Tornado siren going off this morning
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EF-4 Tornado hits Carney, OK. on Sunday
Comments (23)We are okay. The tornado has been determined to have been an F-5 (or EF-4) It hit in Moore, Okla, southwest of here about 90 minutes away. Two elementary schools were flattened! OMG it is horrible! All the kids in one school walked out of that pile of splintered rubble alive. Unbelievable. The kids in the other school were not so fortunate. Seven were found drowned in the basement where they were taken for shelter. There are still some 35 little children that they have not found yet. Some were in the hallway hugging the inside wall. The rescuers have been working furiously trying to dig them out. Some have been found alive, surprisingly, but many are feared to be dead, heavy concrete walls piled on top of them. They are K-5 through 3rd grade ages - just wee ones. One man came out of his storm shelter and found someone's baby laying in his front yard. He has no idea who it belonged to. My God. There was a horse farm near there where people kept their race horses. There were some 75-100 horses kept there and stabled in 6 large stalls. Most of the horses were killed by the tornado debris and those that survived were severely injured and had to be put down....all but one. The Moore Hospital was totally destroyed. Dozens of cars, suburbans, RVs, and trucks were thrown up against the emergency entrance and piled as high as the three-story building. Never seen anything like that! I am happy to tell you that no one there was injured or killed. The staff had moved everyone to a safe location north in OKC. They were paying attention to the weather alerts. Most of the 30 mile swath of destruction is just ground up rubble of what was once homes and businesses. The only things left are the streets and driveways. Even the trees and grass are gone in the worst hit areas. Some of the ponds even had their water sucked completely out of them. It is totally unreal and so sad. The families who have lost their homes are just walking the streets, dazed and confused. They are now homeless with no place to go. Nothing left. You can see hundreds of people walking the streets, with glazed over eyes...going nowhere in particular, just moving around. There is a steady procession of people walking northward toward OKC many, many miles northward. They remind me of war refugees. Lost and in shock, they walk around dragging what they could find of their possessions in the rubble, dazed and confused. They have lost all they had. Debris from these homes and businesses are now falling out of the sky all the way up into Missouri and over in northern Arkansas, littering trees and the ground. There is still more rain and thunderstorms to come later this week and weekend, but no tornadoes at least at this point, but possibly there could be flooding. ~Annie...See MoreMy dog howls at the local firehouse siren
Comments (11)Toby (beagle/golden) and Casey (dal/hound) often howl together in the morning. Casey taught it to Toby. There is a certain amount of bonding connected with it, I think. If one wants to start the howl, he will bark and glance sideways at the the other. If the other one is interested, the howl will begin. Toby does the high notes, Casey the medium ones. Casey signals the end of the howl with a number of short choppy barks - they are doing it right now at the back fence! They will do it for passing people or dogs when they are alert, but relaxed. Some days they do it severl times a day, others, not at all....See MoreDo you take tornado warnings seriously?
Comments (30)I do take the siren warnings seriously. Around here, they do not blow the sirens unless a funnel, or a very threatening cloud with a vortex in it, has been spotted. I've got place in the basement reserved for such events. It's in the SW corner under a heavy workbench. I've examined aftermath photos and came to believe that one needs protection from falling and cave-in debris. For example, I've seen a house that was shoved off its foundation and then dropped part way into the basement. it came to rest on stuff that was in the basement. One of my concerns is rupturing a gas line and getting trapped if a gas fire results. I don't worry about what happens to me if I am killed outright. Fortunately, I have had to take shelter only once in the last 10 years. We watch the channel carrying storm news and they will show the storm center and it path. We've had threats, but the worst was a hail storm about 4 years ago that did a lot of damage to autos and roofs. It banged up my roof vents....See MoreYikes, the tornado sirens went off here...
Comments (10)woke up to round two, about 4:30 AM. More hail! Wozer! at least this time, it is way smaller. As far as I could tell last night, no major damage. Crawled around in the attic before going to bed. Yes, my car is in the garage. I park in there all the time... on purpose. I sure don't ever want it to look like it did in 2010, after that hail. But... I have to go to work.. and it is still raining. According to the weather people on TV, the hail is south of here.... No way will I ride my bike to work this morning, in this rain, with these flooded roads.... Stormy season has arrived. Moni...See More- 3 years agolast modified: 3 years ago
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