Joplin Tornado one of the worst tornados ever! part 2 of 3

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I guess it's side for me to
pick back up. What are you absolutely?

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And I'm looking forward to hearing more
of this ornado and Joplin, Missouri,

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where it's reaching peak intensity. As
the tornado track eastward, it maintained

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e F five strength as it crossed
Main Street Route forty three between twentieth and

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twenty sixth Street. It heavily damaged
every business along the stretch and virtually destroyed

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several institutional buildings. It tracked just
south of downtown, narrowly missing it.

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Entire neighborhoods were leveled in this area, with some more home swept completely away,

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and some trees were even stripped completely
of their bark. At the residences,

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reinforced concrete porches were deformed or in
some cases completely blown away. Damage

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to driveways was noted at some residents
as well. Ground scored. When that

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does that to the ground, that's
like when they rate go back in the

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rate storms tornadoes. The damage that
they can just do to the ground is

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part of how they rate these.
So the fact that this storm is destroying

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the ground as significant, which it
takes a lot to do that. Numerous

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vehicles were tossed up to several blocks, and a few homeowners actually never located

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their vehicle again. A large church, a nursing home, Franklin Technology Center,

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Saint Mary's Catholic Church and school,
and Joplin High School were all destroyed

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along this corridor. The Greenbrier Nursing
Home was completely leveled, with twenty one

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fatalities occurring there alone. No one
was in the high school at this time,

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luckily, because the high school had
just graduated and that day they actually

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had their graduation ceremony, but they
held it about five miles away, at

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five miles north of there at Missouri
Southern State University. You got to assume

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that that's very significant and fortunate that
nobody was in school when this happened.

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I can't imagine what it would have
been. This is at the school.

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Pieces of cardboard were found embedded in
one of the few or many walls that

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were standing. Carboard embedded in the
walls. Yeah, that's absolutely insane.

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Around the school, street beams and
pieces of fencing were deeply embedded into the

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ground and filled near still. Fence
posts were bent to the ground in opposite

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directions, and a school bus was
thrown into a nearby bus garage. As

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the tornado crossed Connecticut Avenue further to
the east, it destroyed several large apartment

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buildings, a Dylan's grocery store,
and a bank. Only the concrete safety

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deposit box vault remained at the bank, everything else was completely gone. A

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wooden two by four was found speared
completely through a concrete curb near this location.

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The tornado then approached Range Line Road, the main commercial strip in the

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eastern part of Joplin, affecting additional
neighborhoods along twentieth Street in the corridor between

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thirteenth and thirty second Streets, The
tornado continued seeing catastrophic damage as it reached

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its widest point. Tornado at this
point was nearly a mile wide. Cross

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As the tornado struck a pizza hut
on south Range Online Road, store manager

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Christopher Lucas gathered four employees and fifteen
customers into the walk in freezer. With

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difficulty closing the door, he wrapped
a bungee cord holding the door shut.

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On the other side, he wrapped
it around his arm. He was sucked

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completely out and killed by the tornado. When this happened, the tornado completely

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destroyed a Walmart Supercenter and Home Depot, and numerous other businesses and restaurants in

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this area, most of which were
flattened. Numerous metal roof trustles were thrown

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from the Home Depot building and were
found broken and mangled in nearby fields.

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Cars that were originated at the Home
Depot parking lot were found hundreds of yards

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away. Asphalt was ripped from the
parking lots of Walmart and a nearby by

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pizza restaurant, and large tractor trailers
were thrown over two hundred yards and Academy

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Sports, an outdoor store along range
line, sustained major structural damage and a

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chair was actually found with all four
legs pulled first into one of the remaining

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wall that was there. And nearby
three story apartment complex was also devastated and

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two cell phone towers had collapsed in
During this in the area, numerous cars

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were thrown and piled on top of
each other. One hundred pound manhole covers

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were removed from roads and thrown the
ground once again damaged, and a PEPSI

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distribution plant was completely leveled. Additional
calculations with regards to the manhole covers by

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the Ohio State University wind engineer that
referred to earlier revealed that the wind had

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to exceed two hundred twenty miles an
hour for the manhole covers to be removed.

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Many fatalities occurred in this area and
the damage was rated as EF five.

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Extreme damage continued in this area through
southeast Jopland. Mini houses and industrial

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and commercial buildings were flattened in this
area as well. The industrial park near

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the corner of twentieth was especially hit
hard, with nearly every building flatten.

