![]() ![]() The chances of that are not too good not after all that mess." And if you do find somebody, by chance that might be alive, you might injure them even worse than they are. There's no machines down there, so how are you going to do it? Unless you've got some backhoes or scoop loaders, it's going to be hard. "But what can I do? There's a big pile of rubble. In the aftermath of the tornado, Bigley says, he noticed a woman nearby running in circles, pleading for someone to help find her baby in a demolished apartment complex. (See a video of the Joplin, Mo., tornado.) "I was hoping we'd come out alive," he says. It just looks like toothpicks after it got done." Bigley, who took shelter with his wife in a closet during the twister, sustained minor cuts from flying shards of glass. I mean, it was nothing but piles of wood. I don't see how in the world anybody got out of there. ![]() "I got up and looked outside, and there were no buildings left," he says. ![]() Bigley says that after emergency workers helped him and his wife both of whom are disabled out of their apartment, his block was "just a pile of sticks." The tornado razed a hospital, a high school and at least 2,000 buildings, the AP reported. Joplin officials have reported 116 deaths and an unknown number of injuries. (See pictures of the destruction after the Joplin, Mo., twister.)īut it was a devastating 10 miles. Normally twisters of that magnitude are on the ground longer, he explains. The estimated EF3 that tore through Joplin was rare, too, Boxell says, because it was on the ground for only about 10 miles (16 km) before dissipating. Andy Boxell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Springfield, Mo., says EF3s are rare, typically occurring once a year. The southwestern Missouri town of roughly 50,000 where Bigley, 64, has spent a lifetime was substantially demolished by what meteorologists are estimating to be an EF3, which is a tornado with wind speeds ranging from 136 m.p.h. The Joplin tornado and a less powerful one that wreaked havoc in Minneapolis were both associated with a low-pressure system that mixed with a cold front, according to Chris Franks, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Chanhassen, Minn. "And I mean this was a humungous tornado. "They had a big picture of it," he says of the local news station. Follow Terry Bigley watched the tornado overtake his television screen as it ripped through eastern Kansas toward Joplin, Mo., where he lived on the east side in an apartment with his wife. ![]()
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