Comments on: THG Podcast: Weird Weather: 1974 Super Outbreak, 1943 Black Hills, and the Great White Hurricane

By: The Emmjay

The Emmjay — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 11:20:10 +0000

Talking about anthropomorphizing weather, it always cracks me up when the news talks about a storm "targeting" an area. Like, "This storm has decided to hit this one area, and it can't be dissuaded!"

By: Paula gaumer tooke

Paula gaumer tooke — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 15:17:20 +0000

Stood on our front porch in Logansport, IN and watched the oddest black clouds roll in. Next day we found out that Monticello, IN had been desimated.

By: Brian Ganger

Brian Ganger — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:52:26 +0000

Xenia is the tornado magnet for Greene County Ohio. Was not till about 3 years ago last Memorial Day that Beavercreek/Trotwood, Northridge, Dayton got hit by 5 or 6 tornadoes – maybe 7 hit that evening.

By: Brian Ganger

Brian Ganger — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 23:47:56 +0000

I lived 10 miles outside of Xenia, Ohio (still do) and my mom worked there at a Singer sewing shop. Luckily she did not work that day but what the tornado did to the little city of Xenia on '74 was just unbelievable. WHIO TV JUST got their weather radar with Gil Whitney as the weatherman...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Whitney

By: Leslee Herschfus

Leslee Herschfus — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 17:26:08 +0000

Weather has played a crucial role in history as you said
The Spanish Armada was wrecked off the coast of Scotland because they sailed into a squall
Also the US seeded the clouds in Vietnam to prolong the Monsoon system.

How about how the eruptions of Krakatoa and the 1815 volcanic eruptions in Indonesia produced the year without a summer and the subsequent revolutions as well as some of the world’s greatest art - The Scream, for example

By: Richard Deese

Richard Deese — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 20:35:14 +0000

Thanks. I also noticed you used the term "nature's wrath", as though 'she' is an angry goddess to whom humans have done something to deserve punishment. Anthropomorphic language is sometimes hard to avoid. It's often built in to our speech and though patterns. On another note, I think there should be a kind of science that studies disaster as an impetus for societal change, even if it's only a kind of social or psychological science. We so often resist change unless or until something really bad happens. Of course, that involves both politics and economics as well. Thanks again. tavi.

By: Shade Tree Joe

Shade Tree Joe — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 17:36:52 +0000

While nowhere near the intensity of the 1974 Super Outbreak, I was in Moore, OK after the May 3, 1999 F-5 tornado and the devastation was unholy to say the least. Picture a swath varying from 500 yards to 1 mile wide that was completely stripped. The only evidence of structures was the concrete slabs that remained. Even the grass had been pulled from the ground. Now picture something on this scale hitting the same town twice in less than an hour, as in the 1974 Super Outbreak.

By: derekhugh

derekhugh — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:36:46 +0000

ah yes. sun & weather worshippers….. like the people who want to prohibit eating meat because we make the weather mad

By: derekhugh

derekhugh — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:30:57 +0000

we already control the weather. those 1974 events was probably a real life exercise

By: Dorothy Dean

Dorothy Dean — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 06:08:07 +0000

When I was a kid we called the tornado siren an “air raid warning”. When did the name change to tornado warning?