dougnolan1:

angrynerdyblogger:

liberatedelsen:

j0phus:

Too bad children aren’t as important as cash.

Okay I don’t think you understand.

• The elementary school was DIRECTLY in the path of the tornado. It wouldn’t matter if there was a structure like this in that building. It would’ve been destroyed too when in the direct path of an EF5.
• There was a basement in that school. There were children and staff IN that basement, as per usual tornado protocol goes in Oklahoma schools (I attend school in Norman, the town just south of Moore.) But many of those people still died.
• Do not try to pull this “they didn’t care about their children” bullshit. They cared. That building was built with tornadoes in mind. Like every building in Oklahoma.
• HOWEVER, there are few buildings that can be built to withstand an EF5. Why? Well one, that’s really difficult. Impossible, even. And two, whenever tornadoes do occur in Oklahoma, they’re usually in the range of F1-F3, something that the Plaza Towers Elementary School would have likely been able to stand up to.

If this still upsets you that an elementary school wasn’t specifically built to stand to 300 MPH winds, then don’t sit behind your screen and shout at the victims. Work to make sure that the new structures are up to your standards.

While I don’t live anywhere near where this occurred, I’m still signal boosting the hell out the above post, and also pointing out a few things I’ve learned from being long fascinated by tornadoes.

F5 tornadoes are the most powerful and violent winds on earth. Their sheer wind power alone can flatten brick structures, rip roads off of the earth, and tear the foundations of houses from the ground. That’s just the wind alone. 

Now, consider this: a tornado picks up debris and spins it around in a violent vortex before hurling it back out in all directions. Look at the debris in that photograph. If any of those things were hurled out and hit something that was directly under an F5 tornado, it would become a projectile that would shatter pretty much anything in its path. There has been footage recorded of wooden beams gone clean through brick walls. It doesn’t matter what you’re behind - if something hits it at 300mph, it’s sheer luck if you don’t die.

What happened is a tragedy and no one is to blame. Tornadoes are fast, violent, and unpredictable. If you are directly in the path of an F5 tornado, the only way you will survive is luck. F5 tornadoes are very rare. The school had adequate protection for all common categories. No one can protect against an F5. 

Now stop judging people from your safe location and let this town grieve. 

Buildings can be made to withstand nearly anything-so can cars and bridges and (insert your choice here). However, you couldn’t afford them. The Twin Towers had been designed to suffer the strike of a large aircraft, but not the fire resulting from nearly full tanks of jet fuel. Everything built by humans is a compromise. None of this mitigates the tragic horror of events like this. We can only hope to learn and do better next time.

I just wanted to share the conversation that has built on this photo I posted last night. I guess there isn’t anything better we can do when we build new schools. What just happened is acceptable. I should just be thanking Jesus more children didn’t die at school.

The governor of Oklahoma is out in the media calling for safe rooms in the media this morning, but Tumblr would rather you take the gamble with your children with the current infrastructure. I should direct the public officials to liberatedelsen because it’s apparently impossible and we’re just being judgmental and it’s bullshit to want safer conditions for kids.

I hate to say it, but you’re a bunch of fucking morons, tumblr.

I Made The Ricotta Dish!

It really wasn’t that hard.  I had a jar of marinara sauce that I had been wanting to use so that was half the battle.  The rest was not that big of a deal.

I would just recommend that you use another cheese in the mix, perhaps mozzarella.  I thought it needed some more flavor.  Make sure you have plenty of sauce.  Get more if you are not sure.  You can’t have too much.

That is what I will try next time.  Because you can be sure I’ll be making this again and it’s not just because I bought way too many noodles!

j0phus:

Too bad children aren’t as important as cash.

malformalady:

Tree struck by lightning caused the bark to explode, effectively stripping the tree

(via shoebie-love)

(Source: gentlemandemon)

speakerforthetrees:

Pot rules taking shape; public gets a taste of what’s ahead

Washington residents and out-of-staters could buy an ounce of tested, labeled marijuana, seven days a week, up to 20 hours a day, in state-regulated stores under draft rules for a new legal-pot system released Thursday by the Liquor Control Board.

That rule is more permissive than in Colorado, the other state creating an adult recreational-pot market. Colorado lawmakers limited out-of-staters to buying one-quarter ounce in stores in an effort to impede “smurfing,” the practice of making repeated buys and aggregating pot to sell on the black market.

But Washington would not allow the sale of marijuana concentrates, such as hash or hash oil, unless they were infused in edible or liquid products. The high-potency concentrates have become popular to vaporize, particularly with younger users.

Washington’s 46-page raft of rules covers issues from product testing to growing licenses to advertising restrictions to package labeling.

The draft rules would allow sun-grown pot in greenhouses — with rigid walls, roofs and doors — but not open fields. And they would not initially cap the number of growing licenses issued by the state, in an effort to include smaller growers in a seed-to-store system untested on the planet. The rules would not cap processing or retail licenses either, for similar reasons.

Fuck Yes Washington State