From my "Utterly Predictable Yet I Hoped for Compassion Anyway" file,

[catbyte]

My worse-than-useless alleged "Representative" Justin Amash voted "nay". What a POS. Let's all hope we never get another devastating Palm Sunday Tornado and "pray" that the Grand River stays in its banks here in southwest lower Michigan. They have no shame.

[niyad]

1. your worse-than-useless alleged "rep" must be related to mine--dougie lamborn.

one would think, after waldo canyon, small as that disaster was in comparison to sandy, that he might have one atom of compassion, sense, caring. who am I kidding?

[Motown_Johnny]

2. One thing about living in Detroit...

I never need to worry about shit like that.

[annabanana]

4. Well.. the chances of a tornado in Detroit are

greater than in most of the US.
(If that's what you meant. If you meant that you didn't have to worry about the behavior of your US Rep, then that's a different thing)


http://www.usa.com/detroit-mi-natural-disasters-extremes.htm

The volcano index value is calculated based on the currently known volcanoes using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the possibility of a region being affected by a possible volcano eruption. A higher volcano index value means a higher chance of being affected.

Tornado Index, #374
Detroit, MI 172.21
Michigan 140.33
U.S. 136.45

[riderinthestorm]

3. Mine too, Randy Hultgren who represents Tornado Alley in IL where we've seen some whoppers

destroying vast swaths of home, towns and cities.