Swarms of tornadoes killed at least 10 people across the Midwest, shut down the University of Kansas and damaged so much of Springfield, Illinois, on Monday that the mayor said “every square inch” of town suffered some effects.
The violent weather started during the weekend, part of a line of storms that stretched from the southern Plains up the Ohio Valley, and continued Monday.
The typical US tornado season tracks about one thousand tornadoes. There were one hundred — yesterday!
Missouri was hardest hit by the weekend storms, with at least nine people killed and hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed or damaged. Hail as big as softballs pounded parts of Missouri.
Bobby Ritcheson, 23, said he watched as a neighbor was killed south of Sedalia, Missouri. “The trailer came down right on top of her,” Ritcheson said from a Sedalia hospital where he had taken his pregnant wife out of concern she might be going into labor.
Nervous Nellies masquerading as environmentalists will extrapolate enormous fears from a single day’s events. The Bush ditto-heads will tell us to shut up because we might diminish profit margins on their futures contracts.
sweet, more proof of global warming.
“sigh”
The storms are just going to get worse and worse. Well I was waiting for this… the beginning of the end.
Actually, from the weather channel (weather.com) it states that it was 100 reports of tornadoes, not the actual number of tornadoes…
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/stormwatch/?from=wxcenter_news
…and I have family in the mid-west that tells me I’m crazy for living in California because there are earthquakes. I’ll take the shaking over the twisting and blowing.
like an earthquake shakes the whole state. I am in the arm pit of the central valley and we hardly ever feel earthquakes.
In the plains, these storms cross many mile and state lines. Even if I did feel a shake!
Couldn’t be happier to live in Canada (Eastern Ontario). I don’t have to worry about shaking ground, tornadoes falling out of the sky, hurricanes, volcanoes, G. Bush, …. For the last few years all we’ve really had to deal with is a few inches of snow.
if any of you know someone named kitty busch please tell her I hope she and the kids are ok.
I agree. I definitely like being in Ontario. Just buy a house on a hill, and you’re practically untouchable.
Bill, suppose George II decides to annexe Canada?
I’m praying that God will give you all of the needed strength to overcome. We experienced Hurricane Isabel which left our city like a war zone four years ago.. However, He got us through! Blessings can come from despair.
Joe
If God sent these tornadoes then he should also take responsibility and clean up the mess. If these tornadoes, and even Hurricane Isabel, were not the work of God, then why should we ask him for help now. Where the hell was he when we needed him !?!?!
Just a hammer, some nails, boards, and a little sweat will do more then all the praying in the world could ever accomplish.