Holy Shite 1,500 people still missing in Joplin

[malaise]

119 people dies.
This is devastation :cry: :cry:

[RKP5637]

1. It horrible. It's like a huge carpet sweeper ran over the city. n/t

[RainDog]

2. one tornado chaser said the thing was a mile wide

I've seen pictures of the devastation - my heart goes out to the people there.

[The Wielding Truth]

4. Was it the tornado's size and intensity or because it hit a more populated area?

Is it a product of global "weirding"? Either way it is a frightening and devastating event. I will send money to the red cross.

[RainDog]

6. I don't know

...in answer to all of your questions.

I just saw a storm chaser's video and the some footage of the devastation.

[Horse with no Name]

15. It was literally "the perfect storm"

It was very large and very intense AND hit a populated area.

The good thing was that it was on a Sunday afternoon and not a weekday afternoon.

[aquart]

3. Did the 1,500 live in the same place?

[malaise]

5. What?

Heard the numbers on M$NBComcast

[malaise]

12. Looks like quite a few did

http://php.delawareonline.com/joplin/

[aquart]

14. Yeah, that's probably what I was thinking of.

Someone mentioned on Twitter that her building was okay, but the rest of the complex was gone.

[cbdo2007]

7. source???

I haven't heard that number anywhere.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. Here's a NYT link

In Wake of Tornado, Official Says 1,500 Are Unaccounted For

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/us/25tornado.html

[cbdo2007]

13. damn :(

[malaise]

9. M$NBComcast and CNN n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

10. Hopefully they'll find some trapped and alive today before the storms get there

Then there's the near certainty that some of them are just misplaced, but otherwise well, due to the chaos after a disaster.

[malaise]

11. Sure hope most of them are just misplaced

It's so easy for life to change in a few hours.