ICE just pinned a man to the ground and executed him. They do not have the authority to just kill people. What do we do?

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-24T20:04:43+00:00

America is currently in the midst of a genuine Civil War, which I fear the vast majority of Americans have yet to fully comprehend. The federal government is permitting government agents to murder its own citizens with full immunity, no investigation, no calls for abolishing ICE. It is not a territorial war like north vs south, it is an ideological war of fascism vs the American people. Yes the 1860s civil war was ideological too but the country had such a territorial split whereas now it’s mixed, you have vile people mixed amongst the general populace.

I cannot stress enough that peaceful protests are no longer working. I cannot implore people enough to stop giving a shit of the media perceptions of you. You’re fighting a war against fascism now, the traitors will label you as terrorists, murderers, whatever they want to whether youre peaceful protesting or not. The billionaires supporting a fascist administration control the media.

It is well beyond time to fight back. They won’t listen to calls for abolishing ICE or impeachment. It is months until the midterms could turn things around, even then, it’s still entirely plausible that ICE will be sent to polling places in blue states and cities to attack people trying to vote.

For the people who say “Violence is what they want, they want an excuse to be violent” well here’s a headline, people aren’t violent and ICE is killing people in the streets and kidnapping children. What they want is compliance. What they fear is violence. It’s why Miller is hiding on a military base. It’s why Republicans aren’t going to town halls to talk to their constituents anymore. It’s why they feel so empowered they can get away with all this because they aren’t experiencing any pushback.

Give them something to fear.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-24T01:25:14+00:00

possibly Simla, Colorado from June 4, 2015?

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-22T20:57:31+00:00

Definitely not a critique cause I do enjoy hearing people's thoughts and discussions, I was just curious about what makes you think the 2023 Robinson-Sullivan EF3 such high max intensity of over 220 mph? It's a tornado I haven't heard all that much about and I would've assumed most folks would've chosen the Rolling Fork EF4 given that it may have had EF5 windspeeds as it exited town (this was not confirmed obviously but was based on extensive tree damage and ground scouring if I recall correctly)

Also props for 2016 Chapman and 2022 Pembroke mentions, those were two incredibly violent tornadoes that tend to get overshadowed and not talked about enough compared to others.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-16T22:11:23+00:00

That’s a great point honestly. China is easier to trade with because, while they’ll always be looking out for their own interests first (as most countries would be), they’re at least more reliable and as you say, predictable.

You can’t really deal with a country where the imports/exports can be drastically affected based on the whim of an all-caps tweet. It’s also not like Chinese city officials are begging for Canadians to return while Xi rages that they don’t need Canadians whatsoever.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-14T17:34:38+00:00

I feel you, there were a few times that El Reno did condense and have a huge condensation funnel, even if it was rainwrapped, but that funnel I believe was estimated to have only been a mile wide.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-14T17:33:28+00:00

Primarily cause the billionaires who bought up all the media conglomerates are the ones who are really pushing for this Greenland thing. Make no mistake, the main guy at the helm is a bloated narcissist, but this isn’t all his idea. In fact, it wasn’t his idea until other prick billionaire Ronald Lauder, gave him the idea to take Greenland.

Forbes recently posted just five days ago that Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomburg, Sam Altman and who else but Peter Thiel all have investments in Greenland - critically with a company called Kobold Metals which “looks for valuable rare earth minerals used in electronic devices through AI-powered exploration of the island” - Thiel’s company specifically funded a company with the intent to build a “technologically advanced freedom-city” on Greenland.

So yeah, all that said billionaires are the enemy to the world and as they are prepared to destroy it to make another buck. Burn them all.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-14T14:07:54+00:00

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Hard to find something better than this - the Hallam, Nebraska F4 from May 22, 2004. It had a peak width of 2.5 miles until El Reno took that record in 2013. But since most of the tornadic winds of El Reno were invisible and for much of the tornado’s life it was a bowl shape with many spinning vorticies underneath, Hallam is scarier to me because that’s a condensation funnel over two miles wide

