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 Deadly Tornado Outbreak Biggest in U.S. HistoryPosted on May 2, 2011
Meteorologists with the National Weather Service have reported that the spate of tornadoes that tore across the American South last week, killing hundreds of people and wrecking much of the region, was the largest in U.S. history. —ARK
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By Amelia Fleming, May 3, 2011 at 8:39 pm Link to this comment
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I’m a High School senior who lives in Alabama. My house got power today for the first time since the storms. I can’t complain. We lost power, communication to the outside world, everything in our fridge, and the ability to take a warm shower; that’s nothing when there are houses less than a mile away that are just…gone.
Last week I was sick of the small town life. Now I thank God for the community I live in. For every looter, there have been hundreds of strangers helping one another. For every person bickering over gas, there’s another cracking Wizard of Oz jokes.
FEMA has been great. The National Guard and local police departments have been wonderful. But when the going gets tough, it’s the people around you that you count on the most.
Maybe this is just cheesy advice from an emotional teenage girl, but please take my advice. Don’t take the people in your life for granted. One minute you might be delayed from school for what seems to be a typical summer storm, the next those people may be gone.
Report thisBy samosamo, May 3, 2011 at 6:27 am Link to this comment
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That’s the meteorological side of it and yes that record will be
broken at some time.
But, just wait for the geological side of it when the New Madrid,
Report thisMO fault decides to break. Lot more ‘growth’ has happened since
1811 in that area which was a reason for the meteorological
record in the south last week.
By TDoff, May 2, 2011 at 9:37 pm Link to this comment
Well, this certainly gives US something to look forward to, since records are made to be broken.
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