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Weather Discussion => International => Topic started by: Suezy on March 04, 2012, 10:00:24 PM

Title: From the Washington Times - Storms demolish small towns in Ind., Ky; 38 dead
Post by: Suezy on March 04, 2012, 10:00:24 PM

This is a very long article but certainly worth reading.
Copied from The Washington Times.
WEST LIBERTY, Ky. — Across the South and Midwest, survivors emerged Saturday to find blue sky and splinters where homes once stood, cars flung into buildings and communications crippled after dozens of tornadoes chainsawed through a region of millions, leveling small towns along the way.

At least 38 people were killed in five states, but a 2-year-old girl was somehow found alive and alone in a field near her Indiana home. Her family did not survive. A couple that fled their home for the safety of a restaurant basement made it, even after the storms threw a school bus into their makeshift shelter.

Saturday was a day filled with such stories, told as emergency officials trudged with search dogs past knocked-down cellphone towers and ruined homes looking for survivors in rural Kentucky and Indiana, marking searched roads and homes with orange paint. President Barack Obama offered federal assistance, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich declared an emergency Saturday.
Read on:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/3/violent-storms-kill-29-death-toll-could-rise/ (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/3/violent-storms-kill-29-death-toll-could-rise/)

Title: Re: From the Washington Times - Storms demolish small towns in Ind., Ky; 38 dead
Post by: Mark on March 05, 2012, 05:42:58 PM

They are much worse than eathquakes Suezy.

Title: Re: From the Washington Times - Storms demolish small towns in Ind., Ky; 38 dead
Post by: Suezy on March 05, 2012, 05:57:38 PM

Mark I think I prefer the quakes as you say.  Those tornadoes are dreadful and something that you are unable todo anything about. Anyway Ido not have a cellar to go down to here.
Dreadful things.