So I am guessing it was bigger than the one that hit Topeka a couple of years ago?
Just from what I have seen on CNN it was about the same size of the Joplin tornado but it stayed on the ground 5 times as long. Just awful.
That's right...Joplin, not Topeka. Their big one hit in the sixties or something. Just had the town stuck in my head.
They are still saying that something like 45 kids still unaccounted for in one of the elementary schools there.
I would guess that if you're in a decent neighborhood about half of the homes are equipped with some sort of storm shelter. We had one in the home that I grew up in and so did most of the other homes on our block.
My wife's sister and family lives in Moore, so yeah, we had some scary minutes as well until we made contact. Her sister said it literally just skipped their block and that blocks on both sides of their block had houses leveled.
Yeah, I would guess some have storm shelters. Not all will. We are right at the bottom of tornado alley and I can bet half of the homes here don't have cellars.
I think 24 are still missing. But, still.
Reporter on NBC 6oclock news said they were confirmed dead, and they're removing the bodies.
Very very sad.
I have a good friend who is in that business in the event you need information now or later.
I don't know if you are serious or not but mortar and bricks won't really stop this from happening. In most cases brick is merely a facade and really does nothing to improve the strength of a home. Anything greater than a FE3 will most likely be destroyed. Brick would have been ripped apart by this tornado.
