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[Junior]

Let's pray for the folks around Moore, OK, who, as you know, lost their whole town to a tornado May 20th. In the last big one they had a few years ago, my brother in law and niece were eating at the Moore McDonalds when the storm warnings started going off. They decided to go home right away. 20 minutes later in Percell, OK, they turned on the TV and first shot of storm damage was of the Moore McDonalds. It had been flattened! God be with the good folks of Moore and vicinity!

[Duelist]

Amen

[okiebluegrass]

I lived in Moore from 2005 to 2007. I had to exit the interstate off of 19th by the walmart there to get to my house. My heart goes out to the families that lost loved ones. We are ok. My little daughter just turned 9 and is a third grader in the Moore School disctrict at one of the other schools there. She was three miles away. This is waaayyy too close.

[Junior]

WHEW!

[okiebluegrass]

Friday was worse. We abandoned the house around six PM. The storm tracker line was straight through our neighborhood at one point. We drove south until we had the choice to drive through Moore or head straight towards the storm. Worked our way to I-35 to tray and catch highway 9 west, ran into another tornado warning in Newcastle, turned South on 62 and drove all the way to Chickasha. Took several hours to get home because of downed power lines across I-44. Flooding has killed as many people as the tornadoes. Power was out until Saturday night across a big part of OKC.

[Junior]

I noticed TV coverage of these storms, and how there were many, many people out on the road trying to out drive the storms. WHAT IS UP WITH THAT? Does not anyone in OK have a storm cellar? I'm not trying to be harsh with anyone, but when living in Tornado Alley, should not someone have a shelter? They can be purchased for the price of one of these giant screen TVs I see being sold at Sam's Club, around $3 to $4 thousand dollars. You can build them out of concrete blocks and bury them, probably for less. Sounds scary, driving around in the storms.

[sanddunerider]

Junior...  IF you are talking about the Moore tornado.. The answer is 99% of those home have NO basement or shelter..  that being the case, with the storm as bad as it was, radio and TV was telling people to drive away from the storm! They knew the storm would level the neighborhood..  In this case they save lives, because they 15-20 minutes to react..

Now if you Talking about OK city, 3 days ago..  thats different?.. i dont know why there so many cars out..  I had heard it was partly rush hour traffic..??

But your right, Moore was an exception.. you should always duck and hide if you can.

[okiebluegrass]

People are scared after what happened in Moore. TV was telling us to get underground or get out. That we wouldn't likely survive a direct hit.
We had tornados headed both west and north of us so everybody went the same direction. We all ran south like rats on a sinkng ship.

Most homes here are built on concrete slabs because the ground is mostly clay and most do not have storm shelters.

The weather reports said it looked like a hurrican on radar. Most of the people that died from these storms drowned. Another body was pulled out of the river this morning.

[Junior]

That is a serious situation, not many storm shelters in a town that gets whacked hard from time to time with tornadoes. Of course, my heart goes out to all who live in the area. I know above ground safe rooms and shelters can be built, and I hope during the rebuilding process more of those get put in the new construction, and that there are municipal shelters constructed that anyone can go to.

[okiebluegrass]

My parents got a FEMA grant to put one in and they did so, but what if you are like me and have to rent?

[Junior]

Go visit your parents on bad weather days?