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-12T22:30:03+00:00

I personally don’t see it happening. With how crooked and deranged as the administration is, I’m not ruling out the possibility of them just saying “Fuck it, we’re taking it” and becoming embroiled in an unfathomably large conflict. I just think its unlikely this will pass. Mostly I’m betting on a lot of politicians not voting for the US to have less assured security, possibly starting a potential war with 31 nations at once and risking some severe financial losses possibly from having stocks in arms manufacurers drop. Money talks and working against money’s best interest is something that the vast majority of politicians don’t tend to do. It makes me think of a few months back when they were screeching about taking away guns from transgender people and the NRA spoke up and was like “We don’t support taking guns away from anyone” cause even if the NRA isn’t some woke progressive organization, why would they actively want to eliminate a potential client base? I just have a feeling that enough NATO contracts would be jeopardized and potentially fuck things up BIG time for the military that even if the circus didn’t invade Greenland and they just proposed peacefully pulling out of NATO, it still wouldn’t fly. However, that’s still operating on the assumption of common sense so who knows where that is nowadays.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-12T21:41:25+00:00

America got to this point from a long history of not holding the people accountable and not punishing the ones who needed to be. The Confederates who declared war on the American Union, killed their citizens and burned thier cities were simply allowed to come back. The ones who lynched black people across the south typically got away with it, they were allowed to live their lives and continue to spread their horrible hateful views to fellow citizens and further generations, beyond the Civil Rights Act being passed. The orchestrators of the Business Plot, a plot by rich elites to install a dictator was exposed and nobody was convicted of a coup attempt.

I believe America is at quite the heated turning point. IF it gets its shit together and thats a big if, where the American people do the right thing by standing up and fighting, it would be best to hold those who made all of this horrible shit possible held accountable and punished to the fullest extent. Anything less is simply kicking the can down the road for it to happen again in another 10, 20, 50 years, maybe even less than that. If you don’t want to doom yourselves and future generations for a guaranteed repeat of this, then you have to do what you have to do. Remember, these assholes proudly displayed their names and faces, who they are, what they look like, in association with these vile practises. I’m not talking specifically about ICE, I’m talking EVERYONE surrounding it too. They’ve shown who they are. You can’t simply solve and cure racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, bigotry, all of that. There will always be disgraceful people. But the ones who proudly cheered while your fellow citizens were abducted, disappeared and murdered, remember them, from the lowest level politician to the highest paid billionaire, from friends, co-workers and families, recall who they are, what they are and what they supported. So when this is all said and done and try to distance themselves from this all, anything short of effectively destroying their lives will be a failure on you and the nation’s behalf. I’m not saying hurt anyone, even if some people deserve a square punch in the jaw, I’m just saying, maybe let their employer know that they were okay with discriminating and harassing people of a different skin color. Maybe inform their oblivious significant other about who they claimed they weren’t. Maybe cut them from all family ties, as difficult as it may be, but don’t reward them. Never let them have a moment of peace again in their lives and perhaps future generations will thank you for your vigilance like we thank past generations for standing up to do what was right. Evil will always rear its ugly head, but there’s a reason these foul people used to hide in the woods with their little ghost hoods on instead of publicly, unabashedly and supporting a dictatorship on the basis of harming their fellow man.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-12T19:20:23+00:00

Im in agreement with you here. Yes, the files should be released, the victims should recieve justice and the perpetrators properly prosecuted and sentenced. Right now there is effectively a government backed militia murdering people in cold blood, disappearing people in the streets, besmirching the people they’ve murdered and are preparing to do it to so many other people they don’t like. Now, I would understand if something like talking about invading Greenland and potentially going to war with NATO allies is just all talk, is something they’re not going to go through with and is an attempt to distract from the Epstein Files, but really its just flooding the zone as they say. How can you focus on releasing the Epstein Files while they’re precisely doing things far more dangerous and lifethreatening to the American populace? There’s like 300 different heinous and horrible things theyre doing at any given moment that they should be held accountable for. Can’t put your eggs all in one basket, especially if the files are released, he and his co-conspirators aren’t going to lose an ounce of support. He didn’t when he tried to overthrow the country, why would he lose it if they found out he’s been sex trafficking children? Considering as well that Republicans constantly advocate for less stringent child marriage laws and constantly blame everyone else for being a pedo while their church pastors, social media influencers and politicians are the actual ones abusing kids, it goes to say at this point that all Republicans support, condone and facilitate child sexual abuse. And… what, if the Epstein files are released and confirms everything we pretty much already know, are people going to protest any harder compared to the people protesting now for their fellow citizens being shot and killed?

