There are around 1000 bikers meeting at Best Buy's parking lot Sunday morning to handle Westboro.

I hope someone uploads the video.

God bless each and every one of them... :toast:

Awesome.

BTW, the story about all of the people in the maternity floor at St. Johns being killed is officially BS. I had heard the story as well, but my wife works at St. Johns and she's been working at the temp command center at the JQH convention center this last week and she talked to 4 OB nurses who said they lost nobody on the entire floor. They said the only true rumor was of the baby that had insulation in its mouth.

The most unbelievable story I've heard came from a Dr. who was working as a first responder near Home Depot. The story doesn't sound believable, but I don't know why he would make something like this up.

He said they found a man with just his feet sticking out of the ground and he was frozen.
They think this guy was sucked up, went to 20 or 30 thousand feet, froze, then fell to the ground head first, burying himself to his feet.

I figured the Patriot Guard would show up if they did~

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Holy Shit. What a shitty way to go. I once knew a guy who died when a tornado lifted his trailer and dropped it in a lake in the middle of the night. Could you imagine sleeping and waking up under water at the bottom of a lake? That would be terrible.

Yeeeahhhh...I'm gonna need some other source to believe that one. I'm no meteorologist, but I don't believe that tornadoes are more than a mile or two high in most cases. Planes can safety travel over tornado-producing storms if they're up high enough. So it doesn't really make sense that there would be strong enough upward drafts to propel a human much higher than 10k feet at the absolute most (and I would personally doubt that it's really possible for a human to be pulled more than a couple hundred feet off the ground).

Patriot Guard has been holed up at the VFW since Monday. They just came to help and ironically enough, WBC, followed them here.

5 patients died. They were all on a vent. The tornado sucked the emergency generator out of the building. Nursing attempted to manually bag them but eventually they all suffocated to death.

Thanks for clearing that up 4th. The tornado did in fact damage or destroy the emergency generator. The folks who died were on vents and after what I can only imagine as a terrible decision to make, the folks bagging those patients were needed elsewhere.
I'm very interested in what reports are Going to be written regarding these decisions as time moves forward.
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No problem. We had a meeting at our hospital a few deays back about that sad turn of events. Once the emergency generator flew out of the building, it was only a matter of time for those poor souls.

I got an email from a friend of mine today. His cousin Dean was killed in the storm. Funeral is today in Joplin, he's down there now.

Here's the story about Dean in today's KC Star that was sent to me via email:


Dean Wells, 59 | Hero guided others to safety

By BRIAN BURNES
The Kansas City Star

His family knows that Dean Wells died a hero.

Wells, 59, head of the electrical department at the Joplin Home Depot, was working his 1 to 9 p.m. Sunday shift when the tornado hit.

“He rescued about 12 people, getting them all to safety,” said DeAnna Mancini, one of Wells’ two daughters. “He was rescuing two children when a wall came down and collapsed on him.

“My father died a hero, but that was my father. He was always helping everybody.”

Wells was the only Home Depot employee to die in the tornado, said Craig Fishel, Home Depot spokesman. According to reports, rescuers recovered seven bodies at the store.

Wells, born at Fort Carson, Colo., had a long career in the U.S. Army before he and his wife, Sue, began looking for a place to retire.

They decided on Webb City, just northeast of Joplin, in 1993. It was close to great fishing, which Wells enjoyed. It was close to Arkansas, where Wells had grandparents.

And it was close to Girard, Kan., where Sue had grown up.

“He loved my mother more than life,” Mancini said. Last Monday, she said, was their 42nd anniversary.

Her father, Mancini added, was adept at woodworking, assembling jewelry boxes. And he was a whistler. He recorded compact discs of his whistling and made them available to fellow members of the First Christian Church of Webb City.

“He could whistle any song you could possibly name. It sounded like a flute coming out of his mouth,” Mancini said.

Upon arriving in Webb City, Wells operated a coffee shop. Then about five years ago, he hooked up with Home Depot.

His associates at Home Depot were dedicated to him. Wells family members know the details of Sunday night because Steve Cope, the Joplin Home Depot manager, was determined they not be left without information.

Cope secured Wells’ wallet after the storm on Sunday. Then he drove to the Wells’ Webb City home. There he found Sue, as well as three of Sue’s nieces who had driven over from Girard.

“I wanted his wallet because I didn’t want anybody to lose it,” Cope said Thursday. “And I wanted to make sure that Sue was aware of where he was.”

On Wednesday night, Cope told the family that Wells spent the last few moments before the tornado hit taking customers to safe areas within the store.

“There were people wanting into the store to get away from the storm and he let them in,” Cope said. “He was a wonderful man, always thinking about others.”

A service for Wells is scheduled for 10 a.m. today at First Christian Church of Webb City.

Family members intend to play a recording of Wells whistling “Amazing Grace.”

To reach Brian Burnes, call 816-234-4120 or send email to bburnes@kcstar.com.

What a small world. I learned of him from my sister, Bethany, who was a training director at home depot. She had him on her facebook status, but didn't really go into it. From everything I've heard about this man is he was an absolute fantastic human being and will be sorely missed.

Radar indicated the debris field extended up to 20,000 ft.

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