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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: rickl on May 23, 2011, 01:55:25 AM
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There are a couple of videos linked at Ace of Spades (http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=316547). Apparently a hospital was so badly damaged that patients had to be transferred to another hospital.
Some commenters are saying there are at least 30 deaths, and the toll is expected to climb.
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The line of storms rolling through yesterday literally stretched from Minnesota to Oklahoma. We had one reported death up here.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/23/deadly-tornado-hits-minneapolis/ (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/23/deadly-tornado-hits-minneapolis/)
Joplin got hammered. 3/4ths of that town is just gone! The death toll is up to 89, I pray it does not rise more, but seeing the pictures of the devastation...!
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/22/tornado-hits-minnesota-1-killed/ (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/22/tornado-hits-minnesota-1-killed/)
Some of these picks remind me of the destruction that Siren, WI experienced several years back.
::speechless::
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Another link -
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/hospital-hit-massive-tornado-kills-dozens-across-southwestern-missouri/ (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/hospital-hit-massive-tornado-kills-dozens-across-southwestern-missouri/)
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Heard some compare/contrast coming to work.
IN a neighborhood of Mound, a suburb, where one side of a street had power and the other didn't, neighbors were string a couple hundred feet of extension cord from one house to the next, so neighbors could power their refrigerators.
In Sh*tholeapolis, neighbors were looting the liquor store.
Just a coincidence I'm sure, as leftist Marxist trash would have nothing to do with animalistic behavior, would they... ::stirpot::
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Heard some compare/contrast coming to work.
IN a neighborhood of Mound, a suburb, where one side of a street had power and the other didn't, neighbors were string a couple hundred feet of extension cord from one house to the next, so neighbors could power their refrigerators.
In Sh*tholeapolis, neighbors were looting the liquor store.
Just a coincidence I'm sure, as leftist Marxist trash would have nothing to do with animalistic behavior, would they... ::stirpot::
It is sad that this does not surprise me!
::unknowncomic::
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Welcome to hell...
(http://a57.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/Sept/660/440/TornadoStreetDestruction.jpg)
http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/us/2011/05/22/tornado-rips-minneapolis/#slide=1 (http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/us/2011/05/22/tornado-rips-minneapolis/#slide=1)
::speechless::
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Here's a link with the story previously mentioned by MNHawk -
http://www.twincities.com/ci_18119387?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1 (http://www.twincities.com/ci_18119387?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1)
Nice huh? For those not aware, North Minneapolis is one of our diverse communities filled with all manner of community organizers and sundry urban detritis.
Filthy looters do not care about other peoples property or the lives they ruin...I am beyond caring what happens to such human scum. These will be among the first wave of zombies you'll have to put down if the fit really hits the shan!
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A damn, St.Paul Socialist link got redacted.
::mooning::
Go to Drudge, in the upper left corner click the story "Looting..."
http://www.drudgereport.com/ (http://www.drudgereport.com/)
:P
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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/joplin-missouri-tornado-causing-rise-deadly-storms/story?id=13665260 (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/joplin-missouri-tornado-causing-rise-deadly-storms/story?id=13665260)
Never thought I'd hear this from a J-School retard at ABC...
Are strong tornadoes a result of global warming?
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Death toll up to 116.
They said that the tornado wasn't all that big, perhaps an F3, but that it moved very slowly. I heard one report that it stopped in front of the hospital for enough time to destroy the place.
To the best of my knowledge, O'Bama is whooping it up in his newly discovered home country of Ireland and has yet to so much as comment on the death and destruction back here. Color me surprised.
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Here's a link with the story previously mentioned by MNHawk -
URL Redacted/ci_18119387?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1 (http://URL Redacted/ci_18119387?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1)
Nice huh? For those not aware, North Minneapolis is one of our diverse communities filled with all manner of community organizers and sundry urban detritis.
Filthy looters do not care about other peoples property or the lives they ruin...I am beyond caring what happens to such human scum. These will be among the first wave of zombies you'll have to put down if the fit really hits the shan!
They don't respect it because, everyone sing along now, "Property is theft."
That's one of the core principles of Marxism alright. The looters are just basic trash who want things for free, but they're the perfect enablers for the proglodyte True Believers.
