Joplin, MO: St John’s Hospital takes Direct Tornado Hit

St. John’s Hospital in Joplin. Photo by Jaime Green/The … on Twitpic.

The full size pic at the link is worth a look.

Terrible!

The hospital has been fully evacuated.  Nurses on the sixth floor said they had advanced warning, went through the steps of the tornado precautions, and then the windows blew out  and ‘people  were ‘blown across the hall’.