The KGB Oracle Forums General Public Discussion (SPECIAL) The KGB Back Room Joplin, MO Tornado.

It breaks my heart to see pictures and here stories from Joplin. I live 3 hours north of Joplin and right now we are getting pretty hit hard by heavy rain and high winds here. They have changed it from an f4 to and f5 tornado. Also they reported that it may have been one huge tornado with little tornado's inside it and that would cause the most damage over a wide area.

One story that adds insult to injury was that yesterday 2 police officers in joplin who was helping look for people inside down houses got struck my lighting. 1 is in serious condition.

[video:youtube]http://youtu.be/cQnvxJZucds[/video]



First video kinda made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

Yep, it is horrible & even more tornadoes for the area today.

This ranks up there with the worst I've ever seen, Geensburg, Ks. The whole town looked like picture 19 there was only 1 building left standing in the whole town it looked a nuke blast zone. I drove through Greensburg about 3 days after it happened and it seems unreal like this sort of thing couldn't really happen but your eyes are telling you differently. Fortunatly unlike Joplin nobody in Greensburg died. Regardless of your religion these people need our thoughts and prayers, and whatever help we can offer. Where do you go for help when everyone you know has lost everything just like you. Normally you have your friends, neighbors, and community to lean on in a time of crisis but, when all that is destroyed where do you turn. It takes a incedible amount of time to recover from such a thing. I drove through Greensburg a year later and there were only a couple of buildings rebuilt. Outside help finanly did come but unfortunatly many people had already left. It is sad very, very sad.

Five minutes behind the system going east to carthage, around joplin and then straight north to kc, sorry cant remeber the hyw numbers, it was all a blur and done at night, i know south bound and west bound were closed or detoured, and north bound was too so they could clear debris but they moved the cones for me just as i got to the detour. The poor semi truck in front of me had to take the alt route i wont lie to you that the luck of the gimp was with me, because it was

You can't come to KC I do not want you in my City, no gimps allowed.

We are glad the gimp made it ok.

already been there and gone Poobaby, Trust me I didn't miss much

Well you should have stayed alittle while longer I could have shown you some good old KC BBQ, then call my buddies from the highway patrol and they would have gave you a personal escort to the Iowa border :P

I was in KC all day for training today.

Just saying