Historic tornado outbreak today

[thewiseguy]

There are 130 reports of Tornadoes for the day. The record is 148 from back in 1974.

The death toll in Alabama is at least 53. There are 11 killed in Mississippi. Unknown amount of people have been killed in Georgia. Catoosa Georgia has requested a mass casualty trailer and there are reports that a 3 story hotel has collapsed there causing fatalities.




My heart goes out to the folks in south today.

[msongs]

1. looks like tsunami pictures. very sad nt

[SheilaT]

9. Yeah. Tornadoes are incredibly

destructive.

Some years back, after an outbreak of tornadoes in the Kansas City area where I lived, I was chatting with a man who was telling me the story of how his mother got out of her house and went somewhere else, and while her house wasn't totally destroyed by the tornado, everything inside was rendered useless and unusable because of all the glass shards from the broken windows.

[AsahinaKimi]

14. I was just thinking the same thing...

[krispos42]

2. Ugh, that's terrible.

Just terrible. Never been in one, never want to be in one.

[defendandprotect]

3. kr

[aikoaiko]

4. it aint over. keep the weather radios handy.

[angstlessk]

5. Dern.it keeps getting worser and worser I had no idea...

May God have mercy on all people involved in this horror known as mother nature!

[EFerrari]

6. I just saw this.

:(

[thewiseguy]

7. The death toll will most probably exceed 100...

The town of Hackleburg in Alabama is missing/gone.

[kestrel91316]

8. I remember April 3, 1974 like it was yesterday. I lived in Xenia, Ohio.

I still remember the eerie clouds with undersides like dirty green cottonballs, and the fear that my workplace would be hit (I was just 17, and manning the counter at a dry cleaning establishment by myself after school).

And later, semis upside down atop the furniture store......

http://www.xeniatornado.com/

[uppityperson]

13. Mine. They fascinate and scare the crap out of me

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/fgf/?n=fargojune1957f5

[texastoast]

10. Check this chart

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_tornadoes_and_tornado_outbreaks

I ran across it the other day.

[Odin2005]

11. Mein Gott im Himmel.

:cry:

[thewiseguy]

12. Just heard on the Catoosa Georgia police scanner that they have five fatalities so far

Not sure if that just for one dispatch or the entire area.

[alphafemale]

15. Welcome to the new "normal"?

Every year the weather seems to get more freakish.

[uppityperson]

16. 50 more than last time I checked couple hrs ago. Check out this page/graphic...

There is a list on this page that keeps growing, incredible


http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/110427_rpts.html