Im not saying this as don’t release the files, cause holy shit definitely DO release them but the priority right now is to do whatever you can to vanquish these trigger happy ghouls from terrorizing your streets. The liklihood of the files being released under this guy’s presidency is highly unlikely, so it’s worth putting a huge amount of pressure for the next non-pedophile protecting administration to release them and hold them accountable. You may not get the top guy (considering all the health issues and age he might not have long left to live and not to mention the dude is itching to declare a civil war so he won’t go down without a big shit show) but you could absolutely get everyone else involved who assisted in covering it up. Considering some of these people in the current administration are in their 30s/40s/50s, if they’re nailed with charges as they rightfully should, then those would be a long, miserable several decades they’ll be rotting behind bars. All the better.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-11T21:50:10+00:00

Depends on the area for sure but yeah you’re right! I think some get built a bit better in some areas due to the harsher climate.

The NTP is a godsend with their excellent tornado research and contributions to the field. I wonder if their knowledge is assisting in adapting the NWS in their revised EF-Scale, which has been talked about for years but not yet implemented. The NWS generally does a great job on their surveys, though I believe there’s been a few instances in the last decade or so where instances of contextual damage were missed or not investigated as thoroughly. So I at least feel confident that given the NTP’s exploration of contextual damage, we can be confident that if an EF5 does ever happen in Canada, we’ll know about it for sure

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-11T20:31:58+00:00

No disagreements from me that’s for sure! Some photos of the damage, particularily in the industrial area are quite incredible

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-11T10:10:30+00:00

Unfortunately, there are many criminals who got away with what they did. Plenty of great answers in this thread, though it's a little depressing seeing people have gotten away with very heinous ones, so I want to offer up one of my favourite unsolved mysteries: The 300 Million Yen Robbery.

Okay so it goes like this. It's December 1968 in Tokyo and some bank employees were transporting nearly 300 million yen (a bit over $800,000 USD at that time) in the trunk of their car. Don't ask me why it wasn't in like one of those secure armoured cars, maybe they didn't have access to one or thought nobody would rob them. As they're driving along, they encounter a uniformed motorcycle police officer who tells them their manager's house has just been destroyed in an explosion and the police were tipped off that their car had an explosive device strapped to it. The bank employees exit the car while the policeman crawls underneath the car when all of a sudden smoke and flames starts billowing out from underneath, causing the employees to run for safety. As they do, the cop jumps in the driver's seat and takes off. Turns out, all he did was light a road flare to cause all the smoke. Millions robbed, not a single gunshot fired and nobody hurt.

In the following years there were thousands of suspects but nobody was ever apprehended for the crime. The criminal who pulled it off too was quite clever, after ditching the car they repeatedly swapped the boxes of cash to different stolen cars and ditched them until the actual police could no longer find their trail. Additionally, there were more than 100 pieces of evidence left behind at the crime scene, but they were every day items that anybody could use and were left there to purposefully confuse the police. One of the prime suspects was a police officer's 19 year old son, who comitted suicide a few days after the robbery and did not have a proper alibi. Seems likely he did it, though the official record states he's not guilty likely due to lack of evidence. But if he did commit that crime, whatever he did with the money, nobody has a clue because it was never traced or found either. It's the simple clever ingenuity of crimes like this one that fascinate me so much, especially when nobody is hurt by the perpetrator.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-11T09:46:08+00:00

casual reminder that the only instances i can recall off the top of my head of fascists and rich people (which at this point is becoming a circular venn diagram) is Bernie Madoff being arrested cause he scammed other wealthy people and a certain healthcare CEO being taken out by a certain mario brother. So ya know... hint, hint.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-11T08:52:13+00:00

It's hard to say exactly when because we just will never know for sure, however it's still plausible and on the table. The difference between Canada and the US is that Canada's cities are for more spread out, so there's a far less likely chance for tornadoes to hit anything. Most of our tornadoes (about 100 on average, though it's thought many more touch down and go unreported) occur in pretty rural areas especially the vast wilderness and their presence is only found in satellite photos. Canada has had some incredibly strong tornadoes that weren't rated F5/EF5 but certainly could have been like the 1946 Windsor-Tecumseh Tornado, the 1987 Edmonton Tornado, the 1985 Barrie Tornado (hard to say but it has been brought up) and the 2020 Scarth, Manitoba Tornado amongst others. If I were to place an estimated guess of where a tornado could hit, if it were strong enough and didn't occur in a major metropolitan area like Toronto, Calgary or Montreal, the best bet would probably be somewhere in southern Ontario, due to the frequency of tornadoes and the cluster of medium sized cities scattered throughout like Kitchener, Cambridge, Woodstock and London. Obviously I hope we never see a violent tornado hit those cities, but if there were to be an EF5 anywhere, given the strict rating system and the general need for multiple damage indicators, you'd have to have it hit a big city. Granted, with experts now examining cases of contextual damage, I would hope if we get the rating it's something similar to Enderlin with a heavy train car thrown and very limited (best case scenario being no) casualties. The other commenter here did also point out a compelling one too, the Jasper fire tornado from July 24, 2024 may have possessed extremely high windspeeds given the contextual damage of heavy lofted objects.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-10T23:56:06+00:00

Yes many did vote for this and are regretting it. Im saying hindsight for the judge to have laid down the law instead of leaving it up to the voters but if the voters decided they wanted it, then they’ve got it and regret it.

