Posted on 02/11/2009 3:07:31 AM PST by janetjanet998
RDMORE — With at least 15 confirmed dead after a massive tornado Tuesday evening, Carter County emergency officials were forced to suspend the search for survivors shortly after 1 a.m. until daylight Wednesday.
“It’s just too dangerous,” Sheriff Ken Grace said, referring to jagged metal and livewires hidden in rubble and debris. “We don’t need to be adding any more injuries to what we already have.”
heriff’s officials said this town of about 5,000 people was devastated when a tornado estimated to have been about a half-mile wide tore through the middle of Lone Grove, ripping buildings from their slabs, demolishing dozens of mobile homes and snapping any trees and power lines in its path.
bout an hour before rescue workers suspended their search, the distraught sheriff said his men were doing all they could to clear areas and look for dozens of missing people — freeing people from debris and wrecked cars and marking bright orange “X”s on areas that had been searched. But Grace said he just didn’t have enough light or man power.
“We’ve had reports of people calling for help in abandoned fields,” the sheriff said. “We’re doing all we can.”
So sorry to hear that. I was born in Wilson, about 10 miles from Lone Grove.
And of course, there's no money in the 838 Billion dollar socialist spending spree that Obammie the Commie orchestrated to help out these unfortunate folks.
typoooooo
Prayers up for the people of Oklahoma.
death toll my only be 8
Ed Reed, director of the county’s emergency management department. “That figure could increase,” Reed said early today in a telephone interview from Ardmore, Oklahoma. A search team will continue to look for survivors and assess the damage at daybreak, Reed said. He dismissed media reports that 15 deaths were confirmed.
Right now the temperature is a scary 67 near Memphis.
Obama’s fault.........
Stay safe.
Thanks! I’ve been up all night with heavy winds pelting my windows with tons of pecans.
That is awful. Are you in the path of these outbreaks? If you are make sure you are in a safe place if you need to take a nap.
I’m sitting here in my cubicle in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (just outside Knoxville) watching it get darker and darker on the western horizon. It’s going to be an interesting day. Fifty-nine degrees, high of sixty-nine later today, 100% chance of severe thunderstorms.
Stay safe there. We had some small hail along with the line late last night. Not much rain, as the line went through very fast.
Grew up in Oklahoma. Went with my Dad on mercy missions after tornados had hit a bunch of times. Never got over the devastation a twister could cause. Remember one small town wiped off the map completely....somehow people survived...people had storm cellars.
Prayers to Lone Grove.
RIP.
Stay safe!
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