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Title: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: The Business on May 31, 2013, 07:41:40 PM
Mile+ wide tornado moving east at 25mph twenty miles west of Oklahoma City. My meteorologist buddy is sure OKC is going to be destroyed. Other tornados currently being formed west of Oklahoma City. This is some Day After Tomorrow shit.

Live streams:

http://www.news9.com/Global/category.asp?C=207228&BannerId=1022

http://kfor.com/on-air/live-streaming/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/NWSNorman

Radar:

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=TLX
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Shaka Khan on May 31, 2013, 07:48:48 PM
Ugh, stay safe guys.
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Mandark on May 31, 2013, 07:50:57 PM
jesus shit
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Steve Contra on May 31, 2013, 07:54:43 PM
Be safe :'(
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 31, 2013, 07:57:25 PM
 :-\
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Polari on May 31, 2013, 08:03:38 PM
Do the people in these places have like tornado bunkers? Because that would probably be a good idea.
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Polari on May 31, 2013, 08:16:44 PM
Be safe man.
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 31, 2013, 08:18:19 PM
Good luck, Biz. :(
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Verdigris Murder on May 31, 2013, 08:18:55 PM
Stay safe The Business.

Just remember, if it all goes to shit, aim for the blacks.

When I say aim, I actually mean just shoot.
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 31, 2013, 08:19:38 PM
Friggen' Oklahoma, man. :-\
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 31, 2013, 08:23:03 PM
Be safe, Business
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 31, 2013, 08:26:51 PM
I-35:

(http://i.imgur.com/j4u5nE0.jpg)
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Atramental on May 31, 2013, 08:34:22 PM
:(
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 31, 2013, 08:38:35 PM
Stay safe, Biz.
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Smooth Groove on May 31, 2013, 08:40:08 PM
Take shelter, bro!
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 31, 2013, 08:47:52 PM
Weather Channel car, no one was hurt:

(http://i.imgur.com/FeelArw.jpg)
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: ManaByte on May 31, 2013, 08:55:25 PM
Weather Channel car, no one was hurt:

(http://i.imgur.com/FeelArw.jpg)

Looks like the hunt was successful.
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City
Post by: Diunx on May 31, 2013, 09:13:39 PM
Be safe Buss Buss
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: live posting from shelter
Post by: Eric P on May 31, 2013, 09:26:38 PM
jesus

good luck!
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: live posting from shelter
Post by: Positive Touch on May 31, 2013, 09:38:32 PM
well fuck st Louis is getting pounded too. north county n city r getting tore up n south county to according to the radio. I'm stuck in my car in midtown cuz I can't see shit. the roads r flooding but no tornadoes reported near thank God . be careful biz.
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: live posting from shelter
Post by: Huff on May 31, 2013, 09:44:36 PM
Good luck biz. May not mean much, but I'm praying for ya
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: live posting from shelter
Post by: Positive Touch on May 31, 2013, 09:48:06 PM
hey thanks a lot car for choosing right now to die on me
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: live posting from shelter
Post by: Don Flamenco on May 31, 2013, 10:25:31 PM
Tornado warning is over here. We rode our bikes home in the rain right before it started hailing. There's a lot of power out but not at my apartment! Drinking time.


that's what you get for asking me to be lepered in that other thread
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: Madrun Badrun on May 31, 2013, 11:17:48 PM
well fuck st Louis is getting pounded too. north county n city r getting tore up n south county to according to the radio. I'm stuck in my car in midtown cuz I can't see shit. the roads r flooding but no tornadoes reported near thank God . be careful biz.
luckily it passed us. I'm at my grandmas right now but home should be fine. hope my dog didn't shit herself :tocry

It passed me too.  Group hug?
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: Groogrux on June 01, 2013, 12:26:45 AM
Watch these idiots drive right into one of the tornados from earlier today (1m44s):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veNJBosc6EA

Guy in the passenger seat DOES REALIZE that this is the job he signed up for?  If I were his boss, I would fire him for being a puss and tell him to find a job as a kitty cat hunter or something...
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: lennedsay on June 01, 2013, 03:10:52 AM
My entire neighborhood is trashed. Luckily we weren't home. No damage to my house but the tornado touched down maybe a 1/2 mi from my house. Took us 45 min to get home (from 5 mi away). Some homes destroyed but not leveled like in Okla. Lots of roofs and siding gone, trees gone, fencing gone, etc.
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: brawndolicious on June 01, 2013, 02:45:49 PM
They're learning.
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: chronovore on June 03, 2013, 01:15:24 AM
Glad to hear no Boritos were harmed during this disaster.
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: lennedsay on June 03, 2013, 02:04:54 AM
Left the neighborhood today to realize that we were directly in the path. A mile and a half down the street is all sunshine and rainbows. No debris, no damage, no trees down, nothing. There is a distinct line between what was affected and what wasn't, like driving into the rain.

