Global Warming or Bad Luck Whats up with all these Tornados.


The death toll, 80, is likely to climb, officers say. Rescuers in Joplin, where whole areas were smashed by Sunday's tornado, try to beat out an approaching storm. But a lack of supplies, closed roadways and downed power lines stand in the way.

By midmorning Monday, about 20 hours after the tornado ripped a 6 mile rampage in the heart of the city, residents searched through the rubble in what reminded plenty of a war area. Some homes in the middle of the tornado's trail were no longer structures at all just slabs of concrete trapped by tangled oodles of personal electronics, tennis shoes, youth pictures and box fans. All the detritus of personal lives were strewn for the public eye to see.

1975 buildings suffered damage. its conjectured the damage covered a quarter or more of the town of about 50,000 folk some 160 miles south of Kansas City. He revealed his home was among those demolished.