Joplin tornado survivors experience PTSD
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Updated: 5:47 PM CDT May 18, 2021
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Updated: 5:47 PM CDT May 18, 2021
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HAPPENED. I REMEMBER COMING DOWN HE AREND RIGHATT THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL WAS THE HELICOPTER. JUST LAYING ON ITS SIDE ON THE GROUND AND EVERY WINDOW WAS BLOWN OUT. IT WAS ACTUALLY MOVED OFF ITS FOUNDATION. SO HOSPITAL WAS MOVED OFF. ITS OFF ITS FOUNDATION. AHYE A HOSPITAL, WHICH IS CRAZY THE CONDITION OF JOPLIN AFTER THE SINGLE MOST DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO IN US HISTORY WAS ESSENTIALLY TTHA OF A WAR ZONE IT LOOKED LIKE A NUCLEAR BOMB. AND IT REALLY DID THERE WAS. NOTHING LEFT AS A RESULT IN THE WEEKS AND YEARS FOLLOWING THE TORNADO PTSD BAMEEC EREXTMELY COMMON AMONGST RESIDENTS AND FIRST RESPONDERS SAYSOP JLIN CHIEF METEOROLOGIST, DOUG HEDY PEOPLE WHO SAW THAT WTEN THROUGH THAT HEARD THE SCREAMS IT IT’S ABSOLUTELY AWFUL. THE STRUGGLE WAS JUST AS REAL FOR DOUG. HIS BRAIN WENT I ....