Horrible Tornado hits Oklahoma - Two Schools directly hit!

[avoncallingu]

OMG! Grades K-3 students were taking refuge in the halls but the school is just destroyed! I'm so upset!

[Darth Penguin]

Yeah..I switched the tv over...the poor reporter keeps losing it...

[Darth Penguin]

http://www.koco.com/news/oklahomanew...a/-/index.html

I won't link the video..

[Darth Penguin]

CBC reporting 10 dead.

[vesper]

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.

[Darth Penguin]

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.

[vesper]

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.

[Natalka]

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.

[walkonby]

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

[vesper]

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!

[Lynn49]

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....

[Natalka]

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/

[vesper]

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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[toban]

Terrible! I can't imagine going through something like that. Sending prayers and well wishes out to the people of Moore.

[Darth Penguin]

Tornado emergency issued for OKC, Moore

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.