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Ngl the tornado destroying a McMansion is pretty based.
Severe Weather outbreaks
- Thread starter Meat Target
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Large wedge tornado just went through Madisonville, TX and the NWS straight up ignored all the reports and did not issue a confirmed tornado warning. Fucking ridiculous.
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NWS offices will not upgrade a tornado to confirmed unless a known person reports it. They sure as shit aren't going to do it over a xeet.
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Several chasers sent videos and pictures. They do actually confirm tornadoes if someone (especially several people) send photos over twitter.
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Show me a warning saying tornado confirmed by twitter. It's always emergency management, law enforcement, or a spotter, which means someone with a spotter number. chasers =/= spotters
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From yesterday's event
You can also see someone monitoring a twitter feed near the end of this video posted by NWSNorman yesterday.
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Most chasers I know are spotters. The storm spotter class is.. what? Two hours long at most?
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Yeah, it was inhabited by filthy wasteland ghouls who don't believe in science and probably don't even take their crotch spawn to Drag Queen Story Hour. Eww! Thank Science they and all the other wasteland ghouls found out hard (as always) that they're obsolete and on the wrong side of history!
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It's certainly more likely than other years. The damage I've seen coming out of Elkhorn, NE is unbelievable, plus we've already had a tornado with confirmed windspeeds of at least 224mph AND we're entering a very active pattern for severe weather in May, with a pretty significant looking day on the 1st of May already forecasted.
If that's not good enough for you, sometimes a source for a tornado warning says "Public confirmed tornado" which does include photos from residents or amateur chasers. They don't directly say "Tornado confirmed by twitter photo" in the warning though, since they use the same 5 or so sources with rare exceptions.
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Holdenville and Sulphur have been rated EF3's.
Please don't start. Both of you.
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It's a preliminary rating. They can't rate anything over EF3 until they get a Quick Response Team (QRT) to assess the quality of the construction more closely, then they can either assign an EF4/EF5 rating or keep it at EF3. This usually takes a few days.
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I hate bureaucracy more and more with each passing day. I hope all of those people get taken care fairly of regardless of construction quality.
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The (((insurance companies))) will pull out all the stops to avoid paying them.
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I predicted that weather services are gonna straight up neglect us. Even if there was another super outbreak similar to that of 1974. I also predict another strong Tornado in Alberta like the one in 2023 when summer comes around. If not even a super outbreak there.
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I used to work in property lines insurance. Being involved in a catastrophe like this is actually very beneficial for you getting your claim paid out. A lot of insurance companies keep a rotating corps of adjusters ready to respond to catastrophes like this. The carrier I used to work with would fly adjusters down to do nothing but sign checks for immediate repairs. Most carriers generally don't like fucking around with catastrophes, because this is the prime time that media, the public, and - most importantly - the state's Department of Insurance is laser focused on making sure these people are made equitable with their respective homeowner's policies. A random HO-3 claim for a covered claim can be easily ignored by a lazy adjuster or coverage improperly applied by a retard; CAT adjusters are incentivized to pay out ASAP, because insurance companies hate keeping these claims open.
What will happen and what will piss a lot of people off will be the fly-by-night roofing companies that descend on cities like this like a plague of locusts. They'll get up on a roof with the promise of a free replacement from an insurance carrier, most of these roofs will be just fine or in need of minor repair that likely won't even meet the deductible, and then the homeowner will get pissed off that their carrier is 'denying' their claim.
You'll also run into a select few people who will get pissed off that their homeowner's policy covers their roof for ACV, because the roof is thirty years old, instead of replacement cost. Or people finding out their homeowner's policy lapsed, because their mortgage company never paid the escrow and the insured never looked at the bill/cancellation notice until after a tornado wiped out their home. (The latter is normally worked through with management to reinstate and provide coverage with payment, but if you're on escrow, I promise you don't want that ball ache while trying to make good on your loss of use coverage.)
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Ehh, I doubt it. This was just a very weird exception from one office (NWS Houston). There was a ton of lead time on all of the tornadoes on the 26th and 27th, and not a single one went unwarned unless it wasn't apparent on radar.
Also a super outbreak in Alberta is incredibly unlikely, even in the next few hundred years. They don't really get tornado outbreaks either, just a random isolated tornado or two once in a while.