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

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We'll jump back into the Joplin tornado. So we're gonna change it up a

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bit this time. We're gonna start
off with the final clip the aftermath of

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the storm, and then I'll pick
back up and we'll finish off. Sounds

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good to me. There are people
that are there, got to be answered

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right now, Josh, Their people
fatalities right now, people are trapped,

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Josh, that used to be here, they're totally gone. This is bad.

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My gosh, this is bad.
Oh my gosh. Okay, are

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you talking to Kena? What I
wanted to do? Where? I don't

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know? Looking around, I don't
know. Look at that that is destroyed

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completely. We're gonna turn around.
Oh my gosh, oh oh oh,

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you have through that way. Ye
see we come in the bullet watch see

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why that is gone? Break above? Oh no, my dad, one,

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I love. I cannot believe this. The lady out with a broken

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back, broadcasting live from the darkened
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Center. Power is out. We
are running a backup generators at this hour.

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I understand whether I got alication that
the hospitals were in from here,

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I'm trying to get to that side
of town. There's just people Joshua done

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stobbing hundred. A woman was reportedly
seeing an X ray X rays in her

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front yard, and that just gives
you a visual to how far this damage

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is reaching. But if you think
this is bad, check out this over

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here. This is a neighborhood that
is completely flattened by this tornado. There

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are dozens of people walking up and
down the street trying to figure out it

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through. We have sustained a major
direct hit here in Joplin. Now,

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Chad, you've described some damage and
we're trying to understand the situation. And

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as we can understand it now,
Joplin will never be the same after this

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tornadic event. And when I was
twenty fourth and Main, I could look

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all the way to the west and
all the way to the east, and

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I saw no structure stand up and
they're still yeah. I don't recognize where

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I'm at right now. I don't
tak a blue lip soon. Don't want

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to ride somewhere, dude, I
don't want I don't I don't know if

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I want to go here. I
don't know. I don't want to be

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somebody can help, don help,
thank We have picture all right, here's

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the gas station that we were at. We parked right over there. Our

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car got blown away. The front
door was just right there. The job

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of tornado was getting where from a
half mile to three quarter a mile wide

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at its widest point, and was
on the ground for about thirteen miles.

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Approximately seventy five hundred homes were damaged. Okay, after math and impact of

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the jop On tornado. A preliminary
survey of the tornado damage by the National

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Weather Service office in Springfield began on
May twenty third. The following day,

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the initial survey confirmed a violent rated
EF four damage. Surveys, however,

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found evidence of more intense damage as
the tornado was upgraded to an EF five

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with winds between two hundred and twenty
five to two hundred and fifty miles an

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hour. This is actually an interesting
thing because for some reason, don't I

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don't know why, there's a lot
of rating disputes on that, and we'll

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get to that here a little bit, but this seemed to be a common

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thing where the rating if this thing
was actually an EF five or not.

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But obviously the damage was crazy.
The scope of the damage was immense.

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According to a local branch of the
American Red Cross. About twenty five percent

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of Joplin was destroyed, though emergency
officials reported some level of damage to about

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seventy five percent of the city.
A week after the tornado, Joplins mayor

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estimated that twenty five percent of the
businesses licensed in the city were damaged or

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destroyed. Nine hundred and sixty four
buildings were damaged in Joplin, including seven

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four hundred and eleven residential buildings and
five hundred and fifty three non residential.

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At least thousand, seven hundred and
thirty four of those buildings, including three

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one hundred and eighty one residential buildings
and all five hundred and fifty three to

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none were non residential buildings, sustained
so much damage they were considered destroyed from

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an insurance standpoint. According to the
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency, two hundred

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and sixty four homes were impacted and
of those, eight hundred and eighty four

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were significantly damaged and four thy three
hundred and eighty were considered destroyed. So

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this is some damage to the infrastructure
of Joplin. Tornado also severely damaged critical

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infrastructure to the city, hampering emergency
response and recovery efforts we talked about the

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two of the main three fire stations
were completely destroyed. Two hospitals both had

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damaged, one destroyed, and approximately
four thousand electrical distribution poles were damaged.

