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'Atomic Bomb-Like' Tornado Damage in Oklahoma

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This makes me sad, and scared. We just moved to Springfield, mo-only 4 hrs from okc ive gathered and this is all a potential tornado zone i guess. I've lived in nyc my whole life, never so much as sniffed a tornado so i think im just more paranoid than i should be because of that.

RIP to all affected, stay safe everyone.
 
I'm chatting with my manager about it this morning. Her husband picked up the kiddos from daycare about 10 mins before the tornado went through. There is just a dirty field now where the daycare was.

We have 2 people that I know of that lost homes or vehicles at work.

Very encouraging news regarding the death count being lowered.
 
TylerD said:
I'm chatting with my manager about it this morning. Her husband picked up the kiddos from daycare about 10 mins before the tornado went through. There is just a dirty field now where the daycare was.

We have 2 people that I know of that lost homes or vehicles at work.

Very encouraging news regarding the death count being lowered.
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Goddamn.
 
sketchsanchez said:
This makes me sad, and scared. We just moved to Springfield, mo-only 4 hrs from okc ive gathered and this is all a potential tornado zone i guess. I've lived in nyc my whole life, never so much as sniffed a tornado so i think im just more paranoid than i should be because of that.

RIP to all affected, stay safe everyone.
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I've lived in Oklahoma most of my life, and let me reassure you that it's not as dangerous as you think.

Even this tornado, which is extremely rare, only affected a fairly small area in the OKC metro. Also, storm-tracking technology is to the point that you'll be able to easily take shelter or get out of the way in time.

It's important just to be aware of the possibility of severe weather, but the actual odds of anything happening are very, very low.
 
CrankyJay said:
CBS had a banner before he posted that...I guess he could have avoided it by sourcing his post.
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Yeah I'm currently on my phone, meant to source it from the AP, but it didn't copy correctly on my phone.

So I posted it without a source thinking it was already picked up.
 
KingGondo said:
I've lived in Oklahoma most of my life, and let me reassure you that it's not as dangerous as you think.

Even this tornado, which is extremely rare, only affected a fairly small area in the OKC metro. Also, storm-tracking technology is to the point that you'll be able to easily take shelter or get out of the way in time.

It's important just to be aware of the possibility of severe weather, but the actual odds of anything happening are very, very low.
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Exactly. While tornadoes happen pretty regularly here they tend to not be near this level of deadly. These massive killer ones are not as common as people think. The last big one we had like this was a couple years after the may 3rd tornado.
 
Just to rehash what people above me were saying.

These tornados happen on rare occasions and most do not hit In a metropolitan area. (They called it a tornado emergency, which..is extremely rare).

The weathermen here are almost too annoying sometimes with the weather, but thankfully they took over programming a good 30-40 minutes before the tornado hit, so people had a good lead time.
 
I have lived in OK my entire life and can count the number of tornadoes I have seen in person on one finger.

Ohwiseone said:
Just to rehash what people above me were saying.

These tornados happen on rare occasions and on most it does not hit In a metropolitan area. (They called it a tornado emergency, which..is extremely rare).

The weathermen here are almost too annoying sometimes with the weather, but thankfully they took over programming a good 30-40 minutes before the tornado hit, so people had a good lead time.
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I was driving north on 35 through Moore when the Tornado Warning was issued and by the time I got to 40 to go West to 44 the tornado emergency was issued. That made me a bit sick to my stomach.
 
TylerD said:
I have lived in OK my entire life and can count the number of tornadoes I have seen in person on one finger.



I was driving north on 35 through Moore when the Tornado Warning was issued and by the time I got to 40 to go West to 44 the tornado emergency was issued. That made me a bit sick to my stomach.
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The storm moved over my house, and then it went tornadic. I stepped outside heard The sirens go off, and then shut off for my area, and I walked in saw it and then saw the "tornado emergency" being called. That's when I got worried, and it made me sick. At one point I just sat and watched.

The warren theater, I was there not two days ago seeing Gatsby. Weird seeing what it has become now.

I work in Moore, the media is currently in my parking lot at the store I work at. That town is a second home to me.
 
Ohwiseone said:
The warren theater, I was there not two days ago seeing Gatsby. Weird seeing what it has become now.
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I was there Saturday night seeing Star Trek.

Obviously the lives lost are a way bigger concern, but I'm legitimately bummed that the Warren got hit right at the start of summer movie season. That place is great and really makes the hellish temperatures during summer more tolerable.
 
Another day, another round. Looks like storms are already building steam in OK again today.

Be safe dust bowlers!
 
Glad to see the death toll has been lowered.

Not that it means much to the families who lost loved ones, but this could've been much, much worse. That thing was a complete beast and made the tornado that hit the DFW area 3 days ago seem like a little mosquito bite. Our weather detection and warning system saved countless lives this past week across tornado alley.
 
Absolutely terrifying nightmarefuel.

I used to have nightmares about tornadoes as a child and I don't live in a particularly active area. I could not imagine living through a real one.
 
All friends and family accounted for. Lots of people lost homes.

