Tornado in Moore, OK

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Is anyone watching the coverage of this? This is insane. They are saying it stayed on the ground for almost an hour and was 2 miles wide at one point.

So scary how fast it can happen, how much destruction they can cause.
 
Iamtdg said:
Is anyone watching the coverage of this? This is insane. They are saying it stayed on the ground for almost an hour and was 2 miles wide at one point.

So scary how fast it can happen, how much destruction they can cause.
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So I am guessing it was bigger than the one that hit Topeka a couple of years ago?
 
boozeman said:
So I am guessing it was bigger than the one that hit Topeka a couple of years ago?
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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.
 
Iamtdg said:
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.
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That's right...Joplin, not Topeka. Their big one hit in the sixties or something. Just had the town stuck in my head.
 
boozeman said:
That's right...Joplin, not Topeka. Their big one hit in the sixties or something. Just had the town stuck in my head.
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They are still saying that something like 45 kids still unaccounted for in one of the elementary schools there.
 
I was scared for few minutes because I turned on the news and they were talking about streets and neighborhoods literally less than 2 miles from my parents' house. Luckily they're OK, though. They live in southeast OKC and weren't hit too bad from what I can tell.

My mom works at a bank and said they they put everyone on lockdown and went into the basement. My dad hightailed it over to a friends house who has a storm shelter.

When I move back to OKC in a couple of years a requirement for my home will be that it has to come equipped with a cellar or storm shelter.
 
Aren't most houses in that area equipped for that?
 
Carp said:
Aren't most houses in that area equipped for that?
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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.
 
1bigfan13 said:
I was scared for few minutes because I turned on the news and they were talking about streets and neighborhoods literally less than 2 miles from my parents' house. Luckily they're OK, though. They live in southeast OKC and weren't hit too bad from what I can tell.

My mom works at a bank and said they they put everyone on lockdown and went into the basement. My dad hightailed it over to a friends house who has a storm shelter.

When I move back to OKC in a couple of years a requirement for my home will be that it has to come equipped with a cellar or storm shelter.
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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.
 
Carp said:
Aren't most houses in that area equipped for that?
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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.
 
37 confirmed dead so far.
 
51 confirmed dead with that number expected to grow.
 
1bigfan13 said:
I was scared for few minutes because I turned on the news and they were talking about streets and neighborhoods literally less than 2 miles from my parents' house. Luckily they're OK, though. They live in southeast OKC and weren't hit too bad from what I can tell.

My mom works at a bank and said they they put everyone on lockdown and went into the basement. My dad hightailed it over to a friends house who has a storm shelter.

When I move back to OKC in a couple of years a requirement for my home will be that it has to come equipped with a cellar or storm shelter.
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I have a good friend who is in that business in the event you need information now or later.
 
I really don't understand why people in such high risk areas don't build their houses with mortar and bricks, do you not read the three little piggies story as kids? Or would those be destroyed the same? It's must be horrible to have your house completely disappear in an instant, not to mention the loss of lifes...
 
Angrymesscan said:
I really don't understand why people in such high risk areas don't build their houses with mortar and bricks, do you not read the three little piggies story as kids? Or would those be destroyed the same? It's must be horrible to have your house completely disappear in an instant, not to mention the loss of lifes...
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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.
 
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