Oklahoma Tornado

[Ichiru]

Link for those who haven't heard of it yet

To those who have children anywhere near Moore, Oklahoma or have family or friends there, or live there, I send out my prayers and hope for the best for you.

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Acolyte of NoMe

[Vulkhard Muller]

I got family out there, I have had phone calls their fine thank god. Also my prayers and best hopes are out for them as well.

[Marburg]

I saw the news & my heart goes out to the victims. At the same time, I also say that "Tornado Alley" is named that for a specific reason.

Our kitchen provides heat for many that is underestimated until the day they get burned.

It's a hard knock, but the residents know this and is par for the course.

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[AeternusDoleo]

... that sucked in more then one way. The midwest should be used to this kind of adverse weather, but an F4 hitting a densely populated area isn't a common thing.

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Wide awake in a world that sleeps, enduring thoughts, enduring scenes. The knowledge of what is yet to come.
From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.

Mostly retired Discovery member. May still visit from time to time.

[Marburg]

define common

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[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.

[stardust47]

Holy macaroni. I'm glad we don't get tornadoes this side of the Atlantic.

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[Luke.]

We've had small tornadoes in the past here in the UK (The Birmingham one a few years back for example) and they come as a horrible shock to us...I can't imagine what it's like living in a place where tornadoes are common, let alone ones as damaging as that.

Thoughts going out to y'all.

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[Marburg]

honestly, it's just something you live with & it sits in the back of your mind as your life goes on.

I've seen tornadoes form here & there over the years while driving on the highway. What I do is pull over somewhere & drink trucker coffee for a while till it goes away. I'm lucky enough to have never hightailled it away from a muthah 4-5, but believe me, If I ever saw one, on my heels, I would & just go about my day on another road.
Most are nothing but dirt devils anyway.
I reckon the same type of attitude from people in the quake zones. They happen all the time & when people from those areas claim they are a dime a dozen & they sleep through most of 'em, I'm prone to believe 'em.

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[t0l]

I've lived in northern Texas as a kid, and watching TV, seeing those Emergency Alerts for tornados still gives me the chills. Oklahoma is a place where the residents are always ready, because tornados happen often. The schools and businesses however, don't.

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