Tornado Kills One In North Minneapolis
By Mitch Berg
An afternoon tornado shredded North Minneapolis, a neighborhood that hardly needed shredding.
The storm left one dead, with two critically injured.
Rybak as ordered a curfew for a huge stretch of the Northside:
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and Police Chief Tim Dolan said early Sunday night that a large section of north Minneapolis — roughy 4 square miles — was being put under a curfew to help emergency personnel move around and to combat potential looting of damaged homes and businesses.
The curfew was scheduled to run from 9 p.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and cover from Interstate 94 west to Penn Avenue and from Plymouth Avenue north to Dowling Avenue. Anyone trying to enter that area will have to show identification first, the mayor and the police chief said. Also, residents within that perimeter must stay in their homes “for their own safety,” said city spokesman Matt Laible.
“We don’t want any looting,” Dolan said, explaining the need for the curfew. “There’s property strewn all over. There are wires down. There’s not much lighting. It’s for people’s safety and for the safety of people’s property.”
The KARE11 Facebook page has a jarring photoessay on the damage, taken earlier today.
May 23rd, 2011 at 8:27 am
The storm went through less than 3 miles east of my humble abode. It’s a stark reminder of how tenuous our footing on this world really is. Joplin, MO has over 100 dead after last night’s storms.