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At 8 PM, 116th Street will look like this.
So it’s stopped raining and is sort of generally unpleasant outside, which in Accuweather and Barnard terms means it’s time to be afraid of a tornado.
Garrett Doherty of Barnard Public Safety wrote all of BC with the following message:
The office of Emergency Mangement for the City of New York has issued a Tornado Watch for all five boroughs until 8pm tonight. Monitor televsion and radio for further updates and travel plans should be made accordingly.
AccuWeather says, “be afraid.”
Pat Blute, Bwog’s weatherman, says, “the three W’s of tornado watches: Who, Where, and Why. Who brought this upon us? Where should we hide? Why?”
Halp!
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@tornados are serious business. maybe not in manhattan, but in tornado alley? yes.
@Tornados are a great excuse to blaze
@High Kid I know why everyone is panicking
@Hot Barnardian Shall we all hide in the New York public library with Jake Gyllenhaal and wait for Dennis Quaid to rescue us?
@Welcome to bwog The only references we give thumbs up to are 30 rock and admiral ackbar quotes.
@Welcome to Columbia and upper education where pampered idiots and an extravagant mixture of annoying personalities deck the halls with boughs of holly.
in other words, the comments on Bwog piss me the fuck off sometimes. the kids at this school and the rest of the top 20 private schools are so cubed in.
@relevant you’re so cool.
@Woosh!! If you were wondering, “Woosh!!” isn’t the sound of a joke going over your head, it’s the sound of you transferring to school #21 (seems to be Georgetown according to US. News).
(Now you may argue that this douchey response just proves your own douchey point, but I think bwog comments have more in common with any random anonymous blog comment than the people I tend to meet at Columbia.)
@Hooah I wasn’t thumbs-downing her comment, which I thought was apt. I was thumbs-downing the name she chose for herself.
@Oorah Get off your high horse.
@Rebel Alliance IT’S A TRAP!
@New York is not the real world? Is it the fake world?
@lolz new york is the real world. the small morningside campus we call our ivy league institution where everyone is lolly jolly about life, isn’t even close.
@New York is not part of Real America.
@Anonymous ^ I’m sorry we’re not all as hard as you are….
@lolz LOL i wasn’t being “hard” nor was i trying to be “hard”. i was merely lamenting the fact that this is nothing to be concerned about…i mean, just follow some common sense and you’ll be alright. don’t go outside, stay away from rooftops and trees, put your cell phone away, don’t walk into puddles. i just stepped off the train and around me scores of native new yorkers were PANICKING LIKE OMG FUCKING 2012 ARMAGHEDDON HOLY FUCK WE’RE FUCKING SCREWED AGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
damn. chill.
@Anonymous yes, except when someone died a few weeks ago in queens because of a tornado….
@2O13 Why is it that almost every Californian I’ve met at Columbia/Barnard thinks that their West Coast roots make them better than everyone else?
Maybe you weren’t trying to act “hard” (*cough* lies *cough*). Whatever. All’s I know is you came across sounding like a pretentious douche.
And for the record, I haven’t seen anyone seriously panicking.
@Anonymous clearly you’ve never experienced a tornado if you think they’re nothing to worry about. sure, it’s nyc, so any tornadoes that actually hit here won’t compare to those in tornado alley, but that doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous.
as someone who has moved around and lived in earthquake areas, hurricane areas and tornado areas, i can tell you they all suck. and if you get caught in the middle of a strong one (any of the three), it’s scary as shit. so stop being a pretentious idiot.
@lolz what a bunch of pussies. try living in California and sleeping through an earthquake or in Florida and waking up to a palm tree lodged in the side of your house, turning on the battery-powered radio, and hearing “The Hurricane has passed…”
man up, my fellow ivy league academics. this is just child’s play compared to the shit you meet out in the real world. tornado shmorenado.