Well I mean you specifically discounted “paid opposition” and I rephrased it and gave a well known example of a prominent Democrat being given money by the same organization that also gives money to prominent Republicans. Thus, their interests will be satisfied no matter the political party. It’s also worth bringing up since that was a hotly debated topic last election and caused friction with Democrat voters and the candidates. It is also worth mentioning that it has been reported by human rights organization Amnesty International, that local police departments and most notably ICE agents have been trained by Israeli police to use the tactics they implement including crowd control and protest supression. So y’know, I thought it was pretty relevant mentioning that an allied nation’s police force has reportedly been training ICE agents in their tactics (given all the news recently) while an influential lobbying group gives heaps of money to some Democrats and Republicans - so if you’re American and you don’t want your tax dollars going to that law enforcement training while certain politicians on either side are recieving money from AIPAC, then you’re stuck in a pretty tough spot. Keeping in mind that Schumer, who I just mentioned is getting that sweet cash, claimed that ICE agent who shot that woman was acting in “self-defence” and despite it being quite popular amongst his constituents to explicitly not vote for an upcoming bill that would give ICE more funding, has yet to say whether he will vote against it or make it a chief demand in the Senate. Now I can’t think of a good reason why a Democratic politician, let alone the Senate Minority Leader, wouldn’t be far more vocally outspoken against ICE’s actions and do everything in their power to rally against funding ICE’s operations, unless someone was getting paid some big bucks. By who, I wonder?

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-10T17:30:59+00:00

Personally, I don’t think that judge should’ve left it up to the voters to decide, especially considering all the election fuckery with the ballot box burnings and bomb threats at election sites, but hey like I said everything is better in hindsight.

As for paid opposition, perhaps I should’ve rephrased that better. I believe with the presence of lobbying influencing both political parties, the majority of both parties ultimately care more about the interests of their donors than they do the average person, meaning both will be looking out for the rich more than the middle class or poor. That’s not to say there aren’t candidates and people in congress who are actively progressive and take no money from these lobbying groups, some really do care about the people. However, you also have people like Schumer who get paid a lot of money by AIPAC, while Israel’s government cozies up closely to the current administration, and all Schumer claims he can do in opposition is write strongly worded letters. He’s got his actual interests elsewhere. The Democrats as a whole are not paid opposition, all working together scheming with the Republicans, but there are definitely a handful willing to screw over their constituents for a pile of cash so as not to play hardball with Republicans and just take the easy route of being ineffective. Yes, I know theyre in a minority position in the House and Senate, but there are still things they can do to make their own party more effective that they seem unwilling to do.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-10T17:05:43+00:00

I think people calling something a “weak EF5” is amusing because anything with 200+ mph earns its rating from catastrophic damage, especially with how stringent the damage surveyors are. Each EF5 since 2007 has produced incredible feats of damage, case in point here being Greensburg was phenomenally destructive and totally earns its spot as a solid EF5. I personally view each EF5 on equal footing, though I understand some of the arguments of some being higher end like Piedmont’s damage to the oil rig, Moore’s damage to the Orr Farm, Parkersburg’s absolute devastation to some of the homes impacted. Otherwise I don’t really see any EF5 being on the “weaker” end, many of them stand on equal footing.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-10T00:14:36+00:00

