Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Tornado Season Opens: Missouri to Kentucky

Liz Klimas has collected photos of damage done by the tornados that have been blowing through Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Arkansas, and now western Kentucky...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/midwest-ravaged-by-storms-with-major-major-destruction-and-at-least-nine-reported-deaths/

Blaze readers have pledged cash to some of these towns. Hmm. Last year, when a tornado was directly involved in my subsequent e-killing by Yahoo, I mentioned that I was waiting in line for any disaster relief behind the residents of places in the direct line of fire. (A visible wind spiral did pass over the Cat Sanctuary, loosening parts of the roof and zapping electrical wiring in the older part of the house, but the house is located in a hollow and didn't get a full-blown funnel cloud.) It's been ten months. No disaster relief has reached us; very few actual wages for work have reached us, although obviously nobody's starved or frozen to death yet. Support this blog, Gentle Readers. That gold-toned "Donate" button on the greeting page should be working, but if it's not, you may e-mail here. Five dollars, the cost of a printed magazine, is the standard suggested contribution to a blog you enjoy reading. If you have more than five e-dollars, please send the excess to the current tornado survivors.

I'm feeling oddly touched by a comment from Americanstrega, in view of the fact that this news makes me want to burden Maria Roth with e-mail, and the fact that Grandma Bonnie was born in Kansas (and actually lived there for several hours). We have threads for news from other states. Do we need a thread for Kansas?

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