BREAKING! 2 mile wide F4 tornado over I-35 near Moore, OK - Oklahoma City

Everyone needs to stop exaggreting. There have been far larger areas of more devastation from tornadoes, including in the recent 10 years.

This is not the worst damage Ive seen as far as damage intensity x width

Joplin was worse

oh my god


poor people

This is why schools need to have an area underground where the occupants of the school can go when a tornado strikes. Curl up into a ball in the hallway???? Give me a damn break.

Reporter on the scene is reporting up to 75 kids trapped...

I just heard on one network this is the 5th tornado in the Moore Oklahoma area in the last 15 yrs. Why would you stay in that city?

You need to dig an L shape. The vertical shaft should be 5 foot deep and only wide enough for one person to go down at a time. The horizontal shaft should be a good 5 to 6 long. The entrance hole to the horizontal shaft should be only large enough for one person to enter the H-shaft at once.

The H-shaft itself should be dug deep downward and on an angle. The entrance hole will need to be about 2 feet diameter, so in actuality there will be at least 3 feet of dirt above your head, with more dirt above your head further along the length of the shaft. The shaft should be a good 4 feet in height and wide enough for 2 people to sit abreast comfortably. Long enough to accommodate as many as you can imagine.

So, when you and others are sheltering in the horizontal shaft, there is plenty of room, and you can put a small board across the small entrance hole between the V-shaft and the H-shaft. You can bolt 3 strong handles onto the board, tie ropes to them, and everyone sitting in the shaft can hold onto a rope to keep the board in place if suction tries to pull it.

Be sure to angle the Horizontal shaft slightly downwards, and dig drainage holes in the bottom of it, just in case heavy rains are present.

Watch for Wolf Blitzer to blame it on CO2 tonight

How does one not get out of the way of this in today's day and age? This is really unfortunate and sad.

Obama do this?

Surely you jest

better link:

[link to kfor.com]

75 people in that hallway, but the walls were gone. Nothing left....

I'm thinking he'll blame Di-hydrogen Monoxide as well

O dear God. Please please, have mercy.

looks like we need to ban tornados now too shit i mean they kill more elementary school children than guns

75 children thought missing. My god, this is horrible.

How the fuck can they miss underground shelters in a school in a place like that, in a country spending BILLIONS in war planes?

How is this possible?

Oh dear god.

Yes on the safe zones. Speaking of north Texas specifically, code states there has to be an internal space with no higher than 12 ft ceiling and no windows.

In large buildings like schools and churches those areas ha e to be reinforced with either steel framing or concrete reinforced material.

Square footage is relative to capacity so in a home it could be a large closet or bathroom. In a bigger building it could be several large areas spread throughout the building.

Of the 75 in the school 30 were pulled out alive. They are still searching for others Lance said. This is all breaking and not confirmed news.

That surprised me, too. I know here, they used to keep them at the schools until the storms passed, sometimes until 7-8pm. However, after the tornado hit the school in Enterprise, AL, and killed about 5 students, they changed policy and would dismiss about 2 hours prior to the anticipated arrival of the storms. This give the buses time to do their routes and get back and the drivers get home. The thinking was that with kids dispersed in their homes, there would be a lower casualty rate should the town be hit. Also, homes had basements whereas the schools did not. I know a few times they miscalculated the arrival times of the storms and the buses got caught on the road when the storms moved in faster than anticipated. This caused the buses to make emergency stops at various schools, churches, and business - none of which were prepared to deal with a large influx of people - to offload and run for cover. Now, they will just close school for the entire day if tornadoes are expected. It seems silly and overly-cautious until you see scenes like this that are coming out of OK today.

While I may share your views on gun control, this is not the time.

With a storm this large though I don't believe a fortified storm closet would help all that much

After the West explosion, I guesstimated 6-15 dead and everyone said 'no way it was 50+ already and probably 100s'.

I was right.

In this tornado, there will be between 40 and 80 dead.

I guess his hearts just not in it, kinda like Bengazi from what I hear

ground based reports.... which arent the official report btw... are suggesting that this tornado is worse than the 1999 one that hit this same area in question...

until 2011 (Joplin) the 1999 tornado was the worst as in damage worldwide...
Citation for above: [link to en.wikipedia.org]

so the reporters arent exaggerating too much...

Lance West covered the 1999 tornado damage and todays tornado is worse... as per his report...

we will all see after the official analysis is completed and presented....

Last Edited by Dr. Acula on 05/20/2013 05:54 PM

To all the people saying these people are stupid for living in a tornado zone: Why do people live on the coast? Why do people inhabit islands? Why do people live near active volcanoes? Why do people live near fault lines?

Tired of this question!! The planet is a danger zone for crying out loud...natural disasters are everywhere!

what makes you think that the puny radio signal from
HAARP does anything more than transmit information?

Monster system.

Never quite seen anything like it.

Making a bee-line for Chicago.

is NATO accusing russia of using weather weapon on the usa?