If those trees were made of brick, that wouldn't have happened.
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'Atomic Bomb-Like' Tornado Damage in Oklahoma
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If those trees were made of brick, that wouldn't have happened.
ratcliffja
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I would think wide-spread disasters like this are less likely to have the insurance companies screw people over since it would be more likely to receive news coverage, which would be pretty bad for PR. Still, they ARE insurance companies, so I wouldn't expect the process to be easy for people to recover losses.
goldsoundz
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Look at the national radar. The line is basically completely red at the front and it stretches from north Texas all the way to Illinois. There's more coming tomorrow. God damn Spring.
rocksteady1983
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Bingo. My wife is a teacher. Something needs to be done about this situation. She told me their plan is that like all schools. Go in the hallway and pray.
Lactose_Intolerant
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Every 10 years my parents' roof gets destroyed by some kind of weather event. They have been though 2 tornadoes and a massive hail storm. Insurance always has comes through. Now I don't know what is like to have your house explode though.
jobber
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FEMA.
You should experience these events in a non-populated area. If you really want to experience it the safe way, you should follow some of the storm chasers on Ustream. Raw,unedited panic.
So this is how they sneak in school prayer.
What part of south Oklahoma are you in? There was apparently one in Jefferson County and one in Cotton County that I was chasing. Luckily there's nowhere near the extent of infrastructure down here as there is in OKC. Seeing these images is just saddening.
Thanks man.
I never asked how your recovery from the wildfire is going. Hope all is OK with you, I can't imagine that happening.
rocksteady1983
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Lol probably.
WascallyWabbit
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Wow we get tornado drills here in north Dallas and I always just dismiss them as a joke, this is almost unbelievable
RIP kiddos and all the others
RIP kiddos and all the others
This is actually a pretty normal weather system for this time of year (as others have mentioned, it's been pretty quiet in terms of tornadoes this year until this week). Most of the warnings are just severe thunderstorms.
This system just happened to spawn an incredibly powerful tornado that hit a small city head-on.
rocksteady1983
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I'm in south central Oklahoma in Ada. We got sooooo damn lucky. Two tornado warned storms went right by us. One about 10 miles north and then one 5 miles south.
The only point 'I'm making is some building codes can prevent against that kind of debris ingress.
Direct hit is a different matter though.
ElRenoRaven
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And they can't catch a break. A storm has just developed in Moore right to the north of the tornado track. It's trying to lift to the north and east so hopefully they'll get lucky and not get hit too bad in the destroyed areas of Moore.
dorkimoe
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hello fellow central illinois'er I havent heard any thunder, but i see the warning until 1
ugh those pictures of the teachers..so so sad
The tornadoes in other parts of the world are mostly quite weak.
This is what we did in school 20+ years ago. Either get under a desk and cover your neck with your hands, or go into the interior hallways and do the same up against the lockers.
As are tornadoes spawned in tropical systems.
It's provably going to be like that for the rest of the evening.
Pristine_Condition
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Thanks. Still sucks for the most part, but I'm not much for complaining about it.
The world record wind gust of 408km/h was from a cyclone at a place called Barrow Island in Western Australia. Cyclone Olivia, apparently.
Although today's tornado might eclipse this if any instrument recorded it.
Edit : tornadoes have been recorded over 480kph.
Maybe it is just because me because we mostly live in the US on this forum, but to me it seems like the US has some of the worst weather in the world. I'm sure other countries have their natural disasters (most notably typhoons and tsunamis), but the US seems to experience them more frequently.
Pristine_Condition
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Lawl.
If you wait around for FEMA to help you, you're fucked. Insurance is what it's all about.
This made me laugh... my brother was thanked for "being so calm and understanding", when picking up my nephew from school. Bus service was cancelled and no students could drive themselves home, as a safety precaution. Apparently, the majority of parents have been complete dickholes to school officials and teachers, just for having to pick up their own child.
SneakyStephan
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That is literally the only thing I've said in any tornado related topic ever lol, and a reaction to people suggesting that there is no point in building brick houses.
How about you stop asserting your authority here fella.
dorkimoe
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yup, that about sums up this society. People are ungrateful and just want to bitch and complain. Wont even be a week and you will see lawsuits that someone should have stopped the tornado
The F5 tornado that hit Bridge Creek, Oklahoma in 1999 was clocked at 486km/h a little above surface. Such wind speeds are hard to measure in general, though, so records usually go to more rigorously confirmed speeds.
Luckily my home is south from the tornado damage, so I didn't get anything. Just got back from working at a hospital. Saw some bad stuff. Apparently someone overheard one of the higher ups say something disgusting about the situation. By the time I left things had calmed down in the ER at least.
The tornado on may 3rd, 1999 in the same area has the highest recorded wind speed at 318 mph. This one I heard wasn't as strong, but still 250+.
Did you miss Sandy? Because FEMA was on top of their game.
the difference between a hurricane and a tornado? well the US has over a thousand annually, while the Netherlands has about 20. I didn't say they didn't occur elsewhere in the world. I said they were extremely rare.
Just missed my edit.
Yeah, the problem is many instruments cant handle that high wind, but Dines anemometers are good for it. Bit old though.
Brian Fellows
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Yeah I was just out in it. Had to have wipers on high driving down a well lit street in Jacksonville at 20mph.
Same here, though we didn't even go into the halls, just huddled against an interior wall of the classroom The only time there was an actual threat and it wasn't a drill, we found out afterwards that the kids in my classroom were accidentally directed to an exterior wall. Good job to everyone involved.
Pristine_Condition
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My home was destroyed in a declared disaster in 2011. I didn't miss anything.
Let me know next time you're in Oklahoma, we should meet up. Let me know if there's anything I can do.
Pristine_Condition
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The next time I plan on being in Oklahoma is on 10/26 in Norman for the Texas Tech-OU game. If you can find a few 300+ lbs. run-stopping DTs to lend my Red Raiders, that'd be great.
piratepwnsninja
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This is hard when all you have is flat land as far as the eye can see in most cases in the Midwest.
US is an enormous landmass located in a unique location to allow for extreme types of weather.
If you look on google maps, you can still see where F5 tornadoes went through Moore and Joplin before . Still see the exact tracks as a brown line across the cities. Can still see that most of the damage from 2011 hasn't been repaired in Joplin. It takes a long long time to rebuild from this kind of thing. Moore rebuilt more quickly because it is near a large metro with plenty of resources. Joplin is not so lucky.
everyday math
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At least 145 people hospitalized.
I'm on it. Think I saw more than a couple 300 pounders last time I was at Walmart.
Sorry to hear things aren't great with the recovery. If it'll cheer you up I'd be happy to engage in another bitter TTU-OSU flame war in CFB-GAF.
Pristine_Condition
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Except people don't want to live underground. And considering that in that area of the country, at certain times of the year, you can dig down with a shovel for an hour or two and hit water, making those homes waterproof would be expensive.
abstract alien
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This year has had some down right terrible shit happen. Good luck to those in need :^(
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