To: Bluewave
This is only the 2nd time that I have heard them tell people to get underground. Secondary is to get into a room/closet in the center of the house. But an F-5 tornado will flatten a house and in 1999 actually took up foundations in some parts of Moore.
235 posted on
05/09/2003 9:08:42 PM PDT by
PhiKapMom
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To: PhiKapMom
This is only the 2nd time that I have heard them tell people to get underground. Secondary is to get into a room/closet in the center of the house. But an F-5 tornado will flatten a house and in 1999 actually took up foundations in some parts of Moore. Geez .. prayers to all in OKC and the surrounding area
244 posted on
05/09/2003 9:11:53 PM PDT by
Mo1
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To: PhiKapMom
Semantics. When I was growing up in southern Oklahoma, we had a dugout and lived in a small box house. We went underground with every clap of thunder. As soon as we got in the dugout to save us from the expected tornado, the conversation turned to snakes and stories about snakes dropping out of the dugout roof down shirt collars. The stories had a way of taking one's mind off the weather.
To: PhiKapMom
There was a large tornado in Texas a number of years ago that was so strong that it actually pulled pipes from the foundations and also blew away the sidewalks, could you imagine the wind it would take to blow away a sidewalk. There wasnt even any debris left over, just empty cement slabs.
To: PhiKapMom
How awful! We don't get too many tornadoes in my area, and none that have the magnitude you're describing.
Prayers all around.
254 posted on
05/09/2003 9:15:39 PM PDT by
pubmom
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