TUSCALOOSA | The National Weather Service determined that the tornado that tore through Tuscaloosa and Tuscaloosa County on Wednesday had winds 10 mph slower than needed to register as an EF5, the strongest category of tornado.
Instead, it is considered an EF4, with peak winds of about 190 mph.
“Whether you are talking about an EF4 or EF5 you are talking about a violent tornado, so we don’t need to get hung up on EF4 or EF5,” said Jim Stefkovich, meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service’s office for central Alabama. “Maybe it’s a judgment call or not, but, hopefully, no one is offended by it.”
The Enhanced Fujita Scale uses a range of factors, including sustained winds, peak gusts and damage, to assign a strength to a tornado. An EF3 tornado has sustained winds between 136-165 mph, and an EF4 tornado would have winds between 166-200 mph. A rare EF5 tornado would have winds in excess of 200 mph.
The only recorded F5 tornado in Tuscaloosa County, based on an older Fujita scale, was in March 1966 that killed one and injured 518. The only other F4 tornadoes were in February 1975 and December 2000. The latter killed 11 and injured 144.
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What if...every single word in the bible was true?
Jesus spoke of only two eternities...heaven and hell.
Heaven? Sounds good to me!
Hell? ("All who enter here, abandon all hope.") Uhhh, I'll pass.
I also find it rather curious you throw Christianity and Islam in the same pot.
One doctrine teaches "Love your enemies", the other "Kill the infidel".
Maybe you just have a thing against religion in general.
More people and urban sprawl equal more deaths and property damage. A hundred some years ago one of these 'twisters' may have taken out a handful of farms. Now they take out entire subdivisions. The national media covers these non stop as well, and serves to magnify them. There were some pretty deadly natural disasters back in the day as well, but people didn't really hear about them on a national scope.
Sooner...I simply meant that many or most peoples view of heaven more than likely isn't going to be what they've pictured. I think many Christians/Americans idea of heaven is walking around in a place with streets of gold and laying around on a cloud talking to each other all day. When in fact there isn't really that type of a clear description of heaven in the bible that I know of. Just a description of the new heaven and the new earth joined together in the end. I wasn't comparing Muslims with Christians. I was just comparing all of these different ideas and beliefs of heaven. I could have put Buddahism or any other religion or belief in it's place. The Muslims idea of heaven is just as ridiculous. They believe that the inhabitants in heaven will all be the age of 33. They'll all be dressed in robes, and for all practical purposes it will be one continuous toga party as they recline on couches of solid gold. Gold seems to be the common theme of all of these different beliefs. Like somehow that precious metal still means something after you die. My belief is all of these religious beliefs were invented by the church to lure in it's followers for a promise of a better life after they die, and then the idea of hell was invented to keep those followers from straying. I'm pretty open about religion. But I think there probably is some kind of higher being. I just don't have any kind of pre-conceived expectations after I die.
May be you have selective memory.
Can you tell m HOW did the "love your enemies" bs translated to the Crusades and the Inquisition back in the 15th century?
Its very convenient to go "all loving" and ignore the multiple and brutal things that the "non believers" got ....hey for instance.....God gave the Promised Land to the Israelis, LITTLE DETAIL...............there was people there already OOPS! what do we do now? well they just have to be eradicated...because they believe in something else