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More than one hundred and ten miles
of distribution line brought down, one hundred

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and thirty five transmission towers affected.
All the electrical work in the path was

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basically destroyed. Twenty thousand people were
left without power, and of those home

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left without power, they didn't get
the back till about ten to twelve days

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later, which is huge. The
cost of rebuilding just the electrical system was

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calculated to be about twenty six twenty
seven million dollars to the infrastructure of electricity.

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The tornado also caused about four thousand
leaks and water service lines, dropping

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Joplin's water system pressure below operating level. Approximately three thousand, five hundred gas

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meters and fight and fifty five thousand
feet of gas maine were damaged, and

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it took weeks to get to every
gas leak figure out where they're all coming

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from. Some damaged mains could not
be shut off because they were serving in

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critical facilities like the healthcare systems.
The loan remaining hospital and Joplin obviously couldn't

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shut everything off because of you need
at the hospital. Twenty one cell phone

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towers were down and fiber cables damaged. Cellular communications rendered useless, disabling voice

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calls and texts. Insurance. An
early estimate from the catastrophic risk modeling from

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Equate placed the insurance losses from the
tornado at three billion dollars USD. By

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mid June, more than nineteen thousand
insurance claims had been filed, a number

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that eventually rose to sixty one thousand, a total payout for more than two

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billion dollars, thirty one percent going
to homeowners, five percent to those who

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lost vehicles. The impact of the
insurance industry was not so much due to

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the number of claims, but the
cumulative effect of such a large number of

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total losses. In those claims,
more than twenty five hundred local people employed

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and insurance were involved in some capacity. The two point eight billion dollars in

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damage is the largest amount for a
tornado since nineteen fifty casualties. We talked

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about this earlier. The official death
toll from the National Weather Service listed at

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one hundred and fifty eight, while
the city at Joplin listed at one hundred

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and sixty one. Shortly after the
tornado, authorities had listed thirteen hundred people

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as missing. The number quickly dwindled
down as they were accounted for. Many

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people were reported to have been trapped
in destroyed houses. Nearly thirty people were

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actually rescued the following day after this
tornado. That happened at six pm,

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so the following day they had been
trapped there the whole day they were rescued.

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Of the one hundred and forty six
sets of remains recovered from the rebel,

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one hundred and thirty four victims have
been positively identified, so not even

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all identified. This total number included
four sets of partial remains, some of

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which had been longer to the same
person. A couple weeks later they identified

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four more people. Of course,
there were people that you know, banished

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in this completely infants and terrible things
like that. The Joplin Globe reported that

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fifty four percent of the people killed
in that were killed died in the residents,

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thirty two percent diet and non residential
areas, and fourteen percent died in

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vehicles or outdoors. Job one officials
after the tornado, announced plans to require

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that they submitted this proposal hurricane ties
or other fasteners between houses of their foundations,

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something that would cost about seven hundred
dollars per house. Officials rejected this

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to have these be a requirement in
basements, and they also rejected in a

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proposal of having basements being a requirement
in new houses. Officials strangely noted that

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as of two two thousand and nine, only twenty eight percent of job ones

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new homes had basements, compared to
thirty eight percent two decades before. But

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it's important to note also that a
lot more population increased and that than the

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previous survey. Injuries range from cuts, bruises to impaalments by large debris.

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To the conclusion of that oney,
five hundred people were injured and or severely

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injured enough to seek medical treatment.
It also says that they rescued nearly one

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thousand pets, with two hundred and
ninety two almost three hundred homeowners rating dispute.

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Like I said, the American Society
of Civil Engineers and the National Weather

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Service went back and forwards on if
this was an EF four EF five.

