i lived there then and it missed my house by about a mile .
i was puttin on fuel in aurora nebr . when a guy came up to me and said do you live in joplin and i said yeah ..he said ya better call home !
couldnt belive what i saw when i went home and still haunts me at times .
anyone got a tale to tell ?
was anyone here in joplin mo when the tornado hit in 2011 ?
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I remember that- I was training with my trainer at swift and I recall the devastation when I drove through there.
When I was solo 2 years later in Oklahoma city I did a drop hook at the Walmart dc outside the city and bobtailed to a gas station and shut down. little did I know because it was dark I didn't know there was a tornado siren 50 feet from my truck that I would be woken up by the siren going off.
Probally the most scariest moment Ive had because a) it's dark, you can't see the tornado and b) crouching inside a gas station isn't going to save your life. -
Tornadoes are nasty critters and fortunately I was no where near there when it hit. I did drive into one in Texas back in the eighties, that was fun. It was raining so hard I couldn't see out of the truck. The shoulder of the highway was lined with cars so I was driving about 10 mph with a line of trucks following me. I heard someone say on the CB that we found us a tornady and I'm going where? Then I saw the tree branches fly across the road in front of me, turn around and slam into the side of my cab. I felt like I was on Mr. Toads wild ride about then. My truck stayed on its wheels but man was that a crazy moment. Fortunately it was a small one or I may not be writing this today.
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Funny how they call them tornadys - love the texas accents
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I was driving up 69/75 from Texas and Oklahoma when the storm was coming through. I was listening to the weather band on my CB. There was one tornado behind me and another in front that was heading toward Joplin. It was quite an experience. This was the second tornado that hit Joplin. I stopped at Big Cabin for the night. It was good to stop. The wind was blowing me all over the road and it was difficult to see through the blowing rain.
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bout a month before the joplin tornado hit it was my girlfriends bday and im into practical gifts so i go her a weather radio and im sure i dont have to tell you all what a warm response that got lol.
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Was working as a paramedic at the time. We made it down there about 10 hours after the tornado hit.
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I was in the area, but not in Joplin proper. And I can do without having been there. Had my fill of it from the Katrina/Rita episode when I was sent to NOLA.
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