Tornadoes in the Midwest

[Jody]

I've been watching the World News nightly and the devastation from tornadoes in the Midwest has been awful and shocking in its random wrath.

Joplin, Missouri, a town large enough to be known to people outside the state was literally nearly wiped off the map.  The huge number of fatalities and the severly injured is heartbreaking, not to mention the huge numbers of missing people, many certainly gone. 

Sometimes we make fun of small town folk here in New York, mostly good-natured, but they are a hearty people and are going through hell in many places.  Dallas, TX is getting hit as we speak and many other towns are in the path.  Even larger towns and cities like Dallas and St. Louis are not immune fom Mother Nature this year.

I guess when a tornado hit Queens, NY last year and just a few blocks from me were large downed trees and the damage only seen in places like Oklahoma, with that war zone look and feel, and a woman was killed just blocks away on the Expressway I knew the weather was acting weirdly nation wide and world wide. 

Jody

[Rev. Moon]

It has been quite sad.  122 lives and counting. The worst part is that they expect more twisters to hit Joplin either tonight or tomorrow.

[phildinftlaudy]

Just talked to a friend by phone who is in Lancaster, Tx - just South of Dallas - he said the sirens are still going off ---- one touched down about a mile from his house a little bit ago.  He said it's going to be rough night for them.  He wants to come back to Florida - where we just have hurricanes.

[pozniceguy]

yup   we are  having the  sirens  , constant  TV   weather  warnings , and  hail  bouncing off the roof  right now  just a few miles east of  Dallas....
A twister  touched down  just a few miles  south of  here a few mins  ago

Nick

[Jeff G]

It is so sad to see people suffer so terribly , I'm still not over what happend here in Alabama in April .
After seeing to news tonight I ordered a weather radio from Amazon , been meaning to do that for a year or more .

Stay safe Nick ! 

[hope_for_a_cure]

This season has sure been a rough one so far.  I am surprised Glenn Beck has not made a statement about how this is all just God's revenge.  

[wolfter]

Sometimes we make fun of small town folk here in New York

Jody

That's ok, here in small town Ohio, we make fun of big city folk....

We've had an incredible amounts of tornadoes here in Ohio.  Nothing Like Joplin, thankfully.  We had one hit our neighborhood about a month ago.  We're still waiting for a confirmation about Monday nights storms.  Right now, they're still calling it straight line winds but it hit at my brother's house.  It tore the crap out of their camper even ripping the roof vents off.

[metekrop]

Amazing this tornado is a messenger of May 21, day of judgment.  It is targeting all areas where there are high concentration of people and attack them. 

[Jody]

Yes Wolfer we city folks know you make fun of us, after all who hasn't seen the Wizard of Oz.  The house already landed on us!
 
Jody

[anniebc]

The devastation is just terrible, my thougts are with all our AM families who are caught up in all this..and to those families who have lost loved ones.

So sad
Aroha