Posted on 05/20/2013 4:54:37 PM PDT by stockpirate
NO LINK ON THEIR WEBSITE YET,
Being killed by a tornado happens. I spent a good deal of my youth living in the midwest and tornadoes are the scariest weather events that happen to mankind.
I have never heard of anyone drowning in a tornado. At least not while in a building on solid ground.
This is tragic beyond words, my heart breaks for the families.
By the way, you can’t run to Canada, we get them too, though less frequently.
yeah huh...
yeah.
Two dozen children still unaccounted for at the school. Prayers for the frantic parents and the safety of the children.
When they did the damage surveys after the North Carolina tornado outbreak in 2011, I remember the arguments people had about whether this one was an EF2 or that one was an EF3...didn’t seem to make a whole lot of difference given that peoples’ homes were just as flattened regardless, but I guess for research and posterity these things have to be done.
}:-)4
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.
In the Austin area, there is a very wide and deep seam or seams of limestone,,,tons of quarries around. We hit limestone about 18 inches under our soil. It’s everywhere.
This was a huge tornado. I don’t think running would have helped. There was nothing that could have been done, other than not sending your kids to government schools.
yeah huh is a serious affirmation meaning total agreement in my neck of the woods
When I was a child, on Palm Sunday 1965 there was an outbreak—47 tornadoes in a six state area. Sky was green as pea soup.
Tornadoes hit Hillsdale Co. and area around Devil’s Lake, Michigan—two F4s—at least one in the evening, 21 people died in that county alone. One lady, who happen to live through the storm, had landed in Devil’s Lake and woke up there. She must have thought it was a bad dream.
We had a tornado here in Maryland that struck a school back in the 30’s, a few years ago another tornado struck that same school.
Maybe it would be wise not to build in that same spot.
Me too . . . knew of cows that ended up on different farms.
If you hear a train, it's not a train
Just awful. Prayers up.
Sean Hannity just reported that the children drowned in a pool that was at the school.
Yup. Whether it's an EF1 or EF5, your survivors won't much care.
Some quite small ones can be very deadly, if the cards fall wrong, yet some real monsters have been relatively benign.
This breaks my heart! Praying for all those affected by this horrible event. Dear God...
Oh dear lord, NO.
I just watched my little daughter graduate from college — something these parents will never get to do.
I cannot imagine the anguish and sorrow.
The money is not his it's that of the American taxpayer. And we'll see if your fellow Oklahoman shares your sentiment. If so, they will refuse to accept the federal relief funding when offered.
Yeah, I grew up in New Mexico, and moved to Oklahoma after college (still live here). You have NO IDEA how serious and dangerous the weather can be out here... Ice storms, blizzards, 100 MPH straight-line winds, downbursts, outrageous hail (I've had chickens killed in hailstorms and seen cars literally beaten to a pulp), torrential rains, floods, 300+ MPH tornados, bone-chilling cold, incredible heat and humidity... We got it all!
...you live there for the variety of weather?
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