A killer tornado hits Mississippi in the United States, more specifically in Yazoo city. The calamity happened this Sunday. The killer tornado devastated the local neighborhood, destroying and twisted homes and killed 10 people including 3 children.
Governor Haley Barbour said, as stated in Yahoo.com, that there was “utter obliteration among the picturesque hills rising from the flat Mississippi Delta.
Barbour estimated at least 1000 houses in Yazoo County alone had severe damage, but also stated that his estimate may rise later.
A tornado can seriously damage ones property, as what happened to Josiah Moton, 31, where he and his girlfriend, Morgan Hayden, 27 , lost their house leaving behind only their bathroom. According to them,
Josiah Moton, 31, and his girlfriend, Morgan Hayden, 27, were in their Yazoo County home when the sky darkened Saturday and Moton went out to try to move his vehicle to a safer spot.
“The wind was coming so strong it tried to tote me away,” Moton said.
He ran back inside and they both huddled in a bathtub. Neither one had even a cut. But now they are homeless — the bathroom was the only room not destroyed, the rest of the house reduced to rubble.
“Someone else’s kitchen sink is where our kitchen used to be,” Hayden said.
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100425/ap_on_re_us/us_severe_weather_33)
Tornadoes are very dangerous natural phenomenons – they can’t be totally eradicated or avoided, but the casualties caused by them, may be minimized. For those living in Tornado-prone places, check out the link below on how to protect yourself from a Tornado.
(http://www.ehow.com/how_2300579_protect-yourself-from-tornado.html)
Also, check out a video report regarding this tornado in Mississippi.
