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Hunt for tornado survivors looking bleak (1,500 still missing in Joplin MO)
Edmonton Journal ^
| 05/25/2011
| BY KEVIN MURPHY, REUTERS
Posted on 05/25/2011 5:52:53 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
How awful. Prayers for those still trapped that they be found before it is too late.
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posted on
05/25/2011 5:54:52 PM PDT
by
dforest
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
I keep hearing 125 dead and 900 injured, period, on the news.
Isn't it a rather important detail that 1500 are still missing?
What is the matter with our news media?
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posted on
05/25/2011 5:58:56 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Not to minimize the significance of the situation, but “missing” seems like a bit of a strong word. Perhaps ‘unaccounted for” might be more accurate, though less sensational for sure.
To: skeeter
Isn't it a rather important detail that 1500 are still missing? What is the matter with our news media?
My thoughts too!
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:02:19 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: skeeter
I think I recall hearing that the 1500 number includes people who weren’t even in town when the tornado hit, so while the 125 death total will rise, it won’t increase by 1500.
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:04:30 PM PDT
by
ConservativeTeen
(Proud Right Wing Extremist)
To: skeeter
The vast majority of the missing just didn’t check in or whatever. Another 100 dead at most. Still horrifying.
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:04:52 PM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
To: skeeter
If it’s anything like the Tuscaloosa situation, the “missing” people are more an issue of communication difficulties than anything else. No guarantees though - I don’t know for sure.
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:05:26 PM PDT
by
xjcsa
(Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Well, at least there are some news outlets who care enough to publish this tragedy.
Where I live, the big news is Hines Ward winning DWTS. Talk about screwed up priorities.
To: Inyo-Mono
Too concerned with Odummy’s beer choices, Mooch’s clothing. and Oprah.
To: skeeter
The figure has been 1500 for two days for a reason.
Prayers, Lord.
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:08:54 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(Did you want to talk or fish?)
To: skeeter
Do you for 1 moment think the MSM (Propaganda Arm of the DNC) is going to let the people know it is worse than Katrina and Obambi is AWOL!
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:09:03 PM PDT
by
Snuph
("give me Liberty...")
To: txhurl
The figure has been 1500 for two days for a reason.Exactly, folks just simply out of town would be accounted for by now either thru phone contact or having returned to check on their homes.
To: Snuph
Exactly.
Worse than Katrina, in ONE small town, in 30 minutes, no way to warn the sleeping victims.
Where W tried to get Blanco and Nagin to do something, anything, two days in advance, and got the finger.
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:14:39 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(Did you want to talk or fish?)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Cell carriers can very easily zero in on phones that go black and stay black within 500 ft. Nobody trying to use or replace their phone number on a new phone. Because they ‘can’t’.
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:18:29 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(Did you want to talk or fish?)
To: Snuph
True. The Militant Media has but one agenda, and that involves its complicity in the destruction of our Liberties. It’s sacred lord shall never be disparaged for the blunders and delinquencies charged against Bush.
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:19:55 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(*** Jesus ***)
To: Snuph
Do you for 1 moment think the MSM (Propaganda Arm of the DNC) is going to let the people know it is worse than Katrina and Obambi is AWOL! ABC's Diane Sawyer assured us that all was well Obama was planning to visit Joplin on Sunday. If it were Bush there would be snarky remarks about his priorities, his hobnobbing with British royalty while tornadoes devastate Americas heartland.
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:25:09 PM PDT
by
BluH2o
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
And still not important enough to get in the way of golf and ping pong.
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:26:30 PM PDT
by
When do we get liberated?
(A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
To: BluH2o
You expect anything less from the PROPAGANDA ARM OF THE DNC?
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:27:14 PM PDT
by
Snuph
("give me Liberty...")
To: txhurl
" Worse than Katrina, in ONE small town, in 30 minutes, no way to warn the sleeping victims. "
That's what is scary about a tornado.... unless your watching a local news radar for the weather, you or your family could be asleep and one of them drops out of the sky, especially one that drops out of the sky at night.
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