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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:58:43 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [ENTS] Re: Storm knocked down trees in Central Park, NYC Lee, With respect to the evangelical message ---- repent brother, repent. Us clean livers down here in western Mass got the message a long time ago from our ancestor Puritan brothers and sisters. Fire cleansed their roles. Today we have great white pines as our reward. The profligate types up in Minnesota can expect to continue being battered by tornados, derechos, hail, ice, blizzards, etc. REPENT. I SAY REPENT. Evangelistic Bob, OMG, I hope no one thinks I'm serious. JOKE! JOKE! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Frelich" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:06:27 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: Storm knocked down trees in Central Park, NYC Jenny: Southern Minnesota is part of the tornado belt, and the derecho triangle (derechos are severe thunderstorms with straightline winds) as well--so we get hurricane force winds quite often. Minnesota usually has about 26 tornadoes per year, and 1500 tornadoes have been recorded since 1950. I have not heard the Evangelical interpretation of the tornado. With regard to birds--they lost a lot of habitat from the tornado due to downed trees. No one knows how many birds are killed by tornadoes, but I'll beet more are killed by hail than tornadoes--even a relatively small 3/4 or 1 inch diameter hail stone traveling at high speed could be a serious hazard for a bird. Lee [email protected] wrote: > Lee, > > It's quite rare for NYC to get such strong winds - I guess they are > calling them "straight-line winds", but are tornados common in the > Minneapolis area? I always think of Minnesota far enough north of the > "tornado belt", but I guess the southern part isn't. > > And I wonder how the Evangelicals interpreted the roof blowing off? > What the hell were they praying for anyway??!! > > Glad nobody was hurt - hope that applies to the feathered residents as > well.... > > Jenny > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lee Frelich <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, Aug 20, 2009 9:31 am > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Storm knocked down trees in Central Park, NYC > > > Jenny: > > Yesterday's tornado in Minneapolis did more damage than I thought, > although still nothing like the 1981 tornado. The tornado wrecked the > roof of a school (which may not be able to open this fall), and created > a hole in the roof of the convention center (where the Evangelical > Lutheran Church of America is having its convention--obviously god > wanted to weigh in on the issues they were voting on at the time of the > tornado). Hundreds of trees were blown down and several streets are > closed. The neighborhood that was hit had a lot of green ash, so it was > a good preemptive strike on the part of the tornado, to take out a bunch > of ash before the emerald ash borer gets to them. > > Lee > > Lee Frelich wrote: > > Jenny: > > > > They showed the downed trees in Central Park on the Weather Channel this > > morning. > > > > A minimal tornado went through Minneapolis this afternoon-only 1/4 mile > > from where I live. The only damage I saw was some windows blown out of > > buildings, although I hear some trees were blow down in south > > Minneapolis. It was nothing like the 1981 tornado that leveled a 3-block > > wide path through the city. > > > > Lee > > > > Jennynyc wrote: > > > >> FYI - bad storm last night wrecked trees! > >> > >> http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/storm-topples-scores-of-trees-in-central-park/?emc=eta1 > >> > >> Jenny > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
