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Old 05-23-2011, 12:34 PM
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Just wondering if you guys are all right down there. Scary site from the tornado aftermath.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/us/23tornado.html

videos: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theloo...ster-aftermath





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I'm wishing everyone the best down in the Joplin area along with the rest of the states having these tornado hit. This weather this Spring has been scary everywhere.
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it was awful. i wasnt in the middle of it but i do live in joplin. seems it was about 10 city blocks wide and went about 5 or 6 miles if not more.
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Ya that **** sucks, good thing you was on the other side of town, I used to live by joplin and that is just horrible
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there is another tornado right now in OK City, hoping everyone is ok. roughly 120 people gone in joplin. never good to hear numbers like that, or numbers at all
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there is another tornado right now in OK City, hoping everyone is ok. roughly 120 people gone in joplin. never good to hear numbers like that, or numbers at all
yeah i heard about that. a friend of mine lives there and i just saw his facebook status about the sirens.
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Still 1500 unaccounted for my prayers go out to them. I have family all around that area.
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President Obama will be visiting on sunday..........as will those embarassment to human life westboro baptist church members

http://ozarksfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=461407



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