2 Schools in Moore, OK leveled by Tornado (on the Weather Channel)

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[InvisibleChurch]

The devastation is incredible. The Weather Channel is carrying local news from a helicopter. i can only pray the kids had been released before then.

[yarddog]

I just got a message from my Daughter in N.E. Oklahoma. They haven’t had anything bad today but today is not over.

[GSD Lover]

Thanks for this. I didn’t know about this.

Prayers going up for the good folks north of Texas. :)

[Tax-chick]

There are geographic features which channel major storms through the Norman/Moore area, across the southeast side of Oklahoma City, and then northeast straight up the turnpike to Tulsa.

Seven years in Oklahoma ... we spent many nights with the kids huddled in the laundry room while parents took turns watching the radar.

[InvisibleChurch]

You’re welcome. Free Republic is a good site to disseminate information.

[sopwith]

they just mention a new tornado by there.Prauge?

[njslim]

Had to turn off Shepard Smith - was going on and on
with annoying sermon about how everyone suffering so bad

Just STFU Shep!

[FatherofFive]

Live from Tulsa - The radio just announced dozens of injuries at the school. School was leveled. Emergency services at site.

Prayers up.

[KeyLargo]

How long before we see the staged photos set-up by Obama showing him hugging a ‘tornado victim’? He will do anything to get the heat off of him.

Many in the know believe that the White House pushed the IRS story to the front pages in order to push Benghazi into being a non-story.

Hurricane Sandy Victim Obama Used To Get Reelected Says He Lied

http://patdollard.com/2013/01/hurricane-sandy-victim-obama-used-to-get-reelected-says-he-lied/

[Pentagon Leatherneck]

Shep is in his element when tragedy strikes. What a ghoul.

TC

[radiohead]

<I cant recall many times when children have been in hurt in schools by a tornado

My son attended kindergarten in Norman. They had tornado drills, even back 30 years ago.

When we moved out of the area, the first time my son heard the civil defense siren he was outside and ran into the house (with his bicycle), afraid a tornado was coming. They must really instill the importance of taking shelter ‘cause he was totally freaked out.

[left that other site]

There is a shelter at the school, and the kids are trained to go there immediately when there is a Tornado Warning.

However, this one was so devastating, I wonder if even the shelter was safe.

I just got in touch with my cousin, who raced past the funnel cloud to get her just-born grandson into an underground shelter.

Keep praying!

[Bender2]

Here are some before photos of Plaza Towers Elementary in Moore, Ok:

Our prayers are with all those in Moore, Oklahoma

[DJlaysitup]

I cant recall many times when children have been in hurt in schools by a tornado

Sadly - it depends on the tornado - and this was apparently a HUGE one. The pictures from the helicopter shows what appear to be 18+ inch wide steel support I-beams bent like pretzels - only a few heavy (likely reinforced) concrete walls standing.

I post this because when they widen up the camera angle you can see that the houses nearby are simply wiped slick to their foundadtions - so to be fair - the school was probably the strongest structure in the close vicinity...but if you can't get underground or away from a mile wide F4/F5...you are in trouble.

Prayers for all involved - especially the kids.

[DJlaysitup]

I read about the tri-state tornado (back in the 1920s I think)...there was a farmer who found a (heavy) barber chair in his field. He put it in his wagon and took it into town expecting to see that the barbershop had been destroyed...but it was still there with no damage.

He later found out that the barber chair came from a town right in the path of the tornado - 20 miles away.

Prayers.

[big'ol_freeper]

Indeed. I have friends who lived in Moore. Good people down that way.

[Toespi]

Just heard on Fox that all of the children at one of the schools have been found, all accounted for and ok.

[I-ambush]

“The good people of Oklohoma are almost uniformly Conservative and strong in their faith in God.”

And I will be shocked if I read a report of any looting.

[DJlaysitup]

Just heard on Fox that all of the children at one of the schools have been found, all accounted for and ok.

I pray that that is accurate information.

[DJlaysitup]

I hope they are bringing in generators and all the lights they can get to that school - there is no way they are going to finish this effort before dark.

[Big Giant Head]

And I will be shocked if I read a report of any looting.

Be shocked, then. It happened.