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Several large metal warehouse structures were swept
cleanly from their foundation, and several heavy

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industrial vehicles were thrown up to four
hundred yards away in this area. One

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of the many warehouses affected was a
Cummins warehouse, a concrete block and still

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building that was destroyed. The last
area of EF FI damage occurred in the

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industrial park and a nearby gas station
inconvenience store was completely destroyed. Many homes

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were destroyed further to the east at
EF three and EF four strength in a

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nearby subdivision, and East Middle School
sustained major damage, weakening and dissipated at

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this point in time. The tornado
then continued on an east southeast directory towards

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I forty four where it weakened.
Nonetheless, vehicles were blown off off the

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highway and mangled near US seventy one
on what is now I forty nine interchange.

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The damage and around the interchange was
rate at EF two EF three.

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The weakening tornado continued to track into
rural areas of south eastern Jasper in northeastern

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Newton County, where damage was generally
minor to moderate, with trees, mobile

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homes, outbuilding and frame homes damaged
at EF zero to EF one strength.

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The tornado lifted east of Diamond at
six twenty pm. According to aerial surveys,

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the track length was twenty one point
sixty two miles long and the tornado

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was up to one mile whitest point
A total, and we'll get to this

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a little bit, total, one
hundred and fifty eight people were killed and

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over one thy one hundred and fifty
others were injured along the path. I'll

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play a video now, and the
next part of this will actually go to

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the aftermath. But this is some
of the footage that was occurring during this

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stuff. We just covered the CAZYRG
twenty four hour storm Center. Homes are

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damaged in Joplin. One guy just
called up. He says his home was

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totaled. So I just had another
caller say, a couple of houses damaged

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over by Saint John's Hospital. I
think our death told would have probably been

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much higher. But if it had
down offer down two forty nine forty four,

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Well, that was a pavilion using
our radio. Pavilion using our radio.

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It was three fifty seven speed hit
Hall that she recalled from whom in

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our last contact with Officer Water,
the last are moving. That's up,

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Sun's up, Carling's own colors down, go back the way you came,

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going on. We want to go
east really really bad. That's going right

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in downtown, dropping away, going
downtown. Watching this on your CAZy r

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G storm track of radar, and
that is a big area concerned tornado warning

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still in event until six thirty.
Got we're welcome to urs. We do

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have excessive damage to staking part.
Yeah. Yeah, everybody's just trying to

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get through it. It's not only
is it scary, it's sad. Yeah.

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These people are completely powerless, pretty
crazy. When the cop car is

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found uh destroyed in the civilians,
Officer down on the radio, that's crazy.

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You hear that. You hear somebody
saying, is that a civilian on

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our radio? So yeah, once, what do you even do? There's

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nothing you can do. You just
try to be as safe as you can.

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I don't I don't know you can. I literally don't know what you

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can do. Yeah, that's that's
ridiculous. It puts things into perspective.

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You know, all times you you
think about like different you have to deal

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with, and then you see people
go through stuff like that, and then

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like it's just you can't even compare, you know. Yeah, it's kind

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of like your sad stories is what
it should be called to night. It

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also pushs my stories perspective. I
talking about like monsters probably don't exist,

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maybe, but at the same time, you know, this thing does exist.

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It exists a lot. It's not
a damn thing you can do about

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it. No, and it is
a monster on its own A mile wide,

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yeah, but a mile white is
insane. It's huge. And it

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keeps talking about the ground being torn
up. I guess, like I'm trying

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to think of the word they use
for that, but it seems to be

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like if this thing can rip up
asphalt, that's very bad. What else

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said it grabbed the uh, the
manhole covers. Yeah, I ripped out

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the manhole covers. I think it
through something. What was this here?

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Industrial vehicles were thrown up to four
hundred yards. Yeah, that doesn't make

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sense, Like, how is that
physically possible? Leveled a pepsi distribution plant

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that you said the manhole covers.
It takes at least two hundred twenty miles

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an hour to win to do that, and along the way it's destroying neighborhoods.

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It found a chair. Let a
chair is excuse me? The legs

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of the chair were impalled completely into
the wall, all four legs. Did

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I also say it put two by
four through a concrete Yeah, it said

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it put it. It stuck it
clear into a concrete curb, just sticking

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out of there into it particularly possible. That doesn't make any sense. It

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doesn't make any sense. But what
it is is when the wind strength is

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simply that strong, it can happen. It can blow a card into brick.