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National Weather Service kind of got the
last gets the last call here. They

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do agree with the civil engineers that
at a lot of the damage was equivalent

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to EF three e F four throughout
it, But there was certainly things that

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happened in several areas, even though
they may have been small areas, that

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were undeniably EF five if you go
off of the capability of it. Example,

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the manhole cover, what was able
to do with impalement? That debate

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went down as a EF five one
was all said done, Yeah, okay,

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So just to go into that,
concrete being removed, manhole covers,

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reinforce porches, driveways, asphalt being
ripped from the earth, the presence of

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wind road structured debris, instances of
very large vehicles such as buses, vans,

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and semi trucks being thrown hundreds of
yards or several blocks from their original

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points of origin, the fact that
some homeowners actually never really relocated their vehicles

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again, and the overwhelming extent and
totality the destruction were also put into consideration

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to finalize that as any F five. Here's some facts on the cleanup.

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The Joplin tornado generated an estimated three
million cubic yards of debris and amount sufficient

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to cover a football field one hundred
and twenty stories high. Removal efforts lasted

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for months, and at their height, more than four hundred and ten trucks

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a day were removing debris to landfills
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The tornado also led to a renewed
lead contamination on many of Joplin's properties.

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Because if you remember, we went
back to the beginning the story, that's

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what this area was founded on lead
and development of that. So the reason

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it was able to kind of lead
to this reoccurring of lead contamination here is

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because there's a lot of ruminiscce of
this and underground trees, foundations, stuff

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like that, and it was actually
uprooted, and they found about forty percent

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of the yards and southern Joplin had
been contaminated. Chunks of raw lead were

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in some places. They were sitting
around the size of tennis balls or golf

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balls. The city spent more than
five million just to clean up this lead

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contamination. They had to get grants
to do so. Basically they had to

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handle this seriously, removing the lead, cleaning the topsoil, putting new top

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soil down, and of course they
had to pass requirements before, like anything

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that could be rebuilt had to be
tested before it could be. FEMA maintained

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a large presence after this following the
tornado, with as many as eight hundred

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and twenty employees working in the city. The city warned by federal officials that

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it should expect to lose twenty five
percent of its population following the tornado.

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They actually responded pretty quickly, though, and built an average of five houses

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a week between twenty eleven and twenty
twenty two. Most businesses reopen and more

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than three hundred new businesses opened between
these last was it twelve years? And

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here's the last interesting fact here.
There was some conversation about the mental health

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impact that it had. There were
twenty people they said, committed suicide and

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the wake of this and obviously had
a big impact on the mental health for

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the residents for quite a while,
and I'm sure to this day it's not

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something that you know, goes away. Calls about domestic violence grew for the

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less next several years, much higher
than they were post this tornado. That's

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rough, really bad. Yeah,
everybody's standing. They need of storms shelter

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after that. Yeah, Yeah,
that was a lot of debris. They

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said, how many football field high
one hundred and twenty stories high, one

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hundred yards wide, hundred and twenty
stories high. This doesn't even make sense,

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no, But but when you look
at the video that we watched,

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you can see how it would easily
be that. Now. I would do

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want to talk about that video a
little bit because it did a good job

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of grasping severity of the situation.
So the person a couple people, but

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one comment really stood out to me
said, I don't even know where I'm

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at. Yeah. Now, so
imagine you went outside right now and everything

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was just wiped out right, you
wouldn't know where you're at. There's no

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street signs, there's no structures standing
right, How would you know where you're

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actually at? Yeah? That's that
is crazy. One thing you were talking

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about there was they thought about passing
like the requirement to have hurricane ties to

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prevent debris and stuff like that,
and it'd be like seven hundred dollars per

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building. When you said that,
I was like, man, hurri getting

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ties it? What those are?
What? I looked it up while you're

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reading. I bought these things for
my SHD for the rafters. They're a

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bucket piece. Yeah, I don't
know, it says to the foundation.

