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<blockquote data-quote="Brandi" data-source="post: 2212158" data-attributes="member: 24446"><p>My sisters kids and their other family were at home when the tornado was coming. Normally they hunker down in the hallway but this time Mike Morgan was saying that's not enough and to leave immediately if you don't have an underground shelter. They had never left before but Mike Morgan was really pushing it so they loaded up the kids and left immediately. They had just gotten a couple miles away when they saw the tornado going through what looked like their neighborhood. They watched until it passed and drove back. The house was gone along with everyone else's, many of whom fled at the same time. It's not anecdotal to say he saved many, many, many lives, including those of my family so to you who were not hit by the tornado that are saying he went overboard you need to realize you're talking out of your butt. </p><p></p><p>Ours is not the only case, there are story after story told by those who were swayed by Mike Morgan enough to run instead of stay and they too came home to empty foundations or otherwise demolished houses where they almost certainly would have died. If your house wasn't destroyed by the tornado then count yourself lucky and consider the FACT that Mike Morgans behavior and words saved a LOT of lives so if you want to be an armchair quarterback then save it for football season. Every time I see somebody who wasn't even affected by the tornado criticizing Mike Morgan or the others from that evening it makes me sick to my stomach. I hope I'm never actually close enough to hear someone spit that garbage out of their mouth because it'll be really difficult to keep myself from pushing it back down their throat.</p><p></p><p>Now imagine how it must feel for him. Under one of the most stressful points in his life he's trying to predict the path of the tornado, how fast it's moving, how big it is, exactly what area's cross street by cross street, all while having a dozen spotters and others feeding reports into him and he has to decipher and categorize all that information on the fly all while on live TV knowing that if he's wrong on direction and area's even by a block people may die because of it. That's enough to shake anyone up including the weather guy and what does he get? A bunch of backseat drivers who had the luxury of watching safe from home criticizing him and saying what he did was unacceptable. What he did was amazing and while it was definitely not what we're used to during the average storm, this was no average storm.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandi, post: 2212158, member: 24446"] My sisters kids and their other family were at home when the tornado was coming. Normally they hunker down in the hallway but this time Mike Morgan was saying that's not enough and to leave immediately if you don't have an underground shelter. They had never left before but Mike Morgan was really pushing it so they loaded up the kids and left immediately. They had just gotten a couple miles away when they saw the tornado going through what looked like their neighborhood. They watched until it passed and drove back. The house was gone along with everyone else's, many of whom fled at the same time. It's not anecdotal to say he saved many, many, many lives, including those of my family so to you who were not hit by the tornado that are saying he went overboard you need to realize you're talking out of your butt. Ours is not the only case, there are story after story told by those who were swayed by Mike Morgan enough to run instead of stay and they too came home to empty foundations or otherwise demolished houses where they almost certainly would have died. If your house wasn't destroyed by the tornado then count yourself lucky and consider the FACT that Mike Morgans behavior and words saved a LOT of lives so if you want to be an armchair quarterback then save it for football season. Every time I see somebody who wasn't even affected by the tornado criticizing Mike Morgan or the others from that evening it makes me sick to my stomach. I hope I'm never actually close enough to hear someone spit that garbage out of their mouth because it'll be really difficult to keep myself from pushing it back down their throat. Now imagine how it must feel for him. Under one of the most stressful points in his life he's trying to predict the path of the tornado, how fast it's moving, how big it is, exactly what area's cross street by cross street, all while having a dozen spotters and others feeding reports into him and he has to decipher and categorize all that information on the fly all while on live TV knowing that if he's wrong on direction and area's even by a block people may die because of it. That's enough to shake anyone up including the weather guy and what does he get? A bunch of backseat drivers who had the luxury of watching safe from home criticizing him and saying what he did was unacceptable. What he did was amazing and while it was definitely not what we're used to during the average storm, this was no average storm. [/QUOTE]
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