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Jason835a brings us this video via YoutTube! This video is from the EF4 tornado that went through Tuscaloosa, AL on 4/27/11. It was taken from the University Mall parking lot. Probably the closest video to the storm your going to see.

Utterly amazing, spell bounding, better than the movies! Actual tornado up close with flying debris, and lightning flashing and rain coming down. The power of nature. I’m glad I don’t live in a tornado prone area. That monstrous thing is unstoppable.

According to the tornado project, the best places to hide from a tornado are:

In a storm shelter specifically designed for that use–within the basement or outside the home entirely. Some companies manufacture pre-fab shelters that you drop into a hole in the ground, and that blends in with home landscaping(some more, some less).

In a basement, away from the west and south walls. Hiding under a heavy work-table or under the stairs will protect the family from crumbling walls, chimneys, and large airborne debris falling into the cellar. A family in the April 8th, 1998 tornado in the Birmingham, Alabama area survived because a hutch toppled and was held up by the dining room table they were under. That hutch helped deflect the debris that would have struck them. Old blankets, quilts and an unused mattress will protect against flying debris, but they should be stored in the shelter area. Precious time can be lost by trying to find these items at the last minute.

In a small, windowless, first floor, interior room like a closet or bathroom. The bathtub and commode are anchored directly into the ground, and sometimes are the only thing left in place after the tornado. Getting into the bathtub with a couch cushion over you gives you protection on all sides, as well as an extra anchor to the foundation. Plumbing pipes may or may not help hold the walls together, but all the extra framing that it takes to put a bathroom together may make a big difference. If there is no downstairs bathroom and the closets are all packed with “stuff,” a hall may be the best shelter. Put as many walls as you can between yourself and the tornado. In a pinch, put a metal trash over as much of you as you can. It will keep some flying debris from injuring you. Even that may make the difference between life and death.

Know more about tornado safety at http://www.tornadoproject.com/safety/safety.htm

An upset, crying, Miss USA (2003) Susie Castillo took a video of herself maybe just after she was finished with the TSA screeners. She’s only human, a female human, and so young at that, and especially in those youthful woman years… she felt sexually molested. The TSA screener touched her vagina 4 times. Twice as she was felt through her legs from behind and twice when she was felt through her legs at the front.

Susie had every good health reason to not go through the high radiation scanners. She said she had been through body pat downs before in other airports, but here in Dallas airport, the body pat down just felt more molesting than others. Watch her raw emotion just after feeling sexually molested, TSA screener just doing her job, but it just feels so bad for her to feel violated:

So regular people have complained many times about how violating these body pat downs were. Maybe now people will listen more intently to a celebrity.

Read more about this issue in Susie’s own blog, in her own words.
http://www.susiecastillo.net/blog/2011/4/25/my-tsa-pat-down-experience.html

The comet discoverer Leonid Elenin answered the questions of comet Elenin – Earth – Sun alignments causing earthquakes by blogging about the “significant earthquakes on Earth (from 7-th magnitude by Richter scale and higher), as well as relative position of Solar System planets and the comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin).”

See http://spaceobs.org/en/2011/04/21/is-there-a-relationship-between-the-conjunctions-of-comet-elenin-and-earthquakes-on-earth/

Leonid Elenin says:

No comments, your can make own conclusions… I just want to note that on March 11 2011, to the conjunction the comet with the Earth remained 3 days. Is it large or little time interval? I think it’s difficult to judge.

Leonid Elenin has no comment on the matter. Let the data speak for themselves. Let you and others interpret the data. Leonid Elenin flatly says their is no brown dwarf.

The brown dwarf theory is being propagated by people who do not subscribe to the electric universe theory. They theorize that all these solar flares and earthquakes via alignments are caused by enormous gravity that can only be explained by a massive dark object accompanying comet Elenin. But if you take into account the Electric Comet theory of Wallace Thornhill, these solar flares and earthquakes via comet makes sense.

View discussion of Electric Comets by Wallace Thornhill. Click Here.

The last alignment with comet Elenin was March 9 to March 11 and we saw the destruction of parts of Japan plus the ongoing Fukushima Nuclear Crisis.

