122 death in Joplin after the tornado

Joplin town in Missouri is facing its most powerful tornado from the history. Also, according to the expert’s estimation, this natural disaster is the eighth most serious natural catastrophe from the United States history. The total balance shows at least 122 death and more than 750 people hurt, an official statement showed on Tuesday. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, the instrument that measures the intensity of a tornado, the one from Joplin is at EF-5 intensity, the highest possible. The experts said on Tuesday in an official report that those kinds of tornadoes are rare in the United States, but this year there were at least four that were beyond their expectations.

The Alabama tornado from last month and the ones from Mississippi were the most powerful from this year. In their opinion, the intensity was so high that the wave had the power to turn a house into a missile. The windblown was more than 200 miles per hour during this natural catastrophe. The authorities report showed almost 8000 buildings destroyed from the 50.000, the total number of the city’s structures. The Joplin catastrophe destroyed almost 75 percent of the town. The town’s hospital was completely destroyed and while the wind crashed all the windows, the power was off and five patients that were on the ventilators died. The hospital personnel said that the tornado was a terrible one and it lasted ten minutes, but the impact was so powerful that they thought it will never stop.

They only heard the sound of the equipments that were destroyed. The hospital generators were destroyed too during the tornado and for that reason the building lost the power supply. The hospital officials announced gray condition, an official code for natural disaster. They covered the windows with blankets in order to evacuate quickly and safe the ill persons. The hospital spokesman, Joanne Cox, confirmed the five deaths because of the power interruption. There was only one death that is unknown until now, Cox added. The hospital staff wasn’t injured. The 175 people that were in the building at that moment serving the patients are in a good condition. The nurses described the landscape as a horror one and they said the people were frightened and dazed. President Barack Obama went on Joplin on Sunday and said that all the American people are supporting the victims and the administration will do everything in its power so that Joplin will recover after this disaster.

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