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Posted: Thu 11:25 AM, May 26, 2011
Reporter: AP Email
Updated: Thu 1:38 PM, May 26, 2011

First Person on Joplin Missing List is Alive

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - The first person on the missing list from the Joplin tornado is very much alive.

The Associated Press found 75-year-old Sally Adams sitting on a wooden chair and cuddling her pet cat Thursday. When AP told Adams
she was listed as missing, she laughed and said "Get me off of there!"

Neighbors rescued Adams on Sunday after the storm destroyed her
house and took her to a home nearby.

Her relatives had called a hot line and posted Facebook messages
saying Adams was missing. Adams says she lost her cell phone in the storm and had no way to reassure family.

Her son Bill Adams says he told authorities his mother was alive after he learned she was safe, yet she remained on their unaccounted-for list at midday Thursday.

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