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Those tornados look terrifying! Very sad to hear that school got hit...
Hope everone is OK in Tornado Alley
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Just saw on the news 
Hope everyone is okay.... that destruction looked like a war zone.... its on its way this way now.
Hope everyone is okay.... that destruction looked like a war zone.... its on its way this way now.
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Bad deal, nothing scarier than tornados. Hope all board members in that area are OK.
Right now the ones north of me have gone north of the Red River and the ones south are far enough away not to worry. There is one cell WSW of me that looks like it might come this way but with the sun going down I doubt it will make it.Those that are in the direct line of fire I hope everything works out and please, stay safe.
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Scary stuff. Will pray for those affected. Stay safe everyone.
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The big hail missed us here, storms are incredible !!! Straight line winds up to 80mph, horizontal rain, small hail
My thoughts go out to those who were affected in OK.
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My Aunt and cousin was very fortunate, they live in Edmond and were spared any damage. The destruction from this outbreak of tornados is bewildering. I can't imagine dealing with that.
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Hope all are good!
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big tornadoes like that are intense- i've been way too close to a few of them for my own comfort..
back in '91 i watched from my living room in Howard Lake, MN, as the next town over- Cokato- got hit by a tornado... it was after sunset, but i could tell from 6 miles away that they were just getting destroyed. i knew a couple of people that almost died in that one and a lot of people that lost houses..
back in July of '97 i watched an EF4 or EF5 land about a mile behind where i was working in Howard Lake, MN- it was one of those mile wide black funnels that just looks scary as hell- and it stayed on the ground for something like an hour and covered about 30 miles across the countryside and up thru Buffalo and Monticello and Big Lake... i don't think there were any fatalities, but it did a hell of a lot of property damage. i remember that the temp dropped from about 100 degrees to under 70 degrees in about 10 minutes when that one went by and it got almost as dark as midnight despite being about 5 pm. that one was followed by a smaller one that landed directly west of us, went back up and right over the building, then landed again about 1/4 mile to the east of us and took out a grain elevator and knocked over some train cars before going back up for good..
just a few years ago i was about 4 miles away from the tornado that tore across the countryside from just north of Parkers Prairie, MN and went right thru the middle of Wadena and took out the brand new school that was just built the year before... this was in the middle of the day, but it was about a week after the school year was done so no one was in the school when it hit... i think that one killed 5 or 10 people when it was all said and done, but i know it took out at least one small town and about 2 miles of power lines along state highway 29 and left a path thru some old growth woods that was about 1/4 mile wide- it's kind of weird seeing uprooted ancient oak trees laying on their sides in the middle of an open field about a mile from the woods where it came from.. i was sitting in my living room about 4 miles west of that one watching it happen on the weather channel and waiting for it to turn my way. they did an episode of storm chasers or whatever it's called in the Discovery Channel about that storm..
they are intense events that can do a lot of damage in a very short time, and they come out of nowhere- it could be perfect sunny summer day and within a few minutes shit's flying around and you are trying to figure out what's going on... part of living in the middle of the country is accepting that eventually one of them might be aimed at you and no building codes or emergency plan is going to stop it from getting you.
back in '91 i watched from my living room in Howard Lake, MN, as the next town over- Cokato- got hit by a tornado... it was after sunset, but i could tell from 6 miles away that they were just getting destroyed. i knew a couple of people that almost died in that one and a lot of people that lost houses..
back in July of '97 i watched an EF4 or EF5 land about a mile behind where i was working in Howard Lake, MN- it was one of those mile wide black funnels that just looks scary as hell- and it stayed on the ground for something like an hour and covered about 30 miles across the countryside and up thru Buffalo and Monticello and Big Lake... i don't think there were any fatalities, but it did a hell of a lot of property damage. i remember that the temp dropped from about 100 degrees to under 70 degrees in about 10 minutes when that one went by and it got almost as dark as midnight despite being about 5 pm. that one was followed by a smaller one that landed directly west of us, went back up and right over the building, then landed again about 1/4 mile to the east of us and took out a grain elevator and knocked over some train cars before going back up for good..
just a few years ago i was about 4 miles away from the tornado that tore across the countryside from just north of Parkers Prairie, MN and went right thru the middle of Wadena and took out the brand new school that was just built the year before... this was in the middle of the day, but it was about a week after the school year was done so no one was in the school when it hit... i think that one killed 5 or 10 people when it was all said and done, but i know it took out at least one small town and about 2 miles of power lines along state highway 29 and left a path thru some old growth woods that was about 1/4 mile wide- it's kind of weird seeing uprooted ancient oak trees laying on their sides in the middle of an open field about a mile from the woods where it came from.. i was sitting in my living room about 4 miles west of that one watching it happen on the weather channel and waiting for it to turn my way. they did an episode of storm chasers or whatever it's called in the Discovery Channel about that storm..
they are intense events that can do a lot of damage in a very short time, and they come out of nowhere- it could be perfect sunny summer day and within a few minutes shit's flying around and you are trying to figure out what's going on... part of living in the middle of the country is accepting that eventually one of them might be aimed at you and no building codes or emergency plan is going to stop it from getting you.
Prayers X2 There are a lot of OK Buick members in that area.
The same storm is coming down across the Red River this morning the DFW area is in the moderate zone our weather guys claim? So we may get hit this afternoon? The forecast is 90% heavy storms
The same storm is coming down across the Red River this morning the DFW area is in the moderate zone our weather guys claim? So we may get hit this afternoon? The forecast is 90% heavy storms
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