I lived in Jonesboro Arkansas......it's called the "bible buckle of Arkansas" .......approx 200 churches..... and same banks .....and a massive hospital ......a whole part of town ...dedicated to medical complex........now as i am a cynical bastard ....but i always look for the good in things ......but as most things are too good to be true .......so ....before i fly off topic ........if Arkansas is the bible buckle....... of Arkansas.....why is there so many tornadoes there .........i have been there ....... when the tornadoes sirens go off !!!!!......they are so fucking loud .....like a fat lady/guy/bloke/it /he/she/them/her/bint/skank....with a bullhorn.... at one of those...... "i am not sure what the fuck i am" rallies .......but i am fat .....and need attention ......well anyways .....it nearly blew my fucking ears out ......tornado sirens are vicious .......i thought we were going to war !!!!!!.....and an old lady said ....relax!!!!!.....it's just tornado siren.......listen....... i am not a resident .........but when you say tornadoes .....my ass cheeks clench!!!!! ......i could peel a coconut .........husks and all !!!!!......i live in sunny south Florida ...we get hurricanes comes with days notice ......you can prep .....get fuel...... and fuck off !!!!!!.......tornadoes just pain straight up....... butt fuck you in the middle of the night ......take your pants ...... wallet ....... house ..... truck..... dog .....and cat...... and hopefully your fucking wife .....that's the only upside i see ....... to a tornado .....yes....... i am a toxic ..... misogynistic....... male .....why ?...... well GDJCSOBFMOB.....my choice ...... just like it is...... someone's choice to be a rainbow haired ...... trisexual ........unicorn /donkey raper ......simple ......anyways Nebraska........ and Iowa never been there ....... heard it is cornfields....... and the breadbasket of America ......Iowa......if there is a god......... he is fucking the bread makers ....which is in the bible....... somewhere ......Florida ........ must be hell........... then it's fucking hot as fuck .....and full of bastards ....in south Florida ........
However tornadoes not good .........that is all i am saying .....give me hurricanes any days.........I have to say i hate materialism .........owning shit ....well shit mostly owns ...... you ....in the end !!!!....if i lived somewhere ....... i would just get a camper...... and make money or fucking leave ......re-build my house on the same plot the house was fuck no.....memories and shit .....i heard that old thing .....my mum could not remember shit...... when she was on her last legs .....so that fucking theory flushes right down the shitter ......new start .......new beginning ......but then i am not cut from the same cloth ......
Tornadoes collapse buildings and level homes in Nebraska and Iowa
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Tornadoes wreaked havoc Friday in the Midwest, causing a building to collapse with dozens of people inside and destroying and damaging hundreds of homes, many around Omaha, Nebraska.
As of Friday night, there were several reports of injuries but no immediate deaths reported. Tornado warnings continued to be issued into the night in Iowa.
Three people were hurt in Nebraska’s Lancaster County when a tornado hit an industrial building, causing it to collapse with 70 people inside. Several were trapped, but everyone was evacuated and the injuries were not life-threatening, authorities said.
One of the most destructive tornadoes moved for miles Friday through mostly rural farmland before chewing up homes and other structures in the suburbs of Omaha, a city of 485,000 people with a metropolitan area population of about 1 million.
Photos on social media showed the small town of Minden, Iowa, about 30 miles (48.3 kilometers) northeast of Omaha also sustained heavy damage.
Jeff Theulen, chief deputy of the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, said at a late Friday briefing that 40 to 50 homes had been completely destroyed. Two injuries were reported but none was life-threatening.
School buses have been brought in to give residents a ride out of town if they need one, he said. He asked others to stay away, as it’s a very dangerous area with power lines down and piles of debris where homes used to be.
“It’s heartbreaking to see these people who have lost houses, cars, essentially their life until they have to rebuild it,” he said.
The forecast for Saturday was ominous. The National Weather Service issued tornado watches across parts of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. Forecasters warned that large hail and strong wind gusts were possible.
“It does look like a big outbreak again tomorrow,” said Becky Kern, the warning coordination meteorologist in the National Weather Service’s Omaha office. “Maybe slightly farther south.”
