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Tuesday, April 29
What: Artist Talk: David Rokeby
When: 5:30 p.m.
Where: Spooner Hall, The Commons
About: A free lecture from David Rokeby, an installation-based artist whose work has included interactive pieces that engage the human body.
Wednesday, April 30
What: Helianthus Contemporary Ensemble When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall About: A free classical concert presented by the KU School of Music.
What: Coffee at The Commons with David Rokeby When: 10 to 11 a.m. Where: Spooner Hall, The Commons About: A free opportunity to converse with visiting artist David Rokeby of Toronto, Canada.
What: Peace Corps General Information Session
When: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Divine Nine
About: A general information session on the Peace Corps. Attendants will see a brief video, hear from a campus recruiter and learn about the benefits of Peace Corps service.
Thursday, May 1
What: KU Innovation Fair
When: 4 to 6:30 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Ballroom
About: Learn about KU technology,
opportunities for entrepreneurial
collaboration and network with
faculty, students and company
representatives. Cash prizes will be
given for best poster presentations
in the graduate and undergraduate
divisions.
**What:** Quickies: An Evening of Ten-Minute Plays
**When:** 7:30 p.m.
**Where:** William Inge Memorial Theatre, Murphy Hall
**About:** KU Theatre graduate students will present an assortment of ten-minute plays. Attendance is free.
Friday, May 2
What: Pre-Hispanic Migrations in Central America: What we think we know and what we wish we knew When: Noon to 1 p.m. Where: Spooner Hall, The Commons About: A free Department of Anthropology lecture from John Hoopes director of the Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, addressing the causes and consequences of human migration.
What: KU Symphony Orchestra
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: The Lied Center
About: The KU School of Music presents the Symphony Orchestra in concert. Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for children, seniors and students.
Tornadoes cause damage, injuries in Miss.
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Residents survey damage along a street in Tupelo, Miss., Monday. Tornados flattened homes and businesses, flipped trucks over on highways and injured numerous people in Mississippi and Alabama as a massive, dangerous storm system passed over several states in the South on Monday.
TUPELO, Miss. — At least three tornados flattened homes and businesses, flipped trucks over on highways and injured an unknown number of people in Mississippi and Alabama on Monday as a massive, dangerous storm system passed over several states in the South, also threatening to unleash severe thunderstorms, damaging hail and flash floods.
People in the path of the huge system were on edge as the National Weather Service posted tornado watches and warnings around Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. Forecasters said the system is the latest onslaught of severe weather that triggered deadly tornadoes in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Iowa on Sunday, killing at least 18 people.
The storm was so huge it was visible from space, photographed by weather satellites that showed tumultuous clouds arcing across much of the South.
Injuries were reported in Tupelo, a community of about 35,000 in northeastern Mississippi; and in Louisville, the seat of Winston County about 90 miles northeast of Jackson, Miss., where about 6,600 people live, said Mississippi Health Department spokesman Jim Craig. He said the number and seriousness of the injuries were not known because relief efforts were still underway. Television footage showed trucks being flipped over on state roads.
Bruce Ridgeway, vice president of North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo said that hospital received six people with non-life threatening injuries. Tupelo Mayor Jason Shelton said damage was extensive in neighborhoods in the city. Authorities sent teams to the region even before the storm
A strong storm barreling through southeastern Kentucky damaged homes and businesses and left more than 6,000 customers without power, said Harlan County Emergency Management Director David McGill. No injuries were reported.
Residents and business owners were not the only ones seriously rattled by the tornadoes.
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systems arrive.
A tornado damaged the Winston Medical Center in Louisville, Miss., said Jack Mazurak, a spokesman for the Jackson-based University of Mississippi Medical Center, which received a trauma patient from the county and was sending personnel to help triage patients on the ground.
Emergency officials said a tornado also touched down in Limestone County, Alabama. Monday, causing widespread damage, but they could not say whether there were injuries or deaths.
system's arrival.
reporting live on the severe weather about 3 p.m. when he realized the twister was coming close enough that maybe he and his staff should abandon the television studio.
"This is a tornado ripping through the city of Tupelo
as we speak. And this could be deadly," he said in a video widely tweeted and broadcast on YouTube.
GEORGE GRABRYAN Director of emergency management in northwest Ala.
"I've got a stack of messages from people ... wanting where the closest shelters are."
Moments later he adds, "A damaging tornado. On the ground. Right now."
The video then showed Laubhan peeking in from the side to see if he was still live on the air before yelling to staff off-camera to get down in the basement.
"Basement, now!" he yelled, before disappearing off camera himself.
In Memphis, Tenn., officials declared a state of emergency in a county southwest of Nashville because of flash flooding. Authorities urged people there to seek higher ground after several homes and some business were flooded in Maury County and school leaders worried that some school buses might not be able to get schoolchildren home over swamped roads.
Later, the station tweeted, "We are safe here."
"If it's unsafe, certainly the drivers are not going to chance it," said Maury County emergency official Mark Blackwood.
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant declared a state of emergency Monday in advance of the storms, which sent emergency officials rushing to put plans in place.
More than 50 school systems shut down early in Alabama's northern half as a precaution against having children and workers on the road in buses
.
The threat of dangerous weather jangled nerves a day after the three-year anniversary of a historic outbreak of more than 60 tornadoes that killed more than 250 people across Alabama on April 27, 2011. George Grabryan, director of emergency management for Florence and Lauderdale County in northwest Alabama, said 16 shelters opened before storms even moved in and people were calling nervously with questions about the weather.
and cars when the storms arrived. Several cities closed municipal offices early.
"There's a lot of sensitivity up here," Grabryan said. "I've got a stack of messages here from people, many of them new to the area, wanting to know where the closest shelters are." Forecasters said the system moving into Alabama could generate tornadoes with strength ratings of EF-3 or higher and damage tracks 30 miles long or worse.
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