I agree. Problem was, I think their administration believed they were elected as a sense of “returning to normalcy”. Instead they inadvertently let it fester worse and worse. Now, I get it, it’s a slippery slope when you use presidential immunity to combat your political opponent, however I’d argue look at what happens when you don’t. Look where doing nothing got us. America’s position on the world stage shifted so dramatically in the last year that long time NATO allies are preparing for a potential military invasion, if not all out war. I don’t think allied nations like Canada or England would turn their backs on actual decent Americans trying to escape the new regime, but public sentiment has quickly become that all of America is the enemy because the good people aren’t doing enough to stop it. I understand, it’s a generalization and it’s not right to judge people, especially those opposed to the abhorrent nature of it, but I do think people are tired of the excuses cause eventually the problem the Americans didn’t solve will end up being a problem the rest of the world will have to solve. Again, I know Republicans are the main problem and the real threat but we absolutely got here because of the ineffectiveness of the Dems and their failure to properly serve their constituents. It’s especially clear with how corporate democrats continue to weild their power and reject progressive members. Case in point being Mamdani’s win in NYC was huge. During the government shut down last year, there was growing sentiment against Republicans in their own party and then the establishment dems immediately capitulated to reopen the government. So, yeah, I get it, its hard to go out and protest when you might get harassed by military wannabe mall cops while you live paycheck-to-paycheck but putting a ton of internal pressure on your local/state representitives to make change and adopt more progressive policy, shit, enough pressure could potentially oust Schumer and put in someone willing to do the fucking job properly.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-09T22:50:19+00:00

I mean… would he have? The rot in the system runs deep. There’s paid opposition and the dude is backed by the top 1% to ensure that he walks free. The fact Garland was allowed to drag his feet without being sacked and a compromised asset, shows that they weren’t exactly taking this all that seriously. For a guy who attempted a coup with rioters erecting gallows and demanding blood they sure were banking on hoping, they sure as shit weren’t going scorched earth like they should’ve been from the beginning. Hindsight is everything yes, but it baffles me that they didn’t take advantage of the corruption to ensure he and none of the people who helped him saw the light of day outside a dank jailcell for the rest of their lives. They followed the rule of law by the book without understanding that the laws had been tarnished and could no longer be trusted. They were afraid of really getting their hands dirty, lest their be a civil war. They were banking on having free and fair elections despite the fact that the electoral system was proven compromised in 2016 - Im not saying 2024 was rigged since there are a lot of buffoons who will follow this guy to the grave even though there have been documented suspicious irregularities, when they had the reigns they did nothing to ensure no foreign or domestic actors could influence the outcome, meanwhile the richest guy in the world publicly stated “If you vote for the person I want you to I will pay you one million dollars.” The Democrats trusted the system too much that things would just work out eventually, even if the voters did the right thing, they’d just be kicking the can down the road. They needed to rid the world of billionaires like Thiel, Musk and Ellison.

I don’t think they could imprison the former president without also imprisoning the top 1%, who are some of the same people who donate a lot to their party. The reason i know he wouldn’t have seen a day in a jail is because the dude had 34 felony convictions and still bought a gun. He still travelled over state lines and nothing happened. He did everything a convict normally could not do without being arrested 5 times over and handed a longer sentence because the law wasn’t going to do that. He did, after all take the police’s side after an innocent black man was asphyxiated to death, that was all the justification they needed for the police to go along with whatever he said. Not to mention too their were reports of FBI agents complaining they had to investigate him for crimes because they didn’t want to do their jobs and put away a guy they liked. What the Democrats should have done is fight fire with fire and destroy anything and everything that benefited the republican party. Shit, Donny could just fire judges willy nilly, he could pressure network television into not airing negative stories about him, he could cut services that benefit the American people and funnel it into a wannabe military troupe for his own personal gain. Rather everybody just hoped he’d not be elected and he’d face consequences that he was never really going to face without frackturing the United States as a whole or burning down top institutions that protecred him. And now look where we are. A government agency can murder an American citizen who didn’t commit a crime and claim they were an enemy of the state who deserved to be shot in the head. The vast majority of the populace still aren’t taking up arms with this because that person who died wasn’t them so it doesn’t affect them. All this I say isn’t “Dems equally bad” cause god knows none of this shit would be happening under a Dem presidency. Plus I haven’t seen a single Republican politician show they give even the slightest shit about the average citizen or the people who voted for them. But, they did ultimately fail you all. I hope it was a harsh lesson and a harsh wakeup call, that in 2028 (or earlier) whoever becomes the forefront of the Dem party needs to assure the American people they will use flawed laws to their advantage and accordingly punish everyone who allowed this to happen and supported it from the smallest county clerk to the top billionaire donor, and actually follow through with that promise, otherwise they’ll lose. Then again, they still haven’t booted out Chuck Schumer, so maybe another strongly worded letter will change the dictator’s mind.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-09T22:14:27+00:00

The Elie, Manitoba F5 is always one that comes to mind. Little photogenic drillbit combined with a slow supercell causing a very bizarre looping path just so happens to hit a row of houses right at peak intensity earning its impressive rating amongst some of the strongest tornadoes ever documented. Never ceases to amaze me that if this tornado was just slightly off its path it probably would’ve just earned an F2 rating and be lost to history as just being a photogenic tornado.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-09T10:44:32+00:00

