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Day 3 More Twisters
PIEDMONT, Okla. – When three tornadoes marched toward Oklahoma City and its suburbs, thousands of people in the path benefited from good forecasts, luck and live television to avoid the kind of catastrophe that befell Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Joplin, Mo.
via Forecasts, TV and luck eased tornado risk in Okla. – Yahoo! News.
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Joplin wiped out: Shock aerial view of city smashed by killer tornado
Death toll from Joplin tornado climbs to 116
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that killed at least 116 people when it blasted much of this Missouri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital.
It was the nation’s deadliest single tornado in nearly 60 years and the second major tornado disaster in less than a month.
via Associated Press.