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"      There&amp;#039;s little doubt that a new tornado warning system, which had its first test under fire this week during the outbreak of twisters in the Great Plains, saved hundreds of lives. Many of the people in the path of the storms had had several days warning from the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, and thus were able to prepare themselves even for the tornadoes that struck their communities in the middle of the night.... The warnings had Larry Hill&amp;#039;s attention. The 72-year-old sifted Sunday through glass and debris of his home. Hours earlier, Hill had barricaded himself in a closet as a tornado ripped the roof off his home in the southwest Iowa town of Thurman. He kept a close ear on their television as Saturday night approached, and had bought extra groceries the night before. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;d been on the lookout for it for three days,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;...We were as ready as we could have been.&amp;quot; It should be noted that the budget passed by the House last month, the one dreamed up by the zombie-eyed granny-starver Paul Ryan, would cut the budget for the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration by $60 million. Because what do they do that the private sector couldn&amp;#039;t do better, right? (In fairness, we should point out that the president&amp;#039;s budget whacks the NWS for $39 billion, which is also stupid.) (Bad link fixed.) Also, too: tsunamis. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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