Page 6 - Storm Cellars News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

buildings sustaining significant damage. that includes one of the city's main hospitals. the national guard on patrol with a state of emergency in effect. andres cue teams they keep searching today, this afternoon, all through the day for survivors. joplin, missouri, the latest victim of a volatile wave of turbulent springtime weather. brian todd in the thick of it. >> reporter: drew, rescue teams are combing through grid by grid, house by house in this city. the houses that are left are severely damaged, but frankly in this part of the city not many houses are left. you mentioned ab...

The wind but the debris that gets picked up and carried by those wind gusts topping 200 miles per hour where any small piece of wood can become a deadly projectile. that's one of the big issues with a situation like this. you've got to find a way to stay safe from the project aisles, the debris and wind and the safest place is below ground. but unfortunately many people that call this area home don't have the basements or storm cellars. but if you happen to be in a home like that, you're not going to survive. some buildings are a little bit better than others -- go ahead. >> you've been doing ...

Difficult to do so with all the sirens and the barking dogs and whatnot. but just the very beginning of what may be very, very difficult, the next couple of hours, couple of days as we get an idea how devastating this twister really was. back to you in the studio. >> reynolds, christina and i were wondering when people are told to go to the lowest point in their home, in north carolina, we saw the storms rip off houses that didn't have basement because of the high water table. do these houses have basements that people could go to? >> many of these places do not have those basements. they don'...

Floods but trimt we have to be ready for whatever comes up. i think the local citizens took all the appropriate action they could, try to get to the center part of their house, get low and stay low. but you can see with the force of this miles an hour. it ripped the houses in shreds. >> thank you. you just heard, everyone here pretty much doing everything he they could. something important to point out is that because we're so close to the ocean, so low to sea level here, that no one has any basements. no one has any storm cellars. if they were caught in the path of the tornado they had to rel...

That couch, watching tv when the storm came in, and there would have been no place to find safety here. and that's a story we're hearing all over this county. they're very close to sea level here. there's a very high water table. so no one has any below-ground structures, no basements, no storm cellars where they could have sought safety. they were above ground. every single person caught in the path of this tornado taking their chances and hoping for the best. suzanne? >> thank you, david. really, i mean, quite extraordinary when you look at that. jacqui, explain to us, why was this so bad? j...