Before And After: A Bird's-Eye View Of Joplin - AMAZING!

[proud2BlibKansan]

Drag the slider right and left to see before and after images of the area around Joplin High School — or what now remains of it — just two days after a deadly tornado leveled neighborhoods in Joplin, Mo., on Sunday.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/05/26/2906108/before-and-after-a-birds-eye-view.html#ixzz1NVbF3l1F

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/05/26/2906108/before-and-after-a-birds-eye-view.html#ixzz1NVaobdej

[WolverineDG]

1. Holy smokes!

:wow:

dg

[Sonoman]

2. Goodness, that looks like an air-burst nuclear weapon hit Joplin.

Reminds me of aerial shots of Hiroshima.

Those poor people. It is simply amazing that there was not a much higher casualty rate.

Sonoman

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Our local media is making that Hiroshima comparison

When I first heard it I thought it was a bit overdramatic.

Then I saw the pictures.

It fits.

[Warpy]

3. What's mind boggling is just how wide that thing was

they're now saying it was over a mile wide.

It simply erased everything in its path. It's going to take Joplin decades to recover. If it does.

[Art_from_Ark]

10. I think Joplin will recover sooner than you think

I was there a year after the '71 tornado and they had already cleaned up from that. Of course, there was more damage this time, but I think Joplin will recover within 10 years, if not sooner.

[Warpy]

11. The economy was very different in 71

and Cantor was in grammar school cheating on tests and wishing he were old enough to read Ayn Rand.

[stuntcat]

4. damn

just horrible. I feel awful for the people.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Please, someone tell me that none of those houses were CBS.

Very frightening.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. What's CBS?

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Cement block structure.

[WillyT]

9. Holy Crap !!!

:wow: