Posted on 05/20/2013 12:46:11 PM PDT by dirtboy
Tornado warnings up in Oklahoma. Watches in TX, OK, KS, MO, far NW Arkansas.
Governor also talking about cell phones jammed. Telephone lines down. Texting seems better.
www.safeandwell.org
Website for people to get together.
“Understood, hence the quotes. but 2 miles wide you have a chance to get out of the danger zone - not like a hurricane or something.”
It’s easy not to be where a hurricane is because you have a few days warning - leave your house, get in the car and drive where the hurricane isn’t going.
If you live in a tornado prone area, you cannot know when one is coming to you - you won’t have a day’s warning. It can pop up anywhere, anytime and one minute it’s at one place and the next minute at another place - can change directions at any time.
Search/rescue currently ongoing at Plaza Towers Elementary per news9
One of my potable 6 gallon containers is being used to brew a batch of beer, but I'm not dumping that just to store more water. You can forget that. ;)
/johnny
The tv news was just saying there’s one near Blanket, TX.
Totally agree...
I’ve lived in CA and been through earthquakes...
I live on the east coast now and been through two Cat 2 hurricanes...
I’ll take a hurricane prone area over any other area of natural disasters...
Yeah, I know a Cat 2 isn’t too bad but you get warning, cone of opportunity and can evacuate pretty well in advance...
Earthquakes and torpedoes, not so much...
CNN says 6 fatalities so far...but they’ve just begun the search.
Also lots of looters that started right after the destruction. Despicable!!!
The search is still on-going for the kids.
/johnny
I always have 40 gal. of Ozarka jugs of water. They stack, so space needed is just for 20 of those jugs. If the house goes down, I’ve still got two backpacks, each with 3 days of water and food. Stick the Yorkie in the backpack on me, carry the other one and leave.
A child is pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., and passed along to rescuers Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as a mile (1.6 kilometers) wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph) roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school
Oklahoma is a carry state. Just sayin'.
/johnny
That sounds terrifying! West Texas gets some monster dust storms..much worse than here.
Just started getting rain in nw Arkansas. Storm cells are not as severe.
Potential flood warnings and wind damage, currently.
What a great photo!
I’m sure they are alert. :)
Yes, it's just so much safer to remain exposed on open highway with no shelter whatsoever than to seek the reinforced concrete and steel of a highway overpass. /s
This "myth-busting" seems to be generating a myth of it's own. Where would you suggest individuals stuck on a highway with an F4 bearing down upon them go?
Realistic choices, please. You're talking largely flat country. Heavy rain and large hail, near constant lightning. You might drown in a ditch or culvert, and still have no protection from 200 mph winds with airborn debris. Staying in your car can be suicidal, but what the heck, you always loved Thelma & Louise, whee!
Seriously, what on earth do you suppose people stuck on a highway are supposed to do, here?
“I put a pair of pants in here next to the computers just in case. ;)”
Yes, if a tornado hits you, we don’t want your fiddly bits out in the open.
Folks, he doesn’t like pants anytime but especially in the summer and now his air conditioner fritzed out in the bedroom, so don’t look in there when he goes to bed. If a tornado hits, we pray he can get the pants on before leaving.
That’s about 8 miles NW of my ranch. Glad no one is there but don’t want to lose that old restored farmhouse.
LOL!
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