Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 201-220221-240241-260 ... 481-484 next last
To: longfellowsmuse
"It’s the same thing in S Texas. We had a home in San Antonio, under 6 inches of top soil is solid bedrock. No basement possible."

People in Decatur, Texas told that to my dad...who then detonated 1100 cases of dynamite (with permits!) so that he could have one in spite of them.

...it can be done.

221 posted on 05/20/2013 6:03:45 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]

To: DoughtyOne; Venturer
Oklahoma and Texas sit atop a vast plain of limestone on which there is a relatively thin layer of soils of different sorts. Sewers are blasted into the limestone ~ making them remarkably expensive.

Still, you can shelter in a drainage ditch and I have done so in Indiana ~ another karstland with somewhat different topography.

222 posted on 05/20/2013 6:03:54 PM PDT by muawiyah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: driftdiver
Yes, just saw that on the other thread               huge sigh
223 posted on 05/20/2013 6:04:20 PM PDT by tomkat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 220 | View Replies]

To: stockpirate

Oklahoma medical examiner has advised 54 dead so far in the tornado. Recovery efforts are sad.


224 posted on 05/20/2013 6:05:46 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: muawiyah

Thanks for the mention.

Can you imagine being picked up in that 1999 storm with clocked winds at 318mph. Ouch.


225 posted on 05/20/2013 6:07:48 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Funny thing happened on the way to the Constitution burning, Lefties rights were violated...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 222 | View Replies]

To: reg45

Not real funny, Yo-yo. Children have died and families are mourning.


226 posted on 05/20/2013 6:08:42 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: elkfersupper

In that situation, if you stay in the open and try to run, chances are you’ll be decapitated by flying debris, or torn off your feet and deposited in the next county.

The little ones are with the Lord. May God give their parents and loved ones His divine comfort, peace, and strength.


227 posted on 05/20/2013 6:09:12 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Patriot Babe

You obviously don’t or have never lived in Oklahoma or don’t know much about the type of soil in that particular area. Might want to do some research on your own on the internet.

Since hurricane season is almost on us on the Gulf Coast might also want to find out why we don’t have basements in our homes on the Gulf Coast.


228 posted on 05/20/2013 6:09:41 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 110 | View Replies]

To: All

I pray for the souls of the children and all who died in this day in Oklahoma. They are now with God in his loving presence. But I also pray for strength and comfort for those who lost their dear ones. They are the ones I’m concerned about, as they face the days ahead.


229 posted on 05/20/2013 6:09:59 PM PDT by Exit148
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 219 | View Replies]

To: stockpirate

I posted this on another thread but it bears repeating.

“Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”


230 posted on 05/20/2013 6:13:15 PM PDT by yarddog (Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: stockpirate

BAN TORNADOS NOW!


231 posted on 05/20/2013 6:13:16 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All

From Christianity Today

What Jesus Might Say About Sandy (storms)

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/october-web-only/what-jesus-might-say-about-sandy.html


232 posted on 05/20/2013 6:13:32 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 229 | View Replies]

To: Mamzelle
"Thank you. I’ve been accused of insensitivity because I still don’t understand how children inside a school when a tornado strikes drown rather than are killed by blunt force trauma."

For heaven's sake, you just asked a question. There was nothing insensitive about that.

233 posted on 05/20/2013 6:13:34 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 122 | View Replies]

To: rollo tomasi

A lot of people blame God when anything bad happens; just like when the devil sent a storm and a wind that killed Job’s children.


234 posted on 05/20/2013 6:14:33 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 202 | View Replies]

To: stockpirate

Congress should take immediate action and outlaw all tornadoes. We have to protect our children from these killers.


235 posted on 05/20/2013 6:14:43 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: stockpirate

http://www.psmag.com/science/a-survivor-of-the-worst-tornado-in-history-tells-her-tale-58178/ my mother survived this series of storms ~ she was very young at the time ~ she’s now in her 90s. Her mom and dad lost all but one small photo of a sister who died in a whooping cough epidemic ~ that’s out of 10 kids. There were 700 dead ~


236 posted on 05/20/2013 6:14:53 PM PDT by muawiyah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 98 | View Replies]

To: annalex

amen


237 posted on 05/20/2013 6:17:08 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 137 | View Replies]

To: stockpirate

How terribly sad. I’m praying through my tears.


238 posted on 05/20/2013 6:19:12 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bigheadfred

However due to the ADA requirement for elevators, most public buildings opt for above ground safe rooms.


239 posted on 05/20/2013 6:20:22 PM PDT by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 160 | View Replies]

To: All

All little boy came to that impromptu News9 donation center and gave them his jar of change he’d been saving up.

< sniff >


240 posted on 05/20/2013 6:20:24 PM PDT by tomkat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 238 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 201-220221-240241-260 ... 481-484 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson