Tornadoes | Tornadoes
Jan.04.2013
New Year, New Cheer, StormChasers, Those Who Save Us, Travel Packing
Happy New Year! Hello power partners and welcome to radio’s finest HOUR OF POWER- Starstyle Be the Star you are - program of positive book talk. My name is Cynthia Brian and I’m HB, we are...
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Oct.31.2012
A couple years ago there were blizzards and record snow fall (at least since humans have been keeping records) and there have been hurricanes, like Katrina that decimated New Orleans and the coastal areas in the Gulf, and typhoons, and tornadoes, and all kinds of extreme weather. Everywhere I...
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Aug.20.2011
It all started with yet another disaster. “An act of God” as the insurance companies determine natural tragedies, but true life devastation for the human survivors. Joplin, Missouri, May 22, a bit later than 5 pm, a roaring, rushing, rabid tornado surged through the city, leaving...
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Aug.09.2011
When recent tornadoes destroyed 262 classrooms and 16 schools leaving almost 13,000 students without supplies or books in Joplin, Missouri, Be the Star You Are!® charity stepped forward to help by spearheading Operation Disaster Relief. Teen volunteers Courtney Cheng and Katherine Kim identified...
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Jun.27.2011
My fourteenth summer, twin funnels descended from the mildewed sky and barreled across the field behind our house. We didn't know it until after we'd watched the news, but they were the same funnels that obliterated the home a quarter of a mile from ours, killing its sole occupant -- a woman in...
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Jun.22.2011
Joplin, Missouri lost 262 classrooms in the tornadoes. Be the Star You Are!® is helping to send books to the schools through Operation Disaster Relief.
We need your financial assistance please to get books to the schools before September.I just heard from the Joplin, Mo school district asking Be...
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Jun.02.2011
2011 Insane Gardener Summer Series
“If I lived in Missouri, I’d build a tornado shelter,” my mom said on May 1st while visiting from Littleton, Colorado.
I told mom we felt pretty secure because we had a crawl space as well as an interior laundry room under the staircase. I’ve stayed in the laundry...
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May.11.2011
This week someone cut the locks to our gate and pilfered items from our land. Although the thievery could have been far worse, it still feels violating. A few days before that, my husband and I drove out to the property with our stomachs in knots, anxious to see if the deluge of rain had flooded...
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Apr.07.2011
May 25, 1955 9:25 p.m. TORNADO! A merging of two tornado clouds south of Blackwell, Oklahoma led to a large tornado funnel sweeping through the east side of town obliterating twenty-two blocks of homes and damaging sixty blocks more. God was with us that night because death count was much...
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Sep.01.2010
Summer, oh sweet, sultry summer; how I do so love you. A part of me will miss you as you fade into fall. Another part of me, though, loathes you and will not shed a tear as your last day slips quietly into the brisk cool of autumn.Well you might ask how I can hold such diametrically opposed...
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