Anyone know how to report injuries to the National Weather Service?

[highland145]

When your shoulder is basically dangling useless it is easy to obsess about this kind of thing.
I had both shoulder rotator cuff surgeries in 2019. One was a traditional repair and very successful IMO, but the other was a massive tear and required a graft of donor tissue. Do take care OP, best of luck man.

This. My repair last Sept...3 months of pt and "don't do anything stupid." Same for the bicep tendons, 3 months each.

 

[CZroe]

...it's funny you say I'm being presumptive. Especially when the OP says:

"Others were definitely injured." and "I’m convinced that it’s a lot more than just me"

Those are exactly that, presumptive.

It is presumptive to take an assumption as fact and run with it, such as when you assert incorrect assumptions to draw further incorrect conclusions. I merely said that there were definitely other injuries because there were injuries:

They acknowledge injuries at 8:09 and I was aware, therefore it was not presumptive to say that others were definitely injured. They certainly weren’t talking about my injury. I was just getting to the clinic as this conference happened.

...and the other statement was clearly described as my thoughts about how many others there likely were (with backing logic!). It was not an assumption taken for granted to impose increasingly incorrect conclusions.

Asserting your incorrect assumption that I avoided rescue workers or was injured while repairing the home to smugly conclude something contradictory is absolutely presumptive and bears no resemblance to the statements you quoted. Not sure how we could still be talking in circles about this.

On a side note, officials in that video go on to state that “this is when we are going to start getting injuries” (9:30) when referencing safety concerns during clean-up. Makes me wonder if they might even count someone injured during clean-up/repair.

When that conference was happening I was literally at the clinic getting X-rays where they urged me to go to the ER (I declined). It was the next day and they were bragging that they had already cleared the roads enough to reach the high school (7:58), so it was the earliest I could get to the clinic. It still took about 10x longer than it normally would and we still wouldn’t have been able to go if we didn’t walk miles through the destroyed streets to buy a chain saw (my car under tree blocking my brother’s car in the garage).

Anyways, not to argue the point further, please get better and hopefully your recover is swift. Quit worrying about an article. Seems totally silly at this point. It won't change anything in the long run. What would you achieve if it says 1 injured because he complained on the interwebs? Nothing.

Thanks. If it worked I wasn’t going to stop at reporting only my injury. I would have been encouraging others to report ahead of the request for federal aid, which is happening today. The existing aid is running out and people need federal aid desperately so it would be a shame if they didn’t get it due to a misleading injury count. The least I can do is report mine. Also, I was genuinely curious how the reporting was done since they somehow missed mine.

When your shoulder is basically dangling useless it is easy to obsess about this kind of thing.

I had both shoulder rotator cuff surgeries in 2019. One was a traditional repair and very successful IMO, but the other was a massive tear and required a graft of donor tissue. Do take care OP, best of luck man.

Thanks. I hope you have been able to recover. What caused the injury, if you don’t mind me asking?

This. My repair last Sept...3 months of pt and "don't do anything stupid." Same for the bicep tendons, 3 months each.

Yikes! Guess you just wrapped up PT right around when my injury happened (March). Hope it did the trick.

 

[highland145]

Yikes! Guess you just wrapped up PT right around when my injury happened (March). Hope it did the trick.

Shoulder is good, knee is 90%. Mowed the grass but not ready to try an hour of biking.

 

[SKORPI0]

Good luck on a speedy recovery OP.

 

[CZroe]

Left a message with NWS last week. Didn’t get a response but finally got a call from my representative’s office (Drew Ferguson). They fobbed me off on some other agency that “might” be able to help but I won’t be able to call until Monday. Way too late now anyway.

 

[brianmanahan]

it's weird, this thread is the only place that i have seen anyone talk about this

didn't hear about it on the news or radio or web, besides this thread

i don't even recall the WSJ covering it like they did with the whole texas freezing over deal

 

[CZroe]

it's weird, this thread is the only place that i have seen anyone talk about this

didn't hear about it on the news or radio or web, besides this thread

i don't even recall the WSJ covering it like they did with the whole texas freezing over deal

Violent Tornado in Georgia Destroys One Side of a Street, Spares the Other

Supercell storms can spawn powerful twisters that destroy one side of a street while leaving the other side with minor damage.

www.wsj.com

WSJ literally showed my exact neighborhood in their photo though I wouldn’t really say the other side of the street was “spared” like they did. In person it’s easy to see that many of those houses have catastrophic damage too.

I think a big reason it’s flying under the radar even locally is because of the police barricades to keep scammers and looters out so few locals can get through to see how bad it really is and then there’s the whole “cut the cord” streaming movement that often cuts out local/regional news as well. If much of the surrounding region doesn’t even know enough to be concerned then it’s even less likely to show up on the radar for national news. This thing had a 38.9 mile track and was half a mile to a mile wide with EF-4 winds in Atlanta’s GMA and yet I talk to people from Atlanta every day who didn’t even know it happened.

I did stumble on this yesterday where a former neighbor who moved out last year used his tiny little Honda Grom to slip the barricades and check out his old neighborhood (mine). He enters my neighborhood and passe my place right around 20 minutes in, watches them turn the flipped VW back over, and checks on some of his former neighbors:

I actually mentioned the WSJ article at 17:20 in my own drive-through a day after his:

...but I accidentally called it “Washington Street Journal” and didn’t even notice. Thankfully, I said it correctly a minute later.

Edit: Darned paywall... here’s the Google Amp version of that WSJ article:

Weiterleitungshinweis

 

[Torn Mind]

Government is a basically an insurance company with flair. If they can slip out of paying, they will.