PA man says rise in tornadoes caused by traffic in roundabouts

[CNGL-Leudimin]

I said elsewhere that if this was true my hometown would have been wiped out of existence by an EF5 tornado years ago. And basically many places in Europe.

[Brandon]

"The phone lines are open for your calls.  Sir, what's on your mind?"

"We didn't have tornadoes here until we started putting in the traffic circles.  'Cause, on account of – you want to know why?  When people go round and round in circles, it causes disturbance in the atmosphere, and causes tornadoes."

https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-man-says-rise-in-tornadoes-caused-by-traffic-circles/

This is almost as good as when a farmer once claimed that daylight saving time was harmful to farming because the extra hour of sunshine every day burned up the crops.

The only proper response for this caller:

[D-Dey65]

I'm not sure it's getting worse, but it definitely is getting more visible. People have always been stupid; now we just see it more.

^This.  The Internet has given the Crazy and the Stupid a worldwide megaphone.

At least back when I was a kid, they were restricted to CB radio...

That and Ham Radio operators.

I read some comments about this, and I see people saying that guy is both smarter than and dumber than Trump.

You people know I don't advocate putting traffic circles everywhere, but I have to ask; How many tornadoes and/or water spouts have turned up in Jones Beach, Robert Moses State Park, and Smith Point, since the traffic circles were installed there.