Picture of the tornado that went through here yesterday.

[Old Fart]

Thought some of you might like to see it.
 

[mechanic]

Glad I'm just seeing a picture.  You and yours ok?
 
Ben

[-Shaggy-]

Got any of the ones going through today? Keep your head down. Looks pretty ugly down there right now.

[Old Fart]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/tornado-oklahoma-city-moore-205548879.html
 
My wife works for the Norman-Moore hospitals. She says it's bad. They're reporting multiple deaths and tons of injuries.
 
We've survived both days.

[Ranger99]

sincerely sad here for all those
affected

[-Shaggy-]

I was sitting here in Kansas watching the news, and they were running a feed from one of the Oklahoma City stations. The weather guy said "This is going to be bad. The only way for you to survive this if you are in the path of this tornado is to get underground NOW!" Never heard a weatherman give a warning like that before.

[nw_hunter]

Thought some of you might like to see it.
 

Was that near Shawnee?

[Old Fart]

Yes, it was the one reported sunday that wiped out the little community just west of Shawnee.
Picture was taken at the intersection of state hi-way 102 south & Interstate 40.
The tornado continued on just missing Shawnee a town of about 30,000 people.
 
Yesterday the storm that hit Moore came right back thru almost over the same path hitting a few of the smaller towns north of here.

[Oldshooter]

My wife and I were talking this Morning while having morning coffee and watching coverage of the destruction. They put a video of a tornado on, taken from a helicopter a mile or so away. And of course its an awesome sight. Then they switch to a city block that is totally destroyed. I have trouble seeing the funnel cloud and then seeing the destruction and making the connection, if you will.  Unless you can see it first hand and HEAR it, you have trouble comprehending that the dark funnel cloud is like a bomb,hitting in the rain. Its just an awesome power that defies description.   

[Pot-Bellied Stallion]

Four of my wife's siblings live in the immediate area hit yesterday.  One of her sisters lost her house and another had the tornado hit just two blocks from her house.  Her brother and other sister were unaffected by the destruction, except her brother is without power and water.  The sister who wasn't involved in this tornado was in the Bridge Creek area that was hit in 1999.  What bothers me is the number of children who were killed and hurt in the elementary school that was destroyed.

[Old Fart]

 
Here are some pics taken by a guy I know who lives there.
http://s77.photobucket.com/user/bigwillokc/library/Moore%20Tornado%20-%2005202013?sort=3&page=1#/user/bigwillokc/library/Moore%20Tornado%20-%2005202013?sort=3&page=1&_suid=13691548340810741424621569902
 
 

[lakota]

Thought some of you might like to see it.
 

Severe weather is the one thing I find truly frightening. There is no way to defend yourself from something like that. You are at it's mercy and you just have to hunker down and hope for the best.
Glad you hear you and yours are OK.