I said that based on the calm the experienced after the initial hit. Bad...calm... bad. You're making an assumption based on pictures and I made a assumption based on video sound. Who's right? Well since you've been watching CNN now, I will withdraw my statement. I hope they find that guy alive that was sucked out of the sunroof of his car. The pessimistic side in me doesn't have much hope. What a horrible image for a father to live with this doesn't have a happy ending.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...ut_of_cars_sunroof_during_jopl.html?r=topnews A Joplin family is pleading for help in finding a new high school grad who they say was sucked out of his car by the deadly weekend twister that killed 118 people. Will Norton was on his way home with his father after getting his diploma from Joplin High School when the tornado struck the Missouri city, his family told CBS News Tuesday. The 18-year-old and his dad, Mark, were racing to get home as the twister barreled down on them, Will Norton's sister Sara said on the "Early Show." "We left about five minutes before them," she said. "We barely made it in the garage." Mark called his daughter while they were on the road, and was on the phone with her when they were caught up in the twister. "He was telling my brother, 'Pull over, pull over,' " Sara said. "I heard the tornado whipping them around. I had a feeling they were flipping around in the air. It was just really scary." The Hummer H3 was crushed by the tornado when family members reached it, just a short distance from their house. Will Norton had just received his diploma with the graduating class at Joplin High School when the tornado hit. "They had to cut Mark out of it," said Tracey Presslor, Will Norton's aunt. Will was nowhere to be found. Sara said her father, who suffered several broken bones and a head injury, told them he fought to save the teen. "He said he had his arms around Will when they started flipping, and Will's seat belt snapped and he flew through the sunroof," she said. The family has been desperately struggling to find him ever since. They received news that he may have been alive at a hospital in Joplin, but that he was later moved. "We heard that he was checked into the hospital, he was alive," Presslor told Anderson Cooper on CNN, adding that he was later transferred and they had received no word about him since. The family has set up a Facebook page, Help Find Will Norton, along with a phone number - (757) 751-9455 - in hopes of getting more information. They're not alone. Dozens of Facebook pages have been established by concerned relatives and friends seeking loved ones. There's even a website dedicated to listing names of those missing, as well as contact information. The tornado that tore through Joplin is being considered one of the deadliest in more than 50 years.
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Watching the live streams here too. They rotate through the photoage to show the best live streams. http://www.weather.com/tv/tvshows/Livestream/
Wow. The most amazing/alarming thing about that pic is the way it wiped out the trees too. You don't often see them get that powerful.
The south of this stuff is just now hitting my house in north Ft. Worth. The sky is pissed- constant thunder, power flicking on and off nonstop. Dogs scared, too. No rain, though. Weird.
Xerobull, there are reports of possible tornadoes or very strong straightline winds (80 mph) around Ft. Worth. Good luck. A tornado apparently was spotted in the Bedford-Euless area not too long ago. Southlake has been getting hail reportedly for almost an hour and parts of the DFW area are reporting hail over 3" in diameter. I'm ducking for cover, but hoping most of this crap misses me.
Yeah, same to you DoD. I'm in Azle. My wife works in Ft Worth and said her car was getting slammed with hail in the parking lot. No clue if there was damage or not. There was a sighting in Saginaw, which is about 10 miles from me in a straight line. edit- According to the map, the nasty stuff has passed me and my wife's work. My cell isn't working and my ears are hurting a tad/popping.
Crazy. They evacuated the Rangers ballpark. Expecting baseball-sized hail there (ha ha). There was also a tornado less than a mile from me. No sirens, ever, though. I miss Houston. At least you saw the massive scary weather coming.
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