Twenty minutes ago, message from a high school buddy of mine who is a teacher in the Oklahoma City Public School system:
I don’t think it’s really hit me yet what happened this afternoon in Oklahoma…. This all started less than an hour before school was to be dismissed, and our administration acted quickly to make sure that everything went as smoothly as possible. I work with some very dedicated and wonderful teachers, and we all did what had to be done – with sirens blaring – to keep our kiddos safe, and we were very fortunate indeed!
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At least 51 are dead tonight.
A tornado at least a half mile-wide with 200mph winds churned through Oklahoma City’s suburbs Monday afternoon, killing at least 51 and causing significant property damage for the second day in a row, forcing rescue crews to search for survivors in the debris of flattened homes, businesses and two schools.
Amy Elliott, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office, said the death toll is expected to rise. Oklahoma City Police say seven of those deaths were children at Plaza Towers Elementary School, which was hit by the tornado, Fox 25 reports. Oklahoma police also told Fox News’ Casey Stegall, on the ground in Moore, Okla., that at least four people were killed at a 7-11 convenience store.
Television footage on Monday afternoon showed homes and buildings that had been reduced to rubble in Moore, which is south of Oklahoma City. Footage also showed vehicles littering roadways south and southwest of Oklahoma City.
OU Medical Center spokesman Scott Coppenbarger said the hospital and a nearby children’s hospital are treating approximately 85 patients, including 65 children, with conditions ranging from minor injuries to critical.
Both the Salvation Army and Red Cross have activated their disaster response teams.
Please pray.
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Damn.
Here in Utah we enjoyed some gentle and much-needed rain showers, then the bastage cleared the Rockies, picked up Gulf moisture and Canuck winds and became a murderous monster.
I hate that.
Yes, pray for Oklahoma’s people tonight, for those who must put their lives back together from this random, utter terror raking from the skies. Help ’em out any way you can.
Hate those things, tornadoes. But they’ve only cost me two roofs, and I count myself lucky that’s all. Next time one comes calling, things might be worse.
Toss in a friendly prayer for the damaged brain of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse while you’re at it: his ‘thinker’ organ could use the help.
The comments on the tornadoes in the NYT are classy, as always. A whole lot of “serves them right” type of thing. Nice.
i want to taunt proggtard “victims” . blow 2nd hand cigarette smoke in their stupid/fascist faces
these tornadoes are no good
neither are whiny little bitches from rhode island
also the IRS, which is a fascist organization not unlike the gestapo, sucks ass
also, speaking of fascists, global warming propaganda sluts like the ones at National Soros Radio and of course our dicklick piece of shit president might should consider that tornadoes are primarily a springtime phenomenon – not at all associated with the heat of summer
the national weather service, for which we pay the taxes, demonstrates fairly conclusively here that tornadoes – even if they happen many years apart, can strike more or less in the same state and cross each others’ paths, not unlike how sometimes one year you’ll have a hurricane blow in from the atlantic and head into the gulf, and then like ten years later ANOTHER hurricane can blow into the gulf from the atlantic and cross the exact same path what the other one took
each *other’s* paths I mean
pikachu you’re flailing tonite
“The comments on the tornadoes in the NYT are classy, as always. ”
Often accompanied by some smug claim that the flyover states “get their money” from the “important” states.
Imagine what would happen if they stopped sending the hicks money, and the hicks stopped sending them food. Bets on which group would be in the most trouble?
– The NYT is going to keep it up until some fine day some nutcase has had enough and blows their asses out into the middle of 42nd Ave.
I would like to see a tornado someday Mr. newrouter
or actually I think I would mostly like to hear one
i wonder if it will sound like a freight train
i lived in a historical house next to an old depot once and the trains would lumber by, but slowly
that was the last place I ever had asthma attacks and we figured it was related to the train cause you could always take a kleenex to the top of the toilet and have black soot-like stuff come off on it
but I really liked the sound of those trains lumbering by at night
– The face of what they want us to compromise our values for. Fuck her and fuck them all.
this scandal stuff seems to be obscuring how fucking scandalous our fascist food stamp whore president was already
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
Rahm Emanuel
In the meantime pray for the children and the parents of those children. These are times when your entire value system is challenged with the never ending question,why?
