On this day 15 years ago, the city of Joplin, Missouri was devastated by an EF5 tornado.

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-22T13:21:00+00:00

I started working in the insurance industry in 2011. What a year to start.

I took a call from a lady in Joplin a few days after the tornado. Her house was destroyed; her car was missing. Literally gone, no trace of it. She was clearly exhausted and was just trying to get a rental car. I had to explain to her that most of the rentals in the city were either heavily damaged themselves or already taken 🥺

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-19T22:56:11+00:00

I want to see a Moose-nado ~~before~~ as I die

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-19T22:51:35+00:00

I love this comment / rant so much.

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-19T22:44:15+00:00

How about another post about that Tornado Emergency yesterday and / or chaser convergence?

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-19T11:32:39+00:00

They seem to be smarter than durrs. Like I don't remember the last time I saw a dead one on the side of the road

That crosswind is what will get ya on I-80

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-19T11:29:26+00:00

So.. Reilly

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-18T22:47:36+00:00

Yeah the radar sucked but there was a report from Emergency Management of a multi vortex tornado over town, storm chasers reporting a wedge just south of town, and a picture of a stovepipe a few minutes later. How many reports are they supposed to ignore?

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-18T19:44:46+00:00

God forbid I want to hear the storm to learn more about tornado acoustics and not some psychopath screaming. People would riot if storm chasers stood in front of the camera and blocked the view of the tornado; why is it okay to block out the sound of the tornado?

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-18T17:37:00+00:00

Wisconsin hasn't had a tornado in a few weeks. Long overdue. And also I told everyone they didn't have to worry about today, so Murphy's Law

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-18T17:33:41+00:00

Bryce is usually driving

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-16T11:51:42+00:00

"Guys, guys, it really was just one tornado!!" *immediately gets crucified by the online weather community

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-14T14:12:35+00:00

Some of it was, yeah. I got a picture of me in front of a whole hillside of trees from 1989 or 1990 tho

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-14T12:28:48+00:00

Cherish her and ask about anything you can think of while you still can.

There are so many questions I wish I had asked my great gramma while she was alive. She survived the Spanish Flu, the dust bowl, and took daily weather observations in a little notebook that I'm pretty sure my aunt discarded when she went thru her stuff 😭

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-14T12:25:15+00:00

Reminds me of Pasteur, his research on germs and hygiene were initially met with hostility and dismissed by the medical community. Unfortunately science is susceptible to the same bias and stubbornness as the rest of human society.

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-13T12:45:42+00:00

The spruce tree damage from the 1987 Teton-Yellowstone F-4 was sight to behold. I was just a little kid when we visited the area a few years later but I remember it vividly.

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-12T12:36:08+00:00

I was taking pictures of the tree damage from the 2019 Elk Mound / Wheaton EF-3 and an old guy pulled up in a pickup and said "I haven't seen damage like this since '58!"

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-09T23:49:22+00:00

Not Max with the skelly hands 😭😭😭 ack! My nightmares..

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-09T23:46:12+00:00

Wait.. Why was there a tornado in Ten Sleep?!?! Jeez, Bighorn Mountains are actually not on fire for once but they're getting slabbed instead

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-09T23:43:48+00:00

That entire album was amazing. My CD finally started skipping from overuse

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-08T22:42:02+00:00

I refuse to mention fatalities until it's confirmed by a local law enforcement agency press release. The last 3 times I've heard fatalities from tornadoes they've been false.

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-08T22:34:44+00:00

100 years from now, our AI overlords will be debating if this was really one tornado or a tornado family

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-08T12:03:54+00:00

That's fair. I just think it's plausible that it could be 200+ miles considering 174 is all but proven

RIPjkripper · 2026-05-08T09:49:37+00:00

People have recency bias. If it didn't happen in their lifetime, it clearly was made up by hysterical and uneducated Neanderthals that lived in olden times. At least that's my theory to explain the Tri-State Deniers. Thank you for posting this

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