The main idea of the articles is that the Joplin tornado was very traumatizing and scary for the people who survived it. A storm chaser named Jeff Piotrowski videoed the Joplin tornado and had to help lots of people out of the rubble, dead and alive. He said that it was like that house after house for three hours straight. He also said it was very traumatizing and you can’t just understand or make up how traumatizing it was.…
Little did she know how serious the tornado actually was. “The tornado was rated an EF-5 on the Enhanced-Fujita Scale (the maximum rating) with wind speeds over 200 miles per hour, and resulted in a damage path that was 22.1 miles long and up to 1 mile wide” (2011 Tornado Information). Fletcher stated how the weather there was always lousy, she even noted how a tornado would touch down every year. “I was surprised that it did so much damage, that shocked me” (Fletcher). Not only was damage done to the homes of those in Joplin, but to their lives as…
The articles "The Evil Swinging Darkness" and "The Storm Chasers First-Hand Account of the Joplin Tornado" is about how a deadly tornado struck the town of Joplin. Multiple tornado sirens sounded at different times showing that this was no little tornado this was the mother tornado. Thousands of people rush to the nearest shelter where very few made it. That day more than 1000 people were injured as well as leaving 158 dead. This tornado was extremely deadly but even those who survived were in big trouble.…
THE JOPLIN TORNADO The joplin tornado was one of the most destructive tornadoes in all of history. It was a wall of wind that destroyed anything in its path.it destroyed most of joplin. These tornadoes are so dangerous at joplin there were 158 dead and 1000 injured people after the attack. The effects on the people who survived through it are they could have been injured badly and had to go to the emergency room and pay thousands of dollars for surgery or plastic surgery or whatever you need.…
“You’d look on one side of the road and everything was destroyed, yet on the other side of the road, there’d be a house untouched.” Said Mary Crawford. Incredibly, the wind traveled over 260 miles per hour, and was ranked at F5 on the Fujita scale. The devastating tornado occurred on March 18, 1925. Although it happened long ago, it still has been the worst tornado to occur.…
Multiple homes in Henry and DeKalb counties have been destroyed by lightning and a tornado during today's storms that affected many areas of Alabama. A tornado in the Screamer community of Henry County caused "significant" damage to 25 homes and destroyed a "handful" of other houses, Emergency Management Agency officials said. The tornado was reported by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency around 12:30 p.m. The storm also blew down trees and snapped power poles.…
So if you are looking for something a little different on the Nintendo DS you will certainly find that with Tornado, but unfortunately you will also get a game with some lackluster gameplay and a story mode that makes as much sense as the characters do. Why oh why do the decide to make the characters talk but use silly noises instead of words, I mean it is like the sims who don 't speak English but in this game it is way more annoying than that, anyway read on for more info. Buying This Game Well in this day and age you can buy a game from any number of sources although mostly I tend to make my purchases online bit on occasion I might see something in an exchange shop or in a charity shop, well on this occasion the game purchase was online…
Suffers death, destruction 'was on April 28, 2011 in published in The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News By Jason Morton. The Topic of the news report is The Tornado That hit Tuscaloosa Wednesday Alberta devastated the community. at least 15 people have died and over 100 were injured by the devastating tornado that hit Tuscaloosa City on Wednesday afternoon reported. Destroying homes, businesses and other structures. The Mayor Walt Maddox reports that the storm killed 72 people in four states.…
On May 22, 2011, Joplin, Missouri was hit by an EF5 tornado. A News-Leader article written by Thomas Gounley, “Five years after the devastating Joplin tornado, here's what the city looks like,” written five years after the disaster, explains the lasting effects of the tornado on the city. The article explains where the tornado touched down, how much damage it did, and what the lasting effects are on the community. The focus of the article is to give readers an inside-view of how specific families were affected. There are many personal stories of those who lost their entire home and had to live in FEMA housing, shelters, or motels until a new house could be built for them.…
April 27, 2011 a major tornado struck down in Tuscaloosa, Alabama killing fifty-two people. This tornado was classified as an EF4 with winds reaching up to 190 miles per hour. The damage of this disaster impacted everyone in the community of over 80,000. “Many public facilities were damaged or destroyed including two elementary schools, a nursing home, a fire station, and the city’s emergency operation center” (Rush, S. C., Houser, R., & Partridge, A. 2015). Commercial property was also destroyed, over 300 businesses were impacted by the tornado.…
One night i received a message on snapchat that there was going to be a tornado in our town i got really scared because i had never been in a place that was going to be a tornado before i had no idea how to protect my family from the tornado i didn’t know what to do or how to plan so i panicked as i saw the tornado approached a lot of people and animals where dead and trees and plants and houses were destroy i drive my family to a safer place and stay there until the tornado has pass by we took some blankets and food and extra clothes and clothes that are warm to be in and to be safe from the tornado and stay…
When black Wacoans tell God, they tell the weather and the land. On May 11, 1953, divine violence upset the natural weather patterns in the central Texas landscape. Mary Denkins recalls in detail her father rushing to pick her up from the all-black Moore High School. She remembers hearing on the radio the threat of a massive tornado. When Mary arrived home, her mother gave a cautious, deliberate prophecy to her and her siblings: “God is fixin’ to work, so you all be quiet.”…
The Tornado Outbreak of 2011 was a powerful and devastating event that had many far-reaching effects. This was the largest and most expensive tornado outbreak ever recorded and caused 324 deaths. This event consisted of 363 separate tornadoes which is a record amount for a single outbreak. There was also heavy rain which led to flash floods, further inundating the victims of the storm. This storm began on April 25 with the first tornado landing in Vilonia, Arkansas.…
Hurricanes and tornadoes are two storms that can cause an enormous destruction in towns. This storms are similar to each other, but have different factor on the way they form, how long they last, how strong the winds are, when do they occur, and what are the warning sings. First of all, tropical cyclones are known by different names depending where in the world it occurs, for example, in North and Central America on the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean the storms are called hurricanes. Before it becomes a hurricane it has to pass through three stages. It starts out as a tropical disturbance because according to Wall and MSFC “hurricanes form over warm ocean water” and rain clouds start to form.…
In 2011, the city of Joplin Missouri and its near 50,000 residents had a tornado rip through the town for almost 38 minutes. The tornado was rated at an EF-5 magnitude with multiple vortexes. The late afternoon tornado ripped through the town at almost 1 mile wide. The storm had a major impact on the earth, major damages including deaths and injuries, an economic impact, and lasting consequences to the town.…