2012 Tornado Season

He's fine. Just got into work.

 

Devil, look up the Enterprise High tornado from 2007. Not a happy ending.

 

There were reports -- which proved to not be true, thank God -- about students and teachers being trapped in that school. How that didn't happen is a miracle.

 

How major? The schools in Joplin that took a direct hit were crushed in some sections, but that was about as gigantic a tornado as you get.

 

You move to the interior of the school during a tornado drill. If the existing outside walls give, the interior walls, which hopefully are block material as well, will be fine.

Think of it like playing Angry Birds, when you see an area of the formation that holds when everything around it collapses.

 

The tornado in Branson on Wednesday night hit about 2 miles from my brother's house. I'm used to lots of tornadoes in the news, but this first wave seems a little more ominous than usual.

 

Just saw that Angel Babcock, the 1-year-old girl who was the only initial survivor in her family of 5, was taken off life support today.

I found this out during a newscast I was actually working on this evening. Broke my heart when it crossed.

RIP to all the victims.

 

A bit late to this one, but I appreciate the concern.

I live about 15 miles away from KySports and it was eery how each area was hit.

For me, we got a bit of hail -- I have video of it bouncing off my back porch picnic table -- and very little damage financially. Took a sunroof panel off my parents' old barn (can be fixed in a few hours once someone climbs up there), knocked down and old tree across the dogs' fence (tree was probably going to be taken down anyway for firewood) and broke a couple of limbs off my neighbors' tree (dad and I cleaned them off the road and threw them in a ditch).

Meanwhile, power got knocked out at our boss's house (other than DirecTV, which always goes haywire in a storm, we never lost power) for several hours.

But I drove past Harry Owen trucking (see google news link below) on the way to a bowling match in a neighboring county. Several large metal buildings gone.

Could have been a LOT worse (Having been through both Birmingham and Enterprise on my way to Panama City Beach for summer vacation every year, the before and after in those two places is scary).

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=%22harry+owen+trucking%22&oq=%22harry+owen+trucking%22&aq=f&aqi=d2&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=1204l6968l0l7609l23l19l0l14l0l0l585l1371l2.1.4-1.1l5l0

 

RIP to all the victims.

Unsurprisingly, Pat Robertson said prayer could have stopped the tornadoes:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/pat-robertson-tornadoes-prayer_n_1321686.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

 

A horrible end to what sounds like a tough life for the whole family.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SEVERE_WEATHER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-03-05-16-44-57

A 15-month-old Indiana girl who clung to life for two days after being scooped up by a tornado that killed her parents and two siblings was buried Monday in a snow-covered cemetery, a poignant end to what had seemed to be a miracle story of survival.

An American flag hung at half-staff as relatives of Angel Babcock gathered for the private burial. Angel, her mother and her 2-month-old sister were buried in one casket. Her father and 2-year-old brother were in another.

 

And an Indiana mom who threw herself over her kids had to have both legs amputated this weekend.

A mother's love really knows no bounds.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120304/NEWS02/303040073/Indiana-mother-loses-legs-while-saving-her-children-from-tornado?odyssey=mod|mostview