Monday, May 23, 2011

STORM COVERAGE: Photos filed by ACM newspapers

These photos were filed by ACM reporters on the scene in Joplin, Mo., and in Northeast Oklahoma, where a deadly storm had several tornado touchdowns and claimed at least 89 lives, injured more than 1,000 and caused millions of dollars of damage.

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Cars drive west down 20th street in Joplin, Mo. in the aftermath of the May 22 tornado.
The EF-4 or EF-5 twister slashed a six mile-long path through the city.
PHOTO COURTESY OF COLUMBUS (KAN.) ADVOCATE
Workers and volunteers help out at a shattered Walgreens Pharmacy at 20th and Main in Joplin, Mo.; Sunday evening. A strong tornado tore though the south side of the city in the early evening.
PHOTO COURTESY OF COLUMBUS (KAN.) ADVOCATE
A Joplin firefighter watches in frustration as a house burns to the ground in the aftermath of the May 22 tornado in Joplin, Mo., a city of 50,000 in Southwest Missouri. Firefighters had no water pressure with which to fight the blaze. PHOTO COURTESY OF COLUMBUS (KAN.) ADVOCATE
Taken by Casey Davis from Monkey Island looking toward Duck Creek in Grove, Okla., on Sunday, May 22, 2011.
Courtesy of the Grove (Okla.) Sun.



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