Bob McCarty Writes

Perhaps because I grew up in Oklahoma (a.k.a., “Tornado Alley”), I found myself intrigued by the computer-generated image of a spaghetti tornado that appeared in the film, “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”.
According to a Sept. 29 news release, Sony Pictures Imageworks used NVIDIA® Quadro® processors to accelerate animation and visual effects production (i.e., the [...]

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Perhaps because a thunderstorm, complete with a lot of lightning, passed through the area late last night, I was intrigued by the video montage of  lightning storm that passed through “Tornado Alley” (i.e., Enid, Okla.) recently.  It comes courtesy of Curtis Tucker, one of the biggest little success stories to surface out of the small [...]

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Nearly two weeks ago, I published a humorous post under the headline, I’ll Be Praying for Rain in Denver on Aug. 28.  Today, I want to let everyone know that I did not pray for any or all of the four tornadoes that formed in the skies above Denver yesterday.
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Surveillance cameras at the First State Bank in Parkersburg, Iowa, were rolling when an EF-5 tornado crashed into the building on May 25. The bank was empty. [Note: Video contains only natural sound.]

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Does Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) know something the rest of us don’t? Is there a conspiracy brewing? Who’s responsible for this week’s massive loss of life in Kansas?
I ask those questions after reading an Associated Press report late Tuesday about Obama telling an audience in Richmond, Va., that 10,000 people — not 12 [...]

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