Bob McCarty Writes

In the wake of deadly tornadoes in Joplin, Mo., and Minneapolis, Minn., comes something captured on video that serves as powerful proof that God exists:  Genesis 9:13: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. DONATE to the disaster relief effort [...]

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Videos from Alabama provide contrasting views of a powerful, mile-wide tornado that was part of a storm system that has killed at least 72 people in four states — including 58 in Alabama — as of late Wednesday night. The first video, from WALA Fox10TV, shows the twister as it destroyed homes and businesses in [...]

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Trivia Question: In what northern Oklahoma community were many scenes in the 1996 movie, “Twister“, shot?  Answer: Wakita. And for good reason!  Last night, storm chasers shot video of a three-vortex tornado that developed near Wakita, a town less than an hour north of this blogger’s boyhood home of Enid.  Storms across the Sooner State [...]

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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., [...]

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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. Click here or on the [...]

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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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