Conservative Wisdom..........

[two-blocked]

"Why did you build houses where tornadeos were apt to happen?"
 
 Pat Robertson, on recent storm deaths

[ironglow]

  How silly of octogenarian, Pat Robertson...  Of course, some of us wonder why people build directly in line wit a dam in eartquake areas..or on a sandy beach of a hurricane plagued shore...
 
  It sure is nice that yourmufti never says stupid things..like 58 styates in the US..see 40 second video..
   http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/barackobamavideos/youtube/obama-57-states.htm
 
  OR
   
"I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis." --speaking via satellite to the Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City,  Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008
 
OR
 
"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change." --Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008
  OR
   "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people


 
   Perhaps even an occasional Freudian slip:
 
"What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith..." --in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos

[SHOOTALL]

"Why did you build houses where tornadeos were apt to happen?" Short answer is stupidity if there is a real threat that is known. But we live in a country where insurance allows us to build anywhere with expectation of being rewarded if we survive to collect for damages. Same can be said of the coast or in holes pumped dry in New Orleans or on earth quake faults.
 
 Pat Robertson, on recent storm deaths

[Old Fart]

All 50 states have had tornado's. Florida has the highest count, followed by Texas. So don't know where you could go to avoid them.
 
http://www.weather.com/safety/tornadoes/tornadoes-ten-worst-20130219
 
http://nation.time.com/2013/05/21/10-deadliest-tornadoes-in-u-s-history/slide/all/

[magooch]

If there were a totally safe place to live and build a house, the home insurance business would be less lucrative.  However, I do think that sometimes too little consideration is given to local natural threats.  For my part, I would not be likely to live where tornadoes and hurricanes occur, but some who live in those places would probably not live as near a volcano as I do, nor downstream from a plethora of dams.  I guess we pick the poison we can adjust to.

[guzzijohn]

Tornados are a bit like Mountain Lions. You can live in lion country for decades and not see one. An out of area hiker can there for the first time can be killed by a lion, same with tornados. I have lived in he heart of Kansas for almost 58 years. In that time I have seen four tornados actually on the ground (two in the same storm which were the first I ever saw at 17 growing up on a farm) and maybe seen up to ten funnel clouds. They can be terrible when they come down in a populated area but they are not common. Lightning and flooding are a much more common danger.
GuzziJohn

[SHOOTALL]

Well of course they can happen anywhere but when you live in a place called TORNADO ALLY you might be pushing your luck a bit. 

[two-blocked]

I'm dieing to see a tornado 
 
Lived in Georgia's "tornado alley " for 7 years, never saw one, three months after I left, bingo.
 
We were at the Art museum in Denver a couple of years ago and a small one started forming off in the distance. By the time I got done scrambling around to frame my award winning pic ( funnel in the back ground, museum roof sculptures in the foreground) it had dissapated.
 
Lived in Virginia Beach in the 80's when a big hurricane was coming in. Taped up the windows and fell asleep. In the morning I woke up thinking I'd missed all the action. Pat claimed he saved us by diverting it!
 
PS- Dude, "man up" and admit this was a funny statement because "honest", I posted this for the humor, not to see  your panties in a wad.

[Old Fart]

PS- Dude, "man up" and admit this was a funny statement because "honest", I posted this for the humor, not to see  your panties in a wad.

Not sure who that was pointed to, but if it was me my panties are fine just where they are.

[SHOOTALL]

I have experienced a bad one and "DUDE" it ain't no joke.