I was watching a video about Greensburg, Kansas and they were showing the FEMA housing/trailers that people used for a bit.
Do you know if they plan on setting them up in a similar way (ie almost like a mini-town)?
The amount of debris is staggering
Obviously.
There have been a number of storms in other regions that have done worse than that this year in terms of damage/lives etc.
Could not name all of them. Joplin is just about as bad as I can remember hearing of/seeing...
Any estimates on number of people left homeless?
I wonder how many will never return...
I am so sad about what has happened to Joplin, Tuscaloosa, Western Mass, etc etc etc. What a horrible year
Today's additional additions to the toll have made 2011 the most deadly year since they started "official" record keeping in 1950.
Obviously other years (1925) had more, but those were supposedly estimates...
... and it is only Memorial Day weekend. I hope we have seen the last fatality this year (doubtful)
I'm wondering if the winds still sent the debris into the drain due to the cracked concrete. Doubt it was a deliberate hoax...
The chair in the wall is very weird, too
I still remember after Hurricane Gloria in 1986 went through my 'hood it smelled of cut wood... had not heard the cut grass anectdote before, but it makes sense.
Based on the video with the trampoline, with all of the leaves/vegetation that was churned up that would really make sense.
One of our prominent SNE posters lost phone/power last year after a big snowstorm and he was offline for like a week.
We were a little worried about him and that was just snow.(and he is the biggest snow addict I know)
After what JoMo has been through (assuming he is safe/uninjured) it would take some time to come back online here. Not everyone's biggest passion is posting on AmWx.
Hopefully he is getting rest, eating good food, and drinking some cold beers somewhere.
Philadelphia, Mississippi was the other
also on April 27
Possibly 2 today (obviously before NWS survey, just based on watching feeds and what some of the chasers/tv mets have said)
I'm worried many in our (well, more like your, but you know where my mom is) area have grown complacent since 1938.
I go over the evac procedures each year with my family that live in that area. They know they can come up here, but will they??
Yeah, the HS is pretty much destroyed. Was just reading their facebook posts...
Big mess for the school district. Good thing graduation was at the college/earlier in the day
Remaining schools and the college being used as shelters, etc
I am always terrified of what happens when a big tornado hits a school while it is in session. The video from the helicopter clearly shows several schools destroyed, one of which looked like the high school or voc school.
Any reports if any of the deaths were at the hospital? The structure itself looked mostly intact, even if it was all blown out. The cars/helicopter, etc showed it was hit pretty bad.
The two previous posts by wxmann and CapeFear made good points.