sirdarksol

There was really nasty storm that hit Missouri and Oklahoma yesterday, killing 18 people. 12 people died as several tornadoes hit Missouri, and six more died as much of the remaining Picher was flattened by a tornado.
Odd thing is that Picher is a little tiny town, and this is the second day in a row that I read a story about it. The town used to be a lead mine, but the population has been going away since the mines began running out and collapsing, and since toxic lead dust storms have been severely impacting the townspeople's health.

Hope everyone here's doing okay.

COBettaCouple

A sad story, we pray for those people.

Lucy

Yes, we need to remember to keep those who were effected in our prayers.
Hug someone close to you, it will do you both a bit of good.

Shawnie

Many thoughts & prayers to those impacted by this!

MissMTS

My thoughts and prayers to out to everyone who was affected by this. What an awful thing to happen. I hope that everyone is okay.

sirdarksol

By the way, this story is not meant to belittle the absolutely terrible tragedy that occurred in Asia, specifically Myanmar, though I believe that other countries on the mainland were hit hard, as well. Rather, it is more likely that we have folks here who were directly impacted.
I pray that Myanmar's government decides to let UN logistics teams into the country before a tragedy turns into a death knell for the majority of the population.

Lucy

Of course not, and I'm sure no one took it that way,
sirdarksol, you are a kind soul.

sirdarksol

I know, but I wanted to remind folks about that, too, as it was on a scale thousands of times larger than what happened in the US.

Richard

The Myanmar situation is especially sad since it's the paranoia of the ruling military junta that's resulting in a bad situation getting worse by the day for many survivors.

I lived through Hurricane Hugo back in the 80's, and the worse part is not during but after the storm.. even with an immediate response of aid, there's a period in which, you must fend for yourself and your family first and then neighbors after.. with treating light injuries or getting professional help for serious ones coming first.. if you didn't get adequate supplies of safe drinking water, then doing so comes a close second.. and since nobody ever seems to keep water purification tablets around or know how long to boil water for or how many drops of bleach per gallon to add to make it safe, until after they've gone through a hurricane/storm/twister, getting drinking water is easier said than done.. then you have to BBQ or cook all your meat and use up all your refridgerated stuff and have the neighbors over to help you finish it since you won't have electricity in time to keep it good, and since they're doing the same too, if you weren't friends before, you certainly will be from that point!

Knowing what we went through during and after 'Hugo', my prayers go out to each family affected by nature's fury within recent times, with a little extra allotted for the folks in Myanmar who're suffering because of paranoid despots and the small town of Pitcher, dealing not only with the recent twisters, but the health issues left as a legacy from whoever profited from that lead mine.

Martinismommy

Praying for the victims of the act of nature...Mother natures fury at her worse!

Angela_96

off topic:
That was a horrible hurricane I thought a lot of people had forgot about it, I lived in VA when that went through, and it was still a hurricane when it hit our area which was rare! I was in school at that time, and it blew windows out in our school, then not knowing about hurricaines they sent us home during the eye, and our bus just about got blown over literally.
My dads bass boat was sitting in our pool after the storm, and my fav climbing tree as a kid was uprooted and 1 foot from going through the bedroom where my dad was sleeping from working nite shift..
not nearly as severe for us as for the tropical regions, but we never experienced anything like that before....

My prayers are with all the people affected by the storms!