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Posted by the bearhunter (Member # 3552) on May 20, 2013, 02:38 PM:
avoided this Tornado. looks to be of massive proportions.
Posted by the bearhunter (Member # 3552) on May 20, 2013, 04:02 PM:
hang onto your ass Kelly!!!
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on May 20, 2013, 04:19 PM:
Had a small one touch down briefly about 20 miles SE of me as it came through one area we hunt yesterday. No damage, no injuries. This feeling of anxiety I get when the storms hit anymore is becoming very familiar. Hope all of our Okie friends are safe.
Posted by jwelk (Member # 2051) on May 20, 2013, 04:48 PM:
I was 20 west of the one in Moore Ok.
Posted by TOM64 (Member # 561) on May 20, 2013, 06:50 PM:
We're okay here, we had 3 storms pass through, one was the Moore tornado, another one went through Stratford and passed North of Ada here. The other one passed just South of us.
Praying for the less fortunate ones and of course the kids...
Posted by 4949shooter (Member # 3530) on May 20, 2013, 06:53 PM:
Prayers sent..
Posted by CrossJ (Member # 884) on May 20, 2013, 07:09 PM:
Internet back on here. One west of here about 30 miles. Same cell as Moore. Just lots of rain. Almost 4" in 45 minutes.
Posted by DEL GUE (Member # 1526) on May 20, 2013, 07:20 PM:
All we had way down here was a severe t-storm warning for about an hour, and it didn't amount to spit. Sky looked ugly, but it all went east of us.
Sorry to hear about the school.
Posted by Eddie (Member # 4324) on May 20, 2013, 07:39 PM:
We lost a lot of good folks here Oklahoma. The one thing is that we will get through this with our heads held high. Okies seem to get stronger when things go south. Prayers to all who have lost love ones and to all that are in harms way.
Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on May 20, 2013, 07:42 PM:
prayers from Az. I hope this is over soon cant imagine what its like.
Posted by Kelly Jackson (Member # 977) on May 20, 2013, 08:20 PM:
They were north and south of the house this afternoon.
prayers sent to the folks in Moore.
kj
Posted by KaBloomR (Member # 4252) on May 20, 2013, 09:17 PM:
Prayers from Utah. Hoping they have some favorable outcomes with those still unaccounted for. May God be with you all in Oklahoma.
Posted by Prune Picker (Member # 4107) on May 20, 2013, 11:07 PM:
Everything went around my place. Family in Duncan, Comanche & Marlow skated by with rain & hail. The cell that hit Moore formed right on top of Marlow, it was a very close call for a lot of folks around here. Thanks for the prayers and kind words guys.
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on May 21, 2013, 04:08 AM:
Still waiting to hear from one of the guys I work with who lives in Moore. His house got damaged pretty bad the last one. Don't believe in a god, so don't pray, but I'm hoping...
- DAA
Posted by knockemdown (Member # 3588) on May 21, 2013, 05:35 AM:
Dave, I hope you get some reassuring news!
Glad the rest of our 'crew' is safe & accounted for. To the families affected, you have my sympathy...
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on May 21, 2013, 08:22 AM:
Well, all of our people are confirmed okay. That's damn good news!
- DAA
Posted by TRnCO (Member # 690) on May 21, 2013, 08:55 AM:
4" in 45 minutes, now that's dumpin' buckets of rain. Wow..
Thoughts and prayers for those in the path of the tornado's. From what I've seen on TV, it left one heck of a scare on a lot of folks.
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on May 21, 2013, 12:40 PM:
Another update... Three of my co-workers have relatives who have lost their homes. But, no injuries.
- DAA
Posted by DiYi (Member # 3785) on May 21, 2013, 01:31 PM:
Is it just me or are others impressed with the OK officials?I know zilch about Okie politics but that governor and Lt Gov are on their game.No BS,just facts in an organized fashion-without notes,teleprompter and political groveling.
Refreshing to watch.
Posted by the bearhunter (Member # 3552) on May 21, 2013, 04:44 PM:
don't see many "colored" folks doing any looting.
must be a blue state/red state thing ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on May 21, 2013, 06:32 PM:
The Chapman, KS tornado was a learning experience. The TV is reporting no missing persons, but people are still looking for unaccounted for (possible) victims. I recall that on day three, after everyone had been accounted for in Chapman, everyone - rescuers and civilians alike - were ordered out of the damage area and cadaver dogs and handlers were brought in who scoured every house site and every inch of rubble, just in case. People in and around the debris field confuse and confound the dogs, interfering with their noses. The dogs are used to the smell of their handler and dog/handler teams are kept in their own designated area so as not to overlap and confuse the dogs.
You see the pictures where homes and cars have "X"'s painted on them with different numbers. Those tell other rescuers coming through the location that this spot has been checked, how many times, and what was found, or that the location has been cleared. Most SAR ops run a minimum of three teams through every spot before it is deemed clear. What surprised me was the organization amongst the damage. Cars were everywhere mangles and windows blown out. By the time volunteers were allowed in in teams to effect clean up, each of those cars had a number spray painted on its side or hood with a 2-3 letter designation, an abbreviation for the insurance company holding the policy for the car. The number was the policy number found in the vehicle's glove box. Rescue and CERT (certified Emergency Response Technicians) had gone around and marked all the cars. Then, insurance crews went through and documented their policy claims until all cars were accounted for. By that time, everything had been searched X3 and cleared. That made it time to let in home/property owners to go the site of their homes to search for belongings. Next day, volunteers were then organized into teams of 4-10, with each team assigned a CERT leader, and designated to work in specific areas. We would be sent to a particular address or block to work. At each intersection, since all street signs were gone and there were no homes or landmarks to go off, would be UTV's and "mules" with LEO's in them to point us in the right direction. At our assigned homesite, we would generally find the owners and they, with our leader, would coordinate our work, telling us what they wanted to keep and what to be taken away. Teams worked their way through debris separating wood, metal, wiring and other recyclables, household items, tires and other stuff that needed to be handled specifically, and tree debris. All these piles were formed at curbside along the streets. Much of the debris was a tangled mess as one of the first things fire rescue did was go in with front end loaders and tractors with buckets, clear the street in front of the equipment of people, then bulldoze the debris to the side to clear the roads for emergency vehicles, so going through these piles was very labor intensive and everything is tightly ground together. Once the piles are made, loaders come through with an army of dumptrucks into which the debris is loaded. The first thing you notice when confronted by a debris field is that everything is the same destruction as far as you can see. It's like everything there is lifted up, shredded and blended, and set back down. No streets. No yards. No signs. Nothing.
The thing that chaps me is the Dems who are attributing this tornado and others like it to global warming. Fact is, tornadoes are caused by warm air being butted into by a cold front or, in this case, a dry line. That forceful and sudden mixing of cold air with hot, humid air is what starts the rotation and then the SHTF. If it gets warm and stays warm, the chance of a tornadic storm is nil. Last year, it got horribly hot right after our April 14 tornado outbreak and we didn't suffer so much as a single incident from then on. But the heat sure sucked.
Yep, tornadoes suck, literally and figuratively, but they're just part of living here. You prepare ahead of time and know what you and your family will do when the time comes. I've had them within a dozen miles of my house now about a half-dozen times now. I'm not moving, but I'd never live anywhere without a basement.
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