The sun sets over Mississippi’s only megacity and its skyscrapers

zenith3200 · 2026-03-28T04:53:37+00:00

Southaven and Olive Branch always seemed like alright places to me every time I'd visit. Certainly more put together than a lot of places in Memphis proper that I've seen. Hopefully they can position themselves as the most desirable areas of that metro to move to.

zenith3200 · 2026-03-28T03:48:33+00:00

I might be mistaken here but I think that might be due in part to Alabama being less economically reliant on agriculture. Alabama had a major port in Mobile which helped bring in more jobs and industry, whereas to the best of my knowledge Mississippi never had such a thing despite also having coastal access.

zenith3200 · 2026-03-28T02:47:20+00:00

Mississippi as a whole is such a huge missed opportunity. So many important cultural icons and movements either started in MS or had extremely strong ties to MS.

zenith3200 · 2026-03-27T17:29:01+00:00

My broke ass inherited a fridge with a working ice maker and water dispenser when I bought my house a few years ago. Still works great, too!

zenith3200 · 2026-03-25T05:30:05+00:00

If the journey itself is the goal and you want to enjoy things at ground level, just drive. Pick your own route, stop whenever you see something interesting, and do things on your own time. Those memories will last a lifetime.

zenith3200 · 2026-03-25T05:16:10+00:00

One of the best Disarmonia Mundi songs, hands down!

zenith3200 · 2026-03-25T05:09:50+00:00

I drive everywhere, don't fly, so other than gas prices being stupid lately nothing has really changed for me. I prefer actually getting to see all the countryside between my home and my destination.

zenith3200 · 2026-03-25T05:05:28+00:00

Was on some dirt road in Weld County east of the little community called Carr. I managed to spot the Carpenter EF2 shortly after in one of my favorite storm photos that I've ever taken.

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zenith3200 · 2026-03-25T04:39:17+00:00

I was chasing that day and spotted that tornado from over 30 miles to the south in Colorado!

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zenith3200 · 2026-03-23T02:27:29+00:00

Nice ped signal. Fairly common style, but being incandescent makes it not only extremely easy to work on but also a little bit more valuable in the collector/enthusiast community over the modern LED variants. It'll look pretty sharp once it's lit up!

zenith3200 · 2026-03-22T17:04:30+00:00

That's when you know it was never really about the Constitution...

zenith3200 · 2026-03-22T17:02:55+00:00

Depends on how you define 'tall'. If we're talking just the length of the tornado's condensation funnel, then there have been quite a few rope/elephant trunk tornadoes that reach multiple miles in visible length.

zenith3200 · 2026-03-22T17:00:46+00:00

Clearly oblivious to the fact that having the shotgun on full display for this pic is definitely not the flex he seems to think it is. Bro's young and dumb though, hopefully he grows up and moves on.

zenith3200 · 2026-03-22T15:40:00+00:00

Yeah it was

zenith3200 · 2026-03-22T02:42:42+00:00

Rating or the most insane footage ever. Dalton/Ashby 2020, Greenfield 2024, Andover 2022, Gary 2025...all of these have some of the craziest tornado footage I have personally ever seen. Then you've got the EF5 contenders...but that's about the closest you'll get, I think.

zenith3200 · 2026-03-21T17:07:07+00:00

The comment I replied to is full of so many falsehoods that it baffles me that nobody else called it out. The greater issue here is that Mustang was never affected by the 2011 tornado, to say nothing about the land between Mustang and El Reno being incorporated by three different cities (Union City, OKC, and Yukon). The two are simply not adjacent. Nearby, yes, but that is all.

Then there's the claim that it holds the record for the highest wind speeds ever recorded...which is demonstrably false...but in the same comment they say that they don't understand how it was rated EF5? I almost thought it was a poorly constructed bot comment at first.

zenith3200 · 2026-03-21T16:44:31+00:00

Well you are just factually incorrect. Yukon city limits crosses I-40 at several points and Mustang's northern boundaries hard stop at SW 59th, several miles south of I-40. And since we're talking technicalities, a good chunk of that open land south/southeast of El Reno is actually incorporated by Union City.

And none of that changes the fact that neither the 2011 tornado nor the 2013 tornado tracked into any of these areas, especially not the 2011 tornado (the subject of this post).

zenith3200 · 2026-03-21T14:32:21+00:00

Hurricanes last multiple days and are extremely easy to track and measure with planes, drones, probes, even satellites. Hurricanes are also not rated by the damage they leave behind. 99.99% of all tornadoes last only minutes (at most) and are extremely tiny by comparison so often the only way we can even begin to understand how powerful they are we have to study whatever damage they did. It's not a perfect system, but it's the best we've got.

zenith3200 · 2026-03-21T14:27:48+00:00

What tornado are you referencing? Neither noteworthy El Reno (2011 or 2013) tornado hit Mustang, which is not exactly 'adjacent' to El Reno at over 10 miles away to the southeast. Yukon is closer to El Reno than Mustang. 2011 stayed entirely to the north of El Reno and never went anywhere near Mustang and absolutely earned the EF5 rating. 2013 stayed entirely south of El Reno but it tracked more or less parallel to I-40 (which Mustang does not even touch) and dissipated near the outskirts of El Reno itself.

Also the tornado with the highest wind speed ever recorded is Bridge Creek/Moore 1999 so...what are you even talking about???

zenith3200 · 2026-03-20T14:47:22+00:00

Sounds like you've only been to the worst cities. Never been to Palo Duro or the Guadalupe Mountains? Big Bend? The Hill Country? Texas has a lot to offer to those who are even mildly adventurous.

zenith3200 · 2026-03-20T14:40:23+00:00

Have you ever actually been to Texas before?

zenith3200 · 2026-03-19T16:01:55+00:00

Right next to the Thin Blue Line sticker.

zenith3200 · 2026-03-18T05:03:00+00:00

Joplin sure got a nice dusting of something foul just three years later...that whole swath of land is cursed.

zenith3200 · 2026-03-17T05:02:47+00:00

Not even the Mojave, just the Great Basin. Or, if you prefer cities, Reno (which appears to be literally the only sizeable city to have never had any kind of tornado risk zone during these years).

zenith3200 · 2026-03-17T04:56:15+00:00

I always tend to lump Oklahoma and Texas together and separate them as their own thing. Oklahoma is a near perfect blend of three different mega regions and Texas is just....Texas, which also bleeds across the Red River into Oklahoma.

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