I have to agree with coolking. Getting hit by a tornado is like winning the lottery. Even in extreme, once-in-a-lifetime situations like what just hit Jovial, MO, more then 2/3rds of the citizens had no damage (Or no major damage, I don't remember exactly what the news said). The massive damage is a tragedy, but most likely even those in tornado-prone areas won't have any major damage because of tornadoes.
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Severe weather and tornadoes
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Everyone should take the time to read this story. Very moving, but it's sad how little attention these events have gotten in our media. We moved right on to the royal wedding without looking back
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Joplin is a town of 40,000
1/3 of 40,000 still = 13,000+
This is an incredible catastrophe, not only because so many people were affected (113+ dead, 500+ injured, 2000+ homes completely destroyed), but because it was only one isolated storm.
My younger brother just moved back up here from Joplin a little under a year ago.
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I live in Southern Illinois, and I can say we've been hit harder than usual this season. The flooding has been the worst though. It's a scary feeling to wake up and realize you're completely surrounded by water with no way out of your house.
I feel terrible for those who've lost everything though, be it storms, tornadoes, flooding, or otherwise.
I feel terrible for those who've lost everything though, be it storms, tornadoes, flooding, or otherwise.
Here in Southern Australia we don't get tornadoes. Strong winds, yes. Tornadoes, never ever. And boy am I glad. My condolences for everybody affected in them. Southern Mainland is just about the safest place on Earth. (Well, no, but anyway...) Lately, Australia's being getting A LOT OF RAIN except for Perth, which until recently had CRAZY HEAT WAVES. Upper north Australia had some incredibly severe and devastating floods and there was a big appeal to raise money for them. Melbourne and Sydney also have had some very big and dangerous floods, and I believe the NT has had a lot of thunderstrikes and there was a Cyclone in Queensland and some minor tornado-lets in teh NT, but we have nothing compared to, say, Japan and USA on the fault lines. Again, I offer my condolences, and those hailrocks Nasty was holding look pretty...painful. Here in Melbourne for the past few months (since Christmas), it's been week of rain, some days of sun, rinse and repeat, as well as catastrophic summer floods. Australia's east has also had a huge reduction in temperature.
I'm glad to hear you and your loved ones are okay, LN. I freaked out when I heard the tornado was in Joplin because I thought you lived there but wasn't sure, looks like I was right. *hugs*
NJ, glad you're alright too, sounds really scary. Thanks for posting those neat pictures. I'm just glad you didn't get hit by those nasty hailstones, god... O_o
NJ, glad you're alright too, sounds really scary. Thanks for posting those neat pictures. I'm just glad you didn't get hit by those nasty hailstones, god... O_o
The pictures never fail to amaze me no matter how many times I see them. Maybe it's because I've seen Joplin before and can't believe that's what happened to it. Quite a sad story. It reminds me of what happened in Xenia a couple of times in the past...
As for some of the things other people posted, I know the floods have been really terrible too, and cyclones and hurricanes never really end well. Amazing what nature can do.
By the way, the tornado in Joplin has a preliminary rating of a high-end EF4, with winds up to 198 mph. The pictures were low-end EF4 damage, which means a few places in Joplin were hit even worse.
Edit: The Storm Prediction Center has given today a high risk of severe weather for parts of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Slight risk in many places, mostly farther east. Going to be a rough day.
As for some of the things other people posted, I know the floods have been really terrible too, and cyclones and hurricanes never really end well. Amazing what nature can do.
By the way, the tornado in Joplin has a preliminary rating of a high-end EF4, with winds up to 198 mph. The pictures were low-end EF4 damage, which means a few places in Joplin were hit even worse.
Edit: The Storm Prediction Center has given today a high risk of severe weather for parts of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Slight risk in many places, mostly farther east. Going to be a rough day.
I would've posted yesterday but I didn't have power. It was about 90F (32C) and some huge clouds came in. Within 5 minutes of hot air and clouds, some huge storm started up and the temperature dropped about 20 degrees. A few trees got knocked over, power went out, with pouring rain and around 70 MPH (112 KPH) gusts, and 2 tornadoes within 15 miles. That's the worst it's been in southeast Virginia which isn't really a bad weather prone area
This but two hours later in my case. Seriously, softball sized hail in Ohio? That just doesn't happen. Even with the cooler air the dew points are so high that the line probably won't weaken before getting here.
We-ell, I live in Toronto and right now we have a cool lightning storm going on. Yeah, its pretty meh.
Yeah thats great LN and the other users are fine and all but would you honestly care if some random wifier got caught in this
be honest
be honest
I don't know what part of Va you live in, but back on April 28th(I think) the town of Glade Springs, Va was hit and it wasn't pretty. It was the worse disaster to hit this area in 50 years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCxeN6fvYjg&feature=related (that doesn't even show the worst of it)And that's not showing the worse part of it. I was lucky enough to live in Saltville(it's around 8 miles from Glade) and it didn't get hit, but just seeing the destruction first hand is enough for me.
Also for the people who have never been through a tornado, here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds
5 minutes is really an understatement, I was driving home when it hit, and there seemed like no more than 90 seconds between one time when I looked out, and it was pretty sunny, but with a huge thunderhead coming, and when I got out of my car to run into my house in 50 mph winds. It was nothing like what hit Joplin, but it was honestly worse than most of the hurricanes that I've been through, especially because we had absolutely no warning before shit was getting torn apart.
yes, because while I don't exactly approve of the WiFi forum I do not wish real ill upon any regular poster there