We are in real need for some new catch phrases:

[hedgehog]

"Cars were tossed around like toys"

"It looks like a bomb went off"


Can you come up with something different to say about weather damage?

[rurallib]

1. the gods farted in their direction today

the kind of fart caused by a bean burrito.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. The town looks like a teenager's bedroom.

on a good day.

[csziggy]

3. I dunno "The tornado wafted the semi-trucked 300 yards"

Just doesn't sound right.

It does remind me of the time period when any time a bus crashed, there were headlines about "Bus Plunges Off Road", Bus Plunge Kills 30" - to the point National Lampoon took it up.

Bus Plunge!

Bus plunge stories are a nickname for a journalistic practice of reporting bus mishaps in short articles that invariably describe the vehicle as "plunging" from a bridge or hillside road. The phenomenon has been noted in the New York Times, which once published as many as 14 "bus plunge" stories per year in its foreign news section.

The stories made the news not only because of their perceived newsworthiness but because they could be reduced to a few lines and used to fill gaps in the page layout. Further, the words "bus" and "plunge" are short, so can be used in one-column headlines within the narrow, eight-column format that was prevalent in newspapers through the first half of the 20th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_plunge

[UnrepentantLiberal]

6. Bus plunges into ravine in north China, killing 15

The Associated Press Published: Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 - 10:33 pm Last Modified: Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012 - 12:08 am

BEIJING -- At least 15 people were killed Saturday when tourist bus plunged off a highway into a ravine in northern China, a state news agency reported.

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/24/4289785/bus-plunges-into-ravine-in-north.html

2 die as bus plunges into canal in E Godavari

TNN | Feb 29, 2012, 04.56AM IST P GANNAVARAM (EAST GODAVARI): Two students died and six others reportedly went missing when the school bus in which they were travelling plunged into a canal at Ganti Pedapudi village in P Gannavaram mandal in East Godavari district on Tuesday evening. East Godavari collector Neethu Prasad said that two had died in the mishap.

http://m.timesofindia.com/city/hyderabad/2-kids-die-as-school-bus-plunges-into-canal-in-E-Godavari/articleshow/12077491.cms

Bus plunges into river near west coast of India

Saturday, February 18, 2012 - 12:40 PM

At least six were killed when a bus plunged into a river in the Indian resort of Goa.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/children-killed-as-school-bus-plunges-into-river-540307.html

Busplungesinto ditchin Bangladesh, killing15

24 FEBRUARY 2012 BY: BNO NEWS

DHAKA, Bangladesh (BNO NEWS) -- At least fifteen people were killed on Friday when a bus plunged into a water-filled ditch in central Bangladesh, police said. Dozens more were injured.

http://channel6newsonline.com/2012/02/bus-plunges-into-ditch-in-bangladesh-killing-15/

[csziggy]

12. They're STILL doing it?

There has to be better descriptions!

[rug]

4. Isobarrage.

[Duer 157099]

5. "It looked like a WalMart after black Friday!"

[UnrepentantLiberal]

7. Debris was vomited out of the sky

like the aftermath of a college drinking game.

[Bucky]

8. Taught my GF's 6 yr old to say "Well, helloooo Zany Mulaney!" when he makes a mistake.

It's a way of avoiding pouting over small setbacks. If he spills his milk, or if I run out of gas in my car, or if the dog poops in the hallway cause we didn't let her out the night before, we just say "Well, hellooooow, Zany Mulaney!" and it's all put in perspective.

[HopeHoops]

9. It looked like a 20,000 lb couch potato lit one of his farts.

[Motown_Johnny]

10. It is like being inside the head of a Conservative

except that there is stuff here

[Grantuspeace]

11. whutchu talkin' about....

Willis? Sorry..... Kinda off topic. But I couldn't resist.

[geardaddy]

13. "It looks like somebody forgot to clean before the guests came over."

"Cars were strewn about like newspapers in a hoarders house"

[HughBeaumont]

14. "God did some heavy teabagging of (insert damaged town and state) this afternoon!!"

[hedgehog]

15. Lots of good ones here - thanks for the images!

[Ptah]

16. Looks just like a tornado went through here.

[kcass1954]

17. For anything that's missing...

Up and disappeared like a fart in the wind.