Tuesday’s top stories and man who shot video of Joplin tornado returns to gas station

So… how was your morning?

In case you missed it, there were multiple reports of tornadoes in the Kansas City area. Here are some photos of the storm and KMBC in Kansas City posted screenshots of heavy damage in Sedalia, Mo.

Below are Tuesday’s most-viewed stories and most-commented items in the past 24 hours on LJWorld.com.

Most-viewed stories

1. Tornado watch expires for Douglas County
2. Town Talk: An Etsy-like retailer coming to downtown?; pedestrian mall talk; this and that about Lawrence’s engineering loss
3. Delivery of triplets first of its kind at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in at least 25 years
4. Downright scary: Former KU guard Jeff Boschee safe from Joplin tornado’s destruction
5. Eudora police officer goes to Joplin to help following deadly tornado

Most-commented items in the past 24 hours

1. OTS: What is the first thing you would do if you won the lottery?
2. Kansas likely to enact health care ‘freedom’ law
3. Israel interests
4. Obama denies reality in Israel
5. City gives Lawrence Freenet the go-ahead on fiber network project


Remember [the video I posted Monday][14] of the man who recorded the Joplin tornado? He went back to the gas station where he took the video and shows us the walk-in cooler where he took shelter from the deadly EF5 twister.

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