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What makes it so scary and dangerous
is this particular storm was moving at

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times ten miles an hour, which
is absurd. Typically these things will move

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in I don't know, thirty to
forty fifty miles an hour, So this

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storm was moving ten miles an hour, which is not so Imagine this wide,

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a mile long wide storm moving ten
miles an hour. It's basically probably

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feels like it's sitting on you and
salt. It was a siege. It's

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sucking up more and more debris that
it's then using as Basically it's basically a

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deadly weapon at that point in time, any flying around. I mean,

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it breaks all laws of like what
we believe is possible because of how crazy

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it is. Yeah, I was
actually looking it up while you're reading.

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I had heard this before, but
it means we should bring it up.

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Uh, In the US, all
tornadoes in the entire planet happened in the

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US. Yeah, and everywhere else
they're usually like yeah, zero whenever there

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is a tornado. Right, we
were the only country on the planet that

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has these nightmarish tornadoes there. Yeah, they're France from Some countries have had

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them, but they're very rare,
super rare. But here it seems to

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be this particular city, I think
it said it had uh what I say,

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three tornado in the last forty years. None of them obviously were comparable

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with this but yeah, but it's
it's interesting, like there was no there's

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this guy on online. This is
a little bit of a tangent, but

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he talked about how he came.
He used to live in England and he

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moved here and he saw the storms
we have and he was like, what

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is wrong with you people that he
would live here. It's funny that you

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say that, because there was a
when I was looking into some of this

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footage, there was a guy from
California that was the first time that day.

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He had only he moved there two
weeks before. He had never heard

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a tornado, He had never been
in a tornado warning. You know.

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He was I think he said thirty
something when he moved, so this was

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just traumatizing him. But he didn't
even know. He was actually the one

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earlier in the footage where he said, like where do we go? And

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I think they went in the closet
and then the power went out immediately,

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like literally didn't know what to do. Right, It's not something you think

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about out unless you're obviously we know
here what to do how we react those

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completely different. This is a city
that in an area that's prone to tornadoes,

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right, but not prepared for something
like this. No, you can't

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be. And we'll get into it
in the aftermath part. When you go

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to like Oklahoma City, there's so
many tornadoes of great strength that travel a

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very similar path from like more Oklahoma
City that area, and they have a

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whole other building code on how they
build home build homes there. This area

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is not quite up to that,
and we'll get into that a little bit.

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But yeah, I don't think you
can be prepared for something like this.

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No, and I don't think.
I don't. I don't know if

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you picked up on it. But
we've also at this point in the in

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the story, identified that the fire
stations have been taken out. Uh,

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the hospital was on the it was
in the beginning part of the town,

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and we'll get to that in the
aftermath. So systemdically, this thing has

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it's damaged communications, their search and
rescueability. Then they're medical say systematically,

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Yeah, of course I didn't mean
to, but it almost seems like it

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does seem like as a creature,
right, Yeah, you take out all

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those things, what are people going
to do? Yeah, and some of

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this footage that we're seeing, obviously
it's not the worst of the things that

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happen, and when you see this
aftermath, it'll blow your mind. But

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uh, it's because they couldn't.
The people that could have probably film the

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worst are dead, to be honest, Yeah, or didn't have probably couldn't

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physically do it. So these areas
that we're seeing were really bad. But

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I'm I don't want to say I'm
excited, but I'm excited to share with

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you what the aftermath is, just
so everybody watching can get the whole grasp

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of it. Good. Some of
that, Yeah, we're live across all

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social media. We have some people
saying, what a massive force force of

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nature, What a scary, dangerous
thing. All you can do you as

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duck and cover. Yeah, and
then somebody points out that a lot of

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times, yeah, and we'll cover
that a lot of times these things cause

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fires, electrical issues and other things. What the person's saying, it's a

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lengthy comment, but they're saying that
the this is just the first part of

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it. It's what comes next to
and we'll get to some of that.

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Absolutely, this is a nightmare.
Yeah, yeah, I agree. Jeff

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Townsend Media sees you good night,
and the question is do I stay here?

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Will you be back? Are you
gonna come back. Will you be

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back, Are you coming back?