Across 20th Street, at the Home Depot, 29 customers and employees were amidst the canyon-like aisles of the warehouse retail store. Then it crossed the main commercial strip, Range Line Road, a mile north of Exit 8 of the interstate, with Golden Corral Buffet, KFC, Taco Hut, Red Wing Shoes, and Walmart Supercenter number 59, then through a industrial/warehouse area, the eastern residential outskirts, then crossed Interstate 44, and disappeared back up into the sky.Ģ03 people were in the Walmart when the tornado hit the cinderblock big box. It landed first in the rural outskirts, then through the increasing density of developed housing blocks, crossing South Main Street a mile south of downtown. The tornado went from west to east, carving a cross section through this community of 50,000. And a lot of people were out shopping with their families. More than half of the deaths were people at home.
Joplin was de-homed by a despotic storm this summer. This was the worst tornado strike in the USA since 1947, and the most expensive so far (17,000 insurance claims and $3 billion in damages). 7,000 homes were destroyed, 18,000 cars were flung around, 500 commercial buildings were demolished. Everything in this routed out swath was ripped up and blown away. ON MAY 22, 2011, A F-5 tornado hit Joplin, Missouri, gouging a half mile wide, 7 mile long belt of utter destruction through town.
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