(Reuters) - A huge tornado flattened an area near Oklahoma City on Monday, leaving a wake of tangled wreckage, as a dangerous storm system threatened as many as 10 states. At least two schools were in the path of the tornado, television reports said, and video showed homes destroyed, cars tossed and at least one building on fire. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/20/us-usa-tornadoes-idUSBRE94J0TK20130520 Reports are coming in slowly. It appears phone lines and cell towers are down and only bits and pieces are filtering out. supposedly the tornado was 2 miles wide.
The increase in number and severity of these storms is scary. I've read a lot about those Dome structures being able to withstand much of this. I wonder how long it will take for people to start building dome homes. I'd like to.
Joe Bastardi from the Weather Channel stated that the severity of tornadoes are an indication for the severity of the upcoming hurricane season. Also, the town of Moore took the brunt of it. This same town was flattened in 1999.
Reports coming in that entire schools have simply disappeared. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of the people affected.
Hunker down this season, mid westerners. As a teenager, I went through a SMALL tornado or water spout that ripped the sizable porch roof off the family beach house and flipped it onto the boat and both my parents vehicles in the back yard....totaling them. Terrifying...and what I remember most is the snapped electrical wires splitting the pitch black darkness as they violently snaked and popped in the rain puddles. Be careful with that if you're ever hit by a bad storm....it would be a damn shame to escape the calamity unhurt, only to be electrocuted while surveying the damage.
Here in Bama we still cast worried looks to the sky every time it rains. Tornados can be pretty scary...and deadly. We still have busted trees and damage we are trying to clean up. Every time we get a handle on it here come the winds.
It looks to be a bad situation in Moore. I hope it turns out that people were safe underground. It sounds like people are trapped. That area is like a tornado magnet---Moore and OKC area. This was a bad one but they seem to get a least one a year that comes close to a metro.
Poor Moore. I am grateful for federal disaster relief and that all Americans can be involved with helping Moore to rebuild later and to survive for the moment.
The huge surge in tornado activity over the past several years is due to the fact that millions of trees have been stripped from rural areas to clear land to grow corn for ethanol. Even though no one wants the ethanol, the Democratic government continues to produce and store it in acres and acres of huge storage tank farms which dot the east coast. They can't get rid of the stuff -- it's a Frankenstein. They can't dump it into the ocean; they can drain it out into the land and soil; and they can't burn it off. The Obama Government however, is managing to get rid of a tiny percent of it by sneaking it into gasoline. Next time you're at the pump, notice the label which says the gasoline you're about to buy, contains 10 percent ethanol. Obama is planning to increase the amount to 15 percent ethanol. Of course, the farmers and ethanol producers love it.
I also heard that a woman and her 7 month old baby were killed. - - - Updated - - - You think tornados are new to Oklahoma and the fault of the government?
I'll second that. I lived in Connecticut when Hurricane Gloria hit and almost on top of the 1992 Landers CA, magnitude 7.3 earthquake. I would gladly go through either rather than any tornado (or Cyclone as they call 'em in Texas).
Absolutely. I have been through floods wildfire and a hail storm that destroyed the roof of my house - and living through a tornado touchdown is by far the scariest thing I've ever been through
I am sorry to hear that.. but I guess it could be far worse. Doesn't everyone have basements and storm cellars in Oklahoma?
Just got home, turned on the news to hear that they believe 2 dozen 3 graders are buried int he rubble of the school.....
Maybe some need to understand that this was slow moving, on the ground for 45 minutes and has been described as not looking like a tornado, it looked more like a cloud and since this is the worst in history, we have never seen anything like that, so sadly, people die. Cellars has nothing to do with it.
The government can actually control the weather they do it in wars- I can see with all that is going on someone thinking this would be a good idea to get Fox News to report on something else.
