Joplin is a mess

Pete Zicato · 05-24-2011, 02:01 PM

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/incre...f-a-joplin-mis

monster · 05-24-2011, 02:11 PM

I don't doubt it's a mess, it's just awful. But I don't think those pics are actually the same spot. I wouldn't doubt the devastated spot shown looked pretty damn similar to the top pic before, hard as that is to believe, I just don't think it's the same spot. there's a curb to the right in the second picture, and the hill doesn't look quite right.

But omg that's terrible. Nothing to do but bulldoze and start over, minus loved ones.

classicman · 05-24-2011, 08:38 PM

Agreed, I think the second is up the road a bit.
Damn, watched a bunch of coverage on it earlier tonight. Just awful.

monster · 05-24-2011, 11:03 PM

We've been to Joplin. It looked nice.

Pico and ME · 05-26-2011, 05:50 PM

Absolutely chilling first person video of the tornado hitting. It gets me everytime I watch it.

The Aftermath. Simply amazing.

Clodfobble · 05-26-2011, 06:13 PM

I'm completely amazed that anyone in there got out alive.

Pico and ME · 05-26-2011, 06:33 PM

Making that mad scramble into the cooler saved them. What a frightening experience.

Yesterday we had tornado warnings from 3pm til 11pm. I am more worried about the eventuality of a tornado now than I have ever been before. I put Turbo and Pico into a crate and got them and important paperwork downstairs to the basement with my purse, flashlights and a radio. I never took precautions like that before.

lookout123 · 05-27-2011, 02:09 AM

dumb as this might sound (paranoid maybe), might I suggest you make copies of important paperwork and bury them in a location you would be able to locate should everything in your entire neighborhood be flattened?

Say 8 paces north and 6 east of a particular not-possible-to-erase spot in town? I have a pelican case of crap buried about a mile and a half from the house on the other side of the ridge in a spot nobody will just stumble across but one that I'll easily find regardless of the nature of a disaster.

Yeah, I'm a bit paranoid and anal retentive.

ZenGum · 05-27-2011, 06:41 AM

Or, like, your mum's attic 20 kilometres away. Return the favour.

BigV · 05-27-2011, 01:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lookout123

dumb as this might sound (paranoid maybe), might I suggest you make copies of important paperwork and bury them in a location you would be able to locate should everything in your entire neighborhood be flattened?

Say 8 paces north and 6 east of a particular not-possible-to-erase spot in town? I have a pelican case of crap buried about a mile and a half from the house on the other side of the ridge in a spot nobody will just stumble across but one that I'll easily find regardless of the nature of a disaster.

Yeah, I'm a bit paranoid and anal retentive.

you must not associate with any geocachers....

or you would be paranoider.

DucksNuts · 05-30-2011, 04:45 AM

My ex is from Joplin, and although I had a look at this tornado path and its clearly not anywhere near their house - Im not sure what the etiquette is.... I see on the web that some people that are clearly family have lost their lives (unusual surname and they are all related)...I would like to know if he, his brothers, parents (separated - Joplin and Carthage) are ok...but ......I havent heard from him since he left in 2006 and I only have her email address.

Clodfobble · 05-30-2011, 10:29 AM

An acquaintance grew up in Joplin, and her elderly great-aunt's house was right in the path of the tornado, completely erased.

Yesterday morning my friend got a text from her dad saying that her great aunt was, quite unexpectedly, alive and well. Turns out she happened to leave a couple days before the storm to visit relatives on the other side of the family, and hadn't thought to check in (I guess she thought everyone already knew where she was.)

DucksNuts · 06-05-2011, 02:49 AM

Google stalk shows dickhead in Oklahoma

That will teach him to write coldfusion articles!!

casimendocina · 06-05-2011, 03:22 AM

05-24-2011, 02:01 PM	#1
Pete Zicato Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Chicago suburbs Posts: 2,916	Joplin is a mess http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/incre...f-a-joplin-mis __________________ Talk nerdy to me.

05-24-2011, 02:11 PM	#2
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I don't doubt it's a mess, it's just awful. But I don't think those pics are actually the same spot. I wouldn't doubt the devastated spot shown looked pretty damn similar to the top pic before, hard as that is to believe, I just don't think it's the same spot. there's a curb to the right in the second picture, and the hill doesn't look quite right. But omg that's terrible. Nothing to do but bulldoze and start over, minus loved ones. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

05-24-2011, 08:38 PM	#3
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Agreed, I think the second is up the road a bit. Damn, watched a bunch of coverage on it earlier tonight. Just awful. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

05-24-2011, 11:03 PM	#4
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	We've been to Joplin. It looked nice. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

05-26-2011, 06:13 PM	#6
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	I'm completely amazed that anyone in there got out alive. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

05-26-2011, 05:50 PM	#5
Pico and ME Are you knock-kneed? Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Middle Hoosierland Posts: 3,549	Absolutely chilling first person video of the tornado hitting. It gets me everytime I watch it. The Aftermath. Simply amazing.

05-26-2011, 06:33 PM	#7
Pico and ME Are you knock-kneed? Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Middle Hoosierland Posts: 3,549	Making that mad scramble into the cooler saved them. What a frightening experience. Yesterday we had tornado warnings from 3pm til 11pm. I am more worried about the eventuality of a tornado now than I have ever been before. I put Turbo and Pico into a crate and got them and important paperwork downstairs to the basement with my purse, flashlights and a radio. I never took precautions like that before. Last edited by Pico and ME; 05-26-2011 at 07:20 PM.

05-27-2011, 02:09 AM	#8
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	dumb as this might sound (paranoid maybe), might I suggest you make copies of important paperwork and bury them in a location you would be able to locate should everything in your entire neighborhood be flattened? Say 8 paces north and 6 east of a particular not-possible-to-erase spot in town? I have a pelican case of crap buried about a mile and a half from the house on the other side of the ridge in a spot nobody will just stumble across but one that I'll easily find regardless of the nature of a disaster. Yeah, I'm a bit paranoid and anal retentive. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

05-27-2011, 06:41 AM	#9
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Or, like, your mum's attic 20 kilometres away. Return the favour. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

05-30-2011, 04:45 AM	#11
DucksNuts Bitchy Little Brat Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 5,067	My ex is from Joplin, and although I had a look at this tornado path and its clearly not anywhere near their house - Im not sure what the etiquette is.... I see on the web that some people that are clearly family have lost their lives (unusual surname and they are all related)...I would like to know if he, his brothers, parents (separated - Joplin and Carthage) are ok...but ......I havent heard from him since he left in 2006 and I only have her email address.

05-30-2011, 10:29 AM	#12
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	An acquaintance grew up in Joplin, and her elderly great-aunt's house was right in the path of the tornado, completely erased. Yesterday morning my friend got a text from her dad saying that her great aunt was, quite unexpectedly, alive and well. Turns out she happened to leave a couple days before the storm to visit relatives on the other side of the family, and hadn't thought to check in (I guess she thought everyone already knew where she was.) __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

06-05-2011, 02:49 AM	#13
DucksNuts Bitchy Little Brat Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 5,067	Google stalk shows dickhead in Oklahoma That will teach him to write coldfusion articles!!

06-05-2011, 03:22 AM	#14
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