Tornadoes running wild

A massive tornado hit Joplin, Missouri killing at least 89 people on May 22. It is reported that 2,000 buildings were destroyed, and 25 to 30 percent of the city was damaged, city officials told the Associated Press.
The Joplin tornado was only one of 68 reported tornadoes across seven Midwest states over the weekend, from Oklahoma to Wisconsin, according to the national Weather Services’ Storm Prediction center.
The tornado “cut a path nearly six miles long and more than half-mile wide through the center of town,” according to the Wall Street Journal. Tornado sirens gave residents about 20 minutes warning before the tornado hit the city’s west side.
One of the worst hit buildings was St. John’s Regional Medical Center. The storm hit the building blowing out windows and leaving the facilities useless.
St. John’s patients were evacuated to other hospitals in the region, said Cora Scott a spokeswoman for the medical center’s sister hospital in Springfield, according to the Associated Press.
On Tuesday May 24 teams of search dogs, police, volunteers and firefighters search for the hundreds of missing people. The death toll has climbed to 122 according to the Joplin City manager Mark Rohr as of late Tuesday afternoon, according to the Wall Street Journal.Newton County Coroner Mark Bridges predicted the death toll would continue to rise, “we’re getting more bodies. We’ve been running calls [to pick up bodies] all morning,” Bridges told the Wall Street Journal