Thread for comments about big storms in North Mississippi
The tornado sirens have beein going on and off for almost an hour, and this storm started with one of the most violent bursts I’ve ever seen– incredibly low swirling clouds, horizontal rain, trees shaking wildly. There are storm warnings north and east of Oxford (parts that have passed through) and flash flood warnings south and west. The worst violence seems to have passed.
What are others seeing?
Storm has passed in Oxford; I’m seeing on twitter feed that it’s now hitting Tupelo.
My office front yard is full of small limbs and walnuts; there’s one big limb right at the front porch, and another out in the alley.
That was incredible! I’ve never seen the trees blowing like they were. Yes, it’s over now, but according to Weather.com, we’ve got another line coming through around 8:00.
Good luck you guys. My house in Jackson was smashed last year in a violent storm. I’ll never enjoy storms again the way I used to.
system is headed my way now I think..
Shingles blown off roof; multiple leaks in the house. I watched as the low clouds rushed toward me—-never seen anything like it.
I know this is out of place but I just caught the T Boone Pickens interview this morning on MPB – did T Bone really call Haley Barbour a “progressive and visionary”?
This weather is very reminiscent of Memphis during Hurricane Elvis back in 2003. Our power is out, so we are charging cell phones and the laptop at McAlister’s while trying to decide where to camp.
Anyone calling HB “progrssive and visionary” clearly needs a Rule 35(b) evaluation by a court appointed mental health expert.
Law Mama:
Anyone calling HB “progrssive and visionary” clearly needs a Rule 35(b) evaluation by a court appointed mental health expert.
As soon as I can figure out how I am gonna link this to my site.
That is the best line I have read on any blog in a long time. NMC: Sorry to keep this thread messed up
Keep those words of wisdom coming.
I lost a huge oak tree in the middle of my yard out towards Yocona today. Fell straight onto my truck, which can’t be seen now. Lost six trees around the house a few weeks ago, (those downed trees on the front of the Eagle were sticking into 334 from my front yard) and the loss of this one creates a huge hole. A limb had just come off it, and I was standing about 18 feet away watching it when the Earth at its base just rose up as the tree went horizontal. The gray of the sky where it was all green leaf yawned open and light stuck the house where it had not since cold days.
If Steve Jobs was George Bush (or Barack Obama) classic funny http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/638.html
…In a press release Ron Paul writes Audit the Fed Bill Reaches Crucial
Benchmark.
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act,
HR 1207, has reached and surpassed the level of 218 cosponsors in the House of
Representatives, which means it is now cosponsored by a majority of the members.
The 218th cosponsor was Dennis Kucinich (OH-10), and the bill has since
received its 222nd cosponsor.
“The tremendous grass-roots and bipartisan support in Congress for HR 1207
is an indicator of how mainstream America is fed up with Fed secrecy,” said
Congressman Paul. “I look forward to this issue receiving greater public
exposure.”
Hearings on Federal Reserve transparency are expected within the next month,
as part of the Financial Services Committee’s series of hearings on regulatory
reform…
more…
http://tinyurl.com/nwotfn
Power was out here for about 12-13 hours. It’s back now, and there are limbs down everywhere. Only one big tree out in this neighborhood.
NMC – DO you think the Midtown Farmer’s Market is going this morning?
Oh yeah the market is going – peaches, blueberries, blackberries, greens, mushrooms, potatoes – it was a good morning!
DLM, I got carrots, tomatoes, boiler onions, red scallions, pattypan squash, filet green beans, parmesan bread, blackberries. Already had peaches, and the mushrooms ran out just as I got to that vendor. The peach guy was there, too.
Prison seminary program gives inmates second chance
…At the Parchman graduation, inmates draped caps and gowns over black-and-white prison stripes. The nearly two-hour commencement ceremony at the sprawling Mississippi Delta prison included guitar-heavy renditions of “Amazing Grace” and “Knocking on Heaven’s Door,” performed by the prison gospel band, L.I.F.E, an acronym for Living in Fellowship Everyday with God.
“Thank you for giving us the crimes that we committed,” Thomas C. Smith prayed. “That we might be agents of change right here in this prison.”
Among the graduates was Jerry Mettetal who entered Parchman 20 years ago on a life sentence for killing a sheriff’s deputy and another person.
“This will be my new job,” said Mettetal, a former member of the Simon City Royal prison gang. “I came here and for a long time I didn’t care. God allowed something to come into this prison to show that people can change.”
James Wash, serving a life term for murder, said some inmates had to survive beatings to be released from prison gangs. When he left a gang to earn a bachelor’s degree, Wash said he was only “questioned” by the members.
Johnny Bley, director of Parchman’s faith-based initiative, said the program is funded not by taxpayers, but by the Mississippi Baptist Convention, a Southern Baptist state body. The convention has provided more than $250,000 for the effort, which began in 2004. An additional $185,000 or so comes from money generated from inmates buying snacks or using the telephone, Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps said.
Bley and Cain said the classes in Parchman and Angola are open to people from all religions.
Making disciples
The Parchman inmates research the Bible and are taught how to preach, evangelize and counsel. Graduates hope to become “missionaries” who can transfer to other state prisons to serve inmates there. Two Parchman prisoners already have been reassigned to the South Mississippi Correctional Facility in Leakesville, said Bley, who also headed Angola’s ministry program when it began turning out missionaries in 2002.
After the inmates become ministers, they’re treated with respect when they begin working in the other facilities, Bley said. When Angola inmates get to venture into medium security prisons, “it gets attention,” Bley said.
“They’re recognized that they have received this education and they know what they’re talking about,” he said.
Cain said the ministry education program has improved conditions for his Louisiana prison, where he said acts of inmate violence decreased from 500 to 100 in a year’s time. Cain said that in the 1970s, with 40 murders in one year at Angola, Life magazine dubbed it “the bloodiest prison in America.”
“It became a moral place,” Cain said. “I have 145 bachelor degree inmates. When you have that many preachers walking around in the prison, starting churches, how can it be violent?”….
http://tinyurl.com/mblxyr
hi,
i was wondering where can i watch or download full metal alchemist the 2nd episode 11 been searching for it…
no of the links are working….