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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 06:54 PM
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2 officers struck by lightening during search & rescue(Joplin)
Only source at this time is KMBC during live broadcast within past five minutes. No further details but sounded like they were pulling searchers back during the storm.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 06:55 PM
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1. OMFG!
Are they alive? :cry:
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 06:58 PM
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3. No further reports.
KMBC said that they won't be reporting from the ground during this storm. They said they'll update on site and at 9pm.

www.kmbc.com
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etherealtruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 06:56 PM
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2. Horrifying
Tragedy compounding tragedy
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 06:59 PM
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4. This front has stalled over the state.
It just keeps coming down.
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etherealtruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 07:35 PM
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5. I am so sorry
I wish there was some way to keep everyone safe.

Do you have a safe (or as safe as is possible) place to be?
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 09:14 PM
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9. I'm not so bad.
We haven't been hit-yet. My town is sadly overdue.

It's time to worry more about Joplin. They still have a few days of storms ahead of them.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 07:36 PM
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7. Just heard that 119 people are now dead
Obama called from Ireland and promised FEMA help
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 09:19 PM
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10. I've heard that it was 120+
but that hadn't been officially confirmed. It was just eyes on the ground.
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RayOfHope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 07:38 PM
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8. Super windy in Springfield. Thunder, rain, lightning ALL DAY. They say tomorrow will be worse
Its just all so unreal.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 09:21 PM
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11. I'm more towards KC
a bit south of there-Warrensburg. We tend to get a combo of the KC and the lake weather, which can be very nasty.

Tomorrow's worst times are supposed to be between 4pm and midnight. Today we had a storm "event" from 11 to noon and it was pretty nasty. Dummy that I was felt the need to go to Walmart at 10:30 and was stuck d/t high winds and what sounded like hail.

My backyard is flooded.
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 07:36 PM
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6. Horrible. I hope they've pulled everybody out who's still
alive.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 09:22 PM
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12. I hope so too
but I wouldn't bet on it.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 09:23 PM
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13. Is this the same person? Riverside police officer hit by lightning in Joplin
A Riverside police officer was injured by lightning Monday while helping with rescue-and-recovery efforts in Joplin, Riverside Public Safety said.

The officer, 31, is being treated at a hospital there with “significant” injuries. He was standing next to an all-terrain vehicle when lightning struck the ground next to him late Monday.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/05/23/2897710/riverside-police-officer-hit-by.html#ixzz1NEUO8PwY
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 09:26 PM
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14. Riverside would be it.
The initial report was two officers. Riverside is in the KC area and it was a KC station reporting it.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 09:31 PM
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17. Considering the weather there I'm not about to argue it isn't more than one
When I read that I admit my first thought was, it's not surprising considering what they're out there working in. All the people out braving that unpredictable and violent weather while trying to rescue people have my total respect.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 09:33 PM
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18. No argument here.
You know how initial reports can be. Plus, there was no written source-just the television reporting it as "breaking news".

I believe it was ABC that spoke with a woman from Boone County. She and her K9 had been out searching for 20 hours when they spoke with her and she said she had no plans to stop.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 09:39 PM
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20. I just posted this link in LBN.
I almost never post there but I thought this needed to be read.
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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 09:26 PM
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15. .
:(
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Bonobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 09:27 PM
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16. My sister was struck by lightning about 14 years ago.
She suffered pretty bad nerve damage.

Lightning strikes result in weird injuries that are hard to deal with because not enough is known about the resultant damage.

It is very different than common electrical injuries and due to lightining strikes relative rarity, there is a lot of skeptic attitudes to overcome as well.

The injuries are on the inside, not the outside. And they are manifold, diverse and...weird.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 09:34 PM
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19. Someone linked to one of the people further in the thread.
The article says "significant damage".
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 09:45 PM
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21. One of the stranger 'injuries' is a personality change
I put that in single quotes, because sometimes it's not an injury as such, but more of a drastic change. In some cases, the affected person is, for all intents and purposes, a different person then they were before; a previously humorous person may completely lose their sense of humor, one might be left unable to speak properly, or suddenly develop an aptitude, be it for math or architecture or music.

Very, very weird effects are possible for lightning strike victims. I honestly thought that was a well-known fact.
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Bonobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 11:50 PM
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22. Yes!
But I don't think it is a well-known fact.

Most people have a hard time believing that someone could be struck by lightning without visible scars like a blackened face and frizzled hair from out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
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