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He acted like he was still pretty excited, but I know it really freaked him out. I grew up in KC and have always been used to tornado warnings. But If I went to California and went through an earthquake I would be scared to death.

No kidding Stebo

This is an amazing story we did tonight. Weather fans will like this one. Here is the link, http://www.koamtv.com/story/14877642/future-meteorologist-visits-doug-heady-on-may-22

Great video, it has really hit home for us. And remember if you need anything let me know.

The tally was at 135 last week. So 16 have died in the hospital over the past 6 days.

6 died today JoMo, it is now 151 is the death toll.

I had a huge conversation with the NWS from Springfield yesterday. Also the warnings cordinator from another office came to talk as well to get my thoughts on what I thought they did well and what could have been done better. It was an interesting 2 hour conversatation and I think they will be evaluating this tornado for a long time to come.

Joplin is a big metro area with about 250K people during the day. People are moving around but won't move out of the area. Maybe to another town near by for a few months and then back into the city. If the Joplin metro was a small little town it would probably lose a lot of people. But I don't think that will happen with a city this big.

Great work Rick

I went and helped out yesterday, it was so hot outside. But it was great to see so many people helping out.

I don't know, it looked pretty real to me. I have seen this happen before in the past. You have to remember the tree pulls apart, it isn't like it just pushes through. I can't say it 100%, but once I saw it in person it is hard not to believe it. A hole couldn't have been drilled, it was closed back on it. Like I said I can't say forsure but I have seen this before with other tornadoes.

Ok so I saw the tree with the hose in person today. It is for real. You can tell how the hose is twisted and and also squezzed at the edge of the tree on both sides. I didn't believe it either, until I saw it in person and pulled on the hose. But it does look to be in the weak part of the tree.

I am not sure how much it shifted. Late last week they brought in a crew to look at the structure of the building to see if it could ever be used again. That is when we were told that it actually shifted on the foundation, but that is all I know.

JoMo, that is were I see the worst as well.

I don't know, that is a good question. I will have to ask them about that.