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[FO-totality]

I really dont get how this is allowed. How do the insurance companies cover wooden homes like this?

You couldnt pay me to live in tornado country in a wooden house.

Stone houses don't much more of a chance against 250mph+ wind and debris.

 

[JABEE]

Scary. I hope people are okay.

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

holy shit

 

[Flo_Evans]

holy fuck....condolences to those affected.

Shouldn't there be building codes for homes in this kind of area though to minimize this? Or maybe there's no way you can really protect yourself from this kind of destruction

Besides an underground bunker, there is not much that is going to withstand a direct hit from a storm this powerful.

 

[mre]

Jesus Christ.

 

[UberTag]

Alternate local news coverage stream: http://www.newson6.com/Global/category.asp?C=207223

 

[goldsoundz]

holy fuck....condolences to those affected.

Shouldn't there be building codes for homes in this kind of area though to minimize this? Or maybe there's no way you can really protect yourself from this kind of destruction

There's not much you can do to protect yourself from a tornado like this, especially in an above ground structure. Gotta have storm shelters.

I was following a giant, half mile wide tornado in OK yesterday on a stream, and I thought that was bad enough. There's no way that lives weren't lost in today's tornado.

 

[Meadows]

reporter on the scene started crying

 

[Shake Appeal]

So many Americans are going to have to relocate in the coming decades. There are going to be so many ghost towns.

 

[xbhaskarx]

Shouldn't there be building codes for homes in this kind of area though to minimize this? Or maybe there's no way you can really protect yourself from this kind of destruction

People could move to places that don't get destroyed by tornadoes every decade (same goes for those coastal towns in the southeast that are built right by the ocean)...

 

[jchap]

I grew up in tornado alley. While most of these houses are destroyed, most are built with storm cellars or reinforced basements where most people go during these storms. Our house was damaged by tornados a couple times while I was growing up but never one this powerful.

 

[everyday math]

Weather channel is gonna make me cry. That reporter sounded like he was crying.

 

[maquiladora]

holy shit

Those were cars from nearby houses being slammed against a hospital.

 

[jamesinclair]

Stone houses don't much more of a chance against 250mph+ wind and debris.

I was thinking steel frame, concrete fill. Whatever condos in Miami are built out of. But Im no engineer.

I hope everyone had a basement.

 

[Meadows]

Main story on BBC news now

 

[akira28]

As a reminder, actual atomic bombs killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 3 days later 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki.

I prefer not to compare anything to atomic bombs.

it wasn't done flippantly, and look at that damage. It looks just like an atomic bomb was dropped.

Now, check it. If someone said "This was just like Hiroshima." then you have a place to feel like someone was referencing a tragedy in a certain way. But atomic bombs aren't off limits, and I have a feeling that if the outrage was authentic instead of an internet hobby, you would have known that. I'm not even sure you're not being mocking.

 

[Weenerz]

Have they said where we can submit donations?

 

[jvm]

We had tornadoes near us two years ago, and took refuge in a part of the house that is deep in sod on both sides. Pretty goddamned scary when your kids are looking at you asking why you're all crammed in a closet.

Best wishes to people affected.

 

[FO-totality]

holy fuck....condolences to those affected.

Shouldn't there be building codes for homes in this kind of area though to minimize this? Or maybe there's no way you can really protect yourself from this kind of destruction

there are iirc, but they can only do so much. The best protection are storm cellars and basements, honestly.

 

[Fireblend]

Holy fuck.

 

[Jesus Carbomb]

All out search and rescue at the elementary school. You can still see the kids backpacks hanging on the classroom walls.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

I am dumbfounded by that imagery. Prayers that people made it through this. I'm almost speechless.

 

[Goreomedy]

I was thinking steel frame, concrete fill. Whatever condos in Miami are built out of. But Im no engineer.

I hope everyone had a basement.

Oklahoma ground is rock. Very few houses have basements, just not possible. Storm cellars cut into garage floors are more and more common, though. So, hopefully, that's where most in Moore went.

 

[Kiraly]

They are requesting people able to work as first responders on television now.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

As a reminder, actual atomic bombs killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 3 days later 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki.

I prefer not to compare anything to atomic bombs.

Do you really not understand why it's an apt comparison?

 

[Raiden]

Here's a timelapse video of the tornado moving through the countryside:

http://www.wmctv.com/category/240217/video-landing-page?clipId=8899079&autostart=true

That is fucking terrifying.

 

[xJavonta]

As a reminder, actual atomic bombs killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 3 days later 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki.

I prefer not to compare anything to atomic bombs.

Don't play stupid, you know why they're comparing this to an atomic bomb. This is not the place nor the time.

 

[rocksteady1983]

I'm about 60 miles south of Moore. We have a good chance of getting hit with a storm by Ardmore that has a tornado warning. Fuck this states weather.

 

[speculawyer]

Holy smokes, they got pummeled.

Is Count Dokakke OK?

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

It's going to become less and less rare as time goes on.

why do you say?

 

[Tornado Condor]

Holy shit, man. That's eery.

 

[ant1532]

damn it.

 

[MickD]

Ugh.. Supposed to hit here in DFW in the next hour.

 

[UberTag]

Do you really not understand why it's an apt comparison?

"Most destructive tornado in the history of the world" as the chief KFOR-4 meterologist described the aftermath of this storm still sounds better to me than an atomic bomb comparison.

 

[mechashiva]

Been trying to get ahold of my dad, he is delivering a load to OKC today. Still no answer.

Where was he Comin in from? Any idea where in OKC he was headed?

 

[Goreomedy]

Now that police are taxed with recuse efforts, and we approach nightfall, the fucking looters are going to crawl out from their toilets. Really creepy how much this reminds me of May 3, 1999.

 

[Delio]

Ugh.. Supposed to hit here in DFW in the next hour.

Wait really? Well damn it.

 

[Terareflection]

Been trying to get ahold of my dad, he is delivering a load to OKC today. Still no answer.

I am in Southwest Edmond and our phones are out. I think the lines are dead, as others have said.

 

[slabrock]

What utter devastation. Hopefully people got underground quickly.

 

[Evolved1]

I don't see any basements... damn.

RIP.

 

[Captain Tuttle]

my god

 

[Hale-XF11]

Did they say what strength it was? F4? F5?

 

[Fox Mulder]

I remember ducking in hallways for school tornado drills, and I always thought that was a bullshit thing because we were at low risk in NC. I can't believe how a school in tornado ally and always in danger apparently has no other safety option.

 

[ymmv]

Did they say what strength it was? F4? F5?

F4 or F5.

 

[victreeb3l]

i had no idea this happened. and i thought i was having a bad day.

damn man nature is fucking scary. i hope there werent many deaths and everyone is able to get back on their feet somehow. i dont know how id feel losing my house like that

 

[legacyzero]

I don't see any basements... damn.

RIP.

I was thinking that too. There's nothing left

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Did they say what strength it was? F4? F5?

For sure F4 and possibly F5.

 

[Vaco6121]

Did they say what strength it was? F4? F5?

NWS preliminary classification of Monday afternoon's tornado was an EF-4 according to the AP.

 

[caramac]

Damn, that is one big tornado. Thoughts are with all those folk out there.

*edit, I should say this is taken from the time lapse video.

 

[Iksenpets]

The homes will all have basements (or most of them), but not much can stand up to sustained 200mph winds.

Don't know about OKC, but 200 miles south of there in Dallas it's pretty much impossible to build basements due to the soil. Never been in a tornado, but in school they pretty much told us just to get to the innermost room of the house.