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Agnostic Pope
05-23-2011, 05:04 AM
Residents of Joplin, Missouri, emerged from shelter to a city that was unrecognizable.

"It was horrible. I couldn’t even take pictures on my phone. I was crying,” resident Sara Ferguson told The Joplin Globe.

A Red Cross worker estimates 75 percent of Joplin, Missouri was destroyed by last night's vicious tornado that hurled debris as far as 70 miles away. The high school, the hospital, a couple of fire stations and a strip mall - all in shambles. Governor Jay Nixon has called in the National Guard.
(http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/23/liveblog-tornado-destroys-most-of-joplin-missouri/)
89 People confirmed dead (so far).

Who needs war? Nature cuts us down randomly.

Hydroeric
05-23-2011, 06:16 AM
According to the news this morning in KC, they are going to get another round of severe weather around 8:30am CST this morning. Thoughts and prayers are with them.

I expect my Nat Guard friends will be included in that activation.

Anenome
05-23-2011, 10:49 AM
Joplin, Misery.