89 Dead As Major Tornado Devastates Joplin, Missouri
JOPLIN, MO – MAY 23: Jim Martin videotapes the damage as he and his wife attempt to salvage medication from her brother’s home before a second storm moves in, on May 23, 2011 in Joplin, Missouri. “Twenty minutes before the storm, he left to go to church. He would have been in that basement if he hadn’t gone,” Janet Martin said. A powerful tornado ripped through the densely populated town of Joplin yesterday killing at least 89 people. (Photo by Julie Denesha/Getty Images)
JOPLIN, MO – MAY 23: Jim Martin videotapes the damage as he and his wife attempt to salvage medication from her brother’s home before a second storm moves in, on May 23, 2011 in Joplin, Missouri. “Twenty minutes before the storm, he left to go to church. He would have been in that basement if he hadn’t gone,” Janet Martin said. A powerful tornado ripped through the densely populated town of Joplin yesterday killing at least 89 people. (Photo by Julie Denesha/Getty Images)