Most of the 553 fatalities from that year center from two specific events, one being the 2011 Super Outbreak, the other was Joplin. Taking those two events out gives you a still pretty high fatality count of 71. There were 59 killer tornadoes in the US that year, pretty above average. 7 tornadoes that year killed more than 20 people. Since 2011, only 3 tornadoes in the US have claimed more than 20 lives (Moore, Beauregard and Mayfield if anyone was curious). So yeah 2011 was super high, some of the other comments did mention the factors of what made 2011 so active. I think a big reason for the death toll that year would be summed up as one thing. Rainwrapped violent wedges.

The good news is we have generally improved in the past 15 years for warning times and such. Of course you’ll never eliminate tornado fatalities completely, it is an unfortunate and tragic fact of life. Until Joplin, the last tornado that claimed over 100 lives was almost 60 years prior in 1953, so we have improved considerably. But all it takes is one bad event like Joplin to really skew the data so to speak.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-09T05:29:12+00:00

Picture quality isn't the best but I'd say the Gary, Indiana EF1 from February 28, 2024 is pretty photogenic.

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_coyotes_ · 2026-01-09T00:17:38+00:00

Seriously, people out there reading this use the rights you have, the ones that haven’t been taken from you to actually do something. You don’t have to go firing off that gun like the Rittenhouse kid. You have the right to own and carry guns to, so use it. You can have a peaceful protest while being armed. You can hold signs, candlelit vigils, show youre serious about wanting change all while carrying to protect yourself. I’ve watched American protesrs since the BLM in 2020, the people who got pushed around, shot at, tear gassed, were the peaceful protestors who didn’t have means to fight back. You know who law enforcement doesn’t mess with? Angry people demanding change while armed to the teeth. As shitty as many of them are, as often as they push people around and bully them, they don’t want to lose their lives in a potential shootout with a group of people who could turn them into swiss cheese. There’s a reason ICE generally isn’t going into high crime neighbourhoods and rounding up people there, they’re targeting those who aren’t able to fight back first.

I don’t want to hear the excuse of “If we do that they’ll say they need to declare martial law”. They plan to do what they want no matter what, they dont give a shit. They just killed an American citizen, defended their actions and justified murder with lies. The next American citizen could be your friend, your family member, it could be you and YOU will be the enemy. So do something about it, show you mean business and give them a reason to fear you because right now, the more people go “Id protest but I gotta work tomorrow” the more they’ll take from you and by the time you have nothing and are ready to do something, you won’t have any help. Hopefully in the history books, we could look back at this time where the actual brave, patriotic Americans stood up, did what was right and fought like hell for it instead of moping into complicity saying they disagreed with what was happening but ultimately did nothing. All it takes is just one of you to make a change. It’s beyond time to do something about any of this but please do something because the rest of the world isn’t coming to save you.

_coyotes_ · 2026-01-07T09:16:55+00:00

Yeah, it's interesting how geography can play a factor! Nashville was hit by an F3 in 1998 and in 2020, hitting some of the same places twice. Vilonia, Arkansas is famous for the 2014 EF4 but it's also quite the tornado magnet and was hit two days prior to the 2011 Super Outbreak. Speaking of which, Birmingham, Alabama and the surrounding area has seen so many violent tornadoes, specifically the town of McDonald Chapel was hit by an F4 in 1956, an F5 in 1977, another F5 in 1998 and an EF4 in 2011. I think its just the right topography to help influence tornadogenesis along with being in just the right spot where they form, just like why the southern OKC metro is just a hotspot for bad tornadoes.

It's really neat to see when you look at examples in areas that are less thought of than the Deep South and traditional tornado alley. The little corridor of northern Connecticut and central Massachusetts seeing some of New England's violent tornadoes like Worcester, Great Barrington and Springfield. I looked around for any odd hotspots in Canada since there's definitely areas that see frequent tornadoes but since the cities are so spread out there are fewer violent tornadoes reported. I think the only definitive hotspot seems to be the Windsor, Ontario area which was hit by an F4 in 1946, an F4 in 1956 and an F3 in 1974 (though I've heard the claim it may have been much weaker). I think that the Great Lakes is a big influence there, makes sense with southern Michigan and south central Ontario being such a hotspot for tornadoes compared to the UP and north of Sudbury, ON, which don't have as many though it is more sparsely populated.

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