AP: (Authorities Confirm) At Least 89 Dead in (Joplin) Missouri Tornado

Source: Associated Press

At least 89 dead in Missouri tornado
'I just couldn't believe what I saw'

Updated: Monday, 23 May 2011, 4:38 AM MDT
Published : Monday, 23 May 2011, 3:06 AM MDT

ALAN SCHER ZAGIER and KURT VOIGT, Associated Press
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - UPDATE: Authorities confirm 89 dead after massive tornado hits southwest Missouri city.

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A massive tornado that blasted a four-mile path across southwestern Missouri slammed into this city with cataclysmic force, ripping into a hospital, upending cars and leaving only a forest of splintered tree trunks behind where entire neighborhoods once stood.

An unknown number were killed in Joplin on Sunday night, and officials struggling to communicate without power and cellphone service were leery of putting a hard figure on a death toll they feared would rise after daybreak.

Asked about a report that 24 people had died, city spokeswoman Lynn Onstot said grimly that officials were "afraid it may be more. ... Our fear is that's a low number." The Missouri National Guard planned to search for the injured throughout the night.

Read more: http://www.kasa.com/dpps/news/national/midwest/joplin-missouri-tornado-damage-deaths_3820094

:cry:

Had updated their satellites so there would have been adequate notice given to these people so they could have been better prepared.

DOH!

But we're safer now!

Big Al was not only elected in 2000 he was right about global warming and the "Lock Box"

... is that the intensity and frequency of weather events is destroying
whole swaths of cities and towns and killing people.

This kind of repeating trauma must eventually. have an impact on thinking and policy.

But thinking is not the republican's strong suit.

between weather & climate?

anything like this. He couldn't believe how metal was just twisted together.

One of the residents said his office was totally gone and that it was a well-constructed double brick building.

The destruction from this tornado is incredible. I'd like to know what they rate it.

@40 sec mark

http://cnettv.cnet.com/tornado-makes-direct-hit-joplin-hospital/9742-1_53-50105266.html

I have never seen a major tornado develop that fast.

She is ok and her apartment complex only sustained minor damage while the one across the street took heavy damage.