[married21]

Were there people in the school, or do they keep kids home on tornado days? (never lived in tornado country).

[Yosemitest]

One school is the Plaza Towers School

[Qwackertoo]

They send our kids home in AL at the drop of a hat with pending severe weather . . . and cancel and afternoon or evening activities . . . and IF early the delay or cancel school altogether in the a.m. The do it rather early in the afternoon to avoid kids being caught on buses, or still at the school or even the high schoolers on the road by themselves. As a parent, I’m glad they do, rather have them home huddled in the closet with me.

[tflabo]

What is it with Moore, OK and tornadoes? Its like a magnet.

[InvisibleChurch]

other FR link to bad weather

[seeker41]

This looks like a view in hell, I cried when the size grew and grew. This beast IMO was 2 miles wide and stronger then a f5. Just horrible!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Local streaming video

http://www.news9.com/category/207228/po

[GraceG]

I have to wonder how many children are killed in school by tornadoes per year.....

Could be more than shootin’s...

[Sarah Barracuda]

The school looks like a bomb hit. They showed children being reunited with their parents on The Weather Channel. Prayers up for these children I pray to God they all got out Ok

[yarddog]

I am watching this on TV and they have a view from a helicopter. I think it may be the worst I have ever seen.

A large area just cleared off.

[KeyLargo]

Although I feel for any victims of a weather event, I hope that Free Republic is not taken over with continuous multiple posts of weather news now because that is exactly what Obama is hoping for just as he did with Hurricane Sandy to divert the sheeple from the White House scandals.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Moore schools in session until this Friday the 24th.

[GSD Lover]

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

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

[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.

[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!