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A lot of people are still wondering how the tornado killed so many people?

So i'll ask it now how did that tornado kill so few people? It destroyed 8000 homes with only 153 deaths, were people just not in them when they got hit?

And it took out the friggen hospital on top of it, People must be able to bleed for hours without dying those Bruce Willis movies must have had it right all along.

Edit: Not that I root for people to diing but I would have guessed this was a lot worse based on the pics and destruction statistics.

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

Is this a tally over the past several weeks ? It would be strange to have no deaths for two weeks and then 8 in one day.

On a side note 1 lightning strike hospitalized 77 soilders!! As if they don't put themselves in enough danger as it is.

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/lightning-hit-sends-77-cadets-miss-hospitals-211025436.html

Certainly cant blame him for trying to change things for the better, but as an elected official, you MUST lead by example. And "common good" is not that.

Politicians should not be allowed to use subjective statements like "Common Good" and "What the American people want" because they use them to promote their own agenda.

Apparently Homeless people on the streets look nicer than a trailer park. so not accepting the trailers is for the common good.

Yes we lost 4 more today from that have been hospitalized since the tornado. I think FEMA has been pretty good. They jumped on it and have gotten things done very quickly. I think the biggest thing I have heard is that the help from FEMA hasn't been enough, meaning $ signs. I will definitely tell the story from my eyes probably later tonight when I can get a chance to sit and really type. Even though I wasn't directly hit (which I am so blessed) it has indirectly effected all of us down here. Obviously my concern is for all of these familys to get housing and jobs back. Including my wife on the job part. But I truely believe that Joplin will be stronger from this event. I will tell my story later.

Doug Heady

Chief Meteorologist

KOAMTV/FOX 14

Joplin MO/Pittsburg KS

At least your town allows people to live in Fema trailers

http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979385002

This is St. Paul's. The middle of the sanctuary is scooped out but the playground equipment is perfectly fine.

This power pole was splintered.

This was a PVC pipe assembly of some kind sticking into a house that was about 2 blocks away from where the tornado hit.

A little girls shoe that I found in my yard. No idea where it came from and it wasn't there before the tornado. This really creeped me out...

The final picture I took until today was a picture of a mom and her son on the 2nd level of their house attempting to gather what was left.

We're not in Kansas anymore

This tornado is on the verge of becoming the 7th deadliest in US history.

http://www.spc.noaa....do/killers.html

Intersting only a couple of those are in Oklahoma

I just knew there was something really fishy about that picture. This makes much more sense.

Perfect sense now, no missing concrete. the crack is due to the piece of wood being torqued. My guess is rescuers ran it over with a truck after the tornado. . It can probably be recreated by feeding a long 2X4 into one of those things and having a heavy person step on it.

Still haven't seen any ground scouring pics, but thedamage is still pretty incredible.

TWC reporting a NWS upgrade to EF5.

Been at work the entire day, I can't think of any creative ways of saying Holy ****.

I wonder if any storm chasers got hurt or killed in this. I would think at least some of the deaths were do to with curious weenies who wanted to watch and photograph it with thier Iphone instead of running from it. Yeah there's an EF4 in your area, but if it's a matter of life and death you may have to settle for a quick glimpse. I know I'd make the wrong choice.

The prototype phased-array radar in Norman scans a 90 degree sector and can scan a volume in ~30 sec., but that's a long way off from going national.

It does make for some cool images when the outbreak is in Oklahoma. I wish they could make that semimobile. It would have been nice to gotten it to Alabama this week. Maybe I'll write in a suggestion to NWRT.

However I've never seen the thing and I don't know how hard to would be to move and reassemble.

Can't wait to see this outbreak

You know what struck me (besides the obvious devastation down the middle) were the strips of damage that most likely were associated with vorticies rotating around the main funnel. We know these were occurring from the various videos out there, and the damage seems to confirm that these were also very strong, to no ones surprise.

I had a nightmare a couple of years back that I was in a super cell with a large tornado at the center with multiple smaller tentacle tornadoes orbiting it. The videos of this storm actually reminded me of that dream.

EF4s and EF5s account for <1% of all tornados and >67% of all tornado deaths.

I think modern warnings may have made this percentage even higher. Less people are dying in the small tornados but there is still little that can be done to save yourself in 1/2 mile wide EF5.

would be interesting to find out how far/long this storms lasts

Going to be close for the south part of Rome, GA

Warning people means nothing if people don't heed the warnings.

The speed of these storms plus the strength of the tornadoes sometimes catches people by surprise.

And if it takes out the hospital. People are probably still bleeding to death right now.

Side note tornado warning for south DC

This says a lot, from the NWS met who worked the Greensburg tornado.

Mike Umscheid This is the greatest Delta-V I have ever seen on wsr-88d.

The base velocity is maxed out, so it has to be

DCH medical center destroyed in Tuscaloosa

very very bad if that was a primary hospital

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