Tonado hits Mississippi

Last Saturday, a horrible tornado hit and went through the rural countryside of Yazoo City, Mississippi. Those high winds from the tornado ripped many roofs and buildings away from the city of around 28,000. While hitting Mississippi, they tornado traveled over 150 miles in the state. From an updated report from today, they stated that over 100 homes had been torn away or had definite damage. Viewers of the storm said it was very enormous. Storm researchers said the heavy winded tornado was almost a mile wide. This tornado covered almost over 10 miles long and was just one of the many tornados that started and hit the southeast part of the country. This same exact storm went from Louisiana to Alabama and hit Mississippi very hard. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) stated that they had found and stated that they had found ten dead people. Over twelve other people had severely injured from the tornado. They don't know how many more people are injured or have died, but they definitely don't like what they have seen so far while working on the picking up stage of the storm. They also said that twelve different counties were hit in Mississippi from the tornado.
Many people say that they knew about the storm that was coming, but is upset that people were killed and severely hurt. They had some very goofy looking skies people said and the were getting pounded with rain before this tornado started. Many of the counties in the three states, mainly Mississippi, had many tornado warnings. We knew that the storm was coming, we just didnt know how bad it was going to get, people said. There was many broken trees over roads, downed power lines, and many homes destroyed. Many people want to go out and see the damage that happened. But there is many problems with people doing so. It slows down the research teams and the safety is very uncertain. Many wires are down, so electrical shock and other things can severely hurt people while they are looking around at the damages done.
A man said that the storm threw him almost fifteen feet into the air. He got trapped in an area and wanted to get out of his vehicle. Many people saw this and feel/think that you need to do whatever you can in order to stay alive. These people know the damages that tornadoes can cause and feel that you need to do right. They feel that you shouldn't just do what you think is right. Do what they tell you about getting to a safe area and wait until the storm has passed. Many people just try to run from these storms and they get caught in them.
This was just the beginning of the storm season down south. There are always storms that hit down there and people need to prepare for things to happen. Tornadoes are something that do happen, but keeping yourself safe is the number one thing that needs to happen in the threat of a storm.

WV Mines

Coal Mines have always been a dangerous thing. Working in them are a death waiting to happen. Last Monday in West Virginia, twenty-nine coal mine workers died. This happened when a devastating mine blew in the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia. This has been reported that this has been the worst explosion in a coal mine since 1970, when thirty-eight people were killed in Hyden, Kentucky.
They were able to pull seven dead miners out right away, but they had to pull out of the mine because of the dangerous gases that were in the mine. After pulling out, they figured out that they passed by four other miners when they pulled the other seven miners out. With the knowledge that they had on the four miners, they hoped that they were able to get to a safe refuge chamber that was stocked with water, food, and oxygen. Then the bad news came that they did not get to the chamber. When the rescue miners went in there right away, they were not able to locate the first four miners, because of all the smoke, dust, and debris in the air. Also, the rescue miners could not move around very well with all the boulders and other obstacles in their way.
They have not stated what had caused the blast, but they think that there was extremely high levels of methane gas located within the mine. This place has been fined before for having a high amount of methane gas located within the mines and made them pull their men out for a while. Obama stated that, "We can not bring back those men that we lost. We need to do a better job in taking precautionary steps so these explosions do not happen again." Miners that were able to escape from the mine said, "You'll never, ever forget, but you have to go on."
This really puts a toll on the families. Everyday these mine workers question themselves if they are doing the right thing by putting themselves in a dangerous condition all the time. Most of them do it for the great money, but is it really worth it for the dangerous conditions and the health problems that many of the workers get? I think that this is getting out of control with the amount of lives that we are losing and the amount of problems that we are having these mines. We need to find a better way in order to protect the people that are working for us in these mines.