Oklahoma Tornado

[Agmen of Eladesor]

This is Oklahoma.

Of course it's common.

The thing is - the older part of the city, like where I live - these are houses that have been here since the mid 1940's, and nary a problem other than the occasional hail storm. But when the city expanded both north and south ...

So I work up in Edmond, which got hit on Sunday by a tornado. There's a brand new hospital up there that hadn't opened yet that was severely damaged, about 20 blocks north of where I work. And our car dealership got hit with a hail storm earlier this year - just as they had last year, and the year before that. And also on Sunday another tornado hit a town just east of here, Shawnee - like it does nearly every other year.

They're just normally not BIG ones like this - 100 yard wide funnel cloud is dangerous, but not too bad unless you happen to be in it's path. This one, when it entered Moore, was a MILE wide, with a debris field more than TWO miles wide.

South of my house - about 3 miles - is where the northern edge of this tornado went through. And it's the same path that the tornado in May of 1999 went through. One of my wife's friends father lives in Moore - he's lost 4 houses to tornadoes over the course of his life. So ... yeah, tornadoes hitting Moore IS common. (The redeeming feature of this one is that it didn't turn north just past the landfill like the one in 1999 did, or it would have destroyed a lot more than it did. Once it hit Lake Stanley Draper, that just sucked all the power from it.)

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.