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'Atomic Bomb-Like' Tornado Damage in Oklahoma

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Flo_Evans said:
What people have been trying to explain to you is that they DO build houses out of brick, and they get destroyed. It's very rude and condescending to suggest everyone in the Midwest are morons and if only these stupid yokels would use brick instead of toothpicks they would be fine.
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I didn't call anyone jokels and didn't even remotely say they use wooden houses.

The guy I was replying to suggested there is no point in brick houses since tornados will just knock them down.
(most aren't going to be f4-f5 monsters)

That is where what I said begins and ends, don't drag me into your petty fights with others. 'people' haven't been trying to explain anything to me, one guy threw a misdirected kneejerk hissy fit at me over my one and only post because he's mad about what someone else said.
 
Gondo, glad to see you and the rest of OKC GAF are (hopefully) OK. Just catching up with all the news tonight. Terrible stuff.
 
Hey everybody.

Those of you who don't know I live on the northwest side of Okc about 13 miles from where the tornado hit. Everyone is fine in my family (thankfully I had family working not more than 3. Miles from the tornado) and by all accounts everyone I know in that area is safe and sound.

I haven't been able to get ahold of my old boss, and he lives not fair from where the tornado went through.

I have lived here all my life, I'm uses to tornados, I still remember may 3rd 1999 vividly. However, today I was honestly scared, I could go outside my house and see the back of the storm and at one point the tornado itself.

Anyway, just though I would post something on here. I'm finally going to get some sleep, I'm gonna see if I get to that side of the city to help some, wanna see if I at least help dig out a few people.

Scariest feeling was that I could not get a call to go through on my phone.
 
Notrollious said:
It's incredible. This will become the textbook example for years to come, figuratively and literally.
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Considering the textbook supercell/hook echo radar image before was the May 3rd tornado... yeah.

This one was just weird. I took an image off my phone's radar app from one of the FAA Dopplers and posted it in the other thread. I have never seen anything like this one.
 
They just said they found an alive dog in the rubble of the school.

It isn't a lot, but it something positive.

The local news (all of which is streaming if you want to watch) is going to be on indefinitely.

It's gonna take a while for Moore to rebuild.

Might of been posted earlier but will post anyway.

NBC affiliate: www.kfor.com
ABC affiliate: www.koco.com
CBS affiliate: www.news9.com
 
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So my last post last night we were about to get hit with a storm....yea it kept buding back and back and back. It's been super heavy rain for like 6 hours and looks to be for a few more at least. Here is my front yard.
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Thankfully this isn't going on in the Moore area though.
 
UraMallas said:
Yeah. Yesterday's was worse for me (West Des Moines) but today's looks worse for you if you actually do live in Ames. It's already clearing off here.

Yesterday I was driving back from my Mom's in Boone, IA and I got caught in the storm. Scariest thing I've been through in recent memory. One minute I was driving with some light rain and the next I was literally blown over into the left lane. I pulled over to the side of the highway along with everybody else and witnessed full trees getting bent. My car was shaking and when I looked out into the corn fields along the highway the rain water was coming off in straight lines over the field embankment. I remember thinking to myself "it only takes one stray branch." Called my mom right then just in case. Gives me chills just thinking about it.

I hope that wasn't unsettling for you but I think these ones are going to pass us quick. Stay safe over there!

I think I took away from it to take them a little more seriously. Nobody gives any fucks around here because we have tornado warnings weekly during this time of the year, it seems like.
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I was also in Boone on Sunday, and I live in Ames(it wasn't that bad, but definitely a bit unnerving). The worst part about it was watching the wall cloud move closer and closer, while noticing odd cloud movements.

Thoughts go out to all affected by yesterday's storms.
 
Man, tornadoes are scary as hell. I just remember having a small tornado touch down near where I lived when I was a kid and getting off the school bus and rushing into the basement. It wasn't anymore destructive than a bad thunderstorm but its just so spooky seeing the clouds swirl and seeing the funnel cloud come down, coupled with how dark the sky gets in the middle of the day.

That sort of thing just reminds you how powerless we all are in the face of nature.
 
Ohwiseone said:
Death toll revised to 24.

Apparently they found a bunch of people last night In the rubble.
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Hopefully it doesn't go much higher.

Although this was terrible, I can't imagine there's a place on earth that would be more prepared for it than here. People know what to do when a tornado is coming.
 
Lonestar said:
In Moore? Hope so.
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Yeah that's the general information I have heard. All in Moore.

I received a video from my boss at my job of the tornado, it was stupidly close. My store is still standing, and I won't upload the video. (At least not yet).

I thank god I got the day off that day.
 
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