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FOX CABLE NEWS IS REPORTING 24 3RD GRADERS HAVE PERISHED IN OKLAHOMA.
FOX NEWS ^ | 5/20/2013 | Fox News

Posted on 05/20/2013 4:54:37 PM PDT by stockpirate

NO LINK ON THEIR WEBSITE YET,


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: 3rdgraders; deathtoll; moore; notbreakingnews; oklahoma; storm; vanity
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To: Venturer

All they usually do is have the kids sit in hallways with their heads between their knees, at least that’s what we did as kids in Michigan.

This tornado was so bad, though, that the school probably just exploded, would not have mattered where anyone was. Happened to Lake School District in Ohio a few years ago—obliterated. Fortunately there was no school that day.


21 posted on 05/20/2013 5:02:10 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Yo-Yo

Not funny.


22 posted on 05/20/2013 5:02:14 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: elkfersupper

Anyone other than Fox confirm this?


23 posted on 05/20/2013 5:02:17 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: lonestar

agreed


24 posted on 05/20/2013 5:02:37 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/)
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To: stockpirate

A tragedy that will be perverted by the press with a Sandy Hook comparison.


25 posted on 05/20/2013 5:02:45 PM PDT by Rebelbase (1929-1950's, 20+years for full recovery. How long this time?)
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To: stockpirate

Just damn. I teach 3rd grade in Texas.


26 posted on 05/20/2013 5:02:56 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Are we no longer in that awkward time? Or is it still too early?)
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To: Venturer

Heard a report earlier that addressed the ground there. Evidently there is a layer of top soil, and then there’s an almost impenetrable layer under that. Evidently very few homes have the traditional storm shelters in Oklahoma. (basement involved)

I’m not saying it’s true, but that was a comment made on one of the afternoon talk shows in Los Angeles (KFI).


27 posted on 05/20/2013 5:02:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Funny thing happened on the way to the Constitution burning, Lefties rights were violated...)
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To: elkfersupper

Sorry but you can’t run from them, it was 2 miles wide..


28 posted on 05/20/2013 5:03:10 PM PDT by stockpirate (F. Douglass, "A man's rights rest in three boxes: ballot box, jury box, and ammo box)
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To: Yo-Yo

I know this is no time for politics, but after this week I have to wonder if the Feds are going to factor in past activities when they decide who gets what disaster relief.

Pray for the victims and our country.


29 posted on 05/20/2013 5:03:31 PM PDT by M1911A1
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To: stockpirate

Here:

Up to TWENTY-FOUR children feared dead in rubble of flattened elementary school after giant TWO-MILE tornado rips through densely-populated suburb of Oklahoma City

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.htm


30 posted on 05/20/2013 5:03:33 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: stockpirate

Oh.....Lotsa prayers for all those broken hearts.


31 posted on 05/20/2013 5:03:58 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: elkfersupper

You don’t run from an F5 on foot. You go to ground and pray. Everything in the open is shredded.


32 posted on 05/20/2013 5:04:18 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: elkfersupper

run where? 200 mph winds and a half mile wide?


33 posted on 05/20/2013 5:04:44 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/)
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To: stockpirate

24? NO. Please....


34 posted on 05/20/2013 5:04:51 PM PDT by Houmatt (Generic tag line.)
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To: hope

God bless my fellow Okies.


35 posted on 05/20/2013 5:04:56 PM PDT by yellowdoghunter (No man is without sin.)
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To: stockpirate

How soon before these deaths will be blamed on the Republican’s sequester cutting “vital” funds from weather warnings systems? I am certain Obama is preparing for a trip to Oklahoma for a photo op and will like in the wake of hurricane Sandy promise all kinds of federal aid which will never arrive.


36 posted on 05/20/2013 5:04:59 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Yo-Yo

Zero is ecstatic for the distraction from 0bamagate.


37 posted on 05/20/2013 5:05:04 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: stockpirate

OMG. :*(*** Those precious babies.


38 posted on 05/20/2013 5:05:20 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: Venturer
As most have mentioned, the large numbers generally require evacuation to the structure interior, unless they have some substantial underground facility, such as a lunchroom, as my school did.

In this case, the direct hit, combined with the power of the event likely made a lot this irrelevant.

39 posted on 05/20/2013 5:05:27 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: dfwgator

It is being reported on the local NBC affiliate KFOR also.


40 posted on 05/20/2013 5:05:28 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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