OMFG! OKC Tornado/weather thread

[82_28]

Oh, you'll be hearing about it soon enough. Looks like a lot of OKC has been completely wiped off the map as we speak!

[justdrew]

Oh, you'll be hearing about it soon enough. Looks like a lot of OKC has been completely wiped off the map as we speak!

well, over the weekend, is it still going on?

on edit: yes

[seemslikeadream]

yes right now

[82_28]

Oh, you'll be hearing about it soon enough. Looks like a lot of OKC has been completely wiped off the map as we speak!

well, over the weekend, is it still going on?

From what I understand this is supposed to go on all day. But they say this system is still active and that the one tornado was two miles wide and stayed on the ground for over an hour. Fucking nuts. Good luck heartlanders, tonight is looking to be a doozy.

[justdrew]

[Perelandra]

I also was just informed that tonight will be worse than last night. Have some family around OKC.

From yesterday:

The storm is so large and severe it prompted an unusually blunt National Weather Service warning.

"You could be killed if not underground or in a tornado shelter," the advisory reads. "Complete destruction of neighborhoods, businesses and vehicles will occur. Flying debris will be deadly to people and animals."

[Jerky]

Jesus...

[Novem5er]

I've had the video feed on in the background for a few hours now. It's not exactly downtown OKC, but a smaller town nearby. Utter devastation. The news has been focused on a local elementary school were some students are still trapped. The headline at the bottom of the screen just reads: "KFOR: As many as 2 dozen children killed at school."

And "No longer a rescue mission, now a recovery.'

Jeezus almighty.

[Iamwhomiam]

Can't view the video and don't watch TV, so my news comes to me via radio. At first they were saying the twister was a half-mile wide and that was updated to become a one mile wide twister.

While I'm sure there must be many fatalities, there have been some stories of miraculous salvation, survivors in homes totally destroyed.

Prayers for all.

[Novem5er]

Can't view the video and don't watch TV, so my news comes to me via radio. At first they were saying the twister was a half-mile wide and that was updated to become a one mile wide twister.

While I'm sure there must be many fatalities, there have been some stories of miraculous salvation, survivors in homes totally destroyed.

Prayers for all.

Yes, that lady at the garment factory overseas last week (is it bad that I don't remember which poverty-ridden, Indian-subcontinent city it happened in?), survived for17 days under that rubble.

The tornado hit this school around 3pm and they started calling fatalities around 7. Four hours seems too quick a time to declare so many victims... unless they had physical evidence of bodies I hope they were wrong.

[Iamwhomiam]

True, Novem5er. Bangladesh. Let's hope for the best.

[82_28]

Doesn't look like there's gonna be a "best". They are confirming at this early hour 37 dead.

[Iamwhomiam]

That's f'n horrible!

[NeonLX]

Damn. I'm stunned.

[elfismiles]

<speechless>

KFOR meteorologist Mike Morgan called this “the worst tornado damage in the history of the world.”

Up to 100 horses were killed on one farm in Moore, KFOR reports.

Jim Couch, city manager for Oklahoma City, told CBS News that the area is facing “significant damage.”

“We are in search and rescue mode at this time,” Couch said.

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2013/05/20/ ... the-world/