***SEVERE WEATHER WAS BIGGEST CONCERN***This is a Monday afternoon edit.
Yes- there were the shootings, stabbings, car wrecks, fires, robberies and your what-have-you both weekend overnights.
The historic news story was unfolding about 300 miles southwest of us however.
Gary Lezak's storm chaser relayed the report that Greensburg had been struck by a tornado early in NBC41's 10-o'clock newscast.
The town of around 1,500 people had "heavy damage" but the extent was still unclear with night having set in and the whole town powerless.
As you see by my blog below - as time went on early Saturday morning what sporatic communications that were getting out were indicating Greensburg was "wiped out."
"Every ambulance within 100 miles" being sent into the town was mentioned several times on a monitored broadcast from the area.
The town's police, fire and EMS vehicles were crushed and the hospital partially destroyed - the first fatality was not reported until about 3 am.. That number has risen to 10 as of this writing.
Around 100 people suffered some injury and there's still more than a dozen people in critical condition.
Not yet a complete account for every resident of the town either.
We have some high water problems right now.
But this does not compare - in my nearly 50 years of weather study - to a town the size of Greensburg, Kansas wiped out by a tornado.
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First with Kansas City Metro- Region Breaking News - KSHB NBC41 ACTION NEWS.____________________
1 comment:
Hey!
Be careful up there! Thought of swimming but will wait another day.
One more and the pool temp should be PERFECT-gotta get clothes off the line at the moment. Hunker Down Jbo. T
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