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Here's a storm chaser footage, seeing the debris swirling around this voracious beast is impressive and frightening.
Joplin MO Tornado May 22 2011.mov (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuU-nFuIZN4#ws)
And the level of destruction wrought by this beast is stunning, check this review of the damage from the air. I think this thing may yet get upgraded to a F4 once they assess the damage. There is just an enormous path of absolute devastation stretching so far and wide.
Joplin, Missouri tornado damage from the air (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWNwZ1IY2p0#)
I see this and I just fear the death toll will climb.
Prayers for all the lost, injured and displaced!
::praying::
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I forget where I read it, but I saw something about people in Tuscaloosa, AL praying and sending their best wishes to the people in Joplin. Obviously, they know exactly what they're going through.
There was an F0 tornado in Northeast Philadelphia a week or so ago. That's a minimal tornado, but it was rare and newsworthy around here. There was some roof damage and downed trees, but no injuries that I know of.
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Yeah, I haven't heard anything on the storms through my area yesterday, but I am not a fan of the left-leaning fluffy-head local news outlets so I haven't gone looking for it either, but it seems to me the damage in North Minneapolis was really localized in a small area, so I'm guessing whatever touched down wasn't very large and popped back up into the clouds pretty quick. That was kind of the eye-witness reports I heard anyway, funnels forming, hanging low and going back up again. Not enough energy for any sustained presence on the ground. Last I heard the NWS was coming in today to assess damage in the area and determine size/number etc. I'm sure most were routed to Joplin, naturally.
I have not heard of a tornado anywhere near Philly before. They do pop up on the east coast occasionally, but I would think most of them would be spin-off's from tropical storms that slid up the coast. I know that storm that smacked the Redcoats around Baltimore in the War of 1812 was fortuitous! Not many storms can lay claim to a positive effect!
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I have not heard of a tornado anywhere near Philly before. They do pop up on the east coast occasionally, but I would think most of them would be spin-off's from tropical storms that slid up the coast. I know that storm that smacked the Redcoats around Baltimore in the War of 1812 was fortuitous! Not many storms can lay claim to a positive effect!
There was one even closer to me several years ago, also an F0. I drove through the affected area a day or two later and the damage was impressive. I saw roof shingles torn off, damaged signs, and big tree branches on the ground. And that's just barely a tornado. I've been through some pretty frightening thunderstorms with nearby lightning and gusty winds, but never a tornado, not even an F0.
From the descriptions I've read, the storm in 1812 probably was a tornado, and it might have been more than an F0. Yes, they are rare in these parts, but not impossible.
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I wonder if they can get foreign aid money? I mean, sh*t, we're broke so somebody needs to send us some money to rebuild and stuff. That's how it works, right? The countries that have money send it to those which don't after a natural disaster...
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I wonder if they can get foreign aid money? I mean, sh*t, we're broke so somebody needs to send us some money to rebuild and stuff. That's how it works, right? The countries that have money send it to those which don't after a natural disaster...
I'm sure the OPEC countries will get right on it.
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I wonder if they can get foreign aid money? I mean, sh*t, we're broke so somebody needs to send us some money to rebuild and stuff. That's how it works, right? The countries that have money send it to those which don't after a natural disaster...
I'm sure the OPEC countries will get right on it.
I guess they could hold a telethon where they raffle off a beheading. Or have an on air execution of a homosexual or an adulterous woman. That kind of thing really brings in the bucks over there.
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I remember being a little kid, over on the east side visiting my Aunt & Uncle, they lived behind the old Sun Ray shopping center, might have been around 1965 or 1967...anyway, we heard reports of brewing storms and my father decided to pack us up in the station wagon and head back home. We drove west up the hill and got to the corner by a crossroad that could shoot us onto I94. I still vividly recall the big metal Standard Oil sign of the corner gas station swaying violently back and forth, wind and rain blowing like crazy and my father trying to keep everyone quiet while he listened to the radio and looked around. Suddenly he said "we're going back" and we shot back down the road and into their basement piled into a corner with mattresses thrown over us. It was howling outside. I had to come out because I had to pee and while I'm doing my thing down a drain I am looking out the little window wells seeing crap flying around all over. We came up later and there was debris everywhere, and that area was just outside the edge of the tornado whipping through. Been through many rough storms, at home, in tents. Had our neighbors chimney blown off and a tree land on my fathers new car back in the late 70's when a really bad lightning storm rolled through.
