Four people were killed in the area of Little Sioux Scout Ranch about 30-45 minutes North of Omaha. 96 Scouts were attending a leadership conference when a Tornado reportedly hit the camp, destroying many buildings and leaving trees felled. It is being reported that up to 40 other injuries have been reported with 4 persons taken to Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City Iowa and one person sent to the Creighton Medical Center in Omaha for medical attention.

The tornado hit at ~6:30 to 7:00 tonight with Emergency crews mobilized soon afterward. One storm spotter was in a vehicle reporting while the tornado hit the vehicle and turned it 180 degrees. The storm spotter has survived and the vehicle sustained heavy damage.

Having spent several years in scouts and camping at Little Sioux  it kind of hits home. My thoughts are definitely with the families of those scouts.

Please note -there is no permalink to the following article so I have to take a portion of it to quote to ensure that you will laugh your ass off as much as I did:

GREENIE WATCH
If the arctic is warming and the antarctic is not, it’s hardly GLOBAL warming is it? The IPCC report on the subject has now apparently passed political vetting and a summary of it is below. The article notes the difference between the two poles but does not really try to explain it. But the difference is no great mystery. It is arctic sea-ice that has receded a bit recently. The land-based ice on Greenland appears to be stable or growing, just like the antarctic ice, which is also mostly land-based. So how come THAT difference — between different parts of the arctic? Easy. Right underneath the sea-ice is the Gakkel ridge, which is showing a high rate of vulcanism at the moment. If you had a volcano under you, you would melt too

Unfortunately it won’t light a fire under any greens’ asses stop looking only in one direction for their great Satan (Global Warming Monster)

Want to stop global warming? Carbon Credits won’t do it. Although my archives are still down, I’ve covered carbon credits quite a bit. One of my posts addressed the issue as a matter of a broken window fallacy in action. With government as the window breaker and the beneficiary being both unwilling and willing glaziers.