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Waves continue to crash over the rails and barriers. a beautiful stretch of restaurants out in the distance. they have already seen one brief power flash and the power has come back on, but likely to go out as we see water rise. for the storm surge with the tropical storm force winds already and impact. ian: we have a major update here from the national hurricane center. it is subtle but there you go indication it is still intensifying the air force reserve has been conducting a recon flight watching the storm get much stronger. this is what prompted the upgrade at major hurricane status and they found the pressure dropped 12 millibars maximum sustained wind were is up 10 miles per hour. ....
thank you. all right, we are joined now by the owner of chicago and midwest storm chasers curtis lerner. curators tell us what you are seeing. you want me to explain what i saw basically today? yes please. so basically around the south side of town there was a storm developing on the south southwest part of town. we are watching that slowly developed, to be honest, i did not but it had a funnel cloud about halfway off the ground, and then i started into my way closer to town. i pulled into the parking lot, and then i saw a power flash and i said i m gonna get close to this and when i got downtown i noticed that there was power going out and i thought this tornado must be hitting somewhere at some point. i notice that there is a lot of debris and destruction in the downtown part. and then i instantly got out of ....
That s when i started to inch my way closer to town. i pulled into a parking lot, saw the funnel. then i saw a power flash. i m like okay, i m going to get closer to this. and when i got into downtown i noticed that there was power going out. i m like okay, the tornado must be hitting something at this point. so when i rolled into town, i did notice there was a lot of debris and destruction in the downtown parts. and then i instantly got out of the vehicle and i did get into downtown to help with victims as well. there s people in their cars with air bags deployed, cars flipped, and then people screaming for help. they were inside mobile homes. oh, that s awful, curtis. that s awful. and so what were you able to help with? we were able to help pull some victims out of mobile homes, kick some doors in because there was trees actually thrown into the mobile homes, like the roof was taken off and then there was the tree blocking the door. so we had to break the door down to help the e ....
JOPLIN, Mo. — Just before 8 p.m. Wednesday evening, March 1, 2023, reports of a garage fire in the east alley of 1700 block Empire alerted Joplin Emergency Dispatch. ....