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  1. tundraphile

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    #1 tundraphile, May 23, 2011
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    Joplin is a city of 50k people. 3/4 of the town is now reduced to rubble. This sort of thing makes you think about what really is important, and what is not...

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWNwZ1IY2p0&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuU-nFuIZN4&feature=player_embedded[/ame]
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  2. GuyIncognito

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    #2 GuyIncognito, May 23, 2011
    devastating, prayers for the city of Joplin. my dad lived there for a while as a kid (in the mid 50s).

    how does a city that size cope when the hospital gets hit by a tornado? National Guard/Red Cross triage tent?
     
  3. UroTrash

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    #3 UroTrash, May 23, 2011
    I wonder how wide the path of the cyclone was? Was that all fron a single funnel?

    Terrible.
     
  4. tundraphile

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    #4 tundraphile, May 23, 2011
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    You can watch it form here (audio is very loud). I read this morning it was on the ground for 6 miles and 1/2 mile wide.
    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT7CtF5ljxY&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

    This is a first person video going through it. Very scary.
    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

    IIRC there are two hospitals in town, one was undamaged. An hour away Springfield MO is a bigger city and has three bigger hospitals. As I understand it most patients have been sent there.

    The death toll of 89 was from a pre-dawn press conference early this morning. With 2000+ buildings destroyed it would have been impossible to have searched them all in the middle of the night (it stormed most of the night in this area). I would expect the death toll to be revised later today. Very sad.

    Currently storming here with more severe thunderstorms this afternoon.
     
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