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I don't know what all that consists
of. They're they're for you could use

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it for like basically everything, but
basically tying it in a certain way to

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something else to just prevent it from
flying off. And yeah, it ties

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like the floor joists to the foundation
or the rafters to the Yeah frame,

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how how cheap can you be too? You know, well to not They

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try to also go as extreme and
you can call it extreme or not extreme

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as to make it where you had
to have a basement in any new house

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that didn't get passed. I'm not
surprised. That's a pretty that's a significant

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increase, but makes you see why
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, they have

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much more strict requirements on building codes
and much higher rate of shelters. What

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did it so? Interesting enough?
Here also the number of basements being put

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in new homes that actually decreased from
the two decades prior. What do you

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think that is? When I looked
at it, I thought it was probably

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because a pretty booming population, so
building a lot of homes just didn't put

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basements in them. Yeah, huh, she's so much sunpacked there. It's

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just weird that you know they wouldn't. There are some things that are makes

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sense to add in, and something
like hurricane ties cheap add for future buildings

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that should have been a requirement.
After that, you talk about how this

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compares to hurricane that's like it's like
eighty ninety mile an hour. No,

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no, but okay, so there's
nothing with that powerful in the world as

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a tornado that we just talked about, Well, it's the equivalent of a

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bomb, atomic bomb. But the
problem with the hurricane is its sustain winds

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can last twenty four hours, can
last twelve hours, yeah, which makes

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it very deadly, right, you
know what I mean, that countless surge,

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right, yeah, yeah, but
this event is quick, this tornado

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when tornado happens. But I think
this is so scary to me because you're

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really powerless. You can do.
You can get these hurricane ties and stuff,

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but from the way it looked at
some of these neighborhoods, they're just

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all wiped out. Yeah no,
yeah, there was no stop in that.

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I think the idea is to prevent
flying debris exactly. No, you're

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right, because that's becomes the most
dangerous thing yeah, and they talked about

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all the different number of people that
went to the hospital with impalement. And

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when I was editing a lot of
this footage, there was a nurse talking

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about some of the different things she
saw that we're stuck in people. Is

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terrifying. Can't imagine just from the
wind, different vibe tonight on your scary

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stories. But yeah, a truly
terrifying story. And I have never been

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seen a tornado. You've never been
in one? What did you say?

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You say you've never been in one. I've never actually seen one either.

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I've been about four miles away from
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but I didn't see it, and
it was F one or two. It

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was not like this. Obviously,
there was this one time. I'm not

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harm so certain it was a tornado. It probably wasn't. They never officially

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said it was. But I was
in the restaurant and the roof got peeled

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off the top, and I do
know for a fact that I felt like

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the windows were going to explode at
one point, and so like it may

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have just been a straight line wind
that was this out of control, yeah,

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or it was like a lolo or
tornado that touched down for a split

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second and then ripped it off and
went away. But yeah, this like

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this is like what we just saw
was like hand of God level. Uh

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yeah, how many miles? How
long was this thing? Cach It said

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it was touchdown in a mile wide
for about sixteen miles of going across you

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said earlier it was going at ten
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is going ten miles an hour was
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an hour or something like that that
it was going through that area. Yeah,

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so that okay, So aerial surveys
when you go back and they showed

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that they're at the end of the
video, are insane, A drone,

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helicopter, whatever you want to look
at it with. Yeah, twenty one

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miles long and up to a mile
wide. This thing stayed on the ground

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for twenty one miles and we actually, you go back to earlier, the

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first part of this, you actually
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which, yeah, I don't want
to say was pretty cool. But it

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went from a tiny It went from
like a normal tornado to this, like

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you said, an act of God, this monster in seconds. Yeah,

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that was ridiculous. Yeah, I've
seen some footage before, but I never

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saw all that like aftermath or anything
like that, or even like the during

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of it. And so some of
that photage there was just absolutely terrifying to

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look at and just it makes you
what you feel bad watching it, but

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it also makes you count your blessings
that you've done. You're not if you're

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not there. Yeah, a lot
of people said that they referred to what

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the scene that they saw as people
walking like zombies down the street with very

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like a few possessions they found.
I could see that. What did you

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think about the infrastructure? How it
mentioned that That's something I guess you don't

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typically think about right when you think
it, right, all those gas lines

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and everything that are ruptured and everything
water, gas and electrical. It just

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decimated the electrical infrastructure in that town. I mean this stuff one hundred and

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ten miles of distribution power line.
Yeah, stuff like that takes forever roof

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fix you, uh, And so
that being destroyed that also slows down the

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repairs, right, because if you
don't have access to power to do things,

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you can't fix things. No.
Today, there was a lot of

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people on the when I researched this
that were talking about how they were trying

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to get they were out of town
and they were trying to get back home

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into Joplin after this one. They
didn't know where they're at. There's no

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street signs, and that's something you
kind of take for granted when you don't

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have anything to reference. And two
there was so much debris. Couldn't even

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get to your house. Yeah,
they people talked about parking half a mile

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away and walking there. You don't
even know what you're out walk to.

