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.
So when does the Obama administration hand out questioneers to conservatives who were effected by these storms to see if they deserve help or not ? In the Obama regime ? does FEMA hand out questioneers to conservative groups to see if they deserve help ? and the liberal groups get a free pass ?
Grew up in Dallas....I remember being in the hallway, sitting against the lockers, hugging knees with head down. And being terrified. Still am. Can’t stand storms!
i think most homes have basements there. wish to hell I did here in Texas.
Leni
Now a tornado..
Just north of Tulsa.
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
357 PM CDT MON MAY 20 2013
OKC105-113-131-143-147-202130-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-130520T2130Z/
NOWATA OK-OSAGE OK-ROGERS OK-TULSA OK-WASHINGTON OK-
357 PM CDT MON MAY 20 2013
...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR
WASHINGTON...NORTHERN TULSA...NORTHWESTERN ROGERS...EASTERN OSAGE AND
SOUTHWESTERN NOWATA COUNTIES...
AT 355 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR AVANT...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 45 MPH. THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION!
SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
OCHELATA...VERA...RAMONA AND OOLOGAH.
My guess would be yes. Most school districts won't let kids leave during extreme weather.
The thing with tornado outbreaks like this is that you don’t know if or exactly when or where they will strike or what exact place they will touch down or in exactly what direction they will go. The entire state of OK is under the gun, where would you evacuate the school to? Evacuating a school probably takes more time and is more dangerous than sheltering. I would think that most schools in that part of the country are a better place to ride out a storm than in a house or trailer home.
Impossible. Schools around here would be closed for most of the spring months.
Ditto that. And this really scary gong that was mounted in the main hallway. They would pound on that to clear the classrooms.
I still hate gongs.
KOTV 6 Tulsa
Sirens going off in Nowata (north of Tulsa)
Skiatook needs to be on alert — rotation, but nothing on the ground that the spotter can see.
woman on weather channel says unless you were out of the area or underground, you would be dead in a storm like this.
holy crap. the devestation looks complete. slabs without even debris on them.
must have been an F5.
That isn't how it works. Tornadoes affect a very small area of a state during most outbreaks. And the kids would have been in just as much danger at home.
ugh....family in Tulsa, Stillwater, and Shawnee.....
Yes there is. Following your policy, in much of the country students would miss 1-2 weeks of school every spring.
If we just never let kids leave their houses and kept them in the basement they'd be even safer.
Also depending on the house, kids are safer in school. A kid from a trailer park is DEFINITELY safer than in school.
Perhaps the one saving grace is that if Moore is a bedroom community, most were not in their homes when it hit.
Imagine if this hit at night when people would be home.
CNN has live helicopter over schools, neighborhoods that are gone.
It’s possible to build a specially reinforced room in a house that will survive everything up to an F4 (F5 is probably doable but much more expensive, but F5s are absurdly rare.)
A lot cheaper to go underground if possible.
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