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2011-05-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Full Evacuation of Joplin MO hospital after direct hit by tornado

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-05-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Shit. Accuwether reports 75% of Joplin was destroyed, 89 are dead.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-05-23 08:06|| 2011-05-23 08:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Joplin was the closest large city to Fort (Camp) Crowder, one of the big WWII training and replacement camps, as well as the US Army Signal School.

In popular culture, it is remembered as both the setting for where Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore met, in their sitcom the Dick Van Dyke Show; and also as the model for "Camp Swampy", used by Mort Drucker in his Beetle Bailey comic strip.

Oddly enough, the area is covered with round geode rocks, resulting in many ankle fractures for the soldiers stationed there. This mystified many who wondered why, at any given time, dozens of soldiers would be walking around on crutches with ankle casts.

At one time, Joplin had been the end destination of Texas cattle drives, which, along with lead and later zinc mining, did much to turn it into a rowdy place. Then it spawned the James Gang and much later, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.

Ironically, the city is also 75% undermined by abandoned mines, which results in unpredictable sinkholes and collapses, and the area is dotted with small hills of mine tailings.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-05-23 09:49|| 2011-05-23 09:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey guys--does anyone know anything about chemtrails and HAARP? So many tornados. Just wondering if there's a connection.

Posted by ex-lib 2011-05-23 12:24|| 2011-05-23 12:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Thoughts and prayers for the people of Joplin.

Posted by lotp 2011-05-23 12:50|| 2011-05-23 12:50|| Front Page Top

#5 As it was explained to me, this is a rare but not unheard of weather pattern which has bumped and extended the sever weather pattern likely for another month or more.

Observed, it looks like it has been except with weather lines shifted about 200 miles east of (last 5 years) normal.

I think it is a lot of both. All I know is our air is funny at the moment (I can't explain that to anyone outside of twisty towns) so we have already taken precautions. I am expecting hail, but if the 250 shift is correct *this instance* then MO et al could get some more bad stuff over the next couple days.

Lots of tornados, yes, but not extraordinary, they just seem to be hitting populations daggummit.

Prayers for Joplin.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-05-23 15:22|| 2011-05-23 15:22|| Front Page Top

#6 116 now. As population increases expect more deaths and injuries. Contrast this with another tornado.
Minneapolis liquor store looted after tornado

Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-05-23 17:35|| 2011-05-23 17:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Does not say really what ranking the tornado had (and a path map would help).

One witness says 1 mile across which is plenty wide if even just half that amount (sometimes visually a destruction zone looks larger than it is). The trees are shattered. Picture 14 has what looks like a 2x4 stuck into a car engine, pic 55 has a tree quite literally peeled of its bark.

Not going to point out injury photos (nothing graphic), but impressed by shirt-off-my-back guy and the makeshift ambulance service. Also, note the clear roads..thats good stuff by emergency ops.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-05-23 17:49|| 2011-05-23 17:49|| Front Page Top

#8 That area just had a series of hail-producing storm move through, also tornados in north Oklahoma, and the way the stormline looks to me, better just start planning on possible tornadic activity in the area tonight. Work like it will, pray that it doesn't.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-05-23 17:55|| 2011-05-23 17:55|| Front Page Top

#9 try out codeword.org too see vids of the tornado andt the sheer size of it. Prayers go out too all those in Joplin, MO and surrounding areas. Looks and sounds like it was really bad. The devastaion looks like it was carpet bombed.

Posted by chris 2011-05-23 20:11|| 2011-05-23 20:11|| Front Page Top

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