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Like, well, in that one
reference that guy said when he looked in

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two different directions, is nothing.
Yeah, all. And then they showed

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that neighborhood outside of the hospital gone
gone. It's like there's nothing to go

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back to, it's gone. And
that is insanity to me. It's like

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you think about it's like what would
you even do? Like can you process?

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That's why I'm not surprised at the
like they said, the increase in

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suicides and stuff like that. Yeah, stuff like that takes a toll on

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human human beings that is just hard
to quantify. And it's like being at

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war. It's like you said,
a bomb. Yeah, that's why everybody

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kept saying, it's like a bomb
destroyed everything. There was a there was

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a what did you think about the
pizza hut manager that was killed? That's

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terrify you can see, like trying
to get everybody into a safe place.

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That was actually a really sad part. I was thinking about that. I

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was thinking about, you know,
walkings that've been in and it's like they're

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a pretty structurally Usually they're a good
place to put the girl. They have

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wall there in the middle of the
place. Yeah, I mean yeah,

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but there they are so big and
so like, you know, you try

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to save everybody and you're not gonna
have that kind of room. Yeah.

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No, I've never seen a walk
in that could fit the amount of people

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he was trying to put in there. One story I heard and I didn't

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I didn't play it. Sure,
it is incredibly sad, You're sad stories

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tonight was they were looking for their
baby and there's so many random sounds,

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toys going off, it's about impossible
to locate anything. So they weren't able

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to. But another interesting thing come
from this was what it did to the

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animals that were there, the horses, the cows. Yeah, they would

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just say you could hear shots in
the distance, just some of them couldn't

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be saved, but they're so badly
hurt. But it's like just so much

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of an impact that you never think
about. That's why I thought, like,

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this is sad, as tragic as
can be. And kudos to this

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community. It sounds like they're strong
as hell and they've made a big comeback.

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Yeah, but it's it's it's sad, but it's more than anything,

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it's scary, like this could happen
where I'm at in Indiana, this could

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happen where you're at. This could
happen at a lot of places, but

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there's just nothing that prepares you for
it. Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah,

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I kind of want to go there
sometimes just to see what kind of a

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community can rebound from something like that. There's obviously some things will never be

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replaced for the life and all that, Yeah, you can't ever replace that,

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and nothing will ever go back to
being the exact same. It's just

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a new normal now and they're definitely
making a go over. Though it's important

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to note also that there has to
be a learning experience from this because way

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too many people died. I mean, that is an abnormal, insane This

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was an abnormal and saint storm.
But that is a very large amount of

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fatalities. Yeah, so you hope, and I'm sure there's a lot of

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things that were taken away from this. I watch a lot of air crash

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investigators to airplanes. A lot something
comes out of every crash, right regulation

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of finding. You just hope that
in this particular instance that something would come

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out of that because there we talked
to Oklahoma City. They have had several

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yeah fives, right, but not
this fatality level typically. I mean,

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could be I could be speaking out
of my mind. There's some big ones,

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but with a twenty minute warning,
which is pretty sufficient. However,

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it's scary because there's just nothing you
could do. You could drive, hope

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you drove the right way. I
guess you could try to drive away fast.

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It wasn't a very fast moving storm. It was between forty and ten

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miles an hour. You got to
think about it though, that I'm sure,

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and I know a lot of other
tornado stories the road dude. First

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of all, if you're behind the
eight ball, you can't get around the

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debris. But everybody trying to leave
at the same time as problematic to you

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when something like that, there's just
no real good answer. Jeff Townsend Media

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

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

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Are you coming back?