-lake-tahoe-police-say/43417511

One person shot in the head at a bar in the casino. Two men identified as shooters and arrested. Seems like it's most likely some kind of dispute involving alcohol and dumb asses.

Another great example is calling anything you disagree with gaslighting. It destroys the meaning and hurts people’s ability to accurately call it out when it actually happens.

Cause alcohol was designed to kill things...right...

I work for the federal government in IT. I support all kinds of systems, and all kinds of people come to me for help with their shit. The contract we work has a lot to do with housing and disasters.

I frequently talk with a man who does meteorology for the gub'ment. Weather-proofing new builds and existing infrastructure is his Forte.

We talk a lot about shifting weather systems and climate change. His entire job has shifted more east into Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, etc, cause of climate change.

He's a disaster guy, so he deals with extreme weather. Tornados are getting stronger on average, tornados are appearing more often further east and with higher strength than ever. It's truly a wild and dangerous time.