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Ntxw wrote:psyclone wrote:unfortunately, unlike many severe events that yield calm the following day, southwest missouri looks to have a respectable severe threat tomorrow as well.
God forbid it to become a situation like Tuscaloosa. Many were without power due to storms and tornadoes not long before the big one and many did not have access to warnings.
vbhoutex wrote:wx247 wrote:CrazyC83 wrote:So what will Joplin get rated I wonder?
I say it depends on the quality of construction, that would be the difference between EF4 and EF5.
The hospital damage was probably EF3, the houses around it EF4. But there may have been EF5 damage elsewhere.
If you can find a before and after picture of the St John's Hospital you will be surprised by how devastated it actually is.
There is nothing except rubble as far as the eye can see. I saw not one wall even standing. Part of the equation is the quality of construction, but from what I saw that hospital was pretty well trashed and to say the least it is a substantial structure. An EF5 designation would not surprise me, but imo EF4 is a definite.
OverlandHurricane wrote:Don't mean to take away from the coverage of the carnage down in Joplin, but the north side of Minneapolis got slammed today too.
http://www.startribune.com/local/122417279.html <= News story from the Strib
http://www.startribune.com/blogs/122425914.html <= Paul Douglas' blog with a recap of what happened in MSP
http://www.startribune.com/galleries/122418214.html <= Reader submitted photos.
Minneapolis PD and Hennepin County Sheriff are enforcing a curfew between I-94 and Penn to the east/west, and Plymouth and Dowling Avenues on the north/south sides. Apparently, there has been some looting going on.
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