Oklahoma players OK?
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Porii Sames
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In North Texas, I had a tornado warning at my house. Just got some wind, rain, and hail. I'm fine.
DFW I heard is in tornado warning though...
Prayers for everyone.
DFW I heard is in tornado warning though...
Prayers for everyone.
I hope you hear from her soon.
I saw that more tornadoes are expected to touch down to day. Keep safe guys! I'll be praying for you.
Looked on FB, she said she was OK. I'm so glad! And I'm praying for those who have lost loved ones or got hurt.
DarthPika
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I'm so glad you heard from her!
IMO, it should be a law that you MUST have a tornado basement/shelter if you live out there. The fact that anyone would live in an area that is known for tornadoes, and not have a basement/shelter just blows my mind. As sad as it is, I think people adopted a "it won't happen to me" mentality because they had been lucky for a long time, and the tornadoes had mostly missed the populated areas. I hope that this disaster will cause people to realize just how bad it can be, and why they should be required to have a shelter. Seriously, it's not that hard. Most houses on the east cost have a basement, and we don't even have tornadoes for the most part. It would save a lot of lives.
DarthPika
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Here's an absolutely amazing video of one of the very large, and destructive wedge tornadoes (tornadoes are often described by their shape, such as rope, stove pipe, wedge, etc) that destroyed parts of OK the other day.
Language warning, the "S" word is used once. Just mute it if you'll be offended.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h84yTNXCXPQ&feature=channel_video_title
Language warning, the "S" word is used once. Just mute it if you'll be offended.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h84yTNXCXPQ&feature=channel_video_title
DarthPika
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I believe some people were killed, but thankfully, this tornado hit a lot of farmland between the houses, so the death tole shouldn't be all that high. The houses that did get destroyed (many were completely splintered and flattened) seemed to be large single family homes, with storm shelters. T
There have been 132 deaths and over 200 are missing.
DarthPika
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Is this counting the tornadoes from previous days, or just the ones that were on the 25th?
Just the one one the 25th.
Barkjon
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That really sucks. Hope OK can recover.
DarthPika
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I hate to say it, but this is a prime example of what happens when people don't take the environment they live in seriously. If you live in an area that is known for a type of natural disaster and don't take it seriously, it's going to hurt you in the end. Seriously people, PLEASE respect the power of nature. I don't understand why it seems that every other natural disaster is given respect but tornadoes. In y opinion, people have too uch of a "it won't happen to e" entality.
Sorry for the typing "errors" the letter in the alphabet that follows "L" stopped working on y keyboard... :/
Sorry for the typing "errors" the letter in the alphabet that follows "L" stopped working on y keyboard... :/
Thanks!
I agree with you. The only two houses I've lived in with storm shelters are one in Washington, and my current one in KS. And I live in a military family who's constantly being stationed somewhere in Tornado Alley. I've developed a phobia of tornadoes, mainly due to me being unlucky with them. I was in the first tornado of (8)0 years in Washington, 2 in OK, and probably others. Yet they have no tornado shelters. Well, Washington was understandable, but Oklahoma?!
DarthPika
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Ya, I understand areas where they can happen, but are really uncommon to not have a need for storm shelters. Here in MD, we maybe have 2 or 3 total a year, and they're usually very small. I've lived here my whole life, and I've only once seen a wall cloud, and that was from a good distance. However, I just can't understand why you wouldn't have the in a state like OK, or KS.