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Joplin tornado 10th anniversary11/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Two nurses and Judy’s husband kicked and banged on the door until it opened. When they got to the stairwell, they couldn’t get through the jammed door. They transferred Julie to a chair and started moving debris out of the way. “‘Mom, there are no sirens… Nobody’s coming.'” “‘I don’t hear anything,'” Miller responded. They waited for help to come… Julie told her mother to listen. Everyone around us was injured,” said Miller. ![]() “Honestly, I have to say that the hand of God was right over us because we were not hurt at all. Miller saw nearby patients who were impaled by pieces of the building, had broken legs, head injuries and more. When it was over, we looked around and it looked like a bomb had gone off in the middle of that building,” she said. He thought he heard a train coming, but quickly realized that what he was hearing was much worse. The whole sky was just black and there was just this little strip of purple that I don’t ever want to see again,” said Humphrey. “I looked out over Dillon’s and I don’t think I’ve ever been that scared in my life. Humphrey heard something thump on the roof and went outside to check it out. Local artist, wand maker and performer Lee Humphrey was at his home at the Hampshire Terrace apartments when the storm rolled in. ![]() This is inside the world of: tornado survivors. The traumatic experience affected everyone in the area in some way, but each person has a unique story of what they went through that fateful Sunday afternoon. history, killing 162 people, displacing 9200 residents and destroying 25% of the town. The EF5 tornado that struck Joplin was the seventh deadliest tornado in U.S. On May 22, 2011, everything changed for one Midwest city. ![]()
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