Nick

**__Totally Twisting Your Mind __** **__by Nick __**
 * __ Tornadoes __**

**__ Hi I am Nick and I go to [| MICDS] in [|St. Louis], Missouri home of the St. Louis Blues. This website will give you all the information you need to protect you and your family from tornadoes. Tornadoes impact many lives every day. In this website there are Do's and dont's, tip's and links to other websites. __**

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Historical Event Tri- State Tornado  The Tri-State tornado was the worst tornado in U.S.A history. The Tri-State tornado was classified as a F5 tornado on the Fujita Scale and lasted three and a half hours. Its wind speeds were about 250-300 miles an hour. It tore through parts of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana and the death tole was over 689 and injuring 2,067 more.

 F.E.M.A has many tips on what to do before, during and after. before a tornado, listen to a radio or TV on the weather. During a tornado you should put as many walls between you and outside, stay away from windows and be on the lowest floor in your house. if you don't have a basement get in a bathtub. Back when the Tri-State tornado happened, do to the lack of warning, there's no telling if they would have got to safety in time do to how fast it was going.

Nick 1/15/12     5B1 [|FEMA.com] Bill Carwile Progress Continues in Joplin

As we know last year May, 2011 an EF-5 tornado struck Joplin. It caused massive destruction and devastated the city. Millions of dollars were needed to repair the city and it’s still going on now. But what really happened? Fatalities were in the neighborhood of 161 and hundreds were injured. More than 7,500 structures damaged and another 4,000 completely destroyed. To top it all off, about one-third of the city, a city of 45,000 was completely flattened. We were glad that so few people died. But that’s probably because if you looked outside your window you could see a massive, whirling funnel of debris outside your house. Two things I learned were that so many buildings were damaged or destroyed and that there were so little fatalities for such a destructive tornado. This is related to science because scientists are still learning about tornadoes and this was a good lesson on destruction.

 Thanks Akin, Wallace. "The Great Tri-State Tornado." //American Heritage// 51.3 (2000): 32. //Middle Search Plus//. Web. 31 Jan. 2012. []

Nature's Fury by Carole Vogle publishedin New York by Scoolastic in 2000 [|www.Tornadoes | ready.gov F.E.M.A]


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