Joplin, MO – WTF?

These storms are very powerful!!!! Almost total devastation and 90 lost lives.

Prayers go out to the families in these towns. Amazing storm – again.

Dog

Yeah, it looks like a war zone. They got hit hard. Prayers go out to everyone that lost someone in the storms around the midwest yesterday.

I can’t imagine the terror.

At least 89 people have died in Joplin, Missouri and the toll is expected to climb, after a monster tornado roared through the small Midwestern city Sunday afternoon, local officials said Monday.

Rescue crews from throughout the region were deployed to the town of about 50,000 people to help dig through the rubble, and aid those left injured and homeless.

“We are recovering the dead,” Joplin police Sergeant Bob Higginbotham said.

A White House official said President Barack Obama was briefed multiple times about the tornadoes on the Air Force One flight to Ireland and asked his staff to stay in close touch with state and local authorities.

Newton County Coroner Mark Bridges said a temporary morgue was set up at the Missouri Southern State University.

Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and ordered Missouri National Guard troops deployed to help state troopers and other agencies respond to storms he said “have caused extensive damage across Missouri.”

‘Utter Devastation’

Joplin City Councilwoman Melodee Colbert-Kean, who serves as vice mayor, said the town was in a state of “chaos.”

“It is just utter devastation anywhere you look to the south and the east — businesses, apartment complexes, houses, cars, trees, schools, you name it, it is leveled, leveled,” she told Reuters by telephone early on Monday.

Stammer estimated that about 10 percent of the city, encompassing about 2,000 structures, had borne the brunt of the storm, based on initial aerial surveillance showing that the tornado had cut a swath about 6 miles long and one-half to three-fourths of a mile wide through town.

The storm followed an earlier burst of violent spring weather in the United States that claimed over 330 lives as tornadoes swept seven states last month.

That included 238 deaths in Alabama alone on April 27 as twisters battered Tuscaloosa and other towns.

very sad… prayers sent.