Posted on 03/26/2015 2:18:09 PM PDT by Star Traveler
One person was killed Wednesday and several other people were injured, at least one of them critically, when a series of “extremely dangerous” tornadoes ripped through the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area, emergency officials said.
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Tornado Weather in Tulsa, 3/25/2015
https://storify.com/cmgnationalnews/tornado-touchdown-in-tulsa-3-25
There are some pictures here ...
Prayers for all out there, I had seen the possibility on local news out here in California. Being a lifelong west coaster I would rather face an earthquake than a tornado, or hurricane for that matter.
Officials tour Sand Springs tornado damage that resulted in one death
http://www.tulsaworld.com/communities/sandsprings/news/officials-tour-sand-springs-tornado-damage-that-resulted-in-one/article_86803142-1c82-5300-aa55-270ff60285ce.html
i just changed the weather channel. looks like we are back in the global warming season when the loonies are coming back from the winter to blame ever summer weather event on the GOP.
A thread on Free Republic from yesterday’s Tulsa tornado ...
Tornadoes IN Tulsa. Softball sized hail!!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3272128/posts
Time of year for Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday tornadoes.....
Photo Gallery: View Storm And Damage Photos From Wednesday, Thursday Around Tulsa Area
http://www.tulsaworld.com/gallery/photo-gallery-storms-roll-through-the-tulsa-area/collection_0f5d4a0f-4f64-5891-9e1e-e0cb91ccc494.html
Gov. Mary Fallin declares state of emergency for 25 counties after storms sweep through Oklahoma
Around 1975 on Juyl 4th, I was camping in Hawthorne Bluff near Oolagah, OK.
Around 7 P.M. I felt a cool breeze and knew something was coming. It had been miserably hot. I spent the next 15 minutes checking on my tent’s stakes, tie downs etc.
Then it hit.
It was the worst thunderstorm I have ever been in. Continuous lightning strikes, heavy winds and rain. It was all I could do to keep the tent up. Although the tent was completely waterproof water was coming in from the wind blowing through the window flaps.
After a couple of hours it was still going. I began to just about go crazy as it just kept going. Finally at nearly midnight it quit.
When I awoke the next morning, every tent in the campground was down except mine. Trees down everywhere, limbs strewn everywhere. I later talked to the ranger and he said: “You mean you stayed in your tent? Everyone else came to the ranger station”.
Correction, that would have been either 1979 or 1980. It was July 4th tho.
I have a crappie mounted on my wall that I caught at Lake Oolagah. I believe that was the same storm that spawned a tornado in Stillwater while I was attending a summer session at OSU. It went right over the dorm and took out part of the roof on a building on campus.
Several years later I went through another one in the same campground. Not quite as bad but still bad. It was in the afternoon. I just drove to the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore and stayed there until it was over.
When I got back, I was surprised that my tent was still up.
My daughter lives there. She can give me an update when she is off work.
When I lived there I missed several tornadoes, then got caught in the Memorial Day Mingo Creek Flood in 1976. Exactly nine years to the day, my brother got caught in the second Memorial Day Mingo Creek flood.
Years ago, A friend of mine was driving truck from Tulsa to Siloam Springs on 412 when he looked in his rear view mirror and saw he was being followed by a tornado, the one that tore up the truck stops before they built the Cherokee (Now Hard Rock) Casino.
He decided THAT was enough and moved his family back to Los Angeles, CA.
While being from Kansas City with similar weather, I always used to say the Oklahoma was were you could stand in water and mud up to your ankles and have dust blowing in your face.
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