Posted on 05/20/2013 4:54:37 PM PDT by stockpirate
NO LINK ON THEIR WEBSITE YET,
prayer bump...
I would have left personally after a half a mile wide tornado already struck outside of Oklahoma City and more were on tap in that same area for the next day.
Your post has touched me so. Though I do not know you, I too am grateful you are alive.
A terribly sad day for OK and the families who are suffering. My prayers are with all those who are effected by this tragedy.
Where is there to run when a tornado arrives?
I was raised in North Central Texas, about 150 miles south of there.
Where we lived, there was about 8 inches of top soil, followed by about 12 inches of rocky soil, then a 14-18 inch layer of limstone, then 6-8 inches of clay, followed by another 14-18 inches of limestone, repeated four or five times.
I know because on our ranch, my Dad had us plant about 120 trees, and each and every one of them had to be dug down below the second layer of limestone. Hand held rock busters, picks and shovels. The clay down there was always col and damp...even in the hottest summers...and those trees did very well. And continue to do so to this day, years after he passed.
All of our corner posts were the same. We belled those out under the second layer and then poured concrete in them. Not one has ever come out. They will rot off at the ground layer before that ever happens...and they were all treated poles.
Very expensive to dig very deep cellars in that. It can be done...but the costs are very high and usually prohibitive. If their soil is like that, then it is understandable.
Oxcart, I also am glad that you are alive. God bless you and all who have had their lives irreparably changed today.
Good piece of advice to always remember, and I'm from NYC. Though, we have had a few tornadoes in the last 8 years or so; very small, but it boggles my mind that we get them this far north. It's just a couple miles away from home, and scares the crap out of me.
And just like that... it’s gone.
Once had puke green sky when I was in 3rd grade, and this was in Brooklyn, NY. It at least confirmed to me that my teacher at the time was evil.
This is just wrong. Those kids are like sitting ducks. They had no chance against such a strong tornado. Why in the hell aren’t there shelters set up at schools in tornado alleys??? Young children depend on responsible adults to protect them from danger. Maybe I’m not thinking straight but if I were a parent I would be outraged if my child perished like that in a public school. If government has my child obligated to be in that building 5 days a week they had better make sure they are safe!
Oops... Sorry... Multiple edits and I still left out the Doppler radar phrase... And I believe it was the National Weather Service in Norman (either SPC or NSSL) with one of their portable radar trucks.
Those poor babies probably had no clue what was about to hit them:( RIP little angels.
“...turned grass lawns and fields to bare dirt ground...”
From now on you will no doubt offer a faint prayer of thanks everytime you mow the lawn. Prayers for you as you grieve your friends’ and neighbors’ losses.
I’m glad you’re alive too! Thanks for sharing:)
http://kfor.com/on-air/live-streaming/
Live news from the area at the moment. Just had a bunch of rescue vehicles go by and rumors that they may have found someone - reporter is heading to the scene a block away.
BUT - rescuers said they were getting tweets and text messages with FAKE messages about people trapped. I can’t imagine the depravity of someone doing that and diverting the resources.
The L doorway had the dual benefit of keeping debris from being blasted through the outer door into the shelter directly and, if Cold War vintage, of serving as a way to avoid ionizing radiation in the event of nuclear attack without a large (heavy) blast door.
Children among the at least 51 dead after massive twister strikes near Oklahoma City
La Plata was nailed by one back when (1920s?), and again just a few years back (April 28, 2002). The first one hit the school and killed a few kids, the second one destroyed the cafeteria at Archbishop Neale School (no school that day) and a lot more of town (F-5 downgraded to an F-4). The 2002 tornado had started on the ground east of Port Tobacco and eventually made it to the Chesapeake Bay. My grandparents’ former home was leveled in that one.
they were drilled, they did have hallways and hardened rooms for shelters.
The storm was too powerful.
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