Didn't see a tornado with my own eyes until this one in 1987.
Fridley Minnesota Tornado (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNOcOmVW5QU#noexternalembed)
I was at work and when I was in the parking lot that day (I was wrapping up my bachelors and working 35 hrs/week as a security guard for a local high-tech company on the north side) lowering the flag and I kept staring at this guy behind me with a weird look on his face staring north. I walk over to him and ask him what's up and he points in the distance and says "I'm trying to figure out what that is?". I look and I tell him that would be a tornado, "get in your car and go or get inside" (I was very conciencious of company liability!) ;D
I go inside, flick on the weather alert band and hear the warnings and get on the intercom and tell people to head low and center and away from windows. I then get a report on the walkie talkie that one of my co-workers and facility guys are outside on the roof of our tallest building. Judas Priest! I go up there and chase those morons down and I look up and there are clouds swirling around, a fricken 'nother tornado could drop down anytime...idiots!
Had a trip down south with my B-I-L, had to hole up under the contractor awning at a Home Depot in Amarillo as a bad storm rolled through and my B-I-L didn't want his new truck dinged by mongo hail. Storm moved north and was west of us and we drove up I35 a bit and all on that western horizon was one wicked light show. We got as far as the Oklahoma line and then the troopers shut all the roads down because the storm drifted east and tore stuff up. We were lucky to find any room to spend the night, truckers and others scrambling for rooms out in the middle of God knows where. The news reports were filled with hail, tornado hits and lightning damage. First time I ever experienced a massive road closure like that. Cops at every ramp.
Did ride the edge of a typhoon in the pacific once when I was in the Navy, didn't think a carrier could list and shudder that much!
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I found this on Drudge. I'm not sure if anyone else has linked it.
It's more audio than video. Even so, it's best experienced in full screen mode.
First Person video of Joplin MO tornado 5/22/11 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds#ws)
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God bless the babies....what a thing to endure.
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Invariably these videos and articles elicit snarky comments from Europeans about substandard American housing, as if their homes could ride out a F5 tornado. Yeah that's just what we want, spend the majority of our adult lives living in some communal apartment the size of a phone booth because no one can afford a house until they're near retirement.
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More storms coming to the area!
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/24/storms-horizon-devastated-missouri-city/ (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/24/storms-horizon-devastated-missouri-city/)
OMG, where are people supposed to go when so much is...gone!
They'll have to evacuate!
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Heard that this morning.
Their stuff is blown away, why don't they leave?
This is result of government schooling, we're doing show and tell.
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Big photogallery on this site (http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeitlosimagery/) of the devastation. One particularly stunning shot has a "before" picture from Google street view. There are over eight pages of photos.
When you see the before and after pic it is not hard to realize that 1500 are missing. It looks like a giant lawnmower drove over the town with the blade set all the way down.
BTW...the guy has Shelby Cobra pics on page 12.
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The pictures are overwhelming-- can't imagine being there and seeing it
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Those pics are nightmarish, reminds me of Siren, WI except that Joplin is much larger and contains so much more devastation. Unvbelievable!
As I suspected, after witnessing the damage they are saying this was an EF5. And people are still looking for the missing, I pray they are successful!
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/25/leaders-hold-tight-rescue-hopes-joplin/ (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/25/leaders-hold-tight-rescue-hopes-joplin/)
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Ugh! This isn't good.
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Hunt+tornado+survivors+looking+bleak/4839564/story.html (http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Hunt+tornado+survivors+looking+bleak/4839564/story.html)
So sad!
:'(
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Another impressive overhead B/A pic -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1391075/The-block-scar-Amazing-satellite-photos-pinpoint-devastation-Joplin-town-wiped-map-deadliest-tornado-modern-times.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1391075/The-block-scar-Amazing-satellite-photos-pinpoint-devastation-Joplin-town-wiped-map-deadliest-tornado-modern-times.html)