Posted on 05/25/2011 8:55:56 AM PDT by rond
Ella Rogers saw the piece of paper in her yard and couldn't quite figure it out, at first.
It was a canceled check, dated 1996 and written to a water company. Just a slip of paper, signifying a payment on a long-ago utility bill.
The check was written by a woman in Joplin, whose house was destroyed in Sunday's storm.
"She lost everything," a colleague of the Joplin woman told KSPR News on Tuesday. "We just collected money in the office for her because she doesn't have anything left."
Save for her life, of course -- and her connection to a mind-boggling fact about the power of the Joplin tornado, now classified as an EF-5 by the National Weather Service.
The storm apparently lifted the check out of the woman's home and flung it more than 150 miles onto Roger's yard in Waynesville. It was wrinkled from rain but otherwise remarkably unmarred.
Words fail.
The check is in the hail.
I feel guilty for chuckling at that.
There were reports of x-rays from the destroyed hospital being found 20 or so miles away.
Ok I did too
My former Congressman George Hansen actually had the audacity to expose this as standard operating procedure after the Teton Dam disaster in 1976. For telling the truth and holding hearings, they dragged him through some bogus campaign finance charges and sent him to prison. He was later able to prove himself innocent and was totally exonerated. But, of course, his congressional career was over by then. Even had the bogus charges been true, were less serious than what people like Geraldine Ferrarro and Charlie Rangle were able to skate on.
dittos here :O
They found some in Illinois north of St. Louis.
It’s amazing. In Wisconsin some years ago there was a tornado in Stoughton WI which is south of Madison. Some of the debris reached my yard which was approx 75 miles to the east and north.
It not possible.. must be a plant .. its fake.. oh wait that was the truther view.
For those of us that are sane.. its just testament to the power of nature. Pray for those that are there.
If that don’t tell ya the IRS is evil then i don’t know what will
My brother-in-law lost three co-workers to the tornado. Last I heard about 1500 people are still missing. Parts of Joplin I’m familiar with, along Rangeline partic., are unrecognizable.
And people wonder why so many Republicans start to talk like Lindsay Graham after taking office.
That’s incredible and frightening. I hope with the alternative media this isn’t possible anymore.
Prayers for your friend’s co-worker. The fear and stress that person must be going through is beyond comprehension.
Stories like this are heartbreaking. It’s hard enough to lose your home and everything in it but to lose family - words just can’t describe. Prayers to all who have been affected.
In the late 80s or early 90s, can’t remember exactly, a tornado hit a small town north of Georgetown, Texas. A woman’s cancelled check landed on her son’s front porch about 70 miles away in Waco.
It’s why if given a choice, I’d prefer an earthquake to a hurricane or tornado...At least your damaged home, belonging and loved ones aren’t blown two hundred miles away.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure I’m going to hell.
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