Posted on 03/25/2023 6:30:22 AM PDT by nuconvert
At least 23 people died overnight after a tornado ripped through central Mississippi, destroying homes and leaving at least one town in ruins.
Officials said dozens more were injured and at least four people are still missing after what was likely multiple tornadoes tore through the region in the dead of night, according to the Mississippi Department of Emergency Management. The agency said that the numbers are expected to rise.
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I have no words. I saw some footage on Twitter, a two mile wide F5 tornado traveling at 60 mph?
God help them.
You are so right.
Prayers up.
( remember the turkey earthquake where they found folks a week later. One can only go 3 days without water. Those were miracles prayed for. Prayer works )
I live in SE TN...
The storm roared for hours here ...
Lots of lightning, thunder, rain ...
I dont think we had such a noisy storm before ...
I was expecting tornadoes here too ...
Been there. Done that.
Prayers for my friend & family in Mississippi.
Praying ... with that many dead in a town that small, there are probably folks who lost absolutely everybody. :(
I was watching the live weather stream via WTVA as this system was in the Amory, MS area.
The weatherman almost ‘lost it’ as he could tell from the radar how devastating this storm was. He said it was at least an EF3. The debris field was about 2 miles wide.
Youtuber Ryan Hall Y’all was begging people to take shelter immediately.
Daylight tornadoes are bad enough, but these night tornadoes are worse because people really cannot see them coming.
And... Joe don’t even know.
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“Daylight tornadoes are bad enough, but these night tornadoes are worse because people really cannot see them coming.”
Yes. Or they’re asleep. Horrible
I couldn’t figure out what that debris was. Thx.
I suspect the number of deaths will continue to rise as rescuers search through the rubble. I’ve only see a dozen or so of such instances of complete tornado destruction, in which the storms completely destroyed an entire town, in my lifetime. This one was bad!
They will only piss it off by messing with it.
Last moments of the video in the far upper right, you can see a lot with all of the parked school busses—spared from the deadly tornado. Small blessing.
Yeah that was crazy, Ryan said "F4 or F5" and then kinda backed off and of course he was right. Arnold didn't find any damage in Amory, but then Ryan's brother Chris ran the tornado track back to Rolling Fork and it was flattened. Silver City also took a hit.
The Jordan Hall drone footage is spooky.
The dome construction is a nightmare; it will never become commonplace unless they figure out how to do it ‘3D printed’ and, more importantly, I question the structure’s strength against a tornado’s wind shear and projectile debris.
I had a better idea over 30 years ago. It’s interesting that no one else has come up with it.
Structural strength aspects become almost incidental in dealing with withstanding a tornado. Instead, the issues are direct impact from debris and construction installation details often between dissimilar materials.
In the 70s the military tested missile containment structures for debris by firing a muzzle loaded telephone pole out of a howitzer. Designing for that is different than the psi for ultimate wind load. The wall or room membrane itself and any substrate becomes more critical.
In the second instance the little items like where the roof edges hit rake or gutter and how secure a corner trim or window edge are what is critical to keep the roof or wall from peeling open.
I should add for those outside these fields that wind pressure is one thing but often the critical item becomes wind uplift. A roof becomes like an airplane wing and the uplift of the wind passing over the roof is a force that often pulls it apart without initially defeating the underlying structural supports. On metal roofs this is often as simple as a tripling of the screw placements in edge zones.
“When you see nature deliver this level of total destruction, you realize only a complete moron truly believes humans can influence or control the “climate”
This is from the prime movie The Rig, but this is the way they think: “If you keep drilling holes in the earth the earth is going to strike back” the line is delivered like it’s Bournellis’ theorem. Utterly baseless and down right crazy. We’re not dealing with rational people.
Unbelievable damage. How does this guy get such clear drone video images so quickly? This is better than what one would see on a local TV station, and far better than the grainy black and white images of such events from newspapers of yore.
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