The worst is the stories of people who were separated from their kids for long periods of time. One friend couldn't get to his son's daycare due to the destruction and couldn't get to him until the following morning. Another left work early to try and get her kids and got caught out. Thankfully her sister had picked her daughter up from school, but the tornado hit her sister's neighborhood.

She spent 7 hours trying to get there not knowing if they were alive.
 
I feel for all the people in Moore right now.

Ever since I was a kid I've always had nightmares about tornadoes and not being able to escape them, can't imagine how it feels for real though. :c
 
teruterubozu said:
How is this supposed make anybody feel better? I hate the Hallmark-cardification of tragedies.
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You so edgy.

People losing their homes probably feels like its the worst thing that could ever happen. All that junk in your home is nothing compared to the lives of your friends and family. Its finding comfort in the things you've held on to rather than the things you've lost.
 
Kiraly said:
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I had no concept it was this bad. My heart dropped. Jesus.

Although I know this wont do it, its time we started making an effort, as ineffective as it is, to do something about weather research. I don't want to hear "blah blah blah not as bad blah blah." How about we fund the proper research, get the 100% unbiased final word from the scientific community, and go from there.

Record droughts, and shit like this are piling up. Might be past the point of no return, but who cares. Its an effort.
 
how does insurance work in these areas?

is weather insurance mandatory?

how easy is it to get full coverage when you get affected?

surely this must be state governed in some way to make people feel safe and stay in the tornado stricken areas?
 
bengraven said:
So far it's only those 7 drowned children that died at that school right?
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I believe so.

They are saying that The Warren Theatre didn't suffer any notable interior damage and once they have power should be good to go for business. That is important because it is a landmark and a great distraction. Any kind of return to normalcy will be helpful.

Watching coverage all day, it is amazing just how much people are giving and how much money has been pledged already.
 
TylerD said:
They are saying that The Warren Theatre didn't suffer any notable interior damage and once they have power should be good to go for business. That is important because it is a landmark and a great distraction. Any kind of return to normalcy will be helpful.
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They said on the news a few minutes ago that they are reopening on Friday.
 
Lucky I was on break during this. Found out today that my apartment is still there. All of my friends are accounted for, so it could have been much worse for me. Can't believe this is happening to Moore again.
 
demon said:
He asked her if she thanked the lord? What the fuck kind of question is that?

Oh, Wolfy...
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He was asking some bizarre questions today. He spoke with the governor of OK and the mayor of OKC, and kept trying to compare (and get them to compare) the situation to the OKC bombing. Apparently he had covered the OKC bombing, so that was his only point of reference when it comes to the state of Oklahoma.
 
Metaphoreus said:
He was asking some bizarre questions today. He spoke with the governor of OK and the mayor of OKC, and kept trying to compare (and get them to compare) the situation to the OKC bombing. Apparently he had covered the OKC bombing, so that was his only point of reference when it comes to the state of Oklahoma.
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We have football, The Grapes of Wrath, and that musical too! Wolf needs to study up.
 
I have an idea about this whole brick house construction thing. I am now aware that a brick house can be as vulnerable as a wood frame house however I now wonder about the design of the house. The old stone house I live in is a row house connected to a dozen others. Because of this the wind and debris has only two sides of the house that it can hit, front and back. In addition to this there are the shared supporting walls between the buildings that I feel would offer more support.

I guess this is my disconnect with the difference between and brick/stone row house and a free standing single family brick home. Do you armchair meteorologists think that a brick row house would stand up better to a tornado than a freestanding brick house? Help me mythbusters!
 
Konka said:
I have an idea about this whole brick house construction thing. I am now aware that a brick house can be as vulnerable as a wood frame house however I now wonder about the design of the house. The old stone house I live in is a row house connected to a dozen others. Because of this the wind and debris has only two sides of the house that it can hit, front and back. In addition to this there are the shared supporting walls between the buildings that I feel would offer more support.

I guess this is my disconnect with the difference between and brick/stone row house and a free standing single family brick home. Do you armchair meteorologists think that a brick row house would stand up better to a tornado than a freestanding brick house? Help me mythbusters!
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Once again, it comes down to the power of the tornado. A tornado can fling a car at 200 mph. There isn't much that can stand against it, honestly.

Edit: If you look at some of the picture coming out of Moore, you can see a bunch of the cars, and most of them look like junkyard cars; not because they are twisted and destroyed, but because the paint has been basically sanded from their frames.
 
Fiction said:
Once again, it comes down to the power of the tornado. A tornado can fling a car at 200 mph. There isn't much that can stand against it, honestly.

Edit: If you look at some of the picture coming out of Moore, you can see a bunch of the cars, and most of them look like junkyard cars; not because they are twisted and destroyed, but because the paint has been basically sanded from their frames.
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I understand that. But I feel that due to the engineering of them.

These.

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Would hold up better than this.

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I know the winds are very powerful but the difference in engineering must have a difference. 4 walls for debris to hit vs 2. In a row house I can position myself against a wall that isn't feeling the full force of the storm vs a free standing home. I know both will receive damage but I believe the row homes would fare better.

The surface area of a row home that is experiencing the full winds and debris of the storm is less than a free standing home and it seems that physics would back up the idea of less damage.
 
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