Terrifying!!! -- First Person video of Joplin MO tornado 5/22/11

[FourScore]

Run time: 05:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds   Posted on YouTube: May 23, 2011 By YouTube Member: izelsg Views on YouTube: 741125   Posted on DU: May 24, 2011 By DU Member: FourScore Views on DU: 3267

 
You can't see much in this because the electricity appears to be off. But the sounds are terrifying. The only reason these people survived is because they huddled in a walk-in freezer. It sounds and looks like they made it in there just in the nick of time.

[gristy]

1. Sounds like they're in the eye from 2:30 to 3:02

[FourScore]

2. It sure gets goin' after 3:02. n/t

[AC_Mem]

3. OMG how terrifying!

Those people are very lucky to be alive!

The poor people of Joplin...

Annette

[Old and In the Way]

4. Unreal.....you don't even need video to understand the shear terror that these people were

experiencing. For them, it must truly have felt like the end of the world was upon them.

[DreamSmoker]

5. Scared to death

I was on the edge of my seat and then lost it when I heard that little one cry out..

[AlbertCat]

6. Thank you JESUS!....

... for this walk in freezer!



As an atheist, I would have been saying the same thing.... with many more cuss words... an emotional moment indeed.



But my intellect tells me to say: Thank you technology for some kind of advanced warning system! (and the walk in freezer)

[Poll_Blind]

7. That was so authentic, for a second I thought it was a fake.

You can make out the "characters" just from the audio: The scared mother trying to sooth the terrified girl, the salt-of-the-earth waitress, praying to Jesus for survival and the college guys who, like everyone else, had no idea how their world was going to be turned upside down.

I am very thankful they are all ok, and while I've never heard it before, that is what a room full of people who are going to die sound like. This batch just happened not to die and to have a camera rolling. My god that's chilling. Everyone who's old enough to understand just how serious the situation is unconsciously going through something we'd identify in more "primtive" cultures as their own death ritual ("Praise Jesus! Praise Jesus!", "I love everybody here. I love you all.") while the mother attempts to sooth her child, who isn't able to prepare herself mentally for what's about to happen/happening.

My god, something that real should almost not get captured on film.

If I ever wind up in that situation, I'm going to be the dude telling everyone he loves them.

PB

[Raschel]

8. The guy telling everyone to get down, who keeps saying "we're good"

who tells people not to move because the building isn't stable,

HE'S MY HERO!!! Nerves of steel and a real leader!

[Rhiannon12866]

9. They played this on CNN this morning, along with a phone interview with the guy...

He said that they got in there after the windows blew in, so they were all cut by flying glass. And he said that they were afraid to come out, finally did when they smelled gas and were afraid of an explosion. He said that when they came out, there was nothing left. The cooler was the only thing left standing, and that had some holes in it... This is as scary as it gets. :(

[Dookiestix]

10. I just don't understand

why people yell Jesus' name during a NATURAL disaster. Why would somebody want help from God's son when God himself is trying to kill them?

[Bosso 63]

11. Until you've been in that situation.

no one knows what they would do.

[colorado_ufo]

12. Do you believe every natural disaster is God trying to kill people?

It is not what happens to us in this world but how we respond to it that is important. This is our world, our lives. Things happen in this material world, and we have the free will to respond as we choose. We can call on God's help or not, as we choose.

God's Son never tried to kill anyone. His whole message was one of love and forgiveness, of helping the poor and less fortunate, of making peace in the world. He treated women with the same respect that He treated men - almost unheard of in His time. He treated children with respect, as well, and insisted that others do the same.

Jesus said to judge for ourselves what is true. Read the New Testament and decide for yourself, without prejudice.

[FourScore]

13. I do not belong to any organized religion.

But they did survive in the only thing left standing.

[democracy1st]

14. speechless!

[wtmusic]

15. Video of the gas station afterward

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-P4P68YyNM

Holy shit.

[FourScore]

16. Unbelievable. n/t