"Have you got one more in you, Busby?" asks Gary Lezak.
"Let's finish what we started, Lezak," Bryan Busby snarls back.
The two top meteorologists in Kansas City have not yet decided to film the sequel to Twister, but the looniness of the weather coverage the past few days suggests that it's not outside the realm of possibility. And if a storm doesn't come soon (media reports are hopefully predicting snow for Saturday), there might not be anything that can cure the "Weather Fever," which has beset this weather-crazy town.
All eight Kansas City-area Salvation Army locations will be serving as cooling centers as long as the city is under an excessive heat warning. The locations are:
They survived the tornado but not the fungus it left behind.
Health officials in Joplin attribute three or four deaths to zygomycosis, a rapidly spreading and often fatal fungal infection. "It's difficult to say if it killed them, but it definitely was a contributing factor," Dr. Uwe Schmidt tells the Springfield News-Leader. Schmidt, an infectious disease specialist, says he has treated five patients and knew of four cases that had been found at another hospital.
One of the less-than-great parts about living in Kansas City is the godawful summer heat. It's muggy, it's miserable and it can be deadly. By early August last year, six Kansas Citians were suspected to have died from heatstroke.
The city has just announced the hours of cooling centers and free swimming at municipal pools. At the risk of sounding like your mother: If you don't have air conditioning, please bookmark this list or print it off and stick it somewhere, because sitting and reading a book or playing Angry Birds on your phone for a couple of hours at a community center could save your life.
Storm chasers Jeff and Kathryn Piotrowski have new video of not only the mile-wide EF5 tornado that ripped through Joplin but also the aftermath (TornadoAlleyVideo via Heycameraman). It's not for the fainthearted.
The death toll in Joplin now stands at 141. Meanwhile, rebuilding Joplin could take up to two years, a University of Missouri-Kansas City professor told KSHB's Sloane Heller.
The Missouri River is set to crest Saturday morning -- check out this awesome graph for the details. And for more info, go here.
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill toured the wreckage of Joplin on Tuesday and took these stunning photos. You can see the full gallery with many more pictures on McCaskill's Flickr page (and a few more after the jump).
This video was shot Wednesday of a tornado heading straight for the Sutherlands in Sedalia, Missouri. The Star reported that the tornado was either "a high EF1 or a low EF2." It damaged homes, businesses and a trailer park, but the people of Sedalia were reportedly all accounted for. I'm tornadoed out for the year.
H/t: Wheelingrabbit for uploading the video (via the always awesome Heycameraman).
Pitch IT wizard Matt Spencer snapped these photos from the roof of our office at 17th Street and Main during this morning's storm. Spencer braved the storm while the rest of us hid in the basement and called dibs on the fluorescent lights and two-by-fours as weapons for our post-tornado world (true story). If you're worried about Spencer, don't be. He's kinda like Highlander. Nevertheless, don't try this at home, kids. More photos after the jump.
Broadway is dead! Dead! Mwhahaha! Snowstradamus 2011 is over, but with a foot of snow and single-digit temps, I recommend that all of the Masters of the Universe stay indoors. Way too cold out here for 4-inch-tall men wearing loincloths. Interstate 70 may be open, but I wouldn't recommend riding a giant panther on it. Until the city digs out, I shall work from home, drinking cocoa and plotting the demise of He-Man. Mwhahahahaha!
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