Tornadoes oubreak this evening

[GScholz]

Horrible disaster 

[ebfd11]

Well my cousin was in Moore and she was able to get to a storm shelter and thankfully she is safe. Now as a newly RN she has to go to work and help out all those involved, as she put it to me, it is a hard thing to see neighbors and their children come in and be hurt. They are in need of general things such as water clothes and food and shelter. I am trying to get our company to send myself and another driver there with a load of gatorade and water so we can at least help out a little.

I am sending prayers out to the family members who lost someone and especially to the young innocent children.

Ladies and gents if you have kids give them a big hug tonite and remember they could be gone in an instant.

LawnDart

[Plawranc]

I am not a praying man, that said, I will pray to whichever god of whoever's faith for all the people in Oklahoma this evening.

The Plaza Tower's elementary school took a direct hit from the tornado that ripped through Moore Oklahoma. Children of a young age are being pulled from the rubble.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/elementary-school-moore-oklahoma-tornado_n_3308844.html?ir=Green

It may not be much, posting on a web forum, but any prayers or aid that can be sent, will be. 

Edit: Two Elementary schools directly impacted by the Tornado.

The tornado's AOE is measured at 2.25 miles across. 

[Slash27]

See Rule #14

[jimson]

I remember when the Twister movie came out and people asked me how I could have lived in a place like Oklahoma.

I replied, it's not like you dodge tornados while driving to work every day. You could live your whole life and die there and never see one.

Moore OK, does seem to have had more than its share, but it's pretty random. Moore could get hit again tomorrow, next year or not in 100 years or ever.

It's just something you can't plan for and you don't spend a lot of time worrying about it. I was young and usually lived in an apartment complex. Where was I going to go, if I had 10 minutes warning that a tornado would hit?

False alarms don't help the matter. If you have lived in tornado alley you know that your springtime TV watching will be constantly interrupted by watches and warnings that never affect you, but what can they do? They develop pretty quickly and by the time one is confirmed on the ground it is often too late to warn people, so they have to report that a twister could hit.

The warning system is probably now about as good as it can ever be. Sometimes you just won't have enough time to do anything about it.

[SAJ73]

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I am sorry Skuzzy.. Yeah, I know.. Politics.. 

[SAJ73]

I'll have to repeat myself on the part I was saying all my prayers go to all the poor souls that were killed, and to all those who lost someone in this terrible disaster.   

[Mano]

If you would like to help the families affected by the tornadoes, I recommend The Christian Relief Fund.
They don't waste money on administration.

 

[Slash27]

See Rule #14

Seriously?

[VonMessa]

          Heard the same old talk about underground storm shelters. That will last about a week, then everyone will forget all about them again until next time. Any public building should have an underground shelter big enough for +max occupancy and EVERY residence should be required to have one. I looked at the google map of Moore and saw alot of swimming pools. I hope they had alot of underground shelters.

          A quick look of the blocks of houses there shows approx 1000 houses per square on the satmap. If the tornado was 1 mile wide that equals about 2 or those squares. Then multiply along the track thru the area. HUGE amount of homes completely/partially destroyed. If only 1/4 of those people were home at the time and were unprotected it could be alot of deaths.

   Pray for them.

From what I understand, most of the children that perished in the school had drowned from broken plumbing filling the space that they occupied.

Having a mandatory storm cellar may have made the death toll worse trapping even people into an enclosed space., who can really tell for sure?

Having a government dictate to me what I must build on my property is a discussion for someplace other than this BBS.

When a tornado touches down, nothing is guaranteed.

[Slash27]

Having a mandatory storm cellar may have made the death toll worse trapping even people into an enclosed space., who can really tell for sure?

I have no issue with a mandatory purpose built shelter in a school. I have heard reports of people being possible still trapped in their shelters in Moore but apparently the city has a system where each shelter is mapped for these situations. Not sure if it's a GPS system or just a map but either way it's pretty forward thinking.

[Tec]

Death toll revised to 24, so that's something I guess. 

[Slash27]

Death toll revised to 24, so that's something I guess. 

Yep

[bortas1]

  

[cpxxx]

I have some friends vacationing here from Oklahoma City. Their house was missed and after frantic calls none of their family or friends are missing or dead. But it's kind of put a pall on their holiday.

An ordinary neighbourhood just like the one I live in.

Kind of brings it home to me.

I'm lucky to live in a place where the weather is never that violent.