OMG! Grades K-3 students were taking refuge in the halls but the school is just destroyed! I'm so upset!
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OMG! Grades K-3 students were taking refuge in the halls but the school is just destroyed! I'm so upset!
Yeah..I switched the tv over...the poor reporter keeps losing it...
http://www.koco.com/news/oklahomanew...a/-/index.html
I won't link the video..
CBC reporting 10 dead.
horrible! 24 children at one school perished. I'm so glad I did not go to OKC yesterday. I cannot believe how hollow I feel.
they are saying 37 dead now
some ofthe reports I heard about are saying people have drowned in basements due to rain following the tornado.
91 dead now.
It was heartbreaking, following this whole thing via twitter today. I setup an account, to follow storm chasers, and it was surreal. I remember Reed Timer, the most famous storm chaser, twitted that they tornado was crossing the highway into Moore.... and since I been to Moore, i knew that was going to be bad.
Horrible tragedy -
Rescue teams combed through pulverized buildings and splintered homes early Tuesday after one of the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history blasted through the suburbs of Oklahoma City, killing at least 51 people — including 20 children.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...a-tornado?lite
Hoping they still find some survivors, but they are thinking the death toll will be higher.
just watched this news video of an elderly resident talking to a reporter and a miracle happened during the interview. Those Schnauzer dogs are survivors!! I just lost it when she pulled him out from under the rubble.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1350064
It`s amazing! Death toll down to 24!! I cannot imagine a tornado that big and mean, ripping through a city of 55,000 people, and ony 24 died!
No matter what Environment Canada says.... Storm Chasers SAVE lives!
Having visited Moore, it must be all the more difficult for you to imagine something like this happening to them...I remember 2 years ago, driving to Florida, if you recall those ice-storms they had in Kentucky then...omg, all along the highway and hanging over the highway heavy with ice...if it wasn't so destructive to people's lives, it would have looked so beautiful...it was surreal....
At least the deaths have been revised down...
Saskatchewan storm chaser Greg Johnson was driving through Moore about half an hour before the massive tornado hit.
http://www.newstalk650.com/story/sas...klahoma/111120
He's moved on to cover Texas - will not be posting pics or vids of Moore out of respect for victims
https://twitter.com/canadogreg
https://www.facebook.com/GregJohnson...ter?ref=stream
Vids of other chases
http://www.tornadohunter.ca/
Most of the storm chasers left OKC and went south thankfully, because chasing near BIG cities is difficult. rural chasing is nice.
My friend from Saskatoon, Vanessa, she did the same thing. She caught up to 4 or 5 tornadoes. She was interviewed by CTV.
http://vphotographic.com/
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Terrible! I can't imagine going through something like that. :( Sending prayers and well wishes out to the people of Moore.
Tornado emergency issued for OKC, Moore
Quote:
The National Weather Service declared a tornado emergency Friday for the Oklahoma City metropolitan area that includes the twister-ravaged community of Moore.
The declaration means a large, destructive tornado is moving into a densely populated area where widespread damage and fatalities could occur. The tornado emergency includes Oklahoma City as well as its suburbs of Moore, Yukon and Bethany.
news9 live feed..http://www.news9.com/category/207228/po
This AM i woke up and saw OKC and central OK were in a very high probability area for tornadoes today. I was 3 hours west. I considered going, but the thing that sucks about these are the agressive storm chasers. Just got word a bunch of them got to close tonight and blown off road. Storm chasing is fun, but until they crack down on the morons, storms like this are just to dangerous to cahse.
I did however, get this storm in Kansas the other day. no tornado. But no chasers either, I found a smaller cell far from the main row of storms.
((cell phone pic))
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Oy, not good
At least one other person was confirmed dead and several motorists were injured as damage was reported Friday south of Interstate 40 near El Reno.
A powerful brew of tornadoes and flash floods ripped across the prairies Friday unleashing pelting hail before slamming into Oklahoma City, killing a mother and baby while crushing cars and trucks along two major interstates.
Very sad!
vesper, that pic you took is remarkable - drat that the beauty of Mother Nature can turn to such fury, though.
I have interweb friends near OKC,,they are safe again..
Amy Elliott, a spokeswoman for the state medical examiner, said Saturday the death toll was up to seven adults and two children. At least 75 people were hurt, five critically, hospital officials said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0..._hp_ref=canada
4 storm chasers died in this tornado including one of the more famous ones.
Reports now say, this tornado grew to be 4.2 kms wide at one point, making it the widest tornado ever measured.
It grew very fast and that is how chasers died. They did not anticipate its rapid growth.
It has always been a concern of mine that these guys get dangerously close, mostly to get cool videos to post to YouTube. I don't post my work, that is probably I stay far away and out of the path.
Tornado safety tip: you are safer on ground than in car if tornado is coming at you.
Tornadoes lift cars, drop them, lift them again, drop them.... Repeat over and over... As high as 100 feet.
Tornadoes blow people away. Broken bones, scratches, bruises, wet and naked... Most likely to happen.
2 F5's in a couple of weeks, but global warming is a hoax :(
The intensity of the cold fronts are what made these tornadoes so strong. The colder the front, the stronger the system. Hence 0 f5 tornadoes from 1999 2007, and dozens in early 1970's, including a handful on one day.
I believe global warming is bu-sht myself. If global warming was man made, then the planet would be getting hotter, now snowing in Texas, in may!
P.s. they rebranding it as 'climate change' now to reflect the fact, global warming is bish. <<<~~~ ok I'm being a smartadd sorry! :)
It was called Global Climate Change when I was in school in the 1980's....sowwyy...try again..The Climatologists knew then that swings of weather conditions were likely before we had Global Modelling with computers doing the data work just liddle guys with slide rules and several hundred years of data..