Showing posts with label Tornado. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tornado. Show all posts

Sunday, April 25, 2010

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.