“I would like to see a tornado someday Mr. newrouter”
why?
same reason i went to a madonna concert after 9/11 I guess
america is something you have to experience not just have some fat pigbitch cable news propaganda slut like candy crowley spoonfeed it to you I think
These are times when your entire value system is challenged with the never ending question,why?
Because we’re here for the express purpose of learning the lessons that only pain can teach us.
Which, that’s nice to say when you’re talking about other people’s problems, but when you’re in the middle of your own, it’s weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth and it doesn’t make sense at all.
And DAYUM it hurts.
Because we’re here for the express purpose of learning the lessons that only pain can teach us.
dow record rally buy buy
itty bitty kitty rescued from rubble
One happy ending.
“dow record rally buy buy”
you be liking the bernake fail
stocks look cheap at these levels Mr. newrouter it was on NPR’s marketplace show
you can’t fight the fed baby
bring “Lunchables”-type food
it’s wrong wrong wrong but this amuses me
NPR’s marketplace show
That’s Markethate to those literalists among us.
the way that failed-attorney kai rizzdoll (sp?) freak says “marketplace” is almost impossible to parody – go ahead try it
i have no appetite for nationalized narratives anymore even if they’re just about wee small kitties and tornadoes
the fascists invariably pervert them
infuckingvariable
i have links
like a sick in the head newtown parent, with the fascists it’s always ultimately all fucking about them
I just wanted to say that before my sleeping pills kick in
also I miss Mr. moe he’s never here no mores
this lady i work with, i already heart her more than beans, and today she said how she almost almost almost came this close to moving to marietta once
now i heart her more than beans with queso fresco
From what I saw on the news it was a horrific storm and a lot of people were killed and a chunk of a whole suburb was pretty much wiped off the ground and shredded.
We got tornadoed here last year, four died. It was frightening. I had been in a couple of close calls before then, but nothing ever more than a near miss by an F1. Last year was an F3 and it was a totally different animal. My oldest son had gone to pick up his brother from swim practice early because my wife had been watching the weather and was worried, and when he got to the school, they wouldn’t let anyone leave. Of course, the cell towers had crapped out, so we had no idea what was going on and couldn’t find out, not a good day. That particular tornado hit 3 schools, a general store where a whole trailer park had gone to shelter and a fire station. It seems to me that tornadoes seem to drift toward schools. I think probably because schools in small towns and suburbs are usually built in flat, open areas.
happy’s right about the path tornadoes take. Last year’s took almost the exact same route as the tornado that hit here during the 1974 Super Outbreak. Almost, but not exact, thank God. My house and this whole neighborhood was built on land that had been cleared by the ’74 tornado.
I heard on the radio today that one of the local schools is getting the severe weather warning system that they spent a fortune on last year has never passed a test or worked correctly, so now the vendor is coming down to re-install it. For a fee, of course.
I have a tulip poplar in my yard that’s about 60 foot tall, and ever since the tornado hit there’s been a bathmat hanging from one of the top branches. My kids have shot it with arrows, bb’s, pellets, and paintballs, but it won’t come down.
When I was growing up in Philly, it never crossed my mind that I’d be absolutely furious at my kids, not because they were shooting paintballs in the air, but because they were using the hot pink ones instead of the dark green.
Not this kind of tornado, you don’t.
Anyway, hasn’t storm chasing evolved (or devolved) into a tourist activity?
a hobby i guess but a lot of the hobbyists collect data I guess
and statistically it’s extremely improbable I’d ever see a monster like this one
just an average one will do, and I wouldn’t chase it too too far just get close enough to see if it sounds like a freight train
and then after that I would go to a waffle house and get three eggs scrambles and two quarters
quarters is what the waffle people call the quarter pounder patties
they would ask me if I want toast and I would say no thank you but I sure would like a diet coke
and then while I was waiting I’d go through my pics and delete the non-keepers
*scrambled* I mean
How about some musics in here, Boiler?
http://youtu.be/vcn1eBHBkBY
your musics is mellowing my harsh
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