Posted on 05/22/2011 4:40:20 PM PDT by janetjanet998
major tornado hit south side,,hospital damage..home destroyed
the weather channel live coming up
Thanks for link...
The big AP photo at the top of that story looks like the devastation after the Japan tsunami.
Thanks,I’m going to run over to twitter.
Wow- just got in and started catching up- this is dreadful.
Prayers for everyone hurting tonight...
Going to read through the thread- have the storms settled down for the night or are they still happening?
This is horrifying.
Nothing about this on the news tonight here in West Texas....this is horrible. I know people in Joplin...luckily I see on Facebook they are okay.
http://www.redcross.org/safeandwell
You can report yourself Safe and Well or search for loved ones at
Really? This is what I was talking about last week. No matter how bad the news...or how tragic...there is always some d*$#weed on FR nowadays to make a joke.
It's sick...what has happened to FR? You sir/ma'am give this forum a black eye and bring disgrace to us all.
We’re good here, Webb City - north of Joplin. Spent some time in the utility room.
Let me know when he gets there, it seems MIL was right in the worst area.
Daughter was going to graduate tomorrow and it was to be held at the Leggett & Platt center at the college. It’s now an emergency shelter. We shall see how that turns out tomorrow.
Small thing, everyone has a tragedy right now. She will not forget her graduation, it will likely be postponed.
Excellant video of the damaged area...could hardly believe it was so wide in scope Holly....As the video moves along it becomes all the more apparent just how wide this thing was...and the complete destruction that followed it.
Amazing the 2 story aprtment complex shows the first floor intact, with windows and such blown out...but the second floor was sliced off like a knife thru butter....cannot imagine the people on the second floor...very sad.
Just terrible SE Mom. There looks like a large line of storms continuing to move east. There are a couple of tornado watches out still. At this moment, I don’t see a warning in that area, but that could change.
Here is a link to the local news/weather. You can see the storms lined up. It’s been a terrible season for weather. Terrible destruction for so many. Just heart breaking.
360 degree panarama shot taken in front of the hospital. Everything flattened as far as the eye can see.
Lord, Please do be with these folks who are waiting to hear from their loved ones....and those who are trying to reach them still encumbered by this happening. Grant them all patience and a steady breath as they wait on you. In His name...Amen.
My sister-in-law says there was some damage to the Walmart, but it’s still there. Generally, it’s best NOT to be outside during a tornado.
What is left of Home Depot at 20th and Range Line in Joplin.
http://twitpic.com/51c74h
According to Nashville, they expect the intensity to weaken but not much for the ARK,MO,KY area before 1am central. Severe within Nashville viewing area by 4am is somewhat possible. This would include such areas as Clarksville. The pattern is supposed to hold for the next few days.
Yes...it looks like the Japan Tsunami... some have said on scale of 1-10 this would ne an 8 or 9..but I am looking at it higher once those who judge these make their assessments.
Just got word on my friends in Joplin. He is ok, she has some minor injuries but should be ok. Their house and cars are gone.
From the Witchita Eagle:
As a tornado raked Joplin, Mo.’s hospital, Wichita Eagle reporter Denise Neil and photographer Jaime Green huddled against a wall down the street, their arms wrapped around Neil’s 6-year-old daughter, Lexi.
The trio, still in their dress clothes after a family wedding, had taken shelter under a carport at Northport Health Services, a medical office south of St. John’s Regional Medical Center.
“I was watching power lines come down and exploding as they hit the ground,” Neil said later by phone. At one point, a trash bin flew toward them.
“Jaime could see the roof above us start to go, but it never went. Jaime kept saying, ‘I’m scared.’ Lexi kept asking, ‘What’s happening?’ I kept thinking, ‘This can’t be happening.’æ”
They had been about to leave in separate cars from an outdoor wedding for Neil’s cousin — Lexi was the flower girl, and Green was the photographer — when a friend in Wichita phoned to warn them the severe storm was approaching the city.
They had gone less than five miles, Neil said, when “we realized we were in trouble. The rain was going in circles. The roofs of buildings were coming off.”
She had heard that you shouldn’t stay with your car during a tornado and pulled over when she saw the medical center carport.
“We pulled Lexi out of the car,” she said. “I dragged her and got up against the brick building under an overhang.”
Once the storm passed, they waited for about 15 minutes.
“I was afraid to get in the car, with all the water in the road,” Neil said. “I didn’t know if it would electrocute us because of the power lines.”
As Green began taking photos of the destruction, they saw pickup trucks arrive at the hospital with injured people in back, people wandering the streets dazed, and police and others directing traffic.
After an editor called to warn them of televised reports of possible explosions near the hospital, they got in their cars — both were undamaged —and began driving toward a relative’s house in Carthage, where they would reunite with Neil’s family.
Neil later found out that her sister, Annie, had taken shelter with her two sons at a stranger’s house as the storm hit. The house survived, but those on either side of it were flattened.
Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2011/05/22/1860122/eagle-reporter-photographer-ride.html#ixzz1N8zEypvQ
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