WD, i seriously hope someone is smart enough to keep em out of joplin.
Their walking into a town thats scared,scarred, stressed, tired, comeing down off the adrenalin rush of terror and survival. A town thats losts 132 babies, children, teens wives n husbands. Full of volunteers that have literaly showed up from all over the country to help.
As stupid as that bunch is i cant beleive their that stupid.
There wont be no 'safe spot' across the street for them like at the funerals they have terrorised. Their walking into a lions den of really bad tempered lions.
BBH, its been kind of information overload here with so much to go through. Ive just been trying to pass along the more important stuff.
Lot of redundancy in the reports agency to agency and day to day.
A lot of survivors are getting fed up with the red tape and govt...lets say meddleing. Especialy when it comes to them being able to identifying their dead.
Their not letting the families that know they have lost someone or those looking for missing family members into the secret morgue.
When asked why not last night the Missouri Department of Public Safety deputy director Andrea Spillars gave the reporter some of the best govt double speak saying nothing.
Basicly she said they have to positively identify the dead by DNA, fingerprints dental records ect BEFORE they can let a family member identify them?????????
Being as most wont have a fingerprint on file, dental records are blown into the next couple of counties, and i dont think their going to be able to get a dna sample from a hairbrush at home, its going to be hard.
Id think letting a family member would be able to positively identify most of them.
The govt and its red tape is really starting to gum up the works and work on peoples nerves. Causeing even more problems.
Word is they have only had bout 5 people caught looting so far, its been minimal. But they got some woman last night thats come off the bottom of the barrel.
Had been walking around sifting through stuff acting like she was helping or belonged there carrying a duffel bag.
Someone noticed she had been in several places sifting through debris for 'her stuff' where she didnt belong. When checked they found jewlry stuffed in the duffel bag. Gold, silver, coins and not sure what else besides a laptop computer. All had debris stuck to them.
She had been robbing peoples homes acting as if they were hers or families from what i heard on the news.
Death toll went to 132 with the list of missing dropping to 156.
"# 90 persons reported located
# 6 persons confirmed deceased by the federal Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) and next of kin notified.
# 22 additional missing persons reports filed
# 2 persons confirmed as duplicates"
Mayor ordered flags in joplin flown at half mast.
"Gov Nixon declared Sunday as an official State Day of Prayer and Remembrance. U.S. and Missouri flags will fly at half-staff at all government buildings in Missouri on Sunday."
"JOPLIN, Mo. -- The National Weather Service provided additional insight into the decision to rate the tornado last Sunday at the top of the Enhanced Fujita Scale. The tornado was given an initial rating of an EF-4 before it was upgraded the next day.
Bill Davis with the National Weather Service said investigators look at structural damage and how far heavy objects were thrown. This tornado, for example, tossed concrete parking lot "bumpers" that sit low to the ground and can weigh up to 300 pounds.
The NWS investigators also noted that tractor-trailers parked near the Wal-Mart store were thrown farther than 1/8th mile. Manhole covers were also lifted and tossed.
The tornado's path is an estimated six miles long. It's from three-quarters of a mile to a mile wide at some points. The winds are estimated to have briefly hit between 225 and 250mph."
The head of the springfield NOAA likened it to the eyewall of a major hurricane comeing ashore. A VERY powerfull EF5 like the monster in texas years ago.
Before and after pics of Joplin from street level. Use the slider and you have to have version 10 or higher of the Adobe Flash Player.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/05/26/136683899/before-and-after-st...Rain here again today. Buy a weather radio people and make up a disaster kit and keep an eye on the sky.
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