Joplin Tornado

[-Wildcat-]

Thoughts go out to you guys in Missouri tonight, especially those who live or have family and friends in the affected tornado areas. The footage on the news is horrible... :(

[BleuBijou]

Sickening!!!!!!!Heart felt thoughts and prayers!!!!

[onpoint]

Sickening!!!!!!!Heart felt thoughts and prayers!!!!

X2 I can't imagine living through such a thing. Unreal, I hope this springs record number of tornado's doesn't continue on all summer, moving north into our area. I'm a absolute chicken of bad storms.

Prayers go our to everybody

[birdshooter]

I've been to Joplin. I probably wouldn't recognize it now, terrible.... My heart goes out to those folks down there.

We had back to back days of tornadoes of our own Sat/Sun in my part of the woods. North Mpls got hit hard as did folks in the north suburbs here and there all the way to Wisc border. Shaping up to be one of those years again.

[jmac]

x4 Simply awful prayers out to all who are effected by his tragedy.

[JMc]

I'll piggyback on all the thoughts and prayers as well.

[FCSpringer]

Ditto, enough is enough allready. The footage is horrible for sure. There has been way to much loss of life at the hand of bad weather. Sad deal in many places.

[oldandnew]

I have three sets of cousins in the Joplin area, one of which works for St.John's and lives within a couple of blocks of the hospital. Thankfully all are physically O.K. Mental health of the survivors may be akin to combat veterans, the loss of life was everywhere and graphic. Response by the state and regional municipalities has been almost immediate, They will need bottled water, and basics, and now holding emergency blood drives in Kansas City and western Missouri, as victims are found alive and evacuated.

[-Wildcat-]

Just in case any of you are in the vicinity, and cannot help physically, Joplin and her surrounding areas are running dangerously low on Type O-negative blood supplies. If you or anyone you know is Type O-negative, encourage them to donate please. :thumbsup:

[BleuBijou]

Trying to find a place some what in the area ,that will be sure to help you guys. My wife and daughter are both O neg, daughter is too young to donate. Trying to see if Red Cross will. Nothing local yet! We will keep trying. Heard they have less then a days supply!! I will keep you updated. Every little bit will help!!!

[cheesy]

Correct on the O-negative. In fact, the local blood bank is only accepting O-negative at the moment.

Reports are 30 percent of the town is gone. 116 dead so far, more expected to come.

I work about 10 miles from the worst of it. Coming home today the highway looked like a rolling construction equipment dealer heading south on US 71. Convoys of skidsteers, loaders, dump trucks, campers, and search and rescue vehicles.

Local radio is covering it non-stop. The stories you hear will make you cry. Generosity is not lacking in the immediate area, and far reaching areas as well.

One guy called in and said he saw looters out at 8am this morning. He convinced the guy he shouldn't be stealing wire from a pile of rubble, "but in retrospect, I wish I'd have just beat his A$$."

[BleuBijou]

Another bad day Tomorrow!!! OKC under the gun tonight!!! Long track Tornado's Tomorrow and Wed. Be careful !!!!!

[daboone]

Another one hit Sedalia today. Been a rough spring already!

[onpoint]

1,500 Missing in Joplin
CS - Tornado Joplin Dead Body
AP Photo

Roughly 1,500 people have been reported missing in Joplin, Missouri, following Sunday’s deadly tornado, a fire department official said Tuesday. The city of Joplin has about 49,000 inhabitants. While the number of missing is alarming, it is possible that some of them survived or fled ahead of the tornado, but have been unable to notify authorities. On Monday, rescuers pulled seven people out of buildings that had collapsed, but no additional survivors had been found on Tuesday. At least 122 people have been confirmed dead following the country’s deadliest tornado in 60 years. The tornado, which cut a three-quarter-mile-wide path through the town, also injured 500 people and damaged 30 percent of the town’s buildings.

[oldandnew]

Down to 231 missing, some undoubtedly will surface, looking at the list there are a number of elderly, which were at an assisted care center, already the site of a large number of casulties and completely destroyed, hard to imagine any still on the list from there survived. I hope for us all this is a once in a lifetime event, and we never see it in our lifetime again. My cousins report that the almost immediate outpouring of help, within hours, both governmental, and individuals on the site, restores you faith in the general goodness and generousity of the American people everywhere. It will be remembered along with the destruction. Truly the silver lining in a horrible event.

[cheesy]

I was in Joplin the last two days running my chainsaw. The amount of roving volunteers is amazing. At the end of the day my coworker and I were having to search for properties to use our saws at, as other crews had already came through and cut everything up and drug it to the street curb.

The disgusting part is the amount of total pricks out there. One 85 year old woman who's property we cut up, had sad some others had stopped by earlier and wanted $150 to clear her yard. We did it for free in about 30 minutes.

[southernblues]

yes, i heard there was looting going on. sonsabitches

[cheesy]

and a lot of the looters are being caught, but not near enough.

One this morning the cops stopped he had a backpack, they searched him and it had a laptop, jewelry, and tools in it. His cell phone had a text message saying something to the effect of "got everything we will need, I'm in the house on the corner with the orange car, come pick me up when its clear" They caught the female accomplice as well, the pair were from Arkansas, about 70 miles away.

Shoot them on site is my opinion, give them a trial later.

[-Wildcat-]

I'd rather see them strung up on a noose so they suffer, just like the victims of the tornado... :mad:

[onpoint]

Listen to the fear of the people in a walk in cooler in a gas station and the roar of the twister. this should give you some idea of how scary it must have been.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds

This is the gas station they road it out in in the cooler, after the twister passed by.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-P4P68YyNM

Unreal!!! They have nothing but the dear lord to thank for their survival. It has to be a miracle IMO.

[M. R. Byrd]

Pop cooler saves again. I have installed these walk-in coolers and I would not have thought it to be a good place to ride out a tornado. A good friend of mine was traveling from Elk County, Kansas to Dalhart, Texas on the night of the Greensburg tornado. Her 89 year old mother-in-law was with her also. They took refuge in a pop cooler and survived.

Here is a picture on the Monday following of my friend, a cowgirl that was in there and a truck driver. All total three women and nine men walked out alive.

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa152/MaynardReeceByrd/GreensburgCooler3Survive.jpg

I guess I should give these walk-in coolers some respect.

[onpoint]

A husband wife couple, members of Shotgun World and both shooters and sportsman lost their lives in the Joplin Tornado.

Glen and Lori Holland

May they rest in peace.

Frustration with the release of Lori to the family so they can lay her to rest is unexceptionable IMO. Once again, heartless government red tape bull $*it

http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x668045780/Frustration-continues-for-families

[cheesy]

onpoint-

I had read that article a few days ago and understand the aggravation. I'm one of the first to get mad at the government when they screw something up.

What has to be remembered though is that the first body released from the morgue was misidentified by next of kin. Also, there are several body parts, not whole bodies, but parts in the morgue that have to be identified as to where they go. The word I am hearing is that some of the bodies are so badly mangled it is requiring dental records to id who it was. All of this is adding to extreme caution in who is released and when.

[onpoint]

onpoint-

I had read that article a few days ago and understand the aggravation. I'm one of the first to get mad at the government when they screw something up.

What has to be remembered though is that the first body released from the morgue was misidentified by next of kin. Also, there are several body parts, not whole bodies, but parts in the morgue that have to be identified as to where they go. The word I am hearing is that some of the bodies are so badly mangled it is requiring dental records to id who it was. All of this is adding to extreme caution in who is released and when.

I agree with you for the most part but both Glen and Lori were together among the wreckage of their home. Identified at the home by close family that arrived on the scene looking for them.