The NEXT comet Elenin – Earth – Sun alignment is predicted around September 26, 2011. By that time we are in for a good show. But me and my extended family are not going to let this pass by without any preparation.

We know from history about cosmic body caused destruction. That our ancestors told of horrifying things with comets. And we should heed their warnings.

We are negotiating a family retreat where with a mix of factors like support group, relative distance from known fault lines and food and water supplies may be easier. We are looking at temporarily living there a month before the alignment happens. Maybe even resorting to pitching tents to sleep in instead of indoors in case any earthquakes happen. Looking at heeding the advice of other people like storing lots of food in the freezer and consuming those first when the electricity goes out. Then consuming the canned goods. The children may go on a 2 week leave from school until the danger passes us by.

I sincerely hope no serious harm comes September 2011, but it is better to be prepared than not.

Follow the ongoing discussion of comet Elenin in the electric universe forum at Thunderbolts.info. Click here.

From the well paved and very accessible Banaue town proper, you have the option of going to Hapao, another community with its own set of rice terraces. You have to traverse more than 9 km on a very difficult and dangerous track which has always been a challenge. Sections cemented, but most unsurfaced and is merely a cut on the side of the mountain (with very steep slopes), which after every rainfall is blocked by mudslides until road crews can appear to clear it, often taking days to do so. If you are in Hapao and a landslide occurs well then you’re trapped until it’s cleared because there is no other way out of the Hapao Valley (it’s a dead-end road).

We unwittingly went through this risky Banaue Hapao Road on our way to Native Village Inn. Paradise yes, but the risk was we could get stuck in paradise. We thought of turning back. But it seems that the native Ifugaos in the area frequented the road enough. They had overloaded jeepneys and one time a bus came through the road. So we pressed on.

It was a pee in your pants experience. The road was muddy. My steering was delayed and sliding. The rear driving wheels were slipping. And the braking was delayed. Our Toyota Fortuner used city tires and was not a 4×4. There was a one time a jeep on head on stopped and said we should pass, that it was big enough. Are you nuts???? Hell, we’ll fall by the cliff if we did that. I stopped and backed up to a house. My wife got out and their driver went out and made arrangements with the house owner to move his tricycle from the parking lot because we needed the space to have the jeepney pass through and the bus behind him as well.

Of course our urban cowardliness was there, but this seemed normal for the Ifugao people who lived there. So we pressed on and made our way to Native Village Inn.

Instead of our planned 2 nights, we thought of cutting it by 1 day to attempt to go back to Banaue town proper because being possibly stuck in paradise was just unacceptable because we had reservations in our other destinations and this was just the first leg of our trip!

Luckily we met a jeepney driver who drove up a family to the inn. We got his number. In the morning we were hoping to have sunny weather, but it was not so. In fact it was raining in the early morning and still drizzling in the morning. We waited until 8am. Then we decided to call Lambert, the jeepney driver. We asked him to come by public transportation (tricycle), then be our navigator going down the Hapao Banaue road to Banaue town proper.

Lucky for me, my wife volunteered to drive this time. Sure enough we had a head on incident with an overloaded jeepney but we had the confidence of a local driver and guide Lambert and he made the arrangements so we could pass through one another without falling off the cliff. Lambert himself stood an inch or two at the edge of the cliff, but that seemed normal to him and the other Ifugao children.

View the actual video of our cliff hanging driving adventure negotiating with a fully packed jeepney head on. It’s in Tagalog though. I was just describing that Lambert was guiding us, and the cliff was dangerously beautiful and it seemed normal for Lambert to be standing inches from doom. And later Lambert said that the jeepney driver was uneducated for not backing up instead. And at the end you hear our rear tires slipping trying to push our vehicle along.

So lessons learned here:

• If you really want to go to Hapao or Native Village Inn you need to go through this road, there is no other way.
• This is normal to the Ifugao natives, in fact this road is already progress for those who reside in Hapao.
• If you want to go through this with your own vehicle, use off road tires, and a 4×4 vehicle and hire a local Ifugao guide to accompany you.
• Fear of falling off a cliff is true and ever present… but at least you have the best breathtaking non stop rice terraces views unavailable in Banaue town proper.

I’m glad we survived this and experienced the paradise that is Native Village Inn. Of course your sense of risk and reward may be different from mine.