Posted on 05/27/2011 7:19:40 AM PDT by SoonerStorm09
CHICKASHA, Okla. -- Laron Short returned to her family home in Chickasha Monday night after a five-month trip to Australia ready to tell her friends and family about her new love, a man she met while abroad.
Short, 24, never got the chance.
She died Tuesday when a tornado destroyed her mother's mobile home.
Her death has been “shattering” to the small close-knit college in Chickasha where Short graduated in December, said J.C. Casey, a communications professor at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.
“I loved her very much,” said Casey, who was Short's professor, adviser and friend. “Laron was not like anybody I had ever met before. She knew she wanted to be a journalist and she thought she could change the world.”
The tragedy, Casey said, is that Short was one of the few students she has ever had who might have actually changed the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsok.com ...
What a tragedy. So very sad.
All the people killed in the storms lived extremely interesting lives. Lives are like that. No one has a boring life, I have found. Some are messed up, but not boring, in other words, “vibrant.”
With a burnt-orange Marxist symbol tattooed across her chest and her hair colored pink, she had a fervor for politics and a wit and intellect beyond her 24 years. She forced the world to re-examine its stereotypes, friends said.
And...
For Short, Pelosi was the height of achievement for a female in liberal politics, one of her own aspirations.
Casey wrote a column before the presidential election for the school paper that read like a confession of a schoolgirl crush for President Barack Obama.
More on the "interesting and vibrant" Ms. Short HERE.
Were there no warnings, no sirens? Oklahomans of all people know never to stay in a mobile home during a tornado.
There was more than adequate warning and, if she was in Chickasha, there were also sirens. Given your sig line, I’d highly recommend clicking through to the article if you haven’t done so yet. You might find additional insight on your question...
I read the whole article, and it doesn’t explain why she and her mother stayed in the mobile home.
*** the mobile home.***
AKA Tornado magnets. One took out a trailer park near here over in the edge of Oklahoma a couple of days ago.
It was dinner time, can’t be leaving a plate half full or half pilled high as the case may have been, you know.
Anadarko is very close and has lots of Native American points of interest. http://www.anadarko.org/Default.aspx?tabid=309
RIP.
Another unbiased journalist. RIP, all the same.
Here's the caption: This is what we did, loved each other and blasphemed.
And everything else in a path 70 miles long and a mile wide, in the middle of the state.
And here is a typical fellow American of the Oprah generation and most likely a Democrat voter, calling to complain:
Angry Weather Caller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJdhmsfbPg&feature=player_embedded
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