February 5-6: Super Tuesday Outbreak... 57 dead

#881 Postby **vbhoutex** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:14 pm

Welcome to S2K and thanks for the Kudo's to the site.

I agree with you on the debarking. At first I thought it was the lighting, but if you look at it the coloring is definitely different than on trees that are in the same area with the same lighting. AS far as debarking is concerned does anyone know if there is any kind of differentiation between types of trees and debarking? I ask since I believe a pine tree would be easier to debark than an oak.

#882 Postby **simplykristi** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:48 pm

Welcome to the site!

I have relatives who live 10 miles from Mountain View on Hwy 14. When we spoke with them last week, they had no power at their place near Pleasant Grove AR.

I have been thru Mountain View a few times. I was surprised at the amount of damage that the tornado did.

I hope that the town is able to recover quickly!

Kristi

#883 Postby **HURAKAN** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:33 pm

Thanks nbcrecon and Welcome to S2K.

Impressive collection of images of the disaster area.

Squarethecircle · #884 Postby **Squarethecircle** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:37 pm

Wikipedia is saying a total of 80 tornadoes, but the number of EF-3s has seemingly gone down (EF-4s remain at 5).

HurricaneBill · #885 Postby **HurricaneBill** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:40 pm

Death toll lowered to 57.

http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3e0b8d51-e2c9-4471-9343-1fbf307b2b4a

#886 Postby **CrazyC83** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 6:35 pm

Squarethecircle wrote:Wikipedia is saying a total of 80 tornadoes, but the number of EF-3s has seemingly gone down (EF-4s remain at 5).

That is because several that were believed to be separate tornadoes were found to be the same storm (either part of another EF3 or an EF4).

HarlequinBoy · #887 Postby **HarlequinBoy** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 9:46 pm

My friend has some pretty cool pictures of a rope tornado that tried to cross the MS River from Phillips County into Tunica County.

HarlequinBoy · #888 Postby **HarlequinBoy** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 9:56 pm

0940 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 S TUNICA 34.66N 90.38W
02/05/2008 TUNICA MS EMERGENCY MNGR

EIGHT POWER POLES WERE KNOCKED DOWN ALONG WITH SOME
TREES.

0940 PM TSTM WND DMG TUNICA 34.69N 90.38W
02/05/2008 TUNICA MS EMERGENCY MNGR

A TREE WAS KNOCKED ONTO A HOUSE CAUSING MODERATE DAMAGE.
20-30 RESIDENTIAL HOMES HAD SHINGLE DAMAGE. THREE
APARTMENT COMPLEXES HAD ROOF DAMAGE.

0940 PM TSTM WND DMG TUNICA 34.69N 90.38W
02/05/2008 TUNICA MS EMERGENCY MNGR

THE ANTENNA WAS BLOWN OFF THE ROOF OF THE TUNICA EMA
BUILDING.

0940 PM TSTM WND GST TUNICA 34.69N 90.38W
02/05/2008 M86.00 MPH TUNICA MS EMERGENCY MNGR

86 MPH WIND GUST REPORTED AT THE TUNICA AIRPORT.

They added all those reports recently.. I knew those winds were strong!!

HarlequinBoy · #889 Postby **HarlequinBoy** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:31 pm

A man in TN died from his injuries on 2/5 today..

Some people still remain in critical condition as well.

HurricaneBill · #890 Postby **HurricaneBill** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:21 pm

HarlequinBoy wrote:A man in TN died from his injuries on 2/5 today..

Some people still remain in critical condition as well.

That would raise the toll back to 59, I think. Supposedly there was an 8th death in KY on the same day TN lowered their toll.

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