Deadly tornado struck Missouri last night..wth?

karmacoma. · May 29, 2011

Frederick said: ↑

What the fuck man? How fucking stupid are you? It was a fucking tornado not a hurricane. There wasn't five days days notice that this thing was going to hit bumfuck, Missouri. And while it's fucked up that the town was destroyed. Joplin, Mo. isn't equal to the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi combined. It was a tragedy, but It's not even close to the scale of Katrina. And it definitely wasn't big enough for Obama to cancel a preplanned state trip.

I know that they're desperate to pin a Katrina type massive fuck up on Obama, but negroes got be smart enough to realize that this ain't it. This is just the bullshit attack of the week by the Republicans on the Pres.
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^^^^Post of the day.

botoan · May 30, 2011

President Obama tours tornado-stricken Joplin, Mo.

Obama was warmly received in this conservative part of Missouri.

By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2011
Reporting from Joplin, Mo. —
After walking through chillingly empty vistas of twisted rubble and shards of homes, President Obama drew wild cheers from this conservative town when he pledged to help rebuild from last week's crippling tornado.
"You look out at the landscape there, and there have to be moments where you just say, 'Where to begin? How to start?' There are going to be moments when, after the shock has worn off, you feel alone," he said at a community memorial service attended by more than 2,000 people.
"I can promise you that your country will be there with you every single step of the way. We're not going anywhere," Obama said, his voice booming over shouts and whistles at Missouri Southern State University.

The president got a bird's-eye view of the devastation as Air Force One flew over the town of 50,000 people en route to the small local airport. From the air, it looked as if a gigantic bulldozer had cleared a six-mile path straight through the center of town.

At least 139 people were killed and more than 900 injured in the twister, which was an EF-5, the highest rating on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, with winds of at least 200 mph. Officials said Sunday that 43 people remained missing, but families of four of those had reported them dead.

Before the memorial, Obama toured areas of the worst destruction, where big-box warehouse stores were leveled and entire neighborhoods converted into piles of broken two-by-fours, crumbled concrete and smashed, twisted cars.

Thousands of survivors lined Joplin's main thoroughfares.

"This town is beat, but we're not broke," said Catherine Maples, who wore a T-shirt scrawled with the words, "A country town can survive."

A few times, Obama stopped to share handshakes, hugs and words of encouragement.

"Sorry for your loss," he said, embracing one distraught woman.

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In the midst of the deadliest tornado season since at least 1953, Sunday's visit paralleled a trip Obama made last month to Tuscaloosa, Ala., scene of another devastating twister. Several residents of that city have come to Joplin to provide advice and moral support.

"When we were in Tuscaloosa a few weeks ago, I talked about how I had not seen devastation like that in my lifetime," Obama said at the memorial. "You come here to Joplin and it is just as heartbreaking, and in some ways even more devastating."

But as he recounted many examples of Joplin residents who sacrificed their lives to save others or carried wounded citizens on mattresses in the backs of their pickups, he said there was much to learn.

"How we respond when the storm strikes is up to us. How we live in the aftermath of tragedy and heartache, that's within our control. And it's in these moments, through our actions, that we often see the glimpse of what makes life worth living in the first place," the president said.

The heroes around us, he said, are "driven by love."
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The reception that Pres. Obama received on his European trip suggest that despite our national issues the President of the United States is still the single most important/influential position in the world.

It is vital that we maintain our status as a world leader, if for no other reason it allows us to provide for ourselves and families.Pres. Obama has restored a great deal of the international respect and prestige that was lost under George W. Bush.

After days of focusing on the U.S. relationship with the rest of the world, this Sunday Pres. Obama was there to help uplift a small town in America. We still have a struggling economy, a war on terror and many more issues to deal with and yet there he was. It is amazing the demands and scrutiny that individuals, families, communities, the nation and the world places on this one person and yet more often than he has come through.

Morning Star · Jun 1, 2011

It actually did hit New Orleans. How do I know? I experienced it first hand and saw it all. Wind damage most definitely, but most of New Orleans East and the city was inundated with water.

flaminghetero said: ↑

Katrina didn't even hit New Orleans.

The city was flooded when the levies were blown.
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