'Atomic Bomb-Like' Tornado Damage in Oklahoma

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Hey Euros, next time there is a huge tornado in the US and someone makes a thread about it, don't shit it up with "why are the homes made from wood and not cement" comments. It's like every 4th post for fucks sake.
 
Diseased Yak said:
They were just showing a KFOR broadcast on The Weather Channel, and were interviewing a guy who was saying they made it to their shelter, and it took 3 grown men to hold the shelter door closed as the tornado passed over. His voice was breaking as he goes "I thought we were gonna die." Made me start to tear up. So insane, I feel so sorry for all those people.

It's not done yet, either. They're showing rotation heading up, south of Joplin, MO.
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But that's awesome. The shelter did work.
 
R2D4 said:
Hey Euros, next time there is a huge tornado in the US and someone makes a thread about it, don't shit it up with "why are the homes made from wood and not cement" comments. It's like every 4th post for fucks sake.
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Yes please, it sounds so ignorant. Please inform yourself about the power of tornadoes. It does not matter where you live in these cases:

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EF4 (T8-T9) damage typically results in a total loss of the affected structure. Well-built homes are reduced to a short pile of medium-sized debris on the foundation. Large, heavy vehicles, including airplanes, trains, and large trucks, can be pushed over, flipped repeatedly or picked up and moved short distances. Large, healthy trees are entirely debarked and snapped off close to the ground or uprooted altogether and turned into flying projectiles. Passenger cars and similarly sized objects can be picked up and flung for considerable distances. EF4 damage can be expected to level even the most robustly built homes, making the common practice of sheltering in an interior room on the ground floor of a residence insufficient to ensure survival. A storm shelter, reinforced basement or other subterranean shelter is considered necessary to provide any reasonable expectation of safety against EF4 damage.

EF5 (T10+) damage represents the upper limit of tornado power, and destruction is almost always total. An EF5 tornado pulls well-built homes off their foundations and into the air before shredding them, flinging the wreckage for miles and sweeping the foundation clean. Very little recognizable structural debris is generated by EF5 damage, with most materials reduced to a coarse mix of small, granular particles and dispersed evenly across the tornado's damage path. Large, multi-ton steel frame vehicles and farm equipment are often mangled beyond recognition and deposited miles away or reduced entirely to unrecognizable component parts. The official description of this damage highlights the extreme nature of the destruction, noting that "incredible phenomena will occur"; historically, this has included such awesome displays of power as twisting skyscrapers, levelling entire communities, and stripping asphalt from roadbeds. Despite their relative rarity, the damage caused by EF5 tornadoes represents a disproportionately extreme hazard to life and limb— since 1950 in the United States, only 58 tornadoes (0.1% of all reports) have been designated F5 or EF5, and yet these have been responsible for more than 1300 deaths and 14,000 injuries (21.5% and 13.6%, respectively).[10]
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R2D4 said:
Hey Euros, next time there is a huge tornado in the US and someone makes a thread about it, don't shit it up with "why are the homes made from wood and not cement" comments. It's like every 4th post for fucks sake.
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Hey, they're just doing their duty, trying to tell us how wrong we are. You shouldn't expect them to take a break from lecturing us just because our countrymen are picking through debris looking for dead children. They must be heard.
 
I've seen an F5 tornado in person. Probably the most terrifying thing you will ever see in your life as a human being. I nearly fainted when I saw one.


an F5 tornado
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xelios said:
We had EF5s where I live (Alabama) a couple of years back at the end of April which resulted in over 200 deaths in my state, so my heart definitely goes out to these people. I can attest to the fact when EF5s hit your million dollar brick home might as well be a mobile home. Hoping the death toll is far less; storm cellars for schools should be mandatory.
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Brick homes are no safer, but reinforced steel and concrete houses should be the best option.

In my state, homes in cyclone districts have to be built to category 5 standards. Is there an equivalent minimum standard in cyclone and tornado prone parts of the USA? Or are storm shelter bunkers enough?
 
R2D4 said:
Hey Euros, next time there is a huge tornado in the US and someone makes a thread about it, don't shit it up with "why are the homes made from wood and not cement" comments. It's like every 4th post for fucks sake.
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Correct. Listen to this man, you Euros!!!!!
 
Yagharek said:
Brick homes are no safer, but reinforced steel and concrete houses should be the best option.

In my state, homes in cyclone districts have to be built to category 5 standards. Is there an equivalent minimum standard in cyclone and tornado prone parts of the USA? Or are storm shelter bunkers enough?
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Subterranean shelter is your only guarantee of safety for EF4 and EF5s.
 
Freyjadour said:
Still trying to get back into Norman from OKC 2 hours later. House is about 5 minutes south of 19th in Moore.
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I hope your home is OK.

As someone who lost everything my home and everything I owned in the wildfires outside Austin TX that claimed thousands of homes in Sept. 2011, I know how difficult it is not knowing if your home is OK.

You and your neighbors will be in my prayers.

If you find out the worst news, feel free to hit me up on PM if you ever need somebody to talk to who can understand what you're going through.

I hope you'll go home, find your home still standing and think this is the cheesiest post you've ever read.
 
R2D4 said:
Ummm, you aren't even understanding my comment. It had nothing to do with the power of a tornado. I know how powerful tornadoes are. I live in tornado alley. People that live here don't need to be constantly questioned about or criticized about our housing materials in every single tornado thread. We know Europe does everything better and knows all. We get it.
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He wasn't addressing that at you
 
R2D4 said:
Ummm, you aren't even understanding my comment. I know how powerful tornadoes are. I live in tornado alley. People that live here don't need to be constantly questioned about or criticized about our housing materials in every single tornado thread. We know Europe does everything better and knows all. We get it.
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I was agreeing with you and providing information to these people that it does not matter what your house is made of in the case of tornadoes this powerful. Get a hold of yourself.
 
xelios said:
I was agreeing with you and providing information to these people that it does not matter what your house is made of in the case of tornadoes this powerful. Get a hold of yourself.
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Oops. Sorry. I misunderstood. I apologize. I'll stop posting now.
 
Kimawolf said:
Yep and I have already called my friends down there to tell them to get into the fucking shelters we all built. But after 2011 they don't mess around anymore.
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Tons of shelters were built in Tuscaloosa after the 2011 tornado's. Just one of the tragic facts of these events. It seems like it takes tragedy to put in life saving shelters.

Ugh, fox news at a remnant of a gas station, talking about bodies.
 
Protein said:
I've seen an F5 tornado in person. Probably the most terrifying thing you will ever see in your life as a human being. I nearly fainted when I saw one.


an F5 tornado
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holy fucking shit dude.

what people dont understand, questioning the integrity of structures is the debris is; the air is just loaded with all kinds of shrapnel and doesnt give a shit where it is going, at 200+ mph.
 
PsychoRaven said:
Debris found as far as Tulsa from this Tornado. No suvivors left at that school. 7 children found so far. They were drowned.
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Sorry but was this reported or are you just making shit up?

They really should wait on reporting things like this.
 
AlphaDump said:
holy fucking shit dude.

what people dont understand, questioning the integrity of structures is the debris is; the air is just loaded with all kinds of shrapnel and doesnt give a shit where it is going, at 200+ mph.
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Yep. After I went to a muesem and saw a tree that'd had a piece of straw impaling it from a tornado, I stopped doubting the destructive strength of tornadoes.
 
AlphaDump said:
holy fucking shit dude.

what people dont understand, questioning the integrity of structures is the debris is; the air is just loaded with all kinds of shrapnel and doesnt give a shit where it is going, at 200+ mph.
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Yeah seriously, imagine your car hitting your house going 200 mph.
 
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