Perilous Times and Climate Change
Raging Tornadoes and Severe Storms tear through Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
mid west
June 07, 2010 07:54 PM EDT
Storms in the form of straight winds and tornadoes in Milbury and
Toledo Ohio have flattened houses, destroyed businesses, and killed
people and are headed to the North East. Today At least 17 people
have been hospitalized in northwest Ohio. Two adults and two children
are hospitalized and Mercy Hospital says eight people were treated and
released.
Storms have killed at lease five people in Ohio and many other injured
and hurting across Ohio, Pennsylvannia, Illinois, and Michigan. The
same storm that has injured and killed so many is headed toward the
North East including Washington D.C.
Tornadoes packing winds capable of flattening houses, businesses, and
burying people in the very homes they live in and go to for safety are
careening across the mid west Sunday and are on the way to the North
East.
At least five people are dead as of this writing including a child.
Police and fire rescue are searching through the rubble looking for
victims. Police Chief Mark Hummer surveyed the damage by air. He
says, "He estimated a 7-mile path of destruction about 100 yards
wide." Hummer called it "A war zone." He also reported that a police
and emergency medical building was a total loss.
The storm knocked out 911 services to some towns, and so the
devastation may be far greater than is now known as even police
vehicles were tossed about and buses.
A home in Millbury, Ohio was moved five feet off its foundation held by
a washer and dryer connection.
Having lived in both Ohio and Oklahoma, we tend to become complacent
about tornadoes, but having witnessed first hand the devastation these
people are going through I can only tell you, when a tornado wipes out
a town or a city, you have no idea where a home or church once stood as
all that is left are splinters of wood and lives.