channel 14 - WIFE is providing live feed to the national news.  they
said that you can go to their website and see what's going on.

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"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
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Glad you're ok my friend!!!

Keith Lundy/So. California
40 Proton Beam Radiation Treatments
Loma Linda  Univ.Med Ctr..3/03-5/03

folks - all my family is fine, but the national news didn't show what's
going on other than the pictures for shock and awe.

here's things that they didn't say.

rescue workers that got there at 2 am and were still there at 1 in the
afternoon.  they have been working wild open and running on adrenalin.
they are beyond exhaustion and won't leave the disaster site.  they
won't go home to rest.   have been ordered to stand down in a place set
aside for them and they are having to deal with the mental stress of
what they saw when they got there.  counselors, clergy from all faiths
have been called in to help them deal with the problems they are having.

some of the rescue workers had a person that they were feverishly trying
to get extricated pass away about 3/4ths the way through the rescue
process.  they have having to deal with the passing of life and not
being able to help.

some of the rescue workers are having problems dealing with recovering
the dead children.  especially the ones who were the own age of their
own.

police officers and emergency personnel that are on scene since the
disaster happened and live in the area where the path of tornado touched
down miles away from the disaster scene.  they were on duty when the
call came in and were not home with their family.   now, with phone
service out, roads closed in that area and being on station - are still
working and wondering about the fate of their own family 12 hours later.

the gallant efforts that was brought forth by the news media who didn't
come to the scene to film the disaster but to pitch right in and work
side by side with the rescuers.

trailers stacked on top of each other like toys.

60 homes completely gone and reduced to nothing but splinters and
toothpicks.  can't even tell there was a home there - just a pile of
wooden splinters.

125 more homes in that park that were heavily damaged.

cars that have wooden pieces embedded in the sides of them.

over 250 people were treated at the hospitals with approx. 1/4 of the
them with very serious injuries.

the tornado grew from an F2 to an F3 within a mile to a mile and half
after touch down, then there is evidence that it had pockets in the
tornado where the winds exceeded 250 mph.  as the tornado made it's way
on it's 20 mile path, the width of the tornado got smaller, but the
force of the tornado got stronger - like a skater doing a spin.

for a small population of evansville (250,000), in the past few years,
we had some major disasters.  you might remember when the entire
evansville univeristy purple aces basketball team were lost when their
plane crashed into a motel and field by the airport.   last year, this
area was the only place in december where the snow was so deep that
interstate 64 was shut down for three days, and now this.  kinda makes
you wonder what this winter is going to bring........

~ curtis

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional    
"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
http://community.webtv.net/PALMER_ENT/doc