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Severe Weather Outbreak, Day 2 (OK TX KS MO MI for starters) - Moore, OK devastation

Posted on 05/20/2013 12:46:11 PM PDT by dirtboy

Tornado warnings up in Oklahoma. Watches in TX, OK, KS, MO, far NW Arkansas.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: ok; tornado; weather
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To: TomGuy

another school down worse than the first one. ARE KIDS IN THESE TWO SCHOOLS?


101 posted on 05/20/2013 1:50:17 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: American Constitutionalist
The storms can build considerable strength by they time they reach the east side of the state but then they head out over lake Huron and become Canada's problem after that.

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102 posted on 05/20/2013 1:50:21 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: TomGuy

My nurse and I watching on Fox. She finally decided I would not be deterred so she joined me. Prayers up big time.


103 posted on 05/20/2013 1:51:08 PM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: nascarnation
But that does not mean that's the end of a tornado, they are so unpredictable.

104 posted on 05/20/2013 1:51:09 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: dirtboy

News9

Spotter

Parnell (sp) and Foster area, new tornado sighted.

SE of OKC


105 posted on 05/20/2013 1:51:14 PM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: TomGuy

My heart is breaking. I hope the kids in those schools had good shelter. Horrific damage, seeing the pictures on TWC.


106 posted on 05/20/2013 1:51:26 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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To: OKSooner
Shipping containers that are either bolted down or welded down to solid concrete would.
107 posted on 05/20/2013 1:53:00 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Marcella

They are showing children on the Weather Channel running to their parents..here is my question, they knew a tornado was coming, how come the school wasn’t evacuated?


108 posted on 05/20/2013 1:53:01 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: MD Expat in PA

that’s what i’m watching, too, weather channel

Horrible damage. If you guys don’t have a motorcycle helment to wear for you and family members during a tornado warning, get them!


109 posted on 05/20/2013 1:54:10 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: dirtboy

News9

live downed power lines,

gas line leaks would cause explosions.


110 posted on 05/20/2013 1:54:37 PM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: MD Expat in PA

Fallon was talking before about being trapped yesterday on a highway between two tornadoes, That had to be a completely horrifying experience,


111 posted on 05/20/2013 1:54:39 PM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: Sarah Barracuda
they knew a tornado was coming, how come the school wasn’t evacuated?

This tornado blew up very quickly and right on the edge of the OKC metro area. Not nearly enough time to evacuate.

112 posted on 05/20/2013 1:54:44 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Evacuated to where?

And the worst conceivable place to be in a tornado is a school bus.


113 posted on 05/20/2013 1:54:55 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: dirtboy
Even the look on the weathermen/woman faces are in total shock.

114 posted on 05/20/2013 1:55:22 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Sarah Barracuda

No time. Tornadoes appear and dissipate within minutes. The safest thing in that situation is to shelter in place.

Growing up in the Texas Panhandle, we had tornado drills all the time.


115 posted on 05/20/2013 1:55:32 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (In 2012 you will awaken from your HOPEnosis and have no recollection of this... "Constitution")
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To: Sarah Barracuda

To where? Unless there is some massive storm shelter nearby. There is nowhere to go....it’s horrible.


116 posted on 05/20/2013 1:56:00 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“how come the school wasn’t evacuated?”

I heard they had an hour warning - that isn’t enough time for many parents to get to a school, get the kids and get to underground.


117 posted on 05/20/2013 1:56:07 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

You just can’t evac a school given the warning time available - better to stay in the strongest part of the building than being caught out in the open with debris flying by at lethal speeds.

That said, given the forecast, it might have been good to dismiss and get everyone home at noon.


118 posted on 05/20/2013 1:56:20 PM PDT by alancarp (Obama will grab your guns and ship them to Mexican drug mobs.)
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To: Marcella

What other place could they go to that would be safer?


119 posted on 05/20/2013 1:56:39 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TomGuy

No confirmed visual tornado but really ominous radar signature on a cell heading for the north Tulsa suburbs.


120 posted on 05/20/2013 1:58:04 PM PDT by Strategerist
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