February Midwest Tornadoes

February Midwest Tornadoes, A damaged truck and debris is seen after a tornado touched down February 29, 2011in Harveyville, Kansas. According to reports, at least nine people have died in tornadoes across the Midwest.
At least 29 people are confirmed dead in the wake of violent storms across the states of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. Widespread damage was also reported in Alabama and Tennessee.

According to the Associated Press, authorities fear they will find more bodies as they scour the debris today.

“We’ve learned so much and improved so much in disaster preparedness, warning systems and responder communications but still we are no match for Mother Nature at her worst,” said Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, who will be visiting some of the worst-hit areas in the southeast of the state today.

Fourteen people were killed in Indiana, including a four-year-old child and her grandparents. Another 12 died in Kentucky, where the full extent of the damage is difficult to assess since roads in several counties are blocked. At least three people have been found dead in Ohio.

Hundreds of National Guard troops and emergency workers were searching for survivors early Saturday, CNN reported. The network described some rare cases of success: one 2-year-old girl was found alive and alone in a field in Salem, Indiana, while thermal imaging and rescue dogs helped locate a missing 9-year-old boy in the nearby town of Henryville.

Meanwhile in Tennessee, 29 people were injured and dozens of buildings damaged, the Wall Street Journal reported. More than 10 counties reported tornadoes.

Tornado Brooklyn

Tornado Brooklyn, Recently a wild storm hit not only in the Brooklyn Heights area, but in general Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island. That is why this storm Tornado savage named Brooklyn. This sudden attack of the storm that passed Thursday night. The people were alerted at 17:41 in closing tornado in Brooklyn and Queens. After that, only seven minutes this Brooklyn tornado has affected the whole region. All the same damage, the storm can be stated in absolute destruction.

Doppler Radar National Weather Service said a tornado near Staten Island bang Brooklyn. Staten Island and face the winds of air at the beginning of 70 miles per hour according to the score and parts of Brooklyn facing air winds 60 mph continuously. According to the National Weather Service report, the last Tornado Brooklyn took place last summer. When Brooklyn Tornado hits the area around the sky color changed immediately into a terrible shade of green a little before the rain and hail storm left covered the whole area.

The alert system warned people about their safety because the tornado was expected to be wrapped by high winds and rain. It advised people in the basement of his home because it is the safest place. It was suggested that in the absence of the basement, people would stay on the lowest floor of their homes and buildings. Tornado was officially declared Brooklyn Tornado, and the destruction caused in the area hudge Brooklyn.

Tornado In Queens

Tornado In Queens, Flash storm, tornado warnings to be fed through New York last week Gorod, with winds up to 70 mph downing trees, damaging buildings and destroying vehicles and killing at least one person.

Severe weather wreaked havoc on the transportation system of the city in the middle of the night journey. All services Long Island Rail Road was suspended from Manhattan, in conjunction with the downed trees on tracks near Sunnyside, Queens. LIRR service was also interrupted between Brooklyn and Queens, and only 7 subway line has been out for several hours.

Some roads were closed to traffic due to debris. A woman died when a tree fell on his car in the Grand Central Parkway near Jewel Avenue, authorities said.
The storm knocked out power to more than 24,000 customers in Queens and 4800 households in Staten Island, according to Con Edison. More than 570 customers were without power in Brooklyn. New Jersey, government officials say about 40,000 homes were without electricity following the storm.

Almost an hour after the storm passed, 911 plates were flooded with calls from an injury, but it was unclear how many were considered serious, the representative of the Fire Department said. The spokesman said several firefighters responded to the scene in Queens and Brooklyn, where motorists were trapped in the car after tree falls on them.

Aaron Donovan, spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority LIRR urged passengers to “remain calm at this time” instead of heading to Penn Station or Jamaica. New passengers were turned away from Penn Station, “he said.

MTA was the mobilization of buses to take passengers to the LIRR station in Jamaica, Queens, to the point of this, but Donovan urged passengers not to travel to Jamaica due to the limited capacity of the bus.

Although tornadoes have never been officially announced, assistant training time reported seeing a funnel cloud about two miles north-northeast of the area of the Huguenots of Staten Island, according to the National Weather Service, Sean Potter. Wind speeds of 70 miles per hour were evaluated in Staten Island, while parts of Brooklyn, saw sustained winds of 60 miles per hour, said Potter.

Brandon Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Upland, New York, said the agency had received “numerous reports of damage in Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens, as a result of the storm.” First of all damage to trees, large branches all over the place, “he said.

Smith said officials from the National Weather Service must wait for daylight to return before they could see the storm damage, to determine, in fact, a tornado struck the city. “The way the damage is in the earth can give many clues,” he said. “In the Tornado, you can see signs of rotation in the trash.”

But city residents are not waiting for the official definition. “A very strong wind,” said a fruit vendor Abul Kashem, 35, who lost about $ 800 and fruit in the storm, when his car near Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn was overturned. He insisted that the winds of a tornado, a tornado. ”

“I have the luck that I’m safe,” said Kashem, who took refuge under the scaffold, which eventually collapsed, forcing him to hide in the lobby of a brown building. “My basket of fruit is gone.”

Carolyn Davis returned to his home in Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn to find a great loss. “The ceiling in the back of what I see, has been completely cut off. Lantern in Busted” he said.

The proof of the damage caused by possible tornadoes can be found on the Internet minutes after the tornado warning expired at 6:00 pm Photos are available in the service of images to share Twitter have shown, which suffered structural damage to the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn. Flickr Photos published in SUV was crushed by a fallen tree in Brooklyn, as well as significant damage to the pavement.

The last tornado to strike the city was this summer, according to the National Weather Service, when weak twister touched down in the Bronx.

Earthquake Los Angeles

Earthquake Los Angeles:It seems that a mild undersea earthquake has beaten today which was felt in Santa Monica and throughout the western region of Los Angeles California. The earthquake measured a magnitude 3.6 and occurred at 2:17 am PDT according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A report on the Los Angeles Times The Associated Press says the quake occurred about four miles west of Redondo Beach, at a depth of 8 miles.

Hundreds of people who felt the tremors in contact with the USGS website, most coastal areas, but some of Los Angeles is 20 miles east. Fortunately there were no reports of injuries or damage, and a spokesman for the Santa Monica Police said he only felt a slight bump and soon.

For more information on this story go to Los Angeles Times. Did the earthquake or feel anything at all? We would be interested in their experiences of the tremors, why not let us know.