I saw the worst of the damage on my way home, so when I got home, I thought we were in the clear. No, my elderly neighbor had a tree come through his bedroom. Another neighbor pulled the pizza delivery guy in and into the basement as a tree came through their house. Our little branch hanging down is actually a 35x35 foot branch of a 150 foot tree. It's just dangling off the tree about 30 feet from our house and the bedroom of our neighbor's newborn baby. If it falls, it will probably take out more of the fence, the pool, possibly our deck/part of our houses, and would easily kill a person or our dogs. Tried to get it down for hours this weekend and it's just too far up. The County had everyone pull their trees to the curb to be picked up, so you can barely drive down the street. Shingles and siding and shit all over. There is just destruction everywhere we look.

On one hand I feel lucky because we aren't hurt. But this is the exact same path a storm-turned-tornado took when our airport was hit a couple of years ago. I've lived here my whole life and remember one really bad storm with tornado potential as a kid, but now it's every year or so. This was an EF3 tornado with a 22 mile path yet we had zero warning sirens until after it was here. People were running into their basements before sirens even went off while entire floors of their homes were taken out. It's very unsettling.

I guess it doesn't help that the baby was really sick before the storm, and since we had no power after the storm, she had to go to my parents' house 30 miles away. After she got there, she developed a horrible rash. Well wtf can I do? I'm in a disaster area far from her. I have no way to charge my phone and our cell service is spotty, so I'm trying to tell my mom who to call and try to figure out if she should go to the ER. I haven't seen her in 2 days and I have to try to go back to work tomorrow. We still have so much shit to clean up around here, and we really can't do much. The whole thing has been very overwhelming. I've never lived somewhere where Red Cross is driving through, and assholes from out of state are driving through trying to rip people off for clean-up assistance.

Plus all my friends are inconsiderate assholes, as usual. My husband's friends are generally good people, and some actually came over to help clean up, but I probably could've gotten sucked away and my friends wouldn't notice. Who has two thumbs and was her own DD for her 21st birthday? This girl... :(
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: chronovore on June 03, 2013, 03:36:53 AM
 :(

Time for a move. And new friends!
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 03, 2013, 03:54:32 AM
I'm glad your family is safe Len; the baby is in safe hands, so while naturally you're concerned about being separated for her you also know she's being taken care of. That's a good feeling I'm sure. Hang in there and good luck  :'(
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: lennedsay on June 03, 2013, 07:11:38 AM
:( thanks guys
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: hampster on June 03, 2013, 08:37:39 AM
I'm glad to see midwest bore is doing okay after these tornados

I hope everyone I used to work with in St. Louis is doing okay :(
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: brawndolicious on June 03, 2013, 12:57:37 PM
I thank all the pasta that lennedsey, her baby, her hubby, and all of her brown friends are okay.
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: Mr. Gundam on June 03, 2013, 02:02:42 PM
Two families in western OKC left their homes and hid in a storm drain and drowned when the high waters came.

Is this something people are told to do? I can understand being scared for your life and trying to hide somewhere, but this doesn't sound like a good idea.

edit: The article make it sound like they hid under a bridge. Guess my definition of what a storm drain is is different.
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 04, 2013, 01:47:15 PM
Quote from: http://kfor.com/2013/06/04/update-el-reno-union-city-tornado-widest-tornado-on-record/
The National Weather Service has just upgraded the May 31 El Reno, Union City tornado to an EF-5 with a width of 2.6 miles wide, making it the widest tornado ever documented.

EF-5 is the highest possible rating for tornadoes on the Enhanced Fujita scale.

The upgrade was based on information from a Doppler On Wheels (DOW) that measured low level winds of 296 miles per hour.

:kobeyuck

If that tornado had cut to the north just a little bit sooner, it would have been incredibly devastating:

(http://i.imgur.com/Mxu052A.jpg)
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 04, 2013, 02:53:06 PM
. . .But that measurement. That Doppler on Wheels isn't the truck that those three Twistex chasers were in, was it?

They were both featured on that Storm Chasers TV series, but I don't think they're actually associated with each other.
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 04, 2013, 06:48:36 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVUHdCGqiSI

The little arrows moving around are storm chasers.
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: chronovore on June 04, 2013, 07:16:58 PM
So... The takeaway here is "People are dumb"?
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: chronovore on June 04, 2013, 07:24:22 PM
There are SO MANY of them, though. Aren't there more of them than needed? What percentage of them are thrill seekers?
Title: Re: Tornado EMERGENCY declared for Oklahoma City-UPDATE: All 'nado warnings expired
Post by: nudemacusers on June 05, 2013, 02:01:05 AM
Jeez, friends picked a great time to get stationed at Tinker.  :-\