Someone Found Alive in Greensburg Rubble
- Thread starter Mike Peregrine
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Kevin Bowman
EF4
i wouldnt call it unbelievable, its only been a couple of days however its still great news
B Ozanne
EF5
Reminds me of an earthquake. I hope search and rescue teams are treating it like that.
I'm still surprised how so many people survived. It just doesn't make sense.
I'm still surprised how so many people survived. It just doesn't make sense.
Mike Peregrine
EF5
I'm amazed too, and really cannot imagine being buried alive after this event for two days. I haven't read all the reports, but I'm assuming that people had time to respond and actually took the warnings to heart. Ten fatalities out of 1400 people is still an enormous shock for a small community to cope with, but I agree - the fact that so many made it out with their lives is a testament to how well the system worked for them. Most of the survivors would have had to have been underground to survive. Had this same storm happened not that many years ago, I'm pretty convinced there would have been many more fatalities.
Will Astle
From what I am seeing and reading there was quite a bit of lead time on this tornado. It was on the ground for 22 some miles and was getting quite a bit of attention (for obvious reasons).
I've read several chaser accounts of this storm and their words reminded me a lot of the May 3rd storms on Oklahoma. It's 'direct hits' like this one that really seem to tug at our heart strings. Yeah, chasers are supposed to be the "tough, seen-it-before people" but something of this magnatude really drives home the futility of what we do.
We could have had hundreds of chasers reporting and even time to go door-to-door to warn people but the destruction was just on such a large scale that deaths and injuries couldn't have been avoided.
I don't post much on here, usually because I don't have much to add. Something like this tho makes me feel like I need to say thank you to all of you who are out there day in and day out chasing, documenting and reporting what you see.
Will
I've read several chaser accounts of this storm and their words reminded me a lot of the May 3rd storms on Oklahoma. It's 'direct hits' like this one that really seem to tug at our heart strings. Yeah, chasers are supposed to be the "tough, seen-it-before people" but something of this magnatude really drives home the futility of what we do.
We could have had hundreds of chasers reporting and even time to go door-to-door to warn people but the destruction was just on such a large scale that deaths and injuries couldn't have been avoided.
I don't post much on here, usually because I don't have much to add. Something like this tho makes me feel like I need to say thank you to all of you who are out there day in and day out chasing, documenting and reporting what you see.
Will
Willie Dines
EF3
Brilliant news 
, here's to hoping that they are being treated and will be safe and back to full health again in no time
Willie
, here's to hoping that they are being treated and will be safe and back to full health again in no time Willie
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