Hundreds of houses sustained damage in Omaha on Friday, mostly in the Elkhorn area in the western part of the city, Omaha police Lt. Neal Bonacci said.
“You definitely see the path of the tornado,” Bonacci said, adding that many of the homes were destroyed or severely damaged.
Police and firefighters went door-to-door to help people, going to the “hardest hit area” with a plan to search anywhere someone could be trapped, Omaha Fire Chief Kathy Bossman said.
“We'll be looking throughout properties in debris piles, we'll be looking in basements, trying to find any victims and make sure everybody is rescued who needs assistance,” Bossman said.
In one area of Elkhorn, dozens of newly built, large homes were damaged. At least six were wrecked, including one that was leveled, while others had their top halves ripped off. Dozens of emergency vehicles responded to the area.
“We watched it touch down like 200 yards over there and then we took shelter,” said Pat Woods, who lives in Elkhorn. "We could hear it coming through. When we came up our fence was gone and we looked to the northwest and the whole neighborhood's gone.”
Kim Woods, his wife, added, “The whole neighborhood just to the north of us is pretty flattened.”
Three people, including a child, were in the basement of the leveled home when the tornado hit but got out safely, according to Dhaval Naik, who said he works with home's owner.
KETV-TV video showed one woman being removed from a demolished home on a stretcher in Blair, a city just north of Omaha.
Two people were transported for treatment, both with minor injuries, Bonacci said.
Crews were doing a second search of homes. Fire crews would work throughout the night to check all the unsafe structures and make sure no one is inside, Bonacci said.
“People had warnings of this and that saved lives," Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said of the few serious injuries.
The tornado warning was issued in the Omaha area on Friday afternoon just as children were due to be released from school. Many schools had students shelter in place until the storm passed. Hours later, buses were still transporting children home.
“Was it one long track tornado or was it several tornadoes?” Kern of the National Weather Service said.
The agency planned to send out multiple crews over the next several days to determine the number of tornadoes and their strength, which could take up to two weeks, she said.
“Some appeared to be violent tornadoes,” Kern continued. “There were tornadoes in different areas. And so it’s like forensic meteorology, we call it, like piecing together, all the damage indicators.”
Another tornado hit an area on the eastern edge of Omaha, passing directly through parts of Eppley Airfield, the city's airport. Officials halted aircraft operations to access damage but then reopened the facility, Omaha Airport Authority Chief Strategy Officer Steve McCoy said.
The passenger terminal wasn't hit by the tornado but people rushed to storm shelters until the twister passed, McCoy said.
After passing through the airport, the tornado crossed the Missouri River and into Iowa, north of Council Bluffs.
Nebraska Emergency Management Agency spokesperson Katrina Sperl said Friday afternoon that damage reports were just starting to come in. Taylor Wilson, a spokesperson for the University of Nebraska Medical Center, said they hadn’t seen any injuries yet.
In Lancaster County, where three people were injured when an industrial building collapsed, sheriff's officials also said they had reports of a tipped-over train near Waverly, Nebraska.
Two people who were injured in the county were being treated at the trauma center at Bryan Medical Center West Campus in Lincoln, the facility said in a news release. The hospital said the patients were in triage and no details were released on their condition.
The Omaha Public Power District reported nearly 10,000 customers were without power in the Omaha area. The number had dropped to about 7,300 by Friday night.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen posted on the social platform X that he had ordered state resources to be made available to help with the emergency response and to support first responders as they assess the damage.
“Nebraskans are no strangers to severe weather and, as they have countless times before, Nebraskans will help Nebraskans to rebuild,” Pillen said.
Daniel Fienhold, manager of the Pink Poodle Steakhouse in Crescent, Iowa, said he was outside watching the weather with his daughter and restaurant employees, recalling “it looked like a pretty big tornado was forming” northeast of town.
“It started raining, and then it started hailing, and then all the clouds started to kind of swirl and come together, and as soon as the wind started to pick up, that’s when I headed for the basement, but we never saw it,” Fienhold said.
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Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas. Associated Press writers Hannah Fingerhut in Des Moines, Iowa, Jack Dura in Bismarck, North Dakota, Jeff Martin in Atlanta and Lisa Baumann in Bellingham, Washington, contributed to this report.
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