St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer told MSNBC on Monday that FEMA had yet to assist after the city was ravaged by a tornado days prior.

The tornado first touched down in St. Louis on Friday. The storm — reportedly 20 miles in length at its strongest — killed at least five people in St. Louis County at the time of writing. Spencer reported during a press conference that 38 people had been injured, and that number was expected to increase as recovery efforts continued.

Friday’s tornado was one of many that affected the region over the weekend, with Kentucky also being hit by storms. At the time of writing, dozens of the dead had already been found.

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    15 hours ago

    Goddamn there are some ignorant fucks in this thread.

    I live in this shithole state (on the opposite side of St. Louis, but still), but 99% of the people I know here aren’t conservative in the slightest. But that’s not gonna stop people from blanket labelling the entire state as redneck hillbilly fascist fucks.

    Please, do better and realize that St. Louis itself probably has most of the liberals in the state so you’re attacking your own interests.

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      13 hours ago

      Unfortunately, the EC and Senate both mean that if 51% of voters in a state vote R, all other votes don’t count. Here in California we have more redneck hillbilly fascist fucks than several of the red states combined, but they’re outnumbered.