No one is going to comment about the major disastors in Missouri yesterday?
I can only imagine, after having just traversed through Alabama a few weeks ago, and St. Lou a few weeks before that. The destruction of these tornadoes to property, but more to hundreds, if not thousands, of lives affected.
We should all pray as best we can for those.
- jlw
Just looking at some photos now. Tragic.:-(
Hole Digger mentioned it in his Rapture post, below.....
Very nasty storm, and another right behind it......
Joplin, MO is in bigtime trouble
Joplin has a listed population of 50,000, but is much larger than that and far more important to the region than most similarly sized cities. The tornado was from one-half mile to three-quarters mile wide for six miles across the city. Joplin High School and two grade schools are destroyed, with two more schools losing their roofs completely. There are two large hospitals. St. John's took a direct hit and people have reported finding medical supplies and X-rays as far as 75 miles away. Freeman West Hospital is only about a half-mile away, but, had only minor damage. Almost immediately they were overloaded. My ex-wife works there and is an RN who has been in an office for the past several years. I'm sure she is working with patients now. Her husband is a sheriff's deputy, so he's been involved the whole time.
Also hit was the primary shopping area along Range Line Road with numerous shopping centers, restaurants, truck stops, etc. Several thousand people were caught in those stores or the parking lots with no where to go. I-44 was also in the path for quite a distance resulting in all sorts of vehicular damages.
I have some good friends who live one town east of Joplin.
We had some thunderstorms moving into this area last night so I checked the local radar to see how bad they might be. While there I checked to see if anywhere else was about to be hit. That was about 20 minutes before all heck broke lose. I called my friends to warn them they better be on the alert. Fortunately they were on the way to the basement when the call came in. Thankfully, no more than a bit of hail damage at their house. But not far away, they say it looks like a war zone.
Larry P
Joplin, MO is in bigtime trouble
I watched some of that, on the Today show this morning. It's hard to get the full impact of this kind of devistation from a news story, but you get a good feel when the guy bringing the story from the scene, breaks down and cries.......
I was living in Nebraska when a big one swept through Omaha, driving through the aftermath was like driving through a war zone, for several weeks, even months.
I remember doing loan surveys several years later and what we thought was going to be a simple walk through, turned into a completly different house.
Radar
Blake, thanks for that link. The tornado video gives me goose bumps, and not the good ones. Those pictures are just incredibly sad. Breaks my heart!! :u:
I've seen endless tornado damage videos in the last few weeks and my heart goes out to all who are suffering. We are not tornado prone here, but hurricane season begins in a few days and they say it will be a busy one. 🙁
Joplin, MO is in bigtime trouble
We had images from Joplin on the news here,
very sad to see,
worst Tornado season in more than 50 yrs they say on the news.
How long till the end of the tornado season?
I hope the region will recover soon ...
chr.
