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What happend after the Jarrell Texas tornado?In: Tornadoes
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You died!
Ignore that idiot's answer above...totally insensitive.
What happened was that 29 people died, 26 of whom were essentially shredded. a 58-home subdivision was essentially inhaled, leaving behind roughly 9 concrete slabs as the only evidence that any homes had been there.
The media swarmed on the town, with local and national news crews parking their gigantic news trucks in people's lawns without obtaining permission. Media finally had to be cordoned off from a small church on the west end of town to prevent them from harrassing survivors and/or family members hoping for word of their loved ones.
The county coroner said he had been on battlefields during wars (unspecified) but had never in his life seen carnage like that left behind by this storm. Hides were blown off of cattle and other animals, grass blades were driven into the skin like nails on the pieces of those who were found, but some victims were identified only by finding a finger with an indentifiable ring on it. As a print journalist put it to a councilman," You're not finding people, you're finding pieces of people," to which the councilman simply responded, "Exactly."
One week later a second tornado vortex signature was determined to be headed south along the freeway toward Jarrell. Locals rushed to the highway overpass to wait out the storm, but little materialized from that scare.
First answer by ID3452222563. Last edit by Murdergirl. Contributor trust: 0 [recommend contributor]. Question popularity: 1 [recommend question].




