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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: INVAR

Getting up into the girders goes without question, as little exposure as you can manage, and brace yourself. Cover your face as best you can. And pray.


521 posted on 05/20/2013 4:47:22 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Pining_4_TX

I’ve never had a basement here in Indiana until my latest house.
It’s got a poured concrete basement with a rebar reinforced shelter under the stairway.

The lady that built it 20 yrs ago had a healthy fear of tornados.


522 posted on 05/20/2013 4:48:36 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: American Constitutionalist

http://www.newdaytornadoshelters.com/

Thinking about getting one of these.


523 posted on 05/20/2013 4:49:00 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Spktyr

Dear Lord, please rest their innocent souls, and wrap those left behind in Your healing embrace...


524 posted on 05/20/2013 4:49:40 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: Strategerist; Marcella

If you have a small family...

http://www.newdaytornadoshelters.com/

We are thinking of getting one.


525 posted on 05/20/2013 4:50:05 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: thesearethetimes...
Amen.

/johnny

526 posted on 05/20/2013 4:50:43 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: All

Anyone else see that I beam, must be 18” wide x many feet long of main roof beam layin’ on the rubble, half twisted and bent like a J


527 posted on 05/20/2013 4:50:56 PM PDT by tomkat (solve for x: Baraq = islamite .. islam = enemy ... Baraq = x)
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To: All

.. sorry, at that Plaza Tower school


528 posted on 05/20/2013 4:51:48 PM PDT by tomkat (solve for x: Baraq = islamite .. islam = enemy ... Baraq = x)
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To: dirtboy

Godspeed to everyone in Moore, OK and other areas affected.


529 posted on 05/20/2013 4:51:49 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: 21twelve

On the other side of things, they just put out that a 9 year old girl is at the hospital after escaping the school. Wants her mommie and daddy. Hopefully they are okay.


530 posted on 05/20/2013 4:52:30 PM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: nascarnation

drive away from a tornado?

Yes, if you can see it (often it is raining or hailing and you can’t figure out where it is).

And, of course, if there is only one tornado around. They often come in clusters.

You guys are in my prayers. When I lived in OK we had two or three nearby tornadoes every year, but luckily the neighbors had an underground shelter which we used if a larger one was near...

Here in the Philippines, we only have typhoons, earthquakes, and volcanoes that are easy to run away from...(most of the deaths from these are from flash floods or from landslides, which are harder to run away from)

but our “tornadoes” are rare and tiny....


531 posted on 05/20/2013 4:53:33 PM PDT by LadyDoc
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To: tapatio

Thank God. She looks all right.


532 posted on 05/20/2013 4:54:03 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: nascarnation
Wouldn’t a better approach be to try and escape it? Hopefully traveling at a 90 degree angle. Now that everybody has a smartphone it shouldn’t be difficult to discern which direction to go.

That would be optimal. If you happen to be on a roadway, looking West or South and see a tornado - and it does not seem to be moving, chances are it's moving right at you. If there's a road that runs perpendicular and you can try to outrun it at that angle - then that's a risk you can take. A cell phone showing the movement of the storm cell would be helpful to make such a decision. Most Spotters use doppler to determine where it is safe to make an escape if we get too close. Tornadoes generally move from the Southwest to the Northeast, or from the South or West generally to the East - so putting petal to the metal on a North/West or South road with the tornado to your SW might put you out of the path.

533 posted on 05/20/2013 4:55:07 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: dirtboy

Children trapped and died in the school.
SO SAD.
God have mercy on their sweet souls.


534 posted on 05/20/2013 4:55:14 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: LadyDoc

7 children drowned in the school..........


535 posted on 05/20/2013 4:55:23 PM PDT by bonfire
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To: LadyDoc
Reporter saying they have recovered 7 bodies from the bottom of the school. He said they drowned in water. Reporting twenty to thirty more are still in the school.

Many prayers will be needed for these families.

536 posted on 05/20/2013 4:56:57 PM PDT by tapatio (In memory of my Dad 5-27-26 2-4-2010 and Mom 4-20-26 12-8-2012)
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To: INVAR
Chasers, not Spotters. Spotters find a safe place, check into the net, and stay there. Chasers are the guys that can't get insurance to cover their windshield replacements anymore.

The difference between a spotter and a chaser is 50 iq points. I was/am a spotter.

/johnny

537 posted on 05/20/2013 4:57:25 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: thesearethetimes...

Amen.


538 posted on 05/20/2013 4:57:53 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: Pining_4_TX

Well, fortunately, I live alone in a high-rise apartment in Virginia. Based on what I live near the thing most likely to get me would probably be a terrorist bomb.

I’d get some sort of shelter in the Midwest or Southeast if I had a family. There really aren’t many tornadoes, if at all, that are absolutely not survivable. (I wonder how a New Day shelter would have held up in the Jarrell tornado, though.) They seem surprisingly inexpensive. Not like you need much room for something you’re in probably 20-25 minutes, tops.


539 posted on 05/20/2013 4:58:37 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: JRandomFreeper

In my tiny Texas town, we have spotters who go to the highest places possible to report on the weather.


540 posted on 05/20/2013 5:00:35 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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