New disaster pup!

I am winning gold medal while American Pie plays in the background

3 on 3 hockey on a full rink is truly terrible

This is a photo from a natural gas house explosion (kind of) in Virginia earlier this week. There were a few injuries associated with it, none of them life threatening. This is an example of an upper explosive limit gas explosion and there are a number of things in the photo that provide evidence.

“Why is the US so bad at soccer compared to everywhere else?” It’s because soccer in the US is prohibitively expensive for no reason and the coaches for local soccer clubs are not teaching in a way that makes kids love the game and learn the fundamentals.

Just realized with the paper the NWS used to rate Enderlin an EF5, the first tornado and last tornado in Twister would officially be EF5s based on distance vehicles were lifted.

“I reckon we were heathens But in her eyes, we were saints Now you're calling all the boys home 'Cause heaven's angels carried her away”

Refs weren’t calling anything in the first half. Coach told us at half that if they weren’t going to call fouls, to figure out what was a foul. One of their player’s kept running his mouth. So I figured it out real quick.

Pretty crazy growth from this wildfire today. Echo tops (plume height) in the neighborhood of 12-16k feet at the moment.

What is that oddly shaped storm south of Dodge City, Kansas right now? It’s actually a massive wildfire plume.

My favorite type of athlete is “athlete was naturally talented that while trying to explain what they did they simply cannot explain it”.

Took a gander at the snowpack numbers for the western United States. Wildfire season is going to be bad.

The US men’s hockey team and the US men’s soccer team are the same team and have the same feeling. Disappointment and disgust. The US women’s hockey team and the US women’s soccer team are the same team and have the same feeling. Excellence and pride.

Canadian curling getting a reputation

Watching the Canada-Sweden men’s curling match and this is hostile and I love it

I have ruined so many slang words for my 13 year old doing this. The funniest is still calling my wife a baddie. He won’t even say 6 7 anymore.

Called his shot like prime Babe Ruth

Somehow college classes have changed since the last time I was in them. There’s a lot less “figure it out on your own” and more “tell me why this is wrong” and it confused me a lot.

I started my day writing a 700 word angry email so things are going great already

Imagine a movie shot in Black Hawk Down/We Were Soldiers style of the Big Burn of 1910. Pulaski’s entire story. Fleeing from Avery on a train trapped between flame fronts on a train. The visual shot of a plume collapse. It’d be incredible.

13 year old just tried to claim Fetty Wap was him singing to his friends on Xbox live so I busted in singing 1738 and now he’s embarrassed so

Is it time to give Mayfield the EF5 rating it (probably) deserved? After the Enderlin tornado received an EF5 rating due to the tossing of rail cars it’s a legitimate question.

It’s almost time for my yearly “don’t shelter from tornadoes under an overpass” video in which everyone will yell at me

“I only date those who place first and place me first.”

Ok! So to make this overly complicated and fire service related 1. If it has a lot of hoses and a tank, it is a fire engine. 2. If it has a giant ladder and very few to no hoses, it is a fire truck. 3. If it has none of those but isn’t an ambulance, it is a rescue.

Decided to dig into famous musicians deaths and it’s just aviation accidents of “the conditions were terrible and the pilot had never even seen a plane instrument before but they flew anyway and crashed” or “they were out of gas but decided to fly on the power of rock and roll”

The notification from espn I got showing the replay of this disagreement said “one of the biggest brawls in the NBA” but there wasn’t even a single thrown Diet Coke or sliding punch

He’s Joe Flacco

I think the reason soccer struggles to catch on in the US is all of the coverage is written like it’s for Europeans and not Americans.

The Big Ten West is alive for those that have eyes to see

The sound of drones in the Olympics makes me want to rip my ears off.

Armageddon is a top 2 disaster movie of all time. Easily. The only disaster movie that surpasses it in excellence is Twister.

"This may be death, but I'm ready." This is what Manchester United forward Billy Whelan said before climbing aboard British European Airways Flight 609 with the rest of the 1958 Manchester United squad for their third attempted takeoff from the Munich airport on February 6, 1958.

I need RuneScape to make an Xbox version. Or another game to become RuneScape on Xbox.

Not to toot my own horn or anything but I do a damn good job making BBQ ribs and that’s not how it’s done.

Is Wayne’s World a dad movie now?

I maintain a movie about Robespierre would do large numbers of

Curling is elite

If I had unlimited money there would be so many cool historical movies and also Indiana University would never lose a football game or soccer game again and Union Omaha would be elite.

14 years ago today, myself and three friends were stuck in a crowd crush at an LMFAO concert in Indianapolis. I remember my feet being lifted off the ground and completely unable to move. Then it was fine a few minutes later.

I’ve often tried to figure out what the biggest lesson to learn in studying historical disasters is and I think I’ve settled on “Treat everything like it’s the first time it has happened. Everything has its own unique circumstances and factors. Even if it feels like it’s the exact same.”

Finally actually digging into the Columbia disaster and it’s just so dumb it hurts. The entirety of this can be summed up as “we did no investigation and have determined everything is fine.”

I can’t believe I forgot to celebrate the anniversary of the introduction of the EF scale and it having never caused any controversies in the 19 years it has existed!

The only tornado with an official EF and F rating

The first EF rated tornadoes occurred in Florida on February 2, 2007

Getting my 3 year old daughter to scream “the lights went out in georgiaaaaaaaaaaa” with Reba is a top 5 parenting accomplishment

This is literally the American dream phrased to somehow sound bad

Who would win the storm chasing battle? Math or grabbing dirt and watching it blow away while looking cool as hell and saying “we’ve got greenage”? It’s a really close battle