Southern Tornado Recovery

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Joplin Update

World Vision’s disaster response director has deployed to southern Missouri to assess the damage after a massive tornado plowed through the city of Joplin on Sunday evening leaving thousands without homes. “Out of my 14 years doing disaster response, I have never ever seen a weather season in the United States that is this severe where natural disasters keep coming and we haven’t even started hurricane season,” said Phyllis Freeman, World Vision's domestic emergency response director and a veteran of the agency's Hurricane Katrina response. “It is heartbreaking to see yet another tornado devastate an entire community and to see even more children left homeless.” Read more...

The tornado in Tusacloosa, Alabama cut through at a 45 degree angle and decimated everything in its path.

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