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Already looking more interesting than last winter in dfw... Delkus is already stirring up the hype machine on Twitter too about next week, i was like what the.... My ankle will probably be killing me Saturday night with that artic front!

Merry Christmas Jomo and to everyone in Joplin! reading that letter to Santa, it's hard not to put tears in your eyes seeing it, I hope that the city can plant as many trees as possible to help bring back some shade if nothing else in the summertime!

ya, that is a BIG incentive to rebuild as fast as possible, I'm just in awe seeing how things are coming back as fast as they are, it's still a LONG road to go, but y'all have really started getting back on your feet a lot quicker than I expected actually..

nice, glad to see the recovery is going on strong... Getting the Walmart back is a HUGE step..

I hate to say this, but man I almost in a way wished the STL tornado would have wiped everything clean... there are a lot of areas that have STILL basically not been touched since Good Friday's tornado in Bridgeton. While it will still take a long time for you to get everything back to normal, (if joplin ever does get back to the way it was) things are going faster out there than they are in the St Louis area that's for sure...

typo maybe???? but a typo that COULD i'm not going to blame SGF for the death of 140 some odd people... but it very well could have something to do with people saying they didn't have warning... i don't know.. that's a shocking and a bit scary find there JoMo

i'm not a building engineer by any means but a LOT of these big box stores are basically a big pole barn structure with block walls on it instead of the metal.. the roof is USUALLY just thin steel with the beams, VERY easy targets for tornadoes IMO, but yeah a lot of those freezer coolers are solid steel structures that are built to last.. very much an effective safe spot from a tornado

hard to really believe it's been a week already... I know for you it seems like the days have gone on and on this week JoMo... Here's hoping for a quiet rest of the severe wx season...

that is just amazing... a brick home just wiped away clean like that, and that car is in the garage area, and the tornado just left the car.. Can't tell what kind of car it is from that far back but hey it's a strong one I'll say that...

i mean just to get the sheer prespective of this, This is the pic looking at St Johns as close as I could get to matching it up before last Sunday: and then you have JoMo's pic: I mean it's just crazy the power of this tornado, and getting to see that on a whole new level thanks to streetview kinda makes you feel like wow this is how powerful this tornado REALLY was...

exactly JoMo if that was just 2 blocks wider or even 2 blocks south both hospitals would have been a direct hit. Was Freeman just built or something, kinda makes little sense to me having it right across the street from St Johns, That however is exactly like how a couple of the hospitals are in St Louis with St Johns Mercy and Missouri Baptist, only thing separating them is hwy 40... So that one of St Johns, you was taking that from basically right in front of the Elks lodge on 26th street? Just the before and after comparing with google streetview and this is just chilling of that area...

How far away from St Johns are you in this picture JoMo?

Word just down now that the death toll is up to 142 in Joplin

wow that is amazing, yet chilling and scary video right there JoMo... just think how many people would have been in that high school had graduation been there instead of at the college.... from what I have heard graduation was just getting out when the sirens sounded, would have been a disaster of epic proportions if the ceremonies had been at the school

wow that is crazy to see a school just wiped off the map...

sounds like an honest mistake right there, that quite frankly if I had seen a receipt from Joplin I would likely have thought from the tornado myself.. but smart move by the family to call Purdue in, good to get the right picture though.

I know comparing a city of 5000 to a city of 50,000 for community shelters is a much bigger story, but here the EMA has 3 or 4 community shelters scattered throughout Flora in different geographic areas depending on where you live, and the only issues we get here is people who are so adamant on bringing their dogs... and I don't mean little pugs or poodles, I know Wed mom and dad went to the shelter (I stayed back knowing that this one was going to be minor, but I was in a safe spot... just in case) and there was a guy with a pit bull in the shelter, anyway that's a whole other debate. but I think with so much of Joplin taken out by the storm, I think it would be pretty easy to build in areas for community shelters in the rebuilding, but then again comes into the warning fatigue issue. although for a while I don't suspect you'll see a lot of people in Joplin NOT take a tornado warning seriously after what happened Sunday...

I feel personally it's the tornado warning fatigue that they get in SW Missouri, now I don't mean to pile on the Springfield office here at all, but it's pretty well common knowledge that they are one of the most tornado warning happy offices in the entire NWS, and after a while of hearing warning after warning after warning when 80 some odd percent don't produce a tornado in the area warned, you start to get oh OK this one isn't real either... JoMo I'm sure you've seen this hundreds of times, you watch a storm on GR or on tv, and SGF will go nearly blanket tornado warnings, and as soon as it gets into the Paducah or St Louis CWA guess what, they go with severe thunderstorm warnings or heck sometimes no warning at all...

the thing that I found interesting is that by this point in the year Joplin is used to about a dozen different tornado warnings.... does not surprise me one bit that so many people were thinking oh just another warning to add to the evergrowing list. Which I think is PART of why when KSN showed the tornado on the tower cam that they starting getting REAL serious about it... like maybe Oh this one is REALLY real....

I find this interesting what you mentioned about oh just another tornado warning JoMo, the met at KSN there in Joplin is on James Spann's podcast Weatherbrains right now and he mentioned the EXACT same thing that by now you are used to about a dozen tornado warnings by now in a season so you get oh it's just another warning...

I've never been to Joplin in my entire life, but if it's like the rest of the midwest, it will take time yes, but I'm sure Joplin will recover, and end up being stronger than before. I know I was watching nightly news last night and already a hair salon was in the middle of rebuilding with all the debris around it, and were only 4-5 days post storm.... Joplin will be back, look at Greensburg for example, everyone thought oh they'll never come back, but sure enough abit slowly Greensburg is coming back...

wow that is crazy to have something carried that far, i'll tell you what it's making me look around here for little things just in case..

JoMo that's why our church is collecting donations for a solid month and then we'll be sending them down your way.

JoMo what an amazing story you told us, Funny you mention about SGF and tornado warnings, it's a joke that me and Beau have as well, and as a member of the 3 block away club myself I know that freight train sound, heard it in 97, although when I heard that freight train sound, that's what I thought it was.... a freight train, well it would have been that had the tornado not derailed it just outside of town. and on the smell of fresh cut wood, that too is a very normal smell, I know a lot of the first people on scene in Tuscaloosa mentioned that very same thing, just glad your ok and still among us, and just like I thought in 97 i'm sure you feel VERY lucky that you lived there instead of 3 blocks away..

that's exactly right Macintosh, Monday night after the tornado the st louis stations were doing fundraiser telethons for Joplin, here in Flora our church is collecting donations and money, help is coming from all over for Joplin, and SW Missouri as a whole.