Medical help needed in Joplin MO, hospital hit by tornado - twitter is full of it

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I don't know if anyone lives near there, but the town has been heavily hit in populated areas.

If you have a large twitter following (mine is pathetic) retweet cyndeZu 's stuff. She is an active Ron Paul supporter and is tweeting tornado shelters etc nonstop now.

examples:

#Tulsa please help! RT @225allthewalive: Devastating tornado hits #Joplin;doctors, nurses, firemen needed;man… (cont) http://deck.ly/~wL44v
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cyndeZu
RT @Zener39: RT @OzarksRedCross As shelters are opened, locations can be found here. http://www.redcross.org/nss/ #Joplin #tornado
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cyndeZu
RT @JustMePammy: St John #Hospital setting up temporary Emergency Room at McCauley High School #Joplin #MO
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Sorry, maybe this shouldn't be here. Apparently the tornado was a mile wide and went through heavily populated areas as well as a hospital.
 
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My parents and my sister and her daughter were all in Joplin just this afternoon, about an hour before the tornado hit. It's crazy.

I don't think a post like this is out of place here... if libertarians want people to believe that we don't need the state to take care of us, I think we have an obligation to offer what assistance we can in situations like this.
 
This is what I thought after the last big batch of tornadoes: how would we know if we had people needing help? I know there are privacy issues here, so what would be a good way of confirming "all accounted for"?
 
I feel for yall in Missouri. I hope any of "ours" made it through okay.
 
Good grief. Drudge has links up and it looks like almost the entire city was scrapped.
 
They say 25% to a third of the town is more or less gone. One of two hospitals. Fortunately, there are more hospitals in Springfield, which is less than an hour away. And there are hills between, so Springfield is all right.

Half mile wide. F 4 or 5.

More rain on the way. Looks like a truly miserable day for that nice little city.

jdmyprez_deo_vindice said:
Do we have any active members who are residents of Joplin or the immediate surrounding area?
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easycougar, we're shouting out to you. We'd admire it if you checked in.
 
There's a video taken by some people who ran into a cooler in a convenience school. It was so hard to hear them so terrified, even though I knew they made it ok.

Here it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds



It's just a black screen because the power was off.
 
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That's why it wasn't worse than it was. I heard of a convenience store employee in Alabama who locked the door. Terrible, awful thing to do. C-store coolers are lifesavers.

As usual, it seems to have stuck close to old Route 66 (I-44 on that stretch). Hate to think of the travelers. Can't imagine the road is open right now.

Hope 'cougar is just out power--and busy helping. Not much of the town has electricity. We had local aerial coverage here before the national news came on. St. John's Hospital didn't fall down, but it sure doesn't have much glass left in it. Just to give you an idea how localized these things are, the other hospital was right across the street, and is fully functional.
 
nobody's_hero said:
Usually people will accuse politicians of being opportunists if they do such a thing. Not saying that's the case, just the perception.
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Particularly if it isn't their state. And there is a cloture vote on the Patriot Act scheduled for today in the Senate - hope you have all been contacting your Senators to vote against it -- and if it passes to vote for the amendment to the bill that would repeal already permanent National Security letters!

Another something hit Nashville last night, I saw it while I was tweeting about Joplin. (I posted it in Rand's section) It looked like Kentucky wasn't entirely against all possibility either, so Rand may have stuff in his own state. I agree going to a different state would probably not look great, but if there are meet up groups of ours there who can help out, that would be different. But I'm sure they'd be helping where they could, in any event as CyndeZu was.
 
Went between Springfield and Branson. Fortunately, that's pretty hilly country, and that often causes tornados to 'lift'. Almost drowned them, though--Branson got four inches of rain basically in a moment.
 
The conspiracy theorist have been saying something like this is going to happen and according to some of the nut cases I have been reading this is just the beginning....
 
Working Poor said:
The conspiracy theorist have been saying something like this is going to happen and according to some of the nut cases I have been reading this is just the beginning....
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The global warming / climate change crowd should be chiming in soon too. And I don't mean to diminish the tragedy, but it's just a tornado. We here in the Midwest know they happen all the time. They always have.
 
I'm on the Red Cross's Health Services, supposed to get a call if they need EMTs, and I am 'on alert' to get deployed any second... so far no call. I'm hoping those already there are coping / helping / working hard. I've been keeping all those people, especially those who lost everything, in my prayers. It's truly a horrible event.
 
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