[meteorite-list] Greensburg hit with tornado

MARK BOSTICK thebigcollector at msn.com
Sat May 5 04:10:13 EDT 2007


The damage total is not known, no power in the region is making 
communication hard, but the storm has finally died down.  It had a rain 
jacket all around it so it could not be seen well.  No one can know how many 
torandos it spawned.

Greensburg took the majority of the damage. Dozens and dozens of homes where 
totally destroyed, about 60% of the town. The high school, the city jail, 
the hotal/diner, the hostiptal, pretty much every city buidling. Everything 
on the west side of main street. You can go for a few miles, in what was the 
busiest section of the little town and the only thing that was left standing 
in the grain tower (which is ironic I guess).

>From what I can tell on the damage it did, it appears to have landed about 2 
miles east of where Steve found the big Brenham. Haviland has a Red Cross 
section set up where people are being sent.

100's of rescue workers are on the scene. Injuries are unknown, at least 50 
are at area hosptials, no confirmed deaths, which is good and amazing in 
itself, but it is very early.

The storm lasted six hours but has died down.


Mark





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