[UPDATED BELOW] The Joplin, Missouri tornado story just got a little bit more depressing. The below video shows an elephant, handled by a half dozen men or so, dragging out cars from the wreckage. According to the Atlantic Wire, the Picadilly Circus was in town for a scheduled date—when the show was canceled, the elephants were repurposed.
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Video: Circus Elephant Helps Clean Up Tornado Wreckage in Missouri
Video: Terrifying Tornado Bearing Down On Joplin, Missouri
The tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri on Sunday left 125 people dead and, currently 232 missing and unaccounted for. The city, which has a population of 50,000, has been reduced to rubble, and one local resident tells the Times, "What else can you do but bulldoze it?. They ought to draw a perimeter around all of it and take it all. What else can you do?" Here's first-hand video recorded as the tornado moved in:
Video: Shocking Tornado Devastation In Missouri, Death Toll At 89
While the sky continues to spit down miserable gray drizzle upon New York, we're faring far better than Joplin, Missouri, which was ravaged yesterday by a tornado that destroyed much of the town and has left at least 89 people dead.
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