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Yeah . no kidding it still feels eery when I go to my parents house right by Kelsey norman elementary school and look up towards 26 th street and past and I can see all th way to 20th , it shouldnt be that way . My old neighborhood and the surrounding haunt on the south side of town are forever changed . But I have noticed kids ridng their dirt bikes and 4 wheelers where what used to be the old Connecticut trails and mud run area behind Dillons grocery and the Olympic fitness center . At least thats what it was called back itn the 80s when i was a kid lol ...

Well JoMo it looks like we are starting to come out of this disaster and maybe be reborn . Have you been to duquesne yet ? a few of the houses on Duquesne road are not much more than a dust filled lot. Which I assume some may have been fatalities ( God rest their souls ) , But if you go down into the the village from either 24th or from Reinmiller and go back towards 24th to 26th it looks amazing as to all of the rebuilding going on. It is like a colony of ants after their mound hadhas kicked over .. Its just flat out friggin awseome !!... Laters matt on north side o Joplin..

I still dont know what to think on this supposed 24 minute lead warning time on this event . I lean towards what Doug said in his blog JoMo , even though after talking with a few in emergency mgmt, the true times havebeen sugar coated in my opinion and maybe the whole truth isnt being told .. But thats just my opinion on this whole deal FWIW nothing or sumthin who knows...

Yeah I think you're right about that JoMo wasnt that the one that went up either 13th street or was it the one that hit lots of everything on 7th ..Either way it tore the hell out of things regardless..

Basically what I experienced was , I heard noise that sounded like a constant rolling thunder , then it got darker than the hubs of hell. So i figured we should probably go to the storm chelter and get in , when I figured out that it didnt stop the constant low roll and like Jomo said it did sound like a low loud growl and also like 5 freight trains going by and the hellacious wind , that was pretty much it then . After it was over i got my CERT tean stuff out and was going to head out to the ploice station where we knew they would stage rescue and emergency operations from , and i was told to wait a little bit to come down since the situation was not know by fire and rescue yet. But when i did get called the side of town I live on wasnt damaged by the way, except for tree damage and lots of debris thrown up our way like papers, a little insulation etc the town was a big clusterflop and many are agencies were already headed in or were here already. Some of the recue workers I talked to within an hour of what took place ( the tor ) said that when they saw the broadcast from area news stations they went ahead and activated teams while this took place and shortly after they were rolling in here , Especially the local towns from missouri Kansas and Oklahoma , and so far there has been a huge huge response on the relief effort where I am working at in the clean up and clearing recovery operations . I can tell you one thing the pictures on the news and the media and papers dont do this devastating disaster justice, it looks like hell on earth in my opinion. and I WOULD NOT WISH THIS ON MY WORST ENEMIES! I just hope that the volunteers dont get bored and go home after a couple weeks because this will be a long and grueling clean up for everyone involved from the victims, ( my heart goes out to them because I have no clue what they have been through emotionally , since I am there after it went through. But I wsh i could give my soul and my heart to them so they could find relef and comfort , because the stories I have heard and what I have seen so far is just freakin un godly in terms of scale and reach of sorrow and pain and suffering from the citizens of my town. But it does seems like in Joplin when something happens its either all or nothign around here, and the strength and the charity and steadfast of the people of this geographic area makes me think we are some of the toughest s.o.b. s out there . So thanks everyone for being there for Jomo and the concern that everyone on the forums has had over this event for this area..this is a caring community forum we have here and God Bless everyone involed here or elsewhere

Glad to see JoMo your back with us again, and also is there anyone else on the forum here in Joplin besides myself and JoMo ?