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Facebook proved it's value once again last night. Within half an hour, new pages were set up to help facilitate the flow of information during a time of ultimate disaster. Hitting the city of Joplin at around 6:00 yesterday, the tornado dropped out of the sky with seemingly no warning. An example of the immediate damage was a whole hospital needing to be evacuated, a Walmart obliterated and I'm not sure, but some say that 35% of that city is gone. The winds were between 166 - 200 miles per hour.
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| The Walmart at 15th & Rangeline in Joplin, Mo.; B. Bowman |
If you are on Facebook, just type these first six titles into the FB search bar. I'm sorry, but I can't link these up here, or it will take you directly to my signed-in FB home page. The others are regular links.
"Joplin, MO Tornado Recovery"
"Joplin Tornado Info"
"Joplin MO Tornado Survivors"
"Joplin, MO. May 22, 2011
Tornado Recovery Effort Resources"
"Joplin Tornado Critical Information"
"NW Arkansas Helping Joplin, MO"
"Joplin, MO. May 22, 2011
Tornado Recovery Effort Resources"
"Joplin Tornado Critical Information"
"NW Arkansas Helping Joplin, MO"
KOAM TV - List of ways you can help or be helped.
Spredsheet Listing Needs and Drop-off points in the region to get supplies to Joplin.
Samaritan's Purse
USDA: Keeping Food Safe During an Emergency
Today Show's Weatherman Al's Video: Monday, May 23
(donations to replace emergency equipment)
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They are looking for medical professionals and other volunteers to help, but they don't want you to just show up without calling first: =============================
The Red Cross is accepting donations through your cell phone.
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My friend Lynn Obermoeller is trying to locate her friend Dr. Geoffrey Hilton, who is a chiropractor in Joplin. His house is now gone. If you have any information about Geoff please go to Lynn's blog, Present Letters, and let her know. Thank you.
Update: Geoff has been found safe and sound! Prayers have been answered. He went through the storm hunkered down in his bathtub and when he crawled through the rubble and made it to the curb, a nice lady driving by took him to her house. He got in touch with Lynn and others yesterday in late afternoon/early evening. Yay!
I have to say that as happy as I was with Facebook last night, I was sorely disappointed with the cable news channels. Even if they couldn't get there, they could have been using pictures from people's cell phones and made more of an attempt to report the situation. Instead, CNN spent valuable time telling us all about how bad Mel Gibson is, and wondering if Jodie Foster should be sticking up for him. Come on you guys! We more or less depend on you during times like this.
Well, it is 6:37 a.m. west coast time, and Joplin is near getting hit with another huge thunderstorm right now. The whole region is under storm attack again today. Please continue to pray for our friends in the Midwest. This whole thing is absolutely unreal.
Love to everybody ...
Kathy M.
Link to "Praying For The Tornado Victim's" post.
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3 comments:
Don't get me started on CNN!!! I could write a book on that cable news station. As with ALL stations. It seems that so much is money-orientated these days and the 'big whigs' of the media thinks that people want to know about mundane and useless things. Oh boy, oh boy----------I'll stop right now.
The tornado was most certainly devastating. The thing is, it was way too close to home [my daughter lives in Missouri]...and she has called me many-a-times this past Spring informing me of threats of the disastrous storms heading her way. For her, luckily, this was not in her area but west of her home.
Tragic.
Wow Kathy, so much info - I'm sorry that I didn't get around here before now! I was so wrapped up in finding my friend, that, well, my brain wasn't working the way it needed. Thanks so much for all you did, and your kind friendship, xxo
Hi Anni,
I'm glad that you daughter is okay and that the storms have avoided her. Saw that even you guys are in for bad weather again. Well, now that Anderson Cooper is back in the saddle, CNN is looking a bit better in my eyes ... but that first night wasn't good.
Hi Lynn,
Thank you! I wish that you would have seen it before, though, cuz it may have helped. It sounds as if they are very unorganized in Joplin; it is a wonderful thing that those FB peeps started their own blogs so quickly. Missouri is reminding me of New Orleans after Katrina though, government wise. So sad.
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