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To: mylife
That is what caused fatality’s in OKC this week.
They were stacked up on the road.


Several on-air were saying 'get underground or get out' -- meaning evacuate the area of the storm.

Others were saying hunker down in place.

They were getting mixed messages. Many of those who tried to evac got caught on the I-40/I-35 areas where the storm had already done damage and caused traffic jams.
57 posted on 06/02/2013 10:19:24 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: TomGuy

I 35 got whacked. They was stacked and got whacked.

It is odd that all the fatalities where folks that had foresight.
They were all trying to get out.
They had not considered the traffic jam.

Some of this is caused by people that shelter Under overpasses.

I aint blaming anyone, folks do what they gotta do.
I know a guy that did this in OKC.
They were all hunkered down under the overpass holdup hands like a human chain.

Well Sir, you know what he learned?
There is a Bernoulli effect that happens when you get in there.
The wind speeds Increased.
A Farkin wind tunnel.

One poor fellow was holding on to his wife when a stone blew through his hand.
He let go. It was not his fault, it was like getting a bullet to the back of your hand.
I blew straight through and she was gone.

They found her body 2 miles away

So DO NOT SHELTER UNDER OVERPASSES


67 posted on 06/02/2013 10:39:10 AM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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