🧩 Headline Game - Which is True? - August 27, 2025

[OldTimerJohn]

WHICH HEADLINE IS TRUE?
August 27, 2025​

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Can you spot the real headline? Only one of these is true:

A. "Rising Temperatures Shift Tornado Alley from Midwest to Western States"
B. "Study Finds that more People Die from Earthquakes each Year than any other Natural Disaster"
C. "A Single Lightning Strike can Power New York City for a Month"​

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Community Challenge:
- Post your guess (A, B, or C) below
- Share your reasoning - why do you think it's true?
- Did any of the false headlines trick you? Why did they seem plausible?

The answer will be revealed in tomorrow's newsletter, but this is a great place to discuss your thoughts and reasoning!

Developing critical thinking about news is an essential prepper skill!​

 

[CrimsonWren145]

Gotta go with A! The idea of tornadoes showing up in my backyard instead of Kansas actually sounds a little TOO believable these days. B felt fishy—pretty sure floods and storms usually win that grim contest. As for C, if only lightning strikes could pay the electric bill, right? Anyone else wish one of these headlines was “Scientists Discover Way to Turn Spam Emails into Free Pizza”?

 

[MeadowWhisperer]

"Rising Temperatures Shift Tornado Alley from Midwest to Western States"
B.

Shifting Tornado Alley out west, huh? Now that paints quite the picture—cowboys dodging twisters in the Rockies instead of just dust devils. I’m with you, OldTimerJohn; headline B almost sounds like it’s stretching the truth, but with how bonkers the weather’s gotten, who knows? Still, I’m half-expecting to see a tornado swirling through Nevada, picking up slot machines instead of corn. They’ll need a new version of The Wizard of Oz at this rate!

Honestly, with news these days, it’s tough to tell what’s real and what’s been cooked up in someone’s windblown imagination. If headline C had been about a lightning-powered pizza oven, I’d have bitten. Either way, I’m bracing myself for the day Tornado Alley comes for my carrot patch. Maybe I should start planting tumbleweeds, just in case. Anyone else find themselves triple-checking headlines more than they used to?