DAmn. If you're in KY and the nearby states, hope you're well.

looks like more than 70 dead. Warehouses (amazon, a candle factory as well, the latter has a refrigerated truck being brought in) hit. Talk of 250mph winds and 304mph max winds. Which sounds absolutely nuts. Only a bomb bunker would survive that. I mean, I've only lived through 40-70mph winds and that was ridiculous, so going for 5-8X that amount sounds absolutely nuts to me. [1]
The scenes of destruction are, of course, just ridiculous. 


And this was in the dead of the night. So many caught unawares, I imagine. 




There was another video of a chaser following one, but that seems to have disappeared? wtf, twitter? Can't find it anymore even on a simple search. [2] Anyhow, there are plenty of good ones. 
But that's not enough currently, in terms of the feeling of end times. Nevermind that omicron is spreading [3] we're seeing deaths tick back up here. I mean our 14 day average just barely got under 1k deaths per day. Then right back up to 1300, last I saw. This with the vaccine widely available. Think about how nuts that is. 
We are passing 800k deaths and are probably way past that, given how many governors are willing to obfuscate the truth by tamping down their numbers. Other issues like ODs are in the 100k level (not sure if that's all evenly spread out). And people are blaming... well anyone but the ones to blame (not that I think Biden has been great... just look at the other side, tho). 
Once again even reading about previous pandemics didn't prepare me for such levels of dumb. Or self entitled evil. As James Baldwin says: ignorance allied with power is the greatest enemy of justice we know. 
And what are our leaders doing? I mean Bidens BBB was fine, if not enough, but even that was whittled down by our suburban ideology [4] moderate dems (and GOP refusing to help the country).... well that's in the form of pandemic preparedness being cut down, in the middle of a fucking pandemic, mind you, from 50B (or so) to 3B. Then, every last one of those chicken littles, screaming inflation and deficit, (never once s reaming about the 9T printed for the rich at the start of the pandemic) passing 700B for one year in "defense" spending. Think about the dumb or corruption involved with that. That's 9X what BBB is (probably 10X as that spending will always go up). 
Yet our media and everyone keeps talking about BBB as if it's some big deal. While the 9T and the other matters haven't once been talked about. Again, think about how fucking dumb that is. The worst is that people aren't on the streets about this. Even my libertarian friends (never truly libertarian more so than just suckups for the rich, IMO) didn't say a damn word. 
The madness just gets to me, people, and CC hasn't even picked up in terms of destruction. 
[1] Last night we had gusts to 50mph here in Seattle and I'm not sure the area would survive 100mph, cause no one's ready for that level of wind, and you know my experience with Sandy and how I'm certain NYC won't survive a direct hit by a hurricane, even though that's more likely to happen these days. 
[2] Some of my friends see things like this as conspiratorial. Especially when it comes to covid. For something like this, my mind also veers to the conspiracy (did they cut it off so other bigger players could have more popular videos? I mean on YT all I see are local news channel ones now, so could be). The algorithms make it too easy to think this way, tbf. 
[3] And again with the talking bobble heads on twitter saying get your booster today. My man, I cannot get a booster to save my life. The wait lists are too long. That weird certainty that others are as well connected as they are, really pisses me off. Probably more than the anti-vaxxers. or nearly as much. 
[4] Remember how in 2018 I pointed out that, sure, many hate Trump, but even here in WA we voted down a very slight carbon tax? Yeah that's the direction we're headed in. Slow eco-fascism. 
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