Another top job was testing the city’s

Another top job was testing the city’s
power balance Another top job was testing the city’s tornado sirens to make sure they were operable ahead of another round of potentially violent weather starting last night and expected to last into today in some places. Emergency officials warned jittery residents well in advance of the test.David Imy, a meteorologist at the federal government’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said conditions were ripe for severe thunderstorms, including tornadoes, in parts of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
louis vuitton outlet Several tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma and high winds pounded rural Kansas. Seven people were killed in the two states.The high-powered storms struck Oklahoma City and its suburbs during rush hour, killing at least five people and injuring at least 60 others, including three children who were in critical condition, authorities said.In Kansas, police said two people died when high winds threw a tree into their van around 6 p.m. near the small town of St. John, about 100 miles west of Wichita. The highway was shut down because of storm damage.The severe weather was moving east after nightfall, but none of the systems had the power of the daytime storms.
vibram five fingers Nevertheless, their path included Joplin.Throughout the search efforts in Missouri yesterday, new reports emerged of clusters of victims: 11 people dead in a nursing home, three bodies found in an Elks Lodge.Sunday’s tornado tossed three vehicles into the Greenbriar nursing home and left nothing more than a 10-foot section of an interior wall standing. On the night of the twister, the Joplin Elks lodge had been scheduled to host its weekly bingo game.“If that had been two hours later, there could have been 40 or 50 people in there,’’ said Chris Moreno, a hospital lab technician coordinating an outdoor triage center.
power balance bracelet Jasper County emergency director Keith Stammer said the scope of the destruction was making it difficult to account for people affected by the storm. He suggested that many survivors, with nowhere to go, left Joplin for Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, or other parts of Missouri.“There’s a lot of confusion, a lot of inability for folks to communicate,’’ he said.Authorities also announced a curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., with only residents and emergency workers allowed inside the disaster zone.People in the Joplin area and beyond have turned to online social networks to find family members. Multiple Facebook pages created since the tornado are filled with